Neil

Leicester and Hull with early 2nd half goals.

In our game, we fully deserve our lead, first quarter we were excellent. But quietened down as the half progressed. Expect a Villa reaction in the 2nd half. I think we'll need to score again to win this.

Tbf, not getting anything against Chelsea isn't an embarrassment, but I look forward to Bruce desperately attempting to spin it into an heroic performance, it was a matter of luck that they didn't get anything what with no beachballs getting in the way of a shot and deflecting the ball in.

Shots: Sunderland 5-9 Chelsea Possession: 39%-61% Sunderland are dominant once again.

Mackem at the ground claiming the free kick wasn't a free kick, and Terry was offside. Haven't seen the goal. Any comments?

Hmm. Possible but work required!

This is Bardsley who's apparently one of their best players?

Depends if we're talking about pre-January us or post-January us. Although maybe this year will be different?

Don't get me going.

Canny few goals flying in currently like.

That 30%. We really did dominate it.

Tevez you knob, could've been another assist for Silva.

What do you think of not playing any recognised strikers? Ludicrous. But can't say I'm surprised.

Silva © assist will do nicely.

This always happens against Villa. Time and time again we play well against Villa but don't win. All over them early on but haven't scored.

Put him in my FF team, so yes, yes they will.

An absolutely out of this world £10 on Man City -1, Arsenal -1, Cardiff.

Double chance when you go for win/draw really reduces the odds drastically. But DNB doesn't reduce them too much. Villa are 3/1 to win, 13/8 DNB which is very reasonable.

I wouldn't. Their defence is still quite susceptible to the odd cross - and I assume Cahill will be promoted back to a more advanced role alongside [banana] Daiquiri? I'd lean towards a 1-0 Everton win. Stracq's apparently not fit. And then there's Anichebe... who's out for 3 months. And then there's Saha who's always injured. Utterly perplexed as to why we let Beckford or Yakubu go.

Really, really want to go balls deep on Villa DNB but really, really shouldn't.

You're living in a different world to me mate.

Thing is, none of those teams' odds are overwhelmingly short. Arsenal are 1/3, Chelsea 8/13 and Man Utd 2/5. So Arsenal will probably go to -3, the other 2 -2? Not like we're talking 1/6 as odds for the straight win.

It'll be interesting to see how Man City/Man Utd line up in the league in the next couple of weeks, considering CL is kicking in now. That's my only reservation about the likes of Young and Dzeko. Rooney I'd imagine would play pretty much all games.

Bale and (reluctantly) Dempsey out, Cabaye and Young in. Cue Young starting from the bench.

Yeah, I'm on that as well. Site itself though is working fine as far as I can tell. Get some sleep mate!