Neil

I heard on the grapevine it's the best European night going.

That's absolutely abysmal from Cavani. Lavezzi though =

Did he just call them Lazio?

Lavezzi.

Poor positioning from Given.

What a shit goal.

"You've got to feel sorry for Man City."

What a goal!

Going for the win, I see.

Anyone bothering with the Man City game? I can't see past a 1-0 City win. It's 2-2 already... isn't it? :-[

I saw that. Makes no sense at all. Totally different position and style to Pienaar, you wouldn't want to sell and he wouldn't get Cahill out of our side anyway. Top paper, the Metro. Someone on Blue Kipper the other day said he was the "perfect long time successor to Tim Cahill" Not sure what Victor Anichebe would say about that mind, though it is mental that Nolan's younger than Cahill. That site. Speaking of which, Anichebe's back playing in the reserves. By my calculations, this means there's enough time for him to get injured again before he exacts his violent revenge on Nolan at SJP in.... March, is it?

He probably disappeared for ninety minutes after that. Only because of the lack of service from the Tesco staff. I thought this was really good tbh.

Upgrade to 10 ==> upgrade to a pint glass, not just a cup. I'm not sure why I'm terming it an "upgrade" like.

The one in the Cornmill Shopping Centre here in Darlo. [/yesiamthatguy] Our 6-2 game btw mentioned earlier in the thread was insane. iirc, Dyer ripped us a new one. It was 2-2 as well at HT I think. Fuck's sake.

Who's saying you've been lucky with injuries like? And I agree about the 8th/17th issue. It's scandalous to suggest there's no difference, or even to say there's not much difference. There's a huge amount, and your Brum example illustrates it well and I predict will end up with them retaining their top 10 position.

In fairness, Messi's only hope was for Nolan to get a bad injury. You could have been bottom all season and Nolan still would have had a good shout of getting 8. Wheel of Messifortune as Rich says - all or nothing.

We need someone like Ivanovic up front.

Doubt it. -6 certainly isn't.

Zilina 0-7 Marseille

The most unexciting commentary from ITV. "Drogba goes over and it's a penalty."

Anyone have Marseille -5?

Reporter: So Arsene, any new injury concerns ahead of the visit of Newcastle? Arsene: Well errr, I think Nasri might be a doubt with an errrr, exploded head.

Shepherd's a Sky bitch now isn't he? Don't think he does the main presenting but might get an outing on a CL night. I'm guessing stuff like Goals on Sunday? In fact, I don't even watch it but where did that Rob McGaffrey or whatever go from GoS? He's my last memory of Sky Sports. He was very eccentric and SHOUTED QUICKLY but then, quietly, slowly...

Yes Peter. It's been a "slow burner" hasn't it?

Marseille 4-0, ridiculously unlucky like for Zilina. Defender tries to cut out a ball, it flicks off him, goes just past the other defender and straight into the Marseille striker's path.