The Prophet

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I'm not sure why people are suprised by the nominations of Dzecko and Gourcouff. Both playing instrumental roles in their teams winning their respictive leagues with the latter now leading an impressive Bordeaux outfit into the last 16 of the Champions League qualifying comfortably out of a group containing Munich and Juventus. Villa and Iniseta should be higher. Ibrahimovic and Kaka should be lower.

What promised to be an epic day of football has once again failed to provide the entertainment it should have, still not bad like. Get in Barca.

Ref hasn't let the game flow, Diarra should of been booked, Arbeloa shouldn't. Barca have done most of the pressing but Real have had two great chances.

Lassana Diarra looks completely out of his depth.

Ipswich beat Cardiff.

got to be favourite? What are Moyes' odds? Get stuffed tomorrow and I wouldn't be surprised if he walks. Unless something dramatic has happened behind the scenes it would be daft timing from Moyes. If you believe reports, he's been close to leaving on a couple of occasions. With the stadium move being firmly rejected, a hugely disappointing start regardless of injuries, and no signs of increased funding, he may well think enough's enough. And as you have hinted at, there could be something behind the scenes. Some of our performances have been so unlike our usual standard of the past few years. If he were to leave though, I'd much prefer him to wait until next summer. Moyes knows Kenwright has no money. Now while it must be frustrating he knew that was the case at the begining of the season hence having to sell Lecott in order to invest. So to walk out now would certianly be odd. I know things haven't been helped by injuries, any team with the ten first team injuries you've had at times would struggle. For me the fact your still floating around mid-table shows your squad depth certainly has improved to an extent over the last couple of seasons and that is a testament to Moyes ability to work with a limited budget. If he sticks around and you can get Bilyaletdinov and Arteta fit again I think you'll see a marked improvement. The worrying thing is your not as difficult to break down as you were in previous seasons, but again you've had Baines and Yobo struggling with injury for the most part. I can understand Moyes leaving at the end of the season, but to do it now without any new reason would be strange, especially when you consider he has such an open working relationship with his chairman.

got to be favourite? What are Moyes' odds? Get stuffed tomorrow and I wouldn't be surprised if he walks. Unless something dramatic has happened behind the scenes it would be daft timing from Moyes.

My flat mate was saying a lad on his course got up one morning and Harewood was in his living room playing FIFA. One of the lasses in the flat had brought him back the night before, nice lad apparently.

I'd imaigne Everton will be pretty direct.

One on each line cost me today, Fulham, Rotherham and Dundee, cunts.

133, don't know whether to be proud or ashamed.

Carlisle home and erm... dry.

Agreed but just saying we need to be on guard. Swansea won't come and accept deafeat like Peterborough did, they'll have a go. They've lost one in their last 11 and have climbed to forth as a pose to Preston who we played on a bad run of performances. Similarly Watford are begining to find a run of form. It would be nice to take adavantage of being on home turf and put some real daylight between ourselves and third though. Edit: They might actually be unbeaten in their last 11, can't be arsed to check. Ironically Preston were the last side to beat them.

Watford and particularly Swansea are bang in form though, could potentially be more tricky then Preston.

How do midfielders, who were statue-esque at times and gave the ball away far too much get 7s? I gave 6s, but I think that's knee-jerk due to a positive result, had we lost I'd of been giving 5s at best.

Harper 6 - Did what he had to when called upon. Simpson 6 - Steady. Colo 7 - Rock solid. Taylor 7 - See Colo. Enrique 7 - Inconsitant going forward, good defensively. Jonas 5 - Worked hard but gave the ball away almost every time he got it. Smith 6 - More of the same, good shift but overly-aggressive at times. Nolan 6 - Nothing performance but scored the winner. Guthrie 6 - The only midfielder capable of keeping the ball then delivering a pass to his team mate on a consistant basis. Harewood 1 - Shit work rate, no quality, can't wait to see the back of him. Carroll 6 - Decent shift, pissing against the wind at times. Hughton 6 - Got the line up right but more mind boggling substitutions.

Good win, though Jonas and Harewood were awful.

"Man's man" "Proper player" "Wide workers" "Lady Luck" "The ref..." "Swirling wind" "Bubbly pitch" It was like he rehersed it.

Middlesbrough FC, deserve everything they get, cunts.

Had one come off yesterday: Man United Leicester Sheffield United Huddersfield Bristol Rovers Chesterfield Payed just over thirty quid.

What a load of bollocks regarding goal line technology, please explain how it would affect discussion and debate? People still talk about players, selections, appointments, previous matches, match predictions, goals, and even the influence of technology. There is nothing wrong with trying to improve the game, it could be at least tried. Would you really sacrafice your team losing points to have a discussion about a decision in the pub? No. It works in other sports very effectively and before we get the, it would create too many stoppages in play bollocks, it would make little difference when you consider when a decision is made are contested for a good couple of minutes.

Fancied the draw anyway, that particular stat just made my mind up.

Preston have draw their last few home games, so taking that into account I'll go 1-1.

What a load of over hyped nonsense. I have sympathy for Henry. Sticking your arm out the way he did is a natural reaction to most, it's up to the officials to spot it. So when I read Oliver Holt claiming Henry's reputation is in tatters I just shake my head in disbelief. It's not like he's the first player to con the ref in a high profile game. Off the top of my head Muller, Maradona and (not in the same bracket) now Ronaldo are all guilty of it yet I don't see anyone doubting their reputation, why? Because they're damn good players, it's undeniable. A moment of petulance isn't going erase so many memories of brilliance. It could be claimed Ireland were cheated out of the world cup but certainly not by Henry. Taking a look at the game itself for a minute they plenty of chances to put the game to bed and I agree with Keane when he says the defending for the incident was shocking, they were asking for trouble. People (mainly the press) seem to have lost perspective, Ireland weren’t in a winning position, what they had was a 50-50 crack at the world cup in a penalty shootout, there was no guarantee they were going to come out on top. The biggest thing to come out of this for me is FIFA's absolute denial of common sense by refusing to even give technology a go. By the time Given ran over to the ref, had a moan and a sulk, a bloke stood on the touchline could of had a quick look at a TV monitor and could of communicated the incident in a matter of seconds. The whole “oh it would slow the game down” is an absolute crock when you consider how many stoppages we have due to players going down right, left and center. Also how is it a ref involved in two particularly high profile incidents, including awarding a penalty for a challenge that didn’t occur and failing to allow a goal when the ball blatantly crossed the line, allowed to officiate at this level so soon. And although it was neither the linesman nor the ref who covered themselves in glory for the incident it still has to be asked why this particular referee was selected for such a high stakes game in the first place? On a wider scale it’s also an absolute travesty how FIFA seeded the play-offs in the eleventh hour to ensure Slovenia, Bosnia, Ukraine and Ireland would have the most difficult task possible. They always were a bunch of dodgy bastards and their brown nosing of the larger nations particularly on this occasion was a disgrace. Ireland was unfortunate but for me the issue isn’t with Henry or even the officials. It’s with a governing body that is stuck in the stone age, denying the common sense move of giving technology a chance and placing as many obstacles as possible in front of the smaller nations in order to prevent them qualifying, Can’t say I expected anything different, bastards.