Neil

Marseille can fuck right off. Had a 5 fold on, they were the last one I checked. AET win as well just to rub it in.

We got it a lot when we finished 4th (ha! remember when that happened?). Couldn't wait for us to fall off the pace.

Sky need to package something like that so that they can try to deliver some sort of compelling rhetoric. It can't just be good teams and appreciating them for what they are, or indeed what they aren't - it's the TOP 2, 4, 6, 7, whatever you want to use. They're portraying certain clubs as being in the "power positions" for lack of a better term, so that when someone comes along - Spurs, now perhaps Newcastle to a lesser extent - they can report on how dramatic it is that someone is penetrating the group of teams they've built up as being too good to be caught. It's an endless cycle. They're very clingy to the idea of there being an elite, and it's pretty disgusting if you ask me.

No, we'll never 'know' whether it was deliberate as only he knows, but it sure as hell looked like it was intentional. His foot moves in a completely unnatural way towards Parker. That's not how you accidentally stumble after losing balance.

41 points before bonus. I'm completely giving up on the bonus points system if Valencia and Mata both don't get any, which I have a bad feeling they'll somehow not.

How are Chelsea ahead of Spurs in your mind, let alone Man Utd?

Groningen won, Milan and Udinese both 2-0 up. Rest of the games are later on. It's the hope that hurts. Your hcp's will cost you. Yup, probably. Both one goal wins no doubt. Braga 2-0 up, decide to concede in injury time.

As for the results, IMO having other teams slip up doesn't for one second excuse an abysmal 2nd half performance but it's something to be relieved about. Goes to show that top 6 is very realistic, as is staying well above 8th.

Like that, VI?

Groningen won, Milan and Udinese both 2-0 up. Rest of the games are later on. It's the hope that hurts. Your hcp's will cost you. Yup, probably. Both one goal wins no doubt.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01175/RayWilkins_1175270a.jpg MY WORD!!!

And the "desperately attempting to cling onto any sort of relevance" award goes to...

That'd be hilarious! Double substitution! Can you imagine it?!?!

What about next weekend? Does not compute.

I thought he should have gone like, it looked completely unnatural. Very lucky boy to stay on the pitch.

That'd be hilarious!

Balotelli should have been off like. Your foot doesn't naturally hit the floor like that; Parker was fortunate not to get a very nasty blow.

Groningen won, Milan and Udinese both 2-0 up. Rest of the games are later on. It's the hope that hurts.

I've been trying to give Savic a chance, but my word, what a liability.

Outstanding 2nd half of football. Spurs never deserved to lose it but it was reckless as fuck from King.

Sensational.

£2 on AC Milan Udinese Inter RM -1 Levante Braga -1 Groningen Easy.

2 cracking goals yesterday. You won't lose the derby.

22 with 5 to play which isn't too bad so far. Doesn't look like a high scoring week all round. I just know Mata (captain), despite being the best player on the pitch in that game, won't get any bonus points. It'd also help my cause if RVP could sort of get injured soon. Nothing serious like - just, I dunno, a really bad cold which appears every Saturday morning for 36 hours. That'd do.

That's now home games against Norwich, Blackburn, Bolton, Stoke, QPR and Villa we've failed to win. Good stuff David.