Pilko

Him and Friedel were both good IMO. Better than the standard MOTD pundits, that's for sure.

My prediction: a phantom bid for Andreas Weimann early evening and then the 9.30pm announcement of Jamie O'Hara on a free.

Bit early for the late half-arsed bid, isn't it?

Nixon has asked me to declare him in for this. I'm not sure if I'll be about yet but if I am I will be making an appearance.

Torino, Benfica and Real Madrid treble. £2 at 7/1. Hopefully to crown a fantastic day for me.

Almost a clean sweep for the day, fucking Arsenal though.

Any danger of Arsenal bothering to win this game?

Another easy ten quid.

76 gone. Need one more Arsenal corner for £10 and a winning Arsenal goal for £7.50.

Howay Arsenal. You've done the hardest bit.

Lovren on the bench, McGeady on the bench (6 and 5 points respectively) whilst fucking Cahill (1) and Eriksen (1) are in my team fuck.

£1 on Arsenal 10+ corners @ 9/1 £2 on Sanchez + Arsenal win @ 11/4

Couple of Scouse clean sheets again dragging me somewhere near to mediocrity.

Lovely £30 bonus and I earned a fiver free bet by placing it.

Gerrard looks well past it. So many easy short passes fluffed; he doesn't even seem to have the energy to blast the ball at the feet of his teammates like he usually does.

Liverpool & Aston Villa double @ 5/1

He was far from one of the worst offenders yesterday, but he showed some glimpses of class. I remain unconvinced.

He wasn't even keeping to his position. He was faffing about like a tit in the centre of the park, losing the ball and pathetically passing responsibility to Haidara all the time. The tracking back he supposedly does so well was virtually non-existant.

Despite Pardew, he's soft as shite and needs to fucking get a grip. Pap today.

The HOPE banner was generally well-received from where I was sat in the Leazes, like. Quite a few people thought it was mint.

Wow, Skirge was always a bit mental but I never had him down as a genuine fkn moron, like.

It was a set piece and we had every single player back 'defending' (term used incredibly loosely), yet we apparently encouraged the team forwards too much and caused us to lose the lead.

Hope he's going 2nd class. Would make sense, he's a second-rate defender.

Cronky's got a glass half full of rancid liquefied shit and he's more than happy to gulp away at it.