brummie

You didn't let your club down. Your club let you down.

Race ya to Curbishley.

Houllier is rightly getting slaughtered this morning. Some examples of why: - touchign the This is Anfield sign on the way onto the pitch - at final whistle, entirely ignoring our fans who'd trvelled up and stood in sub zero temperatures, but managing to wave and thumbs up at the Kop - suggesting that the game was dead after the first goal. Pathetic. Worse of all, this: This comes after a series of regular outbreaks of him talking about Liverpool, but to suggest it's somehow more acceptable to play so wretchedly and lose 3-0 because it is Liverpool is absolutely bang out of order.

What's more, having seen the way some of you moaned about Hughton's substitutions, you'd be driven to insanity by O'Neill's. Brummie wouldn't you welcome MON right now if you have an option? To who? To us? No fucking way.

What's more, having seen the way some of you moaned about Hughton's substitutions, you'd be driven to insanity by O'Neill's.

He would never work with someone like Ashley or Llambias, never. He's not "one of the lads" enough for A & L (neither's CH either) Far far far too expensive. He won't go anywhere where he doesn't get a shit load of money to spend, and where he gets less than 100 percent control of the operation of the club.

Jesus. This beggars belief.

Proof we started it. http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5876/troubleb.jpg

Every year? That's why you shouldn't host it. *wink*

Well, that's another good point. They'll all have been watching Man City - Saltshaker *wink* Although, two of our three man hit squad out in Zurich are Villa fans. I sense an easy target for the Russians.

"I was going to award it to England, but then i saw the Birmingham derby and realised that there's a good chance Richard Dunne will attempt to eat me at some point if he's still around in 2018, so I've changed me mind"

Oh, please. I was at the game tonight, and yes, it was a deeply unpleasant experience, but it's nowt compared to what happens in places like Russia every week. Hooliganism is one front where England has nothing to worry about.

Nah, you're better off that way. `Being able to effect a disattachment from both sides is an advantage. If it is real, doubly so.

There is always trouble when we go there, but never when they come to us. I think part of it is that they all arrive by coach, but there is no doubt that the police attitude at St Andrews seems really, really lax. You're right, there was a very low key police presence before the match. It's not like you needed to be Nostradamus to predict that a 7.45 weekday kick off in a high profile match was going to involve trouble.

Piss. From the seats above.

I've had quite a busy afternoon / evening. Start off, gangs of idiots looking for it around the city centre pretty much all afternoon, the walk up the hill through Digbeth and to the ground was like the road to Bagdhad. Cups of piss, coins and fuck knows what thrown at us from the sides and above, constantly - and I mean constantly - during the match. I travelled away an awful lot in the 1980s when things were hairy all the time, but I can't remember being subjected to a stream of abuse and barrage of coins like that before. Flares - flares for fuck sake - thrown into the crowd after the final whistle. A few of our idiots decide to reciprocate by throwing seats back at them. Out of the ground and into the area directly behind the away end, the coppers decide that, actually, they might start holding us back after all, and while they do so there is absolutely all sorts getting lobbed over at us. At which point the coppers change their mind again and let us out. Cue it kicking off pretty much immediately. I know it's like their fucking cup final, I know it's payback for our good luck with late winners in the past, I know the second half didn't suggest it was going to happen, so they were all overexcited, but honestly, what a bunch of fucking idiots.

Now Man United have been knocked out, thus removing our remaining one gigantic mental block. I am getting even more nervous about our game tomorrow night. We haven't lost to the Dogshit in any of the last eleven meetings, but this is their best chance in a long, long time with our crippling injury list and lack of form. If they don't beat us tomorrow, they never will. Taken the afternoon off for city centre boozing (which I suspect is going to be tense) and then down to the ground, surgical mask and rubber gloves on, all my innoculations up to date and what not. I won't sleep tonight. I'm a grown man, incidentally.

I wish it had come when we played you at your place. The league this season is absolutely all over the place. Teams are both winning and losing matches they shouldn't. Look at some of the freak results - Arsenal losing at home to Spurs (not beaten a big four side away from home in 69 attempts), to Albion, to, errr, you lot, you lot beating us 6-0, Birmingham beating Chelsea, Sunderland going to Stamford Bridge and making Chelsea look shite. Last week there were about 19 teams in joint sixth. There are far too many teams moving up and down the table five places in a go with one decent result at the moment, and whilst it isn't too early to identify deficiencies and weaknesses, it is way, way too early to talk about which teams are going to be in a relegation scrap. To my untrained, neutral eye, you've done more than alright since coming up, and it is way too early to be punching panic buttons just yet.

Not being funny, but I've got 5030 and I don't even support Newcastle *wink* Bring back Johnny Hall. He's one of the good guys.

Barry has always been a player who drifts in and out of seasons for months at a time (as I've said on here for years now), so there's no change there, but I think he;s gone downhill since he went to Man City. I suspect it was partly to do with being taken out of his comfort zone. The problem is that he's now going to start to find himself on their bench quite a lot, and will struggle to get a decent move elsewhere because nobody else is going to match that 120k a week with 4 years left to run contract. He's not even 30 yet, incidentally. It seems a bit of a waste for your career to wind down so early and like that, but I bet that's exactly what happens. Incidentally, James Milner is a very good player, but only when played centrally, so it is amusing to see Man City wasting him out wide at the moment. It's like they never bothered to look at him before buying him, they just knew he played for a rival, was meant to be good, so they'd better spend 26 million pounds on him, just because they've got to have everything that people view as "good", and get to destabilise a rival whilst they're at it. Barry, Milner, Adam Johnson, Lescott ... potentially important players for England, but they're really not doing anyone any favours long term by going there - except for their bank balances, obviously

I'm not sure, he had a few decent seasons at Villarreal, but he looked pretty finished this last year. And the PL is way more physical than La Liga, where technique alone will tide you over a long way. We need bodies, our injury list is currently beyond belief. At the least he's an option. He's also going to be useful to mentor people like Albrighton and Bannan.

Thank god, another body in midfield. Our injury list is shocking right now. Plus he'll be a good one to learn from for the likes of Albrighton, Bannan and Hogg.

I feel sick.

Fucking Barton. Just when he's starting to get things back on track and winning people over, he goes and does something so fucking brainlessly unpleasant as that. Some footballers are fucking stupid.

The likes of Delfouneso, Bannan, Clark and Albrighton would probably have never got a look in under O'Neill. Well none of those players would be part of a 70th minute Heskey <===> Carew switch, so yep, I agree. 70-75 minutes: Heskey / Carew or something involving someone playing out of position at right back as a result. I am still not fully used to see us making substitutions at different times of the match.