leffe186

That's exactly the way it should be imo. Put all of the onus on the ref to, you know, manage the situation. It's in the laws of the game like that now, isn't it? They changed it a few years back - we're supposed to let the refs work it out. It's like so many of these laws introduced to sort out specific issues, they get gradually ignored, then forgotten over time.

He did play until he was 38 . He did a degree in law. Played about 300 Premiership games, too.

I'm not having Gudni as "obscure".

Stuart Nethercott, anyone?

You mean you'd kill yourself?

Well no, not necessarily. Every year...although usually Dave does the honours.

It's that time again. Cup draws: (a) doing them before the round is over (b) letting us know the numbers beforehand.

Think it's great, actually. Hopefully more people will go to local games.

It's a fucking joke.

They do basically hate everyone, apart from that mad left back they had. He manages their women's team now .

It's Paul Merson FFS. It's like getting wound up because somebody on Talkshite said something stupid. Really not worth the time.

Ach, shit, fucking Stenny. That's a really small community - it will hurt. Poor bastard.

The single biggest football media bias of all is probably towards Liverpool though.

I don't know if it's arrogance. They've probably been advised to keep schtum, but in addition, the amount of bile flung at them would make me hesitant too. The first step should be to clamp down on the systematic intimidation of referees by players like Rooney and Terry, and teams like Man U and Chelsea.

I can't quite believe that the plan was to go with three CBs, let alone three with pretty glaring question marks next to them. Did they think that Good would be a fourth?

We worried about his lack of pace. If you watched him closely, his first few appearances (subs, Europe etc) were bizarre - he did a lot of good things but just seemed destined not to score. He would have an open goal and hit it against a defender's arse, do some great work to create a shooting opportunity then scuff it wide, square it when he should have just blasted it into the net. I thought that either (a) he'd finally get a goal and then never stop scoring or (b) he'd just disappear. Luckily, it seems to have been the former. As someone said, he doesn't seem to be amazing at anything, he's just good at everything. You look at somebody like Sterling and see what his strengths and weaknesses are, but Kane doesn't seem to have many weaknesses, and no glaringly obvious strengths. He just has excellent footballing sense. I hope that he gets time to develop. There really are many, many games to play each year, and he will get tired, go on a poor run, or get injured. I worry a little about the England hype, although I have got faith that he will keep his feet on the ground. Ryan Mason is the weird one. We really have been waiting years for him, but thought his chance had completely gone. The next one we're waiting for is Alex Pritchard.

You've been watching me? . Well at the moment I feel pretty good , but then we're not like you lot, we never beat Chelsea at home whereas you usually do. I said something about this on our boards a couple of weeks ago. We have been really frustrating for the most part, but I have to remind myself that we're such a young side. This was our team against Burnley: 01 Lloris aged 27 02 Walker 24 21 Fazio 27 05 Vertonghen 27 33 Davies Booked 21 42 Bentaleb 20 38 Mason 23 (Stambouli - 44' (24) ) 11 Lamela 22 23 Eriksen 22 (Rose - 93' (24) ) 22 Chadli 25 18 Kane 21 (Soldado - 84' (29) ) I mean, they're so bloody young - average age of the starters was 23.5. It's no wonder we have been erratic. I hope they get the chance to grow together, because today shows what can be achieved. I'm not expecting top four this year, or a trophy, but there have been glimpses of what could happen if players like Kane, Bentaleb and Eriksen keep developing. There is a strong group of kids waiting in the wings too - I expect Pritchard (on loan to Brentford), Veljkovic and Fredericks (Middlesbrough) and Yedlin to play squad roles next year. We have been extremely lucky at times this year, but that said, it's not a coincidence that we have scored so many late goals. I cannot remember ever being bottom of the injury league (although Mason today might ruin that) - and Poch is clearly doing something right on the training ground as far as fitness goes. It's usually like this - when a new manager comes in he has some people who buy in, some who don't, and some who can't. It takes at least a year for things to really start moving in the direction he wants. I hope we're getting there, but there is still some dead wood.

I'm going on a bit here, sorry:

http://i.imgur.com/OFvVAxS.gif

Can't wait to hear the BS Mourinho comes up with after this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2893682/Jose-Mourinho-loses-touchline-Chelsea-boss-refuses-comment.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2893805/Referee-Phil-Dowd-good-performance-Tottenham-beat-Chelsea-5-3.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 I've always really liked Mourinho...I just wish he wasn't so much of a c*** . I mean, I get that it's deliberate bullshit, but it still smells terrible. Being a c*** is basically his main trait. You can't like him and then say you don't like that he's a c*** Yeah, I know, I can't justify it. I mean, he's basically being Alex Ferguson, who I detested - I just always have a soft spot for Jose. Speaking of c**ts: Not true, but nice to hear.

Can't wait to hear the BS Mourinho comes up with after this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2893682/Jose-Mourinho-loses-touchline-Chelsea-boss-refuses-comment.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2893805/Referee-Phil-Dowd-good-performance-Tottenham-beat-Chelsea-5-3.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 I've always really liked Mourinho...I just wish he wasn't so much of a cunt . I mean, I get that it's deliberate bullshit, but it still smells terrible.

Yup, completely forgot to change mine/do transfers etc - I was working today. I still had Clyne and Chambers playing, as well as Tadic on the bench. BLoody happy with 60 points, given the circumstances.

Helps having Gareth Bale to sell like. So Suarez doesn't count? Jonas available for Hull... Suarez isn't included in those figures. I knew someone would spot something like this. Too much faith in Leffe to provide an up to date image. Yeah, sorry about that . I just posted it from a site without checking, for shits and giggles. Guess it's only the shits.

Only just seen this image: http://i57.tinypic.com/riagif.jpg