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Did Hoddle just tell us how Spurs knocked Inter out after being 4 down away from home?

Should have stayed on his feet. *crab face*

For a moment there, I thought Jamie Redknapp suggested that, had Lennon not been taken ill, he'd have been marking Adebayour for the goal rather than Jenas. Would Lennon reach Adebayour's knee even?

Ha ha ha, brilliant

"slip it down. slip it down"

"This young man, the referee, is absolutely top drawer" - 90 seconds after he said he'd missed a blatant penalty?

Is Wilkins aware of the fact that Spurs players also have surnames? He sounds pissed.

Has Ray spent the afternoon drinking fizzy drinks or something? He used to be ace on Football Italia, the master of understatement, but I wish he'd just shut the FUCK UP now.

The thing that annoys me most about ITV and Sky is their misguided belief that the supporters of all other English clubs want English clubs to do well in the CL. It doesn't bear even the most cursory examinations. Why, for example, would a supporter of a PL club want to see anythng happen to increase the financial distance between the top clubs and the rest? And that's before getting onto the 65,000 different petty hatreds. I wish absolutely nothing but ill on other English clubs in the CL.

Great chance there for the finest footballer in the universe (except Jack 'Could Fit into this Barca Side Quite Easily' Wilshere)

Did Wilkins just refer to Ronaldo as "a very tricky customer"? Insight. Right there.

It's like having perfectly formed flakes of joy gently sprinkled into your eyes by a naked angel. With huge tits.

What are they going to do without Crouchy to whack it up to?

It's borderline racism! He says, elevating some kind of inter regional disregard to the verge of racism, just after saying "i hate the horrible Brummie twats!" Dear oh dear.

Tiote and Nolan are out, are they? I fucking hope so.

He probably supports them as much as Tony Blair supports Newcastle. True Although - disturbingly - on paper, he has decent credentials. His uncle was chairman in the 70s. He's never been spotted there, though, unlike Mervyn King, who really is a proper supporter.

There's no need to play him as long as we keep the PL-spot. And we're not paying Villa before he plays. The best thing is that we will be able to buy him for much lower price. So I don't see any problem. Yes, but the reason he'd be a lot cheaper (if he was) would reflect the fact that he'd have an even bigger mental hole to drag himself back out of. Honestly, I've no major qualms with the bloke - he's quite clearly a gigantic simpleton, but that's no crime - so I don't necessarily wish him ill, but the problem is, he's so utterly, utterly wrong in the head that I can see how it'll go. I bet you now he'll sign somewhere else over the summer, and he'll be saying all the right things when he signs, and the fans of said club will be saying "well, he just needs to feel wanted, he wasn't at Villa or Man City (or Newcastle) and he's been a good player in the past, so we'll get the best out of him" - in other words, the same old story. Only his decent spell is another season in the past, and he's only made himself look even more mental. Like i said several pages ago, I reckon he'll be playing in the MLS within two years.

To be entirely honest, that's almost enough to make me hope we lose.

I don't buy this role model stuff for a minute - frankly, I'd have thought that calling your child "Kai" says enough about whether you want him to be a role model to your kids. Not to mention shagging leather bound grandmothers and prostitutes. However, he's thick as fucking shit if he can't work out why he shouldnt be doing that. Oh, and that "nice to hear your own fans booing you" thing at the World Cup said more about the disconnect between footballers and the real world than another 1000 years of Sky money could.

The best place to go and watch PL football as an away fan, too, what a fucking mess that statue is.

You couldn't be more wrong, to be honest, Skirge. We're going to be nervous and edgy from the off. The thrashing you gave us is distant history, to be honest, there has been such a constant flow of shiteness since then, it won't really be a factor at all. What will be will be the tension between supporters and team, and the fact that we desperately need to win. Against Blackburn a few weeks ago, it was tense as fuck until we scored the first, then the nerves lifted and we played very well indeed. It all depends who gets the first goal, I reckon, but my money is on a draw.

Obviously not good enough. He was excellent at Man United, and has largely done well, but had a three match suspension in the middle, so difficult to tell, really.

I don't have an issue with Sunderland, not at all, but Christ almighty, it still amazes me what a gigantic mongfest that RTG place is.

Defence. Fucked all season long. We've played more decent football this season than in the last two combined, I reckon, but if you make it so easy for the opposition to score, you're always going to struggle. I'd say this season is down to 20% MON fucking off turmoil, 30% Houllier's shitness, 30% injury crises - and they've been terrible - and 20% defensive shiteness.

It's a little bit over the top to say the rest of the team is piss poor - playing poorly of late, maybe, but there's plenty of quality there. In fact, we're playing very well from the midfield up, it is the defence that is suspect. He went 442 yesterday, so I'd expect to see the same again, maybe with Cuellar replacing Collins, though. Friedel Luke Young - Cuellar - Dunne - Walker Young - Makoun - NRC - Downing Bent - Agbonlahor.