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Huth never a sending off. No studs showing, not two-footed, just a bit late. Sending off is bad enough, but three-game ban for that is absolutely crazy.

Does anyone think the Scousers making a big thing about the 50-50 in their game with Cabaye set the stage for this? Jamie Redknapp and Joe Cole as pundits were all over it. Cabaye is a bit tasty, as was clear as early as the Mackems game, but its only really the Scousers that have been going on and on about it. They'd be better off telling Glen Johnson to stop flying in two footed.

I only saw the ITV highlights but they weren't as bad as I expected having read some of the ratings on here. Things didn't go for us in the Blackburn league cup game either. Both are disappointing considering what the team has shown in the league and that a number of potential winners were already out at the time.

They needed Shola coming in with a scissors kick to finish it off.

Sky struggling to hide their disappointment there.

Hasselbaink clearly punching it into the net didn't help SBR that season either. What would have happened if we'd started the season with a win?

In hindsight, it might have helped more had he gone for the foul in the first half (the first pull at the half way line, not the offence he got booked for). We were still one up then. Anyway, it was a massive warning that Pardew didn't heed in spite of having half time to deal with it.

Lucky at the end there and silly to be leaving it one on one with against him of all people and them playing with the wind. Deserved lead on the whole though. Should be easier for Krul with the wind.

Isn't the current system a bit of leveler? Join the Man U or Arsenal academy if you like, but your chance of getting the high level football you'll need to develop is limited.

Look at the goal records of the players I listed. People paid lots for them. Anyway, I like him and the price is only a bit craic. He's a great option to have. One of the tactics folks mentioned it recently, but if you're losing at the end of the game, its more effective to bring on a physical striker than a skilful one, because the latter will not get the space to perform against a team shutting up shop.

Didn't see this coming at all. On youtube, it looks like he's got a hard shot on him and he likes to attack the ball in the area with head and feet. Both are very good signs. As for the offside stat, Aguero gets caught quite a bit but its not his fault if the ball isn't delivered quickly enough. It may take time for the other players to click with him. Sounds like a bargain!

I like Besty and I'm not suggesting for one second that we sell him, but wouldn't he be worth close to what we paid for Cisse? Based on Kenwyne Jones@8M, Crouch@10M, [email protected], Doyle@7M, Wickham@8M?

Liverpool's problem is goals. Since last January, even their top man Suarez has scored one less than Leon Best. Kuyt and Maxi got a quite a few in the second half of last season, so maybe that papered over some cracks that ended up not being addressed in the summer.

Good win lads! That'll do! Shola FFS. Lets buy someone, anyone. I think his time at Citeh showed that Hughes is a joke, so that was doubly satisfying.

BERBABEST!

He's not a flop, but Phil Jones has enough to learn about defending to suggest that they could have bought someone much more solid as the defensive cover they clearly needed (Carrick at CH last season etc.). They should buy another CH in this window. Nasri started well but has looked mediocre recently. Maybe its over-rotation, as the suspicion is with Dzeko. Milner's looked good of late, but he looked meh for a while after joining Citeh. It can't be easy being in and out of the team. Loaning Adebayor to Spurs could come back to hurt Citeh big time. They're not that far behind.

In that one run, he beat more men that Obertan does in how many games?

You mean Neil Taylor (Swansea)? Thanks! Couldn't remember. Anyway, I think we'll have to pay him more. With Alan Smith soon to be off the books, it mightn't hurt as much as it could have.

With free signings of good players, they choose you, not you choose them. Basically we'll have to pay the going rate to keep him. Spurs aren't a mega wages club, so Twitchyface can say what he likes but they won't be in pole position. It just shows once again that he is a slimy hypocrite playing the media for what he can. What happened with that lad (Forest was it?) where we said there was an escape clause but they said it didn't mean they had to sell?

It ended up much better than things looked at h-t. Moral victory for Citeh perhaps.

Nearly as bad as the Rodwell decision. Great save though.

It's Superman on the radio!

These lads in the middle are MASSIVE!

Sorry if its Giggs but ManUre have only scored once against us in the last three matches, a clearance that hit Hernandez and flew in without him knowing much about it.

That's shocking man! As is Dwight Yorke's punditry, it must be said.