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Still don't know why we sold him. I believe we have the usual big sell-on clause, but still. He was class in the Asian Cup. Maybe he wouldn't be as good if he wasn't playing regular football. A big transfer is ahead of him anyway. He was always going to be good though - he was impressive all through his time with us. It didn't make any sense at the time, and it doesn't make any sense now.

Still don't know why we sold him. I believe we have the usual big sell-on clause, but still.

We really need a "Football is Dead" smiley. So many uses.

In the same bracket as Arsenal, Man City, and Man U

Everybody had been watching Alli for a while.

Tbh, I overestimated what a 'par score' was this week in the top 20, assumed it would be about 70 - my team is pretty standard and devoid of any differentiators. So pleasantly surprised to see me jump a few places. Funnily enough, after the extra points I actually scored...80 . For the first time. Top 20 with a bullet. Still got the wildcard to use this week - watch me fuck this up.

it bugs me so much when people say things like "80 pts, nothing special" when I don't think I've ever got 80! I'm in the N-O top 40 too, so it's not as if I'm completely shit .

A brush with death will do that to a man. That never, ever gets old (unlike RVP).

I guessed John White. My Dad has been going to Spurs since the late 50s, and he has always maintained that John White would have been one of the greats had he lived. I was watching West Ham v Spurs in a pub in Falkirk with some old guy who said he was the best player he ever saw live.

This is shaping up to be a season-defining game. Win it, and you're almost certainly safe, with De Jong, Aarons and others to come back. Ashley won't need to spend, and so almost certainly won't, and Carver will have you limping on to the end of the season. Get humped by a shitty Hull side, and Ashley might just be panicked into a couple of buys - not least at CB, which is looking ominous. Same if you get a couple of injuries. I feel like the most dangerous result will be a draw. It could just convince Ashley that he can get away without new blood - then there's a very Newcastle script waiting to be written. Home to Stoke who are in pretty good form, with very restless natives (particularly if you get nobody in), potential embarrassment against Palace, then a very scary-looking Feb/Mar/Apr. I think you'll win though. Hull are a mess.

Cameron Carter-Vickers at Spurs too - looks like he might keep playing for the US.

I'm starting to wish we had never invented the bloody game *cough*.

Yeah, me too. I vaguely remember this last year - taking a big money hit when I used the Jan wildcard and regretting it.

Oh yeah, fucking mint that was. Playing with a tennis ball and burying it in the roof of the hockey net was ace.

In Primary school you couldn't use a football in the top playground (small). We used to donate a sock each and roll them into a ball. I tell my wife that and she thinks we must have been living in some sort of slum (or that I'm making it up).

I'd completely forgotten the "play on" rule when you were keeper and couldn't be fucked to go after the ball. You'd always end up with a pair of scrotes miles away trying to meg each other.

Should be a lovely match. Also rumours that Sheff Utd fans have smashed up a bar and have been hitting randoms on the street. Could get tasty tonight, should be a good atmosphere.

We're obviously not taking tonight's game seriously enough: http://i62.tinypic.com/ic1lyf.jpg

Oh, you young 'uns!

Deeply unobscure, though.

Don't know who I want to win tonight, tbh. Both are cunts, and both will probs beat us in the final.

Completely forgot about that. Weirdly, so had I.

If Abeid was fully fit/starting, he'd be in Africa, surely?

Naughton to Swansea for 5M, supposedly.

Yeah, because Wilshere and Flamini are so delightful.