Neil

3-2 Hoffenheim are absolutely obsessed with goals.

2-0 West Brom.

Bromwich West score.

Even though it'll now be cursed, I've got an over 1.5 team goals 4 fold of Southampton, Notts County, Rotherham and Scunthorpe

Done that for Stoke and Sheff Wed.

lerl In other news, hope The Sun burns.

Man Utd 2-0 A.Villa Crystal Palace 0-2 Chelsea Southampton 2-1 Newcastle Stoke 2-0 Hull Swansea 2-1 Norwich West Brom 1-2 Cardiff Arsenal 1-2 Man City Fulham 1-1 Everton Liverpoool 2-1 Tottenham Sunderland 1-0 West Ham

The mass media have been engulfed with "PARDEW IS A LITTLE SHIT" headlines, I thought? No? Oh, cool.

I'll get on Southampton to ensure you take something from the game. Thus ensuring some of the pressure on Pardew is lifted.

Was it Scudamore or was it someone else who infamously stated "we don't want to see players like Wayne Rooney getting sent off". You don't even have to put 2 and 2 together to realise there is clear bias seeping down the footballing hierarchy in the UK. It's alarmingly obvious and it clearly translates to on-the-pitch decisions.

That was inevitable, Hertha have been open as owt. Could be ugly, this.

Oh dear.

Think so aye. Ooof, unlucky that.

What's the cut of Ramos' jib? Is he actually good?

Can see them doing a job on us. Another annoying 1-0 on the way.

Napoli.

Napoli are my #1 "always play well when I don't watch them/bet on them" team. Constantly delivering apparently impressive performances when I pay no attention, then when I'm keeping tabs on them, Hamsik looks like Aidan McGeady with a brush on his head and Higuain channels the spirit of Denis Stracqualursi.

Aye I know you won't LIIWBU It will indeed test our squad. Interested to see which black hole Kenwright will throw the surplus we made in the summer this time, and then imply we should be happy with breaking even. Sorry if that sounds overly pessimistic but I've read this story 100 times before. The top 4 CAN be got at but I fully expect us to let another opening pass us by.

I don't think there's any delusion about it really, we know we've been helped a lot with our loan signings. With that said, I think their impact has been overstated. Deulofeu has been injured for a large chunk of the season and for nearly half this season, Lukaku was either injured or playing terribly. Barry has been a big plus. The impression I get is Barry and Deulofeu might be able to stay next season, Lukaku it's very unlikely.

Also gone for Sturridge (score and win), Costa (score and win) and Benzema to score. Over 5/1 with bwin.

Yup. Obviously it's unlikely all of them will do so together, but I don't think it's 18/1 unlikely. Would give it a roughly 10% chance of happening, i.e. 9/1. Think it's great value. Ronaldo - currently the best player of all 3 - is probably the least likely due to having the hardest fixture but he's liable to just dominate if he fancies it. Plus the amount of daft penalties he gets, it's really worth a bet I'd say.

Skybet mate. Actually 18.5/1 according to Oddschecker. Well worth a tenner IMO.

Ronaldo, Messi and Suarez all to score 2 or more @ 18/1

There will be blood tonight.

Yup. You've hit on my implication in the 2nd part of my post - he doesn't know how to manage a team with genuinely class players at a club that is expected to win most weeks. He'll improve given a year or 2 there but I doubt they're going to give him that time. His mentality and Man Utd's (previous) mentality don't marry.