Neil

Should have been an even better weekend on the betting front. Stuck £25 in-play on Barca to win (at 1-1) and Napoli to draw (at 0-1). Stupidly didn't check the games as they were going on and of course if I did, I'd have laid when Napoli-Bologna went to 2-2 in the 86th minute (with Barca out of sight). Entirely my own fault I didn't guarantee myself a profit of course, but I'm impressed Napoli actually managed to get beat.

Incidents being blatant haven't stopped other managers try to defend their players in such situations and attempt to mitigate the circumstances. I personally think the FA will see this as an opportunity to throw the book at someone - to be seen to be doing their job. Trial by media, as per.

Not sure what to make about Moyes' comments on Fellaini. On one hand I'm delighted we have such a straight-talking manager who'll call it how he sees it. Let's be honest, a whole host of managers would've tried to claim they didn't see it, or that it was a bit of a grey area. Fellaini was a fucking moron and he pointed it out as such. Yet I can't help wonder if he'd adopted the approach of some managers of the "top" clubs in this league, the ban won't be as harsh (of course time will tell on that). Ferguson, Wenger, Rodgers and more.... would they have said what Moyes said? It shouldn't work like that, no, but we know how the FA works. I expect Fellaini to be made an example of, as opposed to Moyes' comments and Fellaini's swift apology actually doing any good. Biased view: Wish referees would, conversely, start doing something about opposition players grappling Fellaini for every set piece. Gets fuck all protection from the referee. All you'd ask is for some consistency, not penalise him just because he's big.

A very rare, lucky weekend for me. Had a treble of QPR, Norwich and Shrewsbury yesterday which returned a tad over £100. Then a 4-fold BTTS European accy today which returned £120. Pretty sure whenever I don't post it on here, I do fine. Fuck you, N-O.

Mirallas has looked very good this season. Very unlucky not to have scored more. Engineered some good openings for himself and has a bit of pace to him. Was a bit disappointed when I discovered FF had classified him as a Forward. Think you've missed him. Yup, he looks really good which is why it's so frustrating he's missing games. Presuming he's out for our next few games then he will have barely played half our league games up to that point. That's a worry. The point is, stuff like "well he'll want to play" - so what? I'd bloody well hope a professional footballer would want to play. If he's injured, he's injured, imagine the fallout if he plays tomorrow and is out for a longer spell with a torn hamstring or something similar. I'm no medical expert but hamstrings are surely one thing you don't piss around with? If there's a consistency to the injuries you're getting then that's what the club's time should be spent focussing on, not blindly rolling the dice with your best player's fitness.

"It looks as though we'll lose him for a few weeks and that’s a really big blow. Anyone who has watched our games will tell you what he is like. His hamstring just isn’t right so it looks like we are going to have to take more time over it. It will probably keep him out for a while. We originally thought it would be a mild hamstring injury and we gave it extra time and I was actually expecting him to be available a couple of weeks ago. I rested him in our next game in the hope that he would be right for the last game the weekend just gone. We gave it extra days to get him right but we will now need to take even more time, unfortunately. He will be a big miss for us because he gives us a different attacking dimension from what we have got.” ----------- Sound familiar? Moyes on Kevin Mirallas who was out for a few weeks with his hamstring. Came back and was taken off at half time vs Spurs and now probably won't be back until next month, which is a big blow considering he's arguably our most creative attacking outlet. Sounds very familiar. If there's something wrong with Ben Arfa's hamstring then it's surely madness to play him. You're asking for trouble.

Shouldn't... laugh... but... :lol:

Guess I'm not the only one who forgot about this.

Think Boro will take it to extra time.

Very strong Barca team tonight. Then again there's a barely a weak one.

Credit to Sunderland, they were definitely up for it last night and came out of the blocks fast. But it's hard to ignore the fact Reading were awful. Completely devoid of any ideas and if they're going to play like that for most of the season then even QPR have a better chance of avoiding relegation than they do. The worrying things is Reading scored 2 against us and we were very lucky to come away with a point against them. Having said that we were unlucky with 10 men not to beat the dirty stinking mackems. The worrying thing is Reading scored 2 against us and beat us. What a farce, they're absolute wank.

Credit to Sunderland, they were definitely up for it last night and came out of the blocks fast. But it's hard to ignore the fact Reading were awful. Completely devoid of any ideas and if they're going to play like that for most of the season then even QPR have a better chance of avoiding relegation than they do.

Sessegnon captaincy boosts it up to 68 for that GW.

We gave them their one fucking win!

WAHEY!!!!!!!

Shit penalty.

Bahahahaha.

Cazorla saved!

Love a good pella shootout.

aye- spells worse than an abysmal reading tbh. They won the game because they were a lot more hungry than Reading. In many ways it summed up Sunderland - it'll be good enough to stay clear of relegation but lacking quality to do anything of any note. They'll finish 13th/14th, again.

Sunderland had an excellent start which was enough to win the game. Big chunks of it they were shite. Which tells you everything you need to know about Reading. Going to take a miracle to keep them up.

4-1 Villa.

Balls.

Villa 3-1.

Villa 2-1.