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Butt for Lovenkrands was as bad as it gets. Butt should have been left to sit on the bench. I'm assuming you didn't see the game, because if you did you'd realise that Butt didn't 'sit back and help the back four out', he did what he usually does (put them under even more pressure). Harewood coming off was the correct decision. Not really fussed that he brought Carroll on either but I'd personally have gone for Ranger who I believe can hold the ball up better than Carroll. He also didn't really look fit either, very sluggish at times. We could even have left Lovenkrands on, which wouldn't have been a bad option. He caused Watford a lot of problems all game and it might have allowed us to catch them on the break, as well as retaining possession better because just hoofing it clear to Carroll didn't work well. Bringing Pancrate on was also the right decision, but it shouldn't have been at the expense of Guthrie. There would have been nothing wrong at all with putting Guthrie in the middle of the park, allowing Pancrate to play on the right wing. Bringing Butt on caused us more problems due to his lack of any kind of ability to grace a football pitch and allowing an equaliser, with him being caught out of position just a minute after he came on. Not to mention then giving the ball away in a stupid position about five minutes later, followed by a disgusting tackle where he dived in from behind trying to chop the guy down right on the edge of the box. He's finished and shouldn't be anywhere near the team, especially not coming off the bench when we're trying to hold onto a lead.

Why? right subs at the right times. i know butt gave it away a couple of times, but hey if you can't find it in you to give him a little credit even today then nothing he does will make u happy. His subs today were awful. Almost reminded me of .

Played really well today. Some very classy touches and passes that opened Watford up. Disgraceful that he was taken off at the expense of Butt.

All of these represent pretty good value in my opinion: Blackburn vs Liverpool - 4/5 Manchester City vs Chelsea - 10/11 Bristol City vs Ipswich - 5/4 Cardiff vs Preston - 5/6 Crystal Palace vs Doncaster - 10/11 Derby vs West Brom - EVS Peterborough vs Swansea - 7/5 Plymouth vs Sheffield Utd - 5/4 Charlton vs Southend - 8/13 Norwich vs Oldham - 8/15 Grimsby vs Dagenham & Redbridge - 6/5 Rochdale vs Macclesfield - 4/7 Rotherham vs Burton - 4/6 Kettering vs Salisbury City - 8/11 Some obviously represent better value than others but I'd expect the majority of those sides to win.

There is some real value in plenty of games tomorrow. Will have another look a bit later on and post a list (going to be rather long I think) of the ones I fancy.

This is going to get very messy if either France or Portugal end up in Group D.

Group C, bastard.

Just start the draw ffs!

Seaman and Venables? Fucking hell.

Honestly couldn't care less if we sign him or not.

Nothing to do with the Glazer's penny pinching again, then...

Who? Belhadj, Boateng, Kaboul, Ben Haim. Wouldn't go anywhere near Ben Haim, he's awful.

Feel like the luckiest person alive at the minute - definitely going to South Africa now!

Agreed. Went for Luque, even though it wasn't really his fault.

That team should still comfortably put Xerez away.

Why has Bellamy not been booked yet?

Wayne Bridge is shite.

Plastic as fuck at the City of Manchester Stadium at this moment in time.

Hapoel Tel Aviv 7/2 away at Celtic too. Going to have to look into it in more detail but on the face of it that's another great price.

They're apparently resting a few players. I wouldn't be ultra confident about them winning but it's a good price.

AEK 11/5 at home to dodgy looking Everton side, hmmm...

Agreed.

Christ, who's that with? I may well end up lumping on that. Coral. Can get 3/1 with a fair few other companies too.

Moving quickly onto tomorrow night, Arsenal at 10/3 are a huge price, even if it is the kids playing.

Useless bastards, second time they've stung me this season. Really disappointed, they were the obvious banker of that treble and for Rochdale and Notts County to both romp home that convincingly feels like a kick in the balls. Still £13 up on the night with Villa winning but would have been around £80 up had Huddersfield won.