Neil

They can't even boo properly.

Through ball was too much, went into Mignolet. Who decided to fumble the ball and give it to Long.

Bahahahahahahahahaha.

Sunderland in Catturmoil.

Decent.

Damn.

O'Shea off. :lol: His rocker.

What a twat. Cole and Terry are cunts too. Lampard seems alright.

Yup, and it's safe to say you're having some rotten luck currently with injuries. My general point was, IMO, in the games I've seen this year you've had quite a few fortuitous moments go your way, and that that is often understated when a team is generally believed to be performing below fans' expectations. Regardless, you don't finish 5th through luck. You may be going through a rocky spell currently but I find it unfathomable that you can't start recreating some of the form you were showing last year. It doesn't go away just like that.

I don't know what the popular opinion is, as madras has (succinctly) demonstrated. What counts as a good season in the league this year? Hopefully you prioritise the Uefa Cup when it comes to the knockout stages because that, surely, is where last season's efforts need to bear fruit?

one debatable sending off, one that wasn't, a sending off at your place that we didn't get to offset the offside goal and the other goal that never was came from a free kick that never was, for the goal off cisse's arse equal that with the og off dembas face. it's like the mackems saying how lucky we were last season with injuries but we had saylor out most of ther season, ben arfa took over half a season to get back and tiote missed a few with injury as did williamson and santon. 2nd goal at Reading was a handball, Cabaye's shot in the derby was in fact deflected which isn't really mentioned, we could go on. There's no getting away from the fact you've had an above average amount of fortuitous moments this season, which tends to be overlooked when a team is performing below expectations. Not that that will be a popular opinion. And that's coming from someone who thinks you'll still finish in the top 8 and on a very similar amount of points - perhaps more - as us, despite all the comments on this forum about how you're playing currently.

I'd be completely fucking pissed off if I were yous, with those comments. And to say you haven't had luck? Give me a break.

Went for the Norwich +1 @ 17/10. Genuinely think it's class value all things considered. For weeks now we should have laid the smackdown on someone but it's never materialised. Norwich are a lot more confident after the past few weeks and tomorrow's game is a must-win for us if we have serious aspirations of challenging the top 4 this year. We don't tend to do well when the pressure's on, plus we've made a right meal of numerous "should win" matches this year.

Thought you were predicting in binary for a moment there.

Love it when Lawro cracks out a 3-0 prediction, only on special occasions.

After your result/performance last night, I was thinking a Southampton win would be good value. But after reading some of the comments and predictions on here, I'm now thinking you won't get beat.

Think Sunderland will win this weekend. Also, Norwich +1 @ 17/10 is annoyingly tempting. Think BTS is very likely. Southampton to win either half @ 8/13 I like the look of as well.

Which, collectively, is precisely the reason it'll be an away win.

GW13: 1. 2-1 2. 1-1 3. 4-0 4. 1-1 5. 1-2 6. 1-2 7. 0-0 8. 2-1 9. 1-0 10. 1-0

http://i.imgur.com/ThFCE.png

GW12 1. 2-1 2. 2-0 3. 3-1 4. 2-1 5. 3-1 6. 1-1 7. 1-2 8. 0-3 9. 1-0 10. 2-0

If we play well like we have been generally and are a bit more clinical, we should be looking at trouncing them. But time and time again we make hard work of games we're favourites in, especially away from home. We don't do well away from home when we're expected to win. I can just as easily see Reading 1-0/2-1 as I can see us winning 3-1/4-1. Don't get me wrong I think we should be winning this game but don't bank on it. That's our problem btw, we have been defending ridiculously badly. Teams don't need to pressurise us for long spells in order to score. See Sunderland's goal at the weekend, obscenely easy goal. Anyway, this is for another thread!

You saw us not beat QPR and Wigan, right?

Reading will score first.

Personally I thought it was an incredible goal and one of the best I've ever seen.