Neil

Morales' hands seemingly stuck to his face. Should see a doctor about that.

This is abysmal. Morales off, Mathis on.

Does that even merit a 'badum-tsh' smiley?

The likes of Lennon and Defoe, on top form, against an opposition who seemingly can't be arsed anymore, will cause total and utter carnage. Often you say a team 'should have scored X goals'. Today was simply Tottenham delivering what the game threatened after they went 4-1-ish up.

Well I was obviously going to put that Spurs (-7) bet on, shame I didn't.

What the fuck happened in that 2nd half?

Arsenal had one of those days yesterday that unfortunately are still too common for them. Chelsea, for example, would have won that match.

I can hardly laugh after being comprehensively beaten, but fuck it, I shall - Owen's main highlight today was rounding Howard then falling over, and also in a 3 on 2 situation, he contrived to slow everything down by a) miscontrolling it and b) overhitting the following pass.

Mick McCarthy: "Overall, we got absolutely mullered."

Sunderland was a surprise result. Man Utd and Chelsea results were very much not surprising.

Bent's a quality striker, although it does come across like he's a big fish in a small pond at Sun'lun. Btw, that chuckled me - Mendy gets his marching orders, and literally just after demanding the ref sends him off, Franco consoles Mendy.

Ah well.

We really have to score during this current period when we're having the better of it.

Much, much better this 2nd half.

Wahey.

Only way we'll get something is if we stick Yakubu or Jo... no, Yakubu on, and hope we don't get overrun.

And I still can't believe Italy-France was the final. This time around.... I'm going for Brazil. Ivory Coast or Nigeria to make the semis.

And I fear the inevitable now.

We were defending well, so it seemed like they'd need to do something good. Unfortunately, Fletcher did just that.

Realised with the edit. Re: this thread, Michael Brown.

Jesting. Edit:

That's clearly sexual abuse.

Ivory Coast often impress me when I see them. But whether they have the ability to get to the quarters/beyond is questionable. I'm sure someone else who watches them more may know...?

Didn't the senior team score 13 on their last trip to San Marino? Or something equally as ludicrous.

Dzeko likely to end up at Milan in the summer, it seems: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=699547&sec=transfers&cc=5739