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Jeez. Could do without Lennon being injured for Anfield. Not that you lot care, obviously .

No you don't. Oh yes we do. Nah. In fact if any thing you need to give Inter 2 goals. We just tried doing that.

No you don't. Oh yes we do.

Eight shots on target, to nil. We need a couple more goals here.

fwiw, they are in a very similar league position to last season, which suggests they're of similar quality. We also started loss draw draw, when we'd have been hoping for draw win win. We've definitely improved over the season, if you account for things like losing Sandro, Kaboul, Defoe for a while etc etc. AVB came in under a lot of pressure, and with a rather different squad to his predecessor. I wouldn't go so far as to say we're better (I mean, Modric and VDV were ace), but we're probably more reliable. And more likely to improve under this manager coach, I hope. That said, you can't take too much from tonight's game. Inter have some big injuries. They were 2-0 down at half-time in their last match, too.

You would have expected us to have upped the pace considerably if we were at home first though. That's exactly it. If we'd been at Anzhi first up our game probably wouldn't have been too dissimilar to yours.

Caught the scorer of the second Lazio goal out of the corner of my eye and just saw "Nazi". Proper double-take.

We have even less forwards available than you did. Nervous about Friedel. Still, this should be a cracking game. See us letting a couple in, hopefully we can score at least a couple too.

Think you've done a great job here. Not sure I'd have wanted to go out there to see it, not sure I want to go back into the front room to see it tbh, but as Alan Durban said, if you want entertainment, go watch some clowns. I'd have been well chuffed with 0-0 today.

Increased expectations after the transfer window? Or were they this angry before? Nobody is overly angry about our players Maybe. You got overly angry about Fergie though .

Increased expectations after the transfer window? Or were they this angry before?

Hard to say Dave. I can't imagine that they'll not score in the second leg but, at home, we could take them on the basis of tonight. In the circumstances I'd say a draw away from home is never a bad result, but there seems to be a shift towards thinking that 0-0 at home is perfectly fine. Away goals etc. I'd have been happy to take 0-0 away from the San Siro after the Milan match. Plus, there's a chance you keep it really tight and grab a late goal. Like we did.

Laser pens in the crowd.

. I actually spent a long time looking at your post trying to see the joke.

Lovely walk to the ground too. Me and my Dad used to go there at least two or three times a season when I was a kid.

I hope not, because: However: Amazingly, it still seems to have legs.

Pretty sure that when I was a kid I wanted English clubs to do well. Apart from Arsenal, of course. Nowadays I'm like most, in that I want the clubs I'm in competition with to fail so they don't get cash/kudos etc. Quite happy for someone like Fulham to do OK, because I don't see them as competition.

In what kind of world do profits from player sales get excluded, though? It's like saying "well, without her breasts, she'd be an absolute munter". It is almost all money loaned to Lerner, in any case, and they halved the losses according to these figures. In the world where you cant include them more than once. You cant assume player sales will keep you afloat forever, our losses didnt cease to happen overnight so i assume you will post similar figures should you go down? How long before Randy says 'f*** this s***'? Spent around 10 years with the arse end of the NFL at the Cleveland Browns, but he left as soon as he could. I think he's said f*** it already, look where our cost cutting has landed us. I'd imagine your figures were helped enormously by selling one player for £35m. I honestly think that's the best piece of business ever. re selling players to get the figures looking nicer, our problem was that too many relics bought by MON sucked their contracts dry and walked out for nowt. Cuellar, Reo-Coker, Beye, Heskey, the likes of them. The difference between us and, say, Spurs, is that Spurs maintain the quality and value of their squad cleverly over a period of time. We have been the precise opposite, and it is that which has contributed most to where we are now. It's an illustration of how much impact excessive wages can have. At least if you go down this year, many of the big earners will be out of the way. QPR will fold. The other big difference is your commercial income, which IIRC is not great - 18% of your revenue. In 2010/11, when your revenue was still very strong (24th in Europe), Hamburg, in 18th, had more than three times as much commercial income as you. I don't know what the solution is, there.

I can only get through about three seconds of each, tbh.

Not worthy of a thread, but worthy of a channel:

Should have made him promise to support Nottingham Forest as part of the caution.

That's what I was thinking. I'd have probably told him to fuck off, frankly. Rio may be a twat, but I can't fault him for that.

If they screw up March, then they will be absolutely shitting themselves. Their next three games are Chelsea away, Newcastle away, Everton at home. You wouldn't be surprised at all if they lost all three, at which point they would face Villa away. Just imagine the atmosphere .

OK, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is on, and I'm bored. Let's kill some time and look at the run-ins. A quick look at the games against the top seven: Sunderland 4 (2H, 2A) Reading 4 (2H, 2A) QPR 3 (1H, 2A) Wigan 3 (1H, 2A) Newcastle 3 (2H, 1A) Villa 3 (2H, 1A) Southampton 2 (0H, 2A) And then the games against the bottom seven: QPR 5 (3H, 2A) Sunderland 4 (1H, 3A) Villa 4 (2H, 2A) Newcastle 3 (1H, 2A) Southampton 3 (2H, 1A) Reading 3 (3H, 0A) Wigan 2 (1H, 1A) So the "big" games: Sunderland 8 (3H, 5A) QPR 8 (4H, 4A) Villa 7 (4H, 3A) Reading 7 (5H, 2A) Newcastle 6 (3H, 3A) Southampton 5 (2H, 3A) Wigan 5 (2H, 3A) Sunderland still have a lot of tough games to come, and their April looks incredibly awkward. It wouldn't take too much to drag them in.

I think they might too, but my (Villa) wife will not let me say it. She's steeling herself for the worst. Jesus, that sounded a bit Bimpyish there. Anyway, I think it's three from the bottom five. Not that I don't think Southampton are actually pretty good, but the teams are so close now that a couple of bits of bad luck can leave someone in the shit. Reading are down IMO, and I have a sneaking suspicion QPR will falter again. I'm going to say Wigan too, as their luck might just run out.