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Santi Cazorla is a joy to watch. He's a bit like Arsenals version of HBA.

Train to kings cross Wednesday morning, fly from gatwick Wednesday afternoon, 2 nights in Bordeaux then same route back. 4 of us as it stands, 18 went to Brugge so a big drop. Same. Can't wait now after how good Bruges was. Just the 4 of us but we'll make it better, somehow.

Cisse in the casino last night. Got a picture, hes sitting at the table - a thought muslims couldnt gamble? He was a canny bloke like.

Is anyone else ridiculously excited? I've walked round the house all day doing nothing, just constantly walking up and down. I actually wish I'd went to work. Couldn't sleep last night, god knows what I'll be like tonight. Hopefully not as bad as the night before Mackems a couple of weeks ago.

Where's he running? Can't see him entered anywhere. I think it was running in Australia last night, got hammered. Now not going to run in the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday.

Anyone watch the Breeders Cup last night? They talk about Cheltenham and Royal Ascot being difficult! Absolutely impossible to pick a winner at Santa Anita last night. Two big British hopes, Sky Lantern and The Fugue, were given shocking rides by Hughes and Buick. Excelebration should have a massive chance tonight for Aiden O'Brien, if this gets beat then I struggle to see a British winner (few chances in the Juvenile Turf at 6.50). Wise Dan and Moonlight Cloud are the two big challengers, but currently 2/1 with Ladbrokes I'll wait for it to drift later tonight when the Americans start lumping on Wise Dan.

Can't help but laugh when I read that phrase.

Three White Socks - 3.25 Carlisle. Around 6/1, heard a decent whisper for this one from a friend who knows the Ellisons.

I was through there last night, Raylor really did seem to enjoy himself. I only spoke briefly with Perch - who seemed a bit gutted at the result on Sunday. Just looking there, I'm on most of them pictures actually. Sammy Ameobi was playing Fifa against Perch and losing one nil, cue his line "He's Man City though with Aguero and everyone. I'm just Newcastle, I've only got Demba Ba!". Justin Lockwood warned him to be careful where he was going with that one.

Massive example of clutching at straws, but why are free kicks no longer taken from the point of the infringement? Williamson fouls Saha and Larsson moves the ball 10 metres closer to the goal. It's a disgrace and cost us massively on Sunday. I didn't notice myself in the ground on Sunday but watching the replays yesterday and today, it's really beginning to piss me off and think of what could have been.

We need a better song for this man, he's a hero.

Sports science? You mean PE teacher?

Same here, was actually a good watch. Despite the fact I couldn't understand a word.

Rui Patricio Anita Vertonghen Godin Samuel Inler Valbuena Schurrle Llorente Defoe Gignac Elliott Askovski El Zhar Sterling

f*** me, and I thought 4,75 were large odds already You need to win tonight to shove it in front of the bookies and make me win €20 7/1 is ridiculous like. I've got a feeling we'll get a result tonight mind. There hasn't been a forum gamble for a while but I don't think it'd be the wisest idea to have a forum gamble on us!

We're 7/1 now with Paddy. http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&ev_class_id=414&disp_cat_id=&ev_type_id=19262&ev_oc_grp_ids=807963&AFF_ID=10059892

Aye, that was my first thought aswell.

I'm sure he wrote a book about his 'experiences' with the Krays. As I said, not the brightest of folk.

Steve Wraith isn't the brightest start in the sky. As mentioned, he loves the sound of his own voice and will do anything to get involved in the media. I'm not even sure he goes to the games anymore, didn't Dekka ban him from the ground?

Too much negativity around at the moment, which in the recent past has seen us turn in some of our better performances. I'm quietly confident about this game for some reason, despite Evertons impressive (bar West Brom) start to the season. HBA will be loving his good run at the moment, for some reason I can see another HBA screamer at Goodison.

What? Must admit I am completely lost by that. Generally the fact that today (wey yesterday) seemed to be a day for complaining and negativity on here. The old standing at games is the most negative boring discussion of them all when the odd do gooder disagrees with it.

What? You've never thrown a petrol bomb? Obviously not that stuff, but it's a bit ridiculous pretending you're going to get 50,000 angels at a football game. I'm too young to see how it was back in the day but from what I've seen it wasn't just football that had racism. The mentality of everyone in general was different then. I wouldn't say it was rotten behaviour, it seemed to be the norm at that time. I knew my post wouldn't go down well but I can't remember the last time I heard racist chanting at a football game. This thread if basically knit-picking the smallest examples out, which seem to be have happened at games years and years ago or involve a bunch of teenagers who'll follow whatever Billy big bollocks does. So because it was the norm means that it wasn't rotten behaviour? I'm sure there is many people who went to those games and joined in with the racism but look back now and think "what was I doing?". I feel they'd be harsh to say they took part in rotten behaviour, they basically joined in with what was the norm however wrong it may look now. Various members of the Nazi Party could probably argue they were simply doing the same between 1933 and 1945 then. I believe there is quite a difference between World War 2 and a bloke calling another bloke black. its not simply "calling him black" though is it? It's coupling it with another word such a c***, to make it derogatory. You're also suggesting that these people were yet to develop any form of moral. If they didn't agree with what was seen as "the norm" then why say it? They quite clearly thought it was okay and had some form of ill-feeling towards people of a different race. As I've said, I'm too young to know fully what was going on back in those days but after learning about that era I think it was a case of following the crowd and people being almost brainwashed into thinking that way. I'm not convinced that all those people actually believed what they were saying.