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Just one thing to add - one of the posts suggested Pardew's first thought is defensive and that is bad. Well, not necessarily - but surely he'd have played 4-5-1 against us if that was true? It all points to a specific issue between Ben Arfa and Pardew, whatever that might be.

Well, good luck for the rest of the season lads. My worry is that everyone will look at that and remember the way to go against us is to park the bus. Fair play to Pardew for not doing that I guess, but it obviously utterly failed. I thought you might look to bypass the midfield, but Cisse and Ba didn't really get much of a chance to hold it up and they were chasing the game from the off against a strong defence. Your back-up midfield was woeful. After we just played the ball around him for the first goal, Colocinni clearly decided to stick to Adebayor like a limpet, which meant that he kept getting pulled out of position and the other defenders weren't good enough to compensate. Playing Saha rather than VDV was actually exactly the right thing to do, because it kept the pressure on Williamson. If VDV had played, then Perch might have been able to pick him up just in front of your defence. Tiote and Cabaye back makes a massive difference. Just make sure you turn over Arsenal and Chelsea.

That's almost scary.

Try writing a dissertation and recording an album Try writing a dissertation and looking after two kids (9 and 23 months). Damn you win. A hollow victory

Try writing a dissertation and recording an album Try writing a dissertation and looking after two kids (9 and 23 months).

Ah, if only you hadn't added that last bit. That blows the potential karma gain. Hang on, does my commenting screw that up?

You can rationalise it as not losing ground with the 8th placed team should you drop points against Spurs. And hopefully the start of their decline that leads to a derby day battering. The thing is, I would have been happy with a draw too, but always expected them to score a late goal. As such, I was way happier at 1-0.

That's very helpful, Dave

It's really not that hard to work out, though, is it? Newcastle are going to finish where they finish based on their own results, not Sunderland's or Arsenal's. Bit disingenuous! They will finish where they finish based on everyone's results.

Stracq really is just a lumbering oaf, isn't he?

Alright lad, no need to keep hammering it home. Put yourself in our shoes, even if it helped you out would you ever cheer the 'Gooner Scum'? If Arsenal were not a threat, then yes.

That's just what I was thinking. Was putting it down to my kids running around.

The problem today isn't the layout, it's that (a) the update page is all over the shop (b) the vidiprinter doesn't refresh.

MONWorld. Bloody hell, it's last-ditch stuff from Everton already and there's still 70 minutes to go.

I hate that the scores are no longer level with the top of the updates, so you have to keep paging down and up to keep both in view. The whole thing pisses me off. The live text doesn't appear in dropdown of the live bookmark thing on firefox which f***s me off the most. Then if you're not in the tab the auto updates don't happen, so when you switch to the tab about 20 happen at once, it's actually quicker to just manually refresh. Then there's the scores not being in line thing, so I can't see the most recent happenings alongside the scores for the games. Just a load of horseshit. Sometimes you refresh and the recent stuff disappears. Then you refresh again and the missing older posts are interspersed among the recent ones. It's a mess. TBF, they do seem to have the current scores in that summary at the top. Only the Prem though.

I hate that the scores are no longer level with the top of the updates, so you have to keep paging down and up to keep both in view. The whole thing pisses me off. The live text doesn't appear in dropdown of the live bookmark thing on firefox which f***s me off the most. Then if you're not in the tab the auto updates don't happen, so when you switch to the tab about 20 happen at once, it's actually quicker to just manually refresh. Then there's the scores not being in line thing, so I can't see the most recent happenings alongside the scores for the games. Just a load of horseshit. Sometimes you refresh and the recent stuff disappears. Then you refresh again and the missing older posts are interspersed among the recent ones. It's a mess.

I hate that the scores are no longer level with the top of the updates, so you have to keep paging down and up to keep both in view.

Is anyone else finding the BBC update thingy incredibly irritating today?

Great goal Pienaar. Wish we hadn't let him go back tbh.

So, er, come on Everton!

He always does that. Never satisfied, always looking for new ways to be an utter cunt.

Just keep on winding him up. Would love him to lose it and go in two-footed on, say, Evra.

Someone like Demba Ba, or Cisse..... Well quite, that was my subtext. I disagree, tbh. They're like a higher calibre Birmingham (under McLeish, that is). Their defence isn't outstanding (it has Glen Johnson ffs ), but because their midfield is so defence-minded, you'd never know it. They'd need a top, top striker (as in Aguero-level) to get them good enough going forwards to compete at the top because their midfield doesn't have as much creativity as they need IMO. I agree to an extent, but I think they have the options, they've just chosen to be more defensive. The creativity is there in players like Gerrard and Bellamy, and Johnson offers some dynamism going forward. They were clearly hoping to use him for penetration on the right and Downing on the left, and Downing has been the biggest let-down. Other than Carroll, obviously, and Suarez's finishing.

Someone like Demba Ba, or Cisse..... Well quite, that was my subtext. Well played by Wellbeck there, but overhit the pass.

I've been saying this for a while, I think Liverpool are actually quite good. Good and settled back five, hard-working midfield, and sooner or later they are going to start scoring goals. If they pick up a direct, dynamic centre-forward in the summer they will be there or thereabouts.