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Not at all. I reckon Darke's digging him in the ribs to get him to speak as and when needed.

lovely linkup play between Valencia and Rafael.

massive loss for In-gur-lund when he packed it in too.

reminds me of midweek games against mid-table fodder under Robson. You'd turn up, expecting to win but the atmosphere would be flat as f*** (usually 'cos the away team would bring no-one), the football wouldn't be particularly pretty (in part due to the opposition putting 11 men behind the ball) and you'd be sat freezing your tits off.

gonna call this now, routine Man Utd win 2-0, not really having to display any flashes of brilliance.

Dembele thinks he's Ben Arfa. Unfortunately its an awful shot.

Horseshit's an absolute tool like. He talks so much shite. Burra fans complaining they can't take flags in any more. Queue Horseshit, 'They can't take flags in because they're not fireproof... *pauses, then in a high-pitched voice* BUT THEY SELL THOUSANDS OF PROGRAMMES! WHICH ARE PAPER!!!'

haha, it gets a mention on last week's Ramble.

Slaven is defending Barton, saying that sunderland fans have hounded Barton at SJP before and he's kept calm. I fully agree with madras, fwiw.

thats current. ah. Horseshit on the legends saying Ba must be pissed off because he's being stuck out wide. All strikers would be. Macdonald counter-argues saying Ba is doing a job helping Cisse out, helping him get goals and fit in, giving him confidence. Horseshit isn't having it. Slaven tries to move the conversation on to sum up sunlun and Burra. Horseshit says 'hang on, I'm not finished with them yet'. Bitter fucker.

so 16 point gap with Everton and currently 10 points ahead of them.

so we are above blackburn, who have only missed 1 season? and won it. canny. forgive me if im wrong the memory is old and cloudy. when were villa out top division then?- seems fairly recent in my grey matter. Edit- Giggsed they were down 2 seasons.

just got read out on Total Sport. Yeah it'll be that Villa and Everton have been ever-presents in the PL. We're the top team in there that hasn't been in for all 20 seasons.

Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, Villa and Everton all above us with the points thing. mackems 17th out of a total of 45 teams to have been in the PL. Just overtaken Coventry.

But if not, then they might have to go to Newcastle and offer them Andy Carroll plus some cash for Demba Ba.

wouldn't really have the same mickey-taking affect though would it?

Would love a banner there on Sunday that just reads, Hamilton. Tomasson. Pinas. Rush. Anderson. Georgiadis. Perez. Guivarc'h. Serrant. Brady. Charvet. KING KENNY - TRANSFER GENIUS

'The Smethwick End'. What a horrible name.

they can shut the fuck up after they peppered Blackburn's goal for 90 minutes with an astounding 0 shots on target last week.

you do get to see Andrews desperately try to bust a gut to get back after Benny skips his challenge. It'll do.

oh how they'd react if City put a picture of a mangled plane on the front of their fanzine...

in extremely poor taste. Pathetic. Not too comparable, but they're ones for highlighting people jumping on the bandwagon for a cause. See the shitty 'green and gold' scarf campaign.

needs to rattle in a 35 yarder tbh.

born February '93. Fuck, that makes me feel old!

watching back the full 90, that ball to Benny for the first goal man, delightful.