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He is our most important player. He is the link we have been missing for quite some time. We would not have been relegated with him playing and our survival this season will depend an awful lot on his availability. Take him out and you are looking at the likes of Smith, Barton or even Guthrie trying to play that role. The fact that Smith was used in that position for so long shows how weak we were and also shows poor activity in the transfer market since we allowed Parker to go. I've been hugely impressed. Reminds me of Batty but I believe he'll become better still.

Gazza wont change. He's not an ordinary Joe; he is a deluded fuckwit who hardly knows what day of the week it is. I really hope he pulls his life around but we are talking about a bloke who will do a signing session at The Fed for a crate of beer and a bottle of vodka. Not sure what that says about The Fed mind.

Sadly, yes. Very much yes.

We are far too easy to play against at home. We don't have anyone in midfield who can go past a couple of players and break the shape of the opposition. As soon as we won the ball Wigan closed down the ball quickly and held 2 strong lines. We didn't have a clue how to play against them. Our passing was sideways or backwards and several times went straight to a Wigan player. Meanwhile their players were collecting the ball with 5 yards of space to play in. We were very poor in the first half.

Stoke - anti football, horrible to watch Liverpool - for the arrogance of the fans (granted they'll have a few good ones too but I witnessed unbelievable arrogance in our FA Cup game at Anfield when KK played, again at home in his Testimonial & before all that at the Milk Cup Final when I was in the Lpool end and they lost to Arsenal. Blackburn - dislike their football, their manager & for the fact that they've twice won at SJP through punching the ball in (Matt Derbyshire?).

I've read a fair few opinions on this tackle/ assault. There are mixed opinions on whether it was intended or not but when compared to Henry's tackle it is accepted that Henry's was worse. I've seen both challenges a good number of times and De Jongs is far worse. Henry lunges in at full speed but his feet are low, are not aimed at the man and the other player is travelling at speed. The result is a spectacular somersault and there is no doubt that it was a wild, uncontrolled tackle that could have been an ankle breaker. There was nothing crafty about it at all. What gets me with De Jong's challenge was that it was a cowardly, almost sneaky, free hit on the player. Ben Arfa couldn't see the challenge coming, so couldn't react to it and De Jong went off the ground to take out a stationary player and then brought his following leg through to hit Ben arfa's standing leg just below the knee. There is no doubt in my mind that it was a far worse challenge and the fact that some supposed experts are trying to defend it as part of the game leaves me cold.

He's 23 years old, recently arrived in a foreign country, just had a double fracture and can't speak the language... The club have a responsibility.

Someone needs to get a get well message from us all to him in hospital; he'll be incredible sad/ scared/ lonely tonight. Hope the club have left/ arranged for someone to be there for him. The club also need to make sure he feels wanted and supported during his recuperation. People will say that it wasn't a foul, the point is that at the angle De Jong came in at and the manner in which he went in for the tackle he was always going to take the player. It was reckless to say the least and De Jong knew he was going to get player and ball and perhaps saw it as a freebie. I'm surprised that KK and Butt said it was ok, they're were both top players and will have known that De Jong went in harder and more dangerously than was needed.

Very disappointed not get anything out of the game today. DeJong went in clearly knowing he'd get the player (as did Beckford on Harper), he didn't have to go in like he did. It was reckless & I am gutted for Ben Arfa, a young lad who has just made a huge career decision and is know lying in a Manchester hospital with what we think is a double fracture & he can't speak the language. He will probably spend time back in France recuperating; the club need to give the lad all the support he'll need. Best not mention the ref, quite clear we weren't going to get anything from the moment Ben Arfa went down and the ref didn't react to the challenge.

Whether it was coaching or not, by failing to come off his line yesterday we handed the game to Stoke. You simply can't withstand that kind of ball constantly being thrown into and around the 6 yard box. The winner came from a corner follwoing 3 or 4 minute of non stop throw ins. Hughton should have been shouting at the defenders to push up, he perhaps could have brought Sol on the organise and someone had to get Krul to attack the ball. We didn't come out for the 2nd half and got what we deserved. That 2nd half completely pissed me off.

So annoyed hate that anti football. We had no answer to it once they realised krul wouldnt come off his line the long ball was hurled deeper n deeper into the box

Like when? Everton for a start. He couldn't be arsed. I wasn't at Goodison obviously, so I wouldn't have seen it as well, but I've heard this a few times and it seems ridiculous to me. He was a winger playing the role of lone striker as Everton were putting us under heavy pressure. He ran around a bit when he got the ball. I don't know what else people want. I must have been at a different game. He wasn't the lone striker from where I was. Carroll was up and down in both areas, Jonas had a gentle 15 minute stroll along the left handside and showed little commitment. Not saying he does this all the time but it was very noticeable on Saturday.

Was really poor when he came on against Everton, not the man you need late on, defending a lead, away from home. He's going to see an awful lot of the bench.

Don't know if it was because we were playing in Liverpool but Nolan put in a hell of a lot more running than usual. He chased down as best he could and got himself about. I'd go as far as say he had a good game and deserves to keep his place on that performance. He's been pretty poor in the other games.

Watching him warm up with Barton not being able to pass the ball 10 yards to each other I was worried. In the game they were both superb. We have a player.

Got home 20 mins ago wahoo and someone please shoot that ref

Going tmrw, have only ever seen us win once away in the league and that includes a defeat at Cambridge. I apologise.

At their peak Shearer wins. It's not even a close call for me when I think about it. Both have similar strengths & Drogba is quicker, slightly better in the air and generally more atheletic. However, Shearer was the better finisher, had a better appreciation of space and wouldn't hide in games. His all round game was imo slightly better. What really separates them is that Shearer was a better leader, was more intimidating to the opposition & never gave up. In short, he was a winner. Drogba lets his own ego get in the way too much which at times leads to letting himself & his team down - he has had at least 2 very damaging sending off's & many other mid game hissy fits. These attributes make all the difference. SAF was desperate to sign him, I have little doubt who his choice would have been.

We need to get something at Everton and then beat Stoke. The danger is that this becomes the Hull result of our relegation season. That was a 2-0 defeat in similar circumstances, a result early on which no-one really expected to have much significance for us against a relegation cert who were having a good start and their time in the limelight. Those 3 points were crucial. I believe we are in much better shape this time but the warning signs are clearly there.

Some people need to get a grip. We weren't great today but by the same token we could easily have won. It was a performance far better than than those that took us down. We now have a testing time; we will play worse and win. Fortune smiled on Bpool good luck to them; I didn't think they'd win 2 away games all season. wtf Smith was thinking for the penalty I simply do not know.

The penalty changed the game, very poor challenge, had we been level at ht we would have won. It then turned into one of them games, forget they were called Blackpool, we could have played all night and not have scored

No they're not.

More dramatic than that, we'd been relegated a few years before, we had a couple of decent players but the bulk of the team were local lads who really weren't very good. We were on the brink of becoming a Preston or the like. The ground was awful and the fans had a kind of apathy; we'd suppport the team but expectation was so low we didn't believe that we would ever amount to anything. KK signed turned the course of our history; it ultimately led to him becoming Manager and that turned our history yet again.

Got told of the transfer on hols in Italy - didn't believe it. Queued outside the west stand drinking beer for the qpr game in the sunshine. Fantastic day I can't think of transfer like it. Charlton signed a previous European footballer of the year around the same time but signing KK was like say Sheff Utd signing someone like Beckham at a time when Beckham was still the man. KK was still far and away the biggest name in English football when we signed him. It should be remembered that at the time Southampton had a fantastic side with the likes of Channon Ball Armstrong Shilton and Watson yet KK walked away to come here to a club that was going nowhere with a ground that was falling apart