LucaAltieri

He left, rejected out contract offer. For a 20k/week deal elsewhere. Worth matching.

Would rather have kept Guthrie.

Anyone else feel like the word "action" in the title isn't quite right?

Xisco, and he'll bring us our first silverware. We'll be fabulous, darlings.

Too soon.

Kieron Dyer. He was always my favourite injured player.

We had our chances. We didn't take them.

Cisse is easily our best defender.

Demba who?

Has been a good servant to the club. He's earned his big contract. Hopefully he'll now piss off quickly so we can get a replacement sorted.

Bassong, easily. Bought for nowt, got some good games out of him, sold for a fortune, has done nowt since. Good business.

Have you seen his brother?

The standard of refereeing in MLS is a joke. That is all.

The average playoffs/championship is more enthralling than the average PL finish, even with the hope that a result like last year's will happen again. This is why the Champions League is, imo, preferable to the end of the PL season when it sort of just, ends. It'll never happen, but a playoff in the PL would be massive. Playing to finish in the top 5 and saving yourself for the knockout stages is a horrible end to the season. That doesn't happen more than a couple games from the end. And it'd be easy to incentivize teams to finish as high as possible, not just to pass a certain threshold. Hey, if you dominate throughout the season but can't finish in the playoffs, you don't deserve the title. On the contrary, anyone can play a storming couple of games without ever having to repeat the form. That shouldn't make a champion. The champions should be whoever came out on top at the end of the season through being the consistently better. One-ff games leave too much up to chance - particularly when you consider the terrible quality of refereeing in MLS.

We start playing most of our league games on a Sunday and suddenly we play like a Sunday league team. Coincidence?

Jonas taken to hospital to check for a break, apparently.

Oh and Ferguson is looking very green. A lot of mistakes in that half.

Both teams have been pretty shite. They got a decent goal but it was the only chance they made in 49 minutes. The difference between the two teams is that we look like we have the ability to kick it up a gear. Let's hope we do so.

The average playoffs/championship is more enthralling than the average PL finish, even with the hope that a result like last year's will happen again. This is why the Champions League is, imo, preferable to the end of the PL season when it sort of just, ends. It'll never happen, but a playoff in the PL would be massive. Nope, you're wrong. Playing to finish in the top 5 and saving yourself for the knockout stages is a horrible end to the season.

Red Bulls absolutely robbed against DC. Happy the Sounders are facing Galaxy. I fancy our chances against them. Still find it weird that the top two teams in the league aren't in contention to win the MLS cup. The post-season playoff is a fucked up way to decide a champion. Of course I'll be happy if the Sounders win it, but I'd have a hard time arguing that they deserve it.

Boom, the Sounder does it again. The man is a beast.

Great to see Eddie Johnson called up. He's turned his form around. Fully deserved.

In Italy Totti has a reputation as an imbecile which takes off some of the exotic shine. He's their equivalent of a chav with money. Same could be said for most footballers, I suppose. No doubt he's a top player. He does what he does very well. But no way in hell is he going to be managing in the future. At least, I hope not. He's not intelligent enough.

Breaking mackem hearts.

Reminds me of a young Andy Cole.