Pilko

Did it in the other thread. Then you get a runners-up prize of a knee to the balls. You'll never reach. Then you get a knee to the forehead.

Neil going barmy on the text.

Did it in the other thread. Then you get a runners-up prize of a knee to the balls.

Berbatov Can't believe a lad who idolised Shearer as a lad could take such an un-Shearer like pen. COME ON EVERTON

If anyone in this thread starts to play the "Given would have saved..." game they deserve a punch in the cunt.

Huh? According to .com he had 3 bookings before this game. On Sky, when he was booked for that foul on Lennon, the graphic (spinning yellow card) had a number 5 on it.

That's about the eight fucking time Steve Ryder has mentioned those bastard comments about Mike Riley being a Man U fan. For christs sake, talk about something else - explain why your channel employs such fuckwit commentators, perhaps?

That's a suspension for Ryan Taylor now isn't it? Thank the fucking lord upon high.

1-1, the slide will continue.

Negatives: - Our midfield and strikers don't know how to counter-attack without dallying, playing triangles in our own full-back slots allows the opponents to regroup and easily get the ball when we try to attack. - We give everyone far too much time on the ball, especially in midfield. Some of our players (Duff, Nolan and Ryan Taylor in particular) have no idea how to track a runner. - We are very vunerable to a ball played through the centre-backs into the channels. Only a number of lucky deflections and good blocks stopped the cut backs from this being effective. - We have possibly the slowest central midfield pairing in the league. Butt and Nolan (especially Nolan) were shocking today, it was alarming how neither could either use or retain the ball. - Our set pieces are dreadful. All bar one hit the first man or were easily cleared and then countered from. - Ryan Taylor. Think that should be a suspension now? Thank fuck. - No matter how ineffectual or shit he is, Shearer won't drop or sub that mercenary bastard who wears the number 10 shirt. (and for some reason, the captains armband?) - Injury to Steven Taylor. - This stupid new 3-5-2 thing just doesn't work. Positives - Shearer isn't scared to change things, Martins and Viduka were on after 61 minutes and we went (more-or-less) 4-3-3. How many times has Kinnear/Hughton waited till the 84th minute before making a change? - Alan Smith came on and settled in the midfield well. He isn't the fastest but he covered more ground than the 'experienced' Butt and the overweight, one-paced Nolan. People will most likely disagree but he didn't waste a single pass today. - Harper had a fine game, saved a few shots with his fingertips and came off his line well. Was unlucky for the goal. - We didn't fold after going one down like under Kinnear/Hughton. Alright, they had a few chances but we blocked them well and more or less nullified them until the break without too much effort. - Steven Taylor had an excellent game before his injury. - Gutierrez made some class probing runs, used the ball well, held onto possesion and won us a number of free kicks either in dangerous positions or at our own end when we needed to get out and regroup. - Dowie looks like he uses any breakage in play to his advantage by getting as many players over to the dugout as possible and telling them all what to do, or what's going wrong. Never saw that under Kinnear/Hughton, not once. - Ameobi didn't get any pitch time. --------------------- We were shit today, but provided Shearer starts with Martins and Viduka (- I did say we should rip his contract up but after today, he looks useful and I'll happily retract that statement) in the next home game, we should be alright. I'm seriously worried if he continues with this wing-back malarky, because it's a load of fucking cobblers - who knows, it may be an excellent idea, but not now. We simply don't have the correct personelle.

Very harsh on Edgar.

The reason we'll go down (if we do) is those 4 dropped points at home against Wigan and Stoke.

No, Mowen is right. Even if we lose today, there is still 15 points we can get - 9 of them fairly achieveable at home, and another 3 on an anything-can-happen-because-teams-play-unpredictable-teams final day of the season. It isn't over until we're mathematically down.

Silly idea. Even things like mainly pay-as-you-play deals (not dependant on a result/performance) are only given to really old, injury prone players (see Anderton at Bournemouth, Savage at Derby).

I've watched Fulham a lot this season, and he's been pretty good imo. Needs to score more though, that's for sure. His finishing is awful though. He's like a much less effective Heskey.

Actually, Ronaldo, you're probably right. Zamora is easily the worst striker buy in the league this season.

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Cech and Fabianski seemingly playing "anything you can do, I can do shitter"

I hope our two tribute acts, Nile Ranger's Dreads and gogonileranger start posting again.

The most depressing part of that table is that even an emphatic win tomorrow can't get us out of the relegation spots.

TalkSHITE tend to spend more time giving updates about the rugby, F1 and cricket that are live on terrestrial fucking telly than the actual featured game.

Alves Diego Tristan gets West Ham an equaliser at Villa. 1-1.

I'd prefer a draw, for sure, but after that I'd rather have a Sunderland win. Apart from the game at West Brom, they won't get many more points imo.

Women will be falling at your feet, Dave, with that attire.

Pre-season and youth tournaments. for christs sake. the idea is, you actually have a chance of guessing it without being an anorak, surely?