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Italian football truly is in the same cesspit ours was in the 1980s. Worse, even.

They've got bigger fish to fry. They're clearly not going down. They looked today like a team who gave it a whirl for about 45 minutes but then started to think about the Cup final.

There is surely an age thing going on with respect to Liverpool. It's not a total, black or white thing, it is more blurred than that, but I think it is safe to say that, largely, opinions differ on the basis of how old you are. I grew up in the 70s and 80s with Liverpool winning absolutely everything, with their fucking horrible glory hunting wanker fans in your face all the time, with the media ejaculating over them year after year. I know this is what has happened with Man United in recent years, but honestly, I still think it was worse with Liverpool. Over that period, they were also the single luckiest club ever. If there was ever a bit of luck to be had, it went their way (Michael Thomas excepted), it was fucking horrible, year after year. I don't like teams buying silverware to the extent of the utterly artificial Manchester City, or the truly despicable Chelsea (at least with City, you can say their fans were alright before they had money, Chelsea's fans were utter cunts for decades before their windfall), but genuinely, I would rather either of those clubs won the league than Liverpool. I don't want Liverpool to win the league this year, next year, or any year. Especially not with that cunt Gerrard still there, but even that is only a minor contributing factor. Liverpool are fucking horrible, and have been for decades. I don't want that nauseating sycophancy coming back, not ever.

Not as bad as ours, ours suddenly raked in the spending too quickly, gave us four relegation struggles and stopped caring about the club. And thought Alex McLeish would be a good appointment. Ours gave us an actual relegation, Joe Kinnear twice, Dennis Wise, renamed our ground, a relegation struggle, Alan Pardew, the tackiest stadium in England and no signings for 18 months. You win. Apparently ours is selling to the people who own the Texas Rangers, it turns out.

Not as bad as ours, ours suddenly raked in the spending too quickly, gave us four relegation struggles and stopped caring about the club. And thought Alex McLeish would be a good appointment. You escaped relegation and are on the verge of possibly something great. We suffered relegation, have a mentally-challenged Uncle Scrooge as our owner for seemingly a life-time. And have a smegma-coated cunt for a minimal of 8 years while McLeish lasted only one season. 'Not as bad as ours' ffs. On the verge of nothing but relegation unless sale goes through.

Not as bad as ours, ours suddenly raked in the spending too quickly, gave us four relegation struggles and stopped caring about the club. And thought Alex McLeish would be a good appointment.

So, Lerner is selling. Rumors about some bloke who owns the Miami Heat. Other rumours about Larry Ellison. Probably all guess work, but there is lots of talk about new American owners in the summer. Something has to change. We'll survive this year but another season of the current policy and we're done for.

Serious question, why does ANYONE buy a football club? They're fucking stupid.

Wooooooaaaaahhhhh! You've only scored two home goals all year? And I thought we were awful at home.

Interesting: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/10774170/Aston-Villa-set-for-200m-US-takeover-if-they-stay-up.html

Poor Sunderland. I thought they played very well, although City were fucking gash. Surprised to see so many empty seats there, given the proceedings at the top of the table. Taking the three points for granted? Obv, the "poor Sunderland", i didn't really mean that.

We've got 13 points from our last 16 matches. Marginally better. We're like the Barcelona and Real Madrid of shitness. Farcelona and Real Madshit Or something.

Culverhouse is a twat. That has been known for ages. Lots of stuff about him gobbing off (effing and blinding) at fans who sit near the dugout on match day. There were rumours that he had a ruck with Gordon Cowans at training, after Cowans complained about the way he speaks to the younger players (he and Karsa apparently also talk to all the staff at the training ground like shit). Apparently during said ruck, Delph and Agbonlahor stuck up for Sid, but then were dropped for the next game at home to Fulham. It's nuts to even consider dropping Delph, he's been our best player this season by a mile. Then there was some stuff about after the Palace match last week, Albrighton had an argument with Karsa, and was - and this I find hard to believe - told to make his own way home from Selhurst Park. What is really odd is that Lambert is still there and seems to agree with the move. He said something the other day about "things going on behind the scenes", which was obviously a reference to this, and there are stories today that training was "bouyant" as the players were so happy those two had gone. Something clearly had gone wrong especially recently. We'd been bobbing along more or less mid table until a couple of months ago, but then all of a sudden it went to shit. I've a feeling this problem was something they thought they'd sort out in the summer, but then the form turned awful. Oh and Saturday - I actually went to that game, first away match in a while - the fans turned on Lambert for the first time really (beyond the odd booing after home matches). The usual "you don't know what you're doing" stuff, "fuck off Lambert", that sort of thing, but when the away fans turn, it is really a sign something has got to change. Yesterday the CEO puts out a statement "we all need to stick together, players, fans, coaching team", then today they sack the coaching team. To be honest, I am glad, because something has got to change. We've lost 10 home league games - the worst in our 140 year history - and that is with 2 home games still left to play (and also we've lost at home to Sheffield United in the FA Cup). We're not going to go down, but it's good to see something at least change rather than just the usual shit week after week. On the bright side, the unhappiness here is almost total at the moment, so at least they are trying to do something about it rather than just plodding on. 15 points from the last 19 matches. Jesus. That's awful.

Think it's only natural to celebrate scoring a goal, especially if its a cracker. Not like Johnson owes NUFC anything or needs to show respect by not celebrating, that's generally only ever done by club legends. Plus, nowhere near as bad as Fenton and Shearer on that night though, and yet the latter is considered amongst the greatest of our club legends. Have to say, I find this whole "oh, no, best not celebrate this one, as I used to play for them" thing to be a load of old shit.

Didn't he mean his Spurs Premier League record compared to other Spurs managers? He said PL managers first, then said Spurs managers.

"If you look at the Premier League managers, my record is second to none". Hmmmm.

I'd definitely take Hoolahan. I was disappointed we didn't get him in January in the end. I'd also take James Morrison from Ollbeeyun. He's an underrated player.

Sherwood having some real problems with tenses in this interview.

It's his squad, though. Last season he should have added two or three players from a better level, would have made a huge difference. But he just added more of the same. Not enough. I don't even think that's the biggest problem. Quite often we'll send out a side easily enough to get something from a fixture and end up looking abysmal. That is to say, the players together manage to look less than the sum of the parts. I have also got a creeping suspicion - and i genuinely mean this - that he's a bit mad. Like proper brainwrong mad. Like another recent former manager of ours was. Each to his own, but I've got some league title and european cup memories which are anything but meh ;-)

I would never play down the difficulty of learning a foreign language, and he actually speaks it very well if you listen to what he is saying, but Poyet has been in this country so long you'd think he'd have done a bit of work on his accent by now.

Altidore looks like one of the least accomplished players I have ever seen play top flight football in this country. I also can't believe managers keep buying Dossena, either.

I've been going to matches since 1973, and I struggle to think of a manager who has had more patience from the fans, it has been extraordinary. It is definitely changing now. In fact, it has changed. I can handle losing matches if we look vaguely like we know what we are doing. Stoke (lost 4-1 at home) and Fulham, we have looked clueless. The odd thing is we go and play someone like Chelsea or Arsenal or Man City (all of whom we have beaten this season) and we are transformed. We fight like fuck to get the ball when we don't have it, we close them down, when we have the ball, we use it, and sometimes very well. The problem is that the ratio of performances like that versus getting your arse handed to you on your own ground by the likes of Stoke or Palace is way, way out of kilter. It's not only a case of too many players not being good enough, either. The spine of the side - Guzan, Vlaar, Delph, Benteke, possibly Gabby - is very solid, some good players there. Vlaar, for example, has been excellent this season. Five or six really accomplished players isn't enough, but that's not even the main problem. The main problem is the frequency with which we look totally lost, just clueless. Really, I keep hearing in my mind the fact that we've lost more home matches this season than in any other year right back 140 years. That alone should get him sacked.

I've had enough of Lambert. Every ounce of positivity from last season has been drained away in an entire season of utter ineptitude. Yesterday was truly horrific. What is going through a manager's mind when, losing 2-1 at home to Fulham, he makes a sub on 90 minutes, taking off our only creative player on the day, and replacing him with someone at a club two divisions too high. On 90 fucking minutes. It's like something happened in August, he's had some sort of a stroke-like traumatic head event, and he's been knocked out of kilter. This season we have lost 10 home league games already. That is more than in any season since we were formed 140 years ago, including the years pre the formation of the league, when we'd just play friendlies and cups. Not only that, but we have still got two home league games to go, and last year we managed to lose nine, which in itself was abysmal. My season ticket price works out at about £130 per win over the last four years. Four fucking years. When we beat Norwich and then Chelsea recently, that was our first two back to back wins at home since 2009. Remarkable.

Blow your nose, Kevin Nolan, you fucking tramp, you're on telly.

Nah, I reckon they're done for. Just seen their four remaining away games, awful, as is one of their home games.