Neil

Hopefully no-one's surprised by this, like. Twat on the pitch, twat off the pitch, and will continue to be a twat. Twat.

Forum's been on and off for me the past couple of days. Quite a few times it's briefly not loaded (web page available), and then worked fine a minute later. Nothing major but irritating nonetheless and thought I'd mention it anyway. Background work still going on I think Rich said? Example: I clicked to post this post, and it was 'loading' and doing nothing, eventually just refusing to load at all. Refresh about 60 seconds later and it's fine. Edit: actually, might just be my net having a bad day. Did something similar with another site. But the above sort of thing happen still happens on occasion even if other sites are working fine. But today just looks like it's my net being a knob.

I thought he looked really classy up here against us a few weeks ago, but as you say his goal record doesn't exactly blow you away. He certainly appears to have ability, though. I mean, I'm not saying he's not that good purely because of his stats, but you would expect someone who's been playing up front and had a fair amount of game time to get more than 3 goals in 25ish games.

The same Dembele who has scored 3 league goals for Fulham since joining last summer? He's alright, not seen much from him in this league to suggest he's going to be much more than that.

He's still in Scott Minto's basement presumably.

Interesting to see how much Wenger uses him. Seems like he's good enough to score goals at this level even at this point.

Love how Randy Savage has tried to engage in a sensible discussion and they resort to a) trying to shoot him down and b) completely miss the point.

Maneeeeeesh said something about whether Owen should be reconsidered for England, and Bright shot him down emphatically.

Really liked your 1st goal. Simple but good. HBA spreads it to the wing, Marveaux brings it under control and very quickly delivers an accurate cross, emphatic finish from Lovenkrands.

AOC, man. He's going to be very, very good.

Check out the camera angle.

Mark Bright sporting the "I've been assaulted by buttons" look.

And Carragher, man.

Does Kuyt ever hit a shot cleanly?

Like any cup run for teams like us and you, some luck is needed in the draws. That said, you almost always will have to beat at least 1 good team at some point to win the thing - just hopefully at this stage, any top team drawn is at home.

Not a particularly bad result for Barca, Valencia have sounded impressive - someone who's watched the whole game will have a fuller opinion of it?

Barca coming very close to winning the game.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1558/unledfq.png Just a little illustration of Phil Neville's awesome goal.

Phil fucking Neville!

Tchoyi misses an open goal. Nice.

Juventus and Milan draw, Inter and Napoli both get beat, though not sure what Napoli were playing at resting all of their front 3.

It'd be grand if we could just play in the 2nd half of matches, or more specifically, the last 20 minutes. It's encouraging we're strong late on, but we're often shit for the rest of the match bar a couple of brief periods. It's very annoying.

Fellaini!

What a shit night for betting.