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I can't describe just how much I want this to happen. It would be a perfect post-christmas present. Please please please. Although, nb, he's not a "defensive striker" anymore, he's a midfielder these days *slowly shakes head*

Rooneys hair. Looks like a doormat on his bonce.

It was a really good performance. A total, total change from the recent embarassments N'Zogbia had a blinder, and Albrighton is finding more form. If we'd had Bent playing, we'd have done better.

I can't quite believe it, but we were excellent tonight, and should have got three points, let alone one. Play like that a bit more and we'll fly up the table. Excellent stuff.

It certainly has. The results, weirdly, have not been too bad, but if it is at the cost of that football, fuck that. It also makes me annoyed when media idiots drone on about it being totally about him being a former Blues manager. It fucking is not. It is about the utterly shocking football we play.

Sitting in the office, waiting to go to the match. I struggle to think of the last time I was looking forward to a match as little as I am this one. There are rumours of it reaching the point of anti-McLeish banners tonight. It's a bit depressing, really.

I don't really care too much for the ins and outs of it all, but really, regardless of the clubs involved, that is unbelievably small time. it makes Man City's "Welcome to Manchester" thing look classy.

Phil Dowd - who redefines the notion of the "look at me" referee, surpassing even the comedically shite Uriah Rennie - yesterday booked Gabby Agbonlahor for having the ball kicked at his ankle by Jaaskelainen

whilst I agree, he did flatted to deceive, and he definitely had no plan B, he wasn't a long ball man, that's unfair. He was incredibly one dimensional, though, with wingers just twatting anything into the box. In that sense, it is a percentages game just like the long ball game, so there are similarities, but we never really just hoofed it at Carew, that's a bit unfair.

You're the worst side I've seen in a long time. You make us look decent. Defending is all over the shop.

I'd sever my right arm (that's the business arm) to have Milner back in our team. Barry, though, not a chance. I am amazed he gets as much time on pitch as he does.

Worst Man United side in a long time. They're still pretty good, mind.

No. I don't hate him. I do hate the fucking mess he left us in, and I hate the "Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa" thing the press developed while he was here, and the shit they laid on us - on US not him - when he fucked off five days before the start of the season.

I was about to post, it reads as if it tumbled from my own mouth. It didn't, mind. It is utterly, utterly spot on, though.

Well, in this era of McLeish Villa, tonight was the most entertaining football I've seen for a very long time.

I wish.

Incidentally, this is very good. https://twitter.com/NeillOMartin

They weren't bothered what it cost as it got passed on to Chelsea, if they'd paid £5m Torres would have cost Chelsea £20m, or if Carrol was £50m, Torres would have cost Chelsea £65m, it's only been common knowledge for almost a year. This is complete nonsense man. If Ashley had accepted £20million for Carroll, then by this logic they would have sold Torres for £35million, even though Chelsea were prepared to part with £50million, thus screwing themselves out of £15million for absolutely no logical reason. It's a nonsense excuse designed to justify a ridiculous transfer fee. I thought only Liverpool fans would be thick enough to swallow it. Indeed it is. Regardless of what Chelsea paid for Torres, at some point Liverpool were faced with this conundrum: "keep this 35 million pounds, or give it to Newcastle for Carroll" I was a bit worried when their new owners came in that they'd start to get things right. That lasted right up until they spent 75m on Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson. mind bogglingly stupid waste of money.

Unlikely. He likes a big man up front. Maybe he'll come in for the world's best defensive striker. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/26/article-0-06DBE38C000005DC-830_306x425.jpg *prays*

Ah yes, Can't Control. That's a very good shout, I could imagine MON going in for him.

It's never nice selling your better players (I should know), but as an outsider, 35m for Andy Carroll is the most ridiculous transfer deal ever, and I think you got by far the better end of that deal.

Surely it'd be better if the spoilt bastard could just man the fuck up and realise he's earning obscene wages and that means having to do things you don't really want to do - like come off the bench or live in Manchester. It's not as if Manchester has undergone some gigantic transformation since he first arrived in this country, either. He'd been at West Ham for a start, and had even been in Manchester at United, so it's all a bit hollow, really. Boo fucking hoo Carlos and your hellish life. Take a look around you at the real world these days. People like you make me fucking sick.

Away from home, it was frequently brilliant. We won lots of games. I dont really care what anyone else says, I loved watching us break with speed, with Agbonlahor and Young. People sussed us out eventually, mind. The problem was, at home he tried to do the same thing, and when people sit back and don't attack you, you can't play counter attacking football. As a result, for at least two years, possibly three, the football at home was utterly fucking dire. Think in both his last seasons we scored 27 goals at home, except in both seasons, there were two 5-0 drubbings (of dross teams), which left 17 goals spread across 17 matches. It wasn't a lot of fun, to be honest. He had no plan B whatsoever, we'd just keep doing the same thing over and over, regardless of how it pans out. He's very much a man of the past in that sense, there's nothing even remotely modern about MON's ways. I've a funny feeling this is going to be a short dalliance. I've been trying to avoid his face since he took the job, but the few times I've seen him on the box, he's looked miserable as sin. Probably because Bibs and Cones aren't going with him. Well, Cones is, Bibs isn't

Surely proximity to Schipol makes Ajax the obvious move. You can get anywhere from there. Schipol. Not Ajax.

He's a fantastic man manager of players he rates. If he doesn't rate them - regardless of the fact he just spent 5m on them a few weeks previously - they don't exist. *points at training ground full of unshiftable MON dross on big money*