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And customary Carew - Heskey sub at min 70. Watching Villa games must be like Groundhog Day sometimes. At least he's stopped bringing Sidwell on on 75 mins of late. Delfouneso is the one we've been screaming for instead of Heskey all season, incidentally. Done great things in the youth and reserve set up, did very well in the cups when used, even scored a couple in the Europa League.

Funny how Liverpool fans aren't "arrogant" for expecting automatic champs league place, and cups every year (still not enough) and we ARE for expecting to be in the Prem with 50,000 gates ! I agree wholeheartedly. Love to see Liverpool miss out and hear the screams of condemnation, and demands they should be allowed in anyways because they are Liverpool. Even if it means Villa getting in. I couldn't believe it when i heard Villa fans - many of them anyways - were furious at O'Neill and want someone else (they seem to have slunk back in the shadows recently with the disbelief from other clubs fans) You'd have a better chance of understanding it if you went to our matches, week in, week out.

I'd agree with that.

It's very complicated indeed. Yeung took ages to come up with the money for the takeover, and Gold and Sullivan actually told him to shit off and stop bothering them a few times. Yeung is not a particularly wealthy man at all, and there is a great deal of cloudiness about where their money is going to come from. McLeish has made a few comments about not being convinced there will be money to spend, by all accounts.

That's really terrible, terrible news. Keith Harris is a very close friend of Randy Lerner, and brokered out takeover.

I thought a draw was just about right. We were very good for 20 minutes, then absolute cack, then vaguely better again. You were solid but unspectacular for 90 minutes. Neither teams played particularly well, though, and for us the wheels haven't just falled off, they've rolled down to the bottom of a very steep hill. I'd swap MON for Moyes in the summer.

How big a cunt is John Terry? Does anyone else actually hope we don't win the World Cup, just to spite that halfwitted, massive faced cockney cunt?

A nailed-on draw. Probably goalless.

Halle-fucking-llujah. At the end of the day, we're all football supporters. Every club has its own collection of witless mongs. Every club has its knowledgeable fans.

So do I. Not for Watford, mind I can't get to all games, though (on account of football not being the most important thing in my life), so sometimes find myself watching home games on the internet and monging around on forums. I don't like the whole "superfan" thing you find on football forums.

If anything it should piss you off more knowing you would have played Pompey had you actually won. To be honest, mate, I wouldn't back us to beat Portsmouth and District Paper Boys XI at the moment, we're knackered, the manager keeps picking the exact same 11 knackered players every time, and whilst we might have a plan B, we never seem to see both Plan A and Plan B in the same season. Yesterday was just a good old fashioned, English footballing dose of schadenfreude to take the edge of my own disappointment. I could barely speak when I came out of Wembley on Saturday. I woke up yesterday and couldn't get out of bed, I was so gutted. When I turned on your game just before the end and saw the score, knowing someone else was feeling just as bad (and probably worse) perked me up no end. I'd have felt the same for any other team in our mini league (you know what I mean) going through that, it wasn't just about it being Spurs.

I was at our semi final on Saturday, and whilst the pitch itsn't an excuse for losing, I have to say, Harry has a point. Halfway through the first half of our game, you could see it was cutting up terribly (just as it did during the CC Final), and players were falling over all over the shop. I said at the time that I wouldn't fancy playing on it less than 24 hours after we'd finished our game. Having spent almost a billion pounds on that stadium, and polluted the mystique of the FA Cup by having semi finals at Wembley, the least they could do is provide a usable playing surface. That pitch is a disgrace.

5,000 yesterday - there were a lot of empty seats in Club Wembley and in the FA seats.

When i left the stadium yesterday (after the second goal, close to tears, and choked to the point of being unable to fucking speak), I had mentally written off the next seven days, and decided nothing at all would lift the gloom. Wrong.

Only one team got fucked over by the ref at wembley this weekend, and it didn't happen today. Delighted for Pompey.

This was very noticeable on TV. I was sat in pretty much exactly the same place i was for the CCF, and the difference was off the scale, people seemed far more up for it today. Probably with it being a late-ish kick off on a Saturday. I know I warmed up with 5 hours of steady, sustained drinking, I imagine others were at it for longer.

Another day of disappointment. Much better atmosphere today than the CCF though, much louder from us, and we heard quite literally not a peep from the Chelsea end until they scored. We still fecking lost, though.

Thick people who think they're actually quite bright are a bigger menace to society than that Baby Bio plant food shit the kids are all snorting.

Getting to London in most cases is fairly easy, most (if not all cities) have a direct train route, a major road route, and a lot have direct flights. However for all of the public transport London offers it can be rather difficult to actually travel in London once you arrive. Also the question has to be asked is, why should London beneift from all of these games, after England games are national games, so surely every corner of the nation should have a chance of benefitting from hosting national games, and why should London gain from games that could be played between two clubs (for example the FA Cup games, and the play off's) that arn't from London all the time? Not really. I left the CCF 5 mins after the final whistle (as, staggeringly, did lots and lots of Man U fans who couldnt be arsed to wait around for the final whistle, let alone the trophy presentation. I guess that's how it is when you're so successful), walked down Wembley Way, got on the tube and was back in Harrow to get in the car with the absolute minimum of fuss. And that was with 90,000 people there.

Really? Christ, I didn't. It was a dump which should have been rebuilt at the very least 30 years before it was.

I agree with that, but it is becoming less and less special, and one of the main reasons is the playing of FA Cup semi finals there.

I find David James's stance on this whole situation to be a bit fucking nauseating, to be honest. It's hard to take him seriously when he pontificates on the situation, given the fact he's happily taken his 80k a week over the whole period. I get similarly fucked off when i read his Observer column, where he speaks at length of how he drives some energy efficient Euro bubble car, as if he doesn't also have a range of supercars to use when he's doing something other than posing for the press. And for all his hand-wringing and "we feel your pain" and "we want the kitman there so he can unblock the bogs" shite over the redundancies at Portsmouth, he's still there kerchinging it all the way to the bank with a weekly salary which would pay 5 or 6 of them for a year.

Our FA trampled all over our Wembley tradition when they started holding Cup semi finals there. it totally devalues the mystique of Wembley if you get to go there for the semi final too. seconded brummie. Agreed. Problem now is they'd never pay for the new stadium without doing so. pretty sure they could have afforded a better, cheaper stadium if it didn't HAVE to be in london. massivly overpriced and in a crap part of the country. especially when the majority of folk would rather the majority of england games were played in the regions. Agree with all that too. Should have been somewhere in the Midlands IMO. Disagree. The site they were talking about in the Midlands was near the NEC, purely because it is near the motorway, and has a decent sized airport and a train station on site. The issue with that is it's close enough to London to make it worth actually building it in London. There was never any real prospect of it leaving London. I don't have a problem with that. Personally, I don't think we really need a national stadium at all, but if we are going to have one, it can't be anywhere in the provinces - no provincial city has anything like the extra attractions London has. no provincial city has those attractions because........................... of that sort of thinking. anyway would you be put off going to an england game because you couldn't squeeze in an hour at the whitechapel art gallery beforehand ? most england supporters from outside the south east go and get out as sharp as possible. No, no provincial city has the attractions London does purely because London is one of a handful of global mega cities, there's no way Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds etc can compete with that, and unfortunately, if you're going to have a national stadium, it is going to have to be near to "the action". I'm not saying it is right, I'm saying that that's the reason and there is a certain amount of logic behind it. For all the talk, there was never really any chance they were going to take it out of London.

I went to see us play at Athletic Bilbao in the UEFA cup 12 years ago, and it is without a doubt the best place I've ever seen us play football. Fantastic people, unbelievably welcoming, and we made a lot of friendships that day. That's a great place to play football. (Unlike Atletico Madrid, where we mostly got beaten up by riot police).

Whilst Wembley was being redeveloped England played their games at various grounds up and down the country, and it was pretty successful.