tom1988

Townsend is class and Rafa has already had him playing good football. Put him on the opposite side to Ritchie and there won't have been many newly promoted teams with better wingers.

As long as it's not Reading I don't mind. Absolute shit hole of a town with a nothing ground on a retail park. Living in London, I'd prefer Fulham.

A Carr recommendation

Just looking at transfermarkt's list of out of contract players this summer, there are a few that would definitely improve us (realistic could be debatable though) Zabaleta Jesus Navas Lucas Clichy Ledley Kirchhoff Balotelli Thiago motta Miguel veloso Honda Ivan Ramis

I just really hope that if it is only the language barrier that's stopping him from being in the side that they sort that out and give him a chance before getting rid. It was so annoying to see Yanga-Mbiwa get Pardewed and then shipped off so soon when others that maybe listen and communicate better but are distinctly worse players seem to hang around forever.

Hopefully he'll spend his summer off at an English school then.. He's too good to move on because of a language barrier, surely it'll click sooner or later

Anyone at the game last night care to say how this guy played?

Shouldn't the Juve one have the new badge on it?

I thought he looked a bit uncomfortable at right back and understandably a bit off the pace. Solid enough, but I saw Ritchie telling him where to be on more than one occassion.

Defensively last night he looked quite good but offensively he is comical. Only able to hit the ball either 0 or 100 - exemplified by his lay off to Perez in the box where he absolutely hammered it at him from about 10 yards away instead of just rolling it into his path.

Rafa > anything and anyone we've had since Bobby (although Hughton gets an honorable mention) How some people still doubt the guy is beyond me. Fucking morons

Lansbury has passed his medical at Villa, good - gives us another game to abuse this oxygen thief.

He's a good player, better than what we have at present and given the way he left last summer I imagine he'd feel pretty guilty if he was to come back and would want to win over any negative feelings towards him through effort on the pitch. Footballers are mercenaries looking out for themselves, he owed us no loyalty. Yes, leaving to go and play for Alan fucking Pardew instead of Rafa is like ditching your Victoria's Secret model in favour of dry humping the gap between sofa cushions but he was chasing the Premier League and given the signings Palace were making last summer you can't blame him for thinking they might do something of note this season. It hasn't worked and if he wants to come back we should be happy that we have a good player regardless of how or why he left in the first place.

Don't hold anything against the guy whatsoever (apart from thinking he should have resigned after Saturday), was clearly well out of his depth and took the job knowing that with his recent record he wasn't going to get anything better. The club is the problem and at least now they have acted decisively. I wouldn't put it past us to use this opportunity to move in the right direction and take a massive run and jump backwards though, here's looking at you Messrs Pearson, Curbishley & Redknapp.

I was discussing this last night with my flatmate, Do you think Zlatan is genuinely as arrogant and as much of a bell as his persona (and autobiography) portrays him to be or do you think it's all an act like some WWE wrestler?

Aston Villa 1-2 Man Utd Southampton 3-1 Everton Spurs 1-1 Stoke Sunderland 0-0 Norwich Swansea 2-2 Newcastle Watford 1-1 West Brom West Ham 2-1 Leicester Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal Man City 1-1 Chelsea Liverpool 3-0 Bournemouth

Stoke supporting mate of mine put it on facebook - knew it couldn't be right!

Stoke now have more Champions League winners in their squad than any other team in the league. Stoke do. Just let that sink in...

Spain: de gea azpilicueta, muniesa, bellerin fabregas, mata, navas, silva costa, bojan, ayoze adrian, amat, rangel, herrera

I was discussing the idea of making teams with the same nationality and wondering how they would stand up over the course of the year, I think a Spanish one would do quite well. De gea, Fabregas, Mata etc and you could make English, French and Belgian teams too - anyone tried this approach before?

F*cking Pardew, a charlatan shitester and the sole reason that we lost mbiwa - him and mbemba could have been our central defence for years! I really hope the guy gets ebola.

Saw that earlier... Sako must be thick as shit or he hasn't got a clue what Pardew is about. The bloke destroyed Ben Arfa because of his lack of defensive attributes. Attacking and attractive.. yeah right.

Cech Mertesacker, Janmaat, Mings Henderson, Ward-Prowse, Depay, Fabregas Kane, Benteke, Rooney Butland, Fuchs, Young, Chester Reckon I've spunked too much on me forwards like

http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardbeech/how-much-would-manchester-city-pay-for-you#.aqe1KewPM Got £30m - "They’d sign you, and you’d think you were their new star player, but you’d come on as a sub in a League Cup match against Brentford."

Deserves it all. Has had it coming for a long time. Could not have happened to a nicer bloke.