Shays Given Tim Flowers

Had to phone a referee up tonight because a lad from our second team spat in his face after being sent off. The ref was 18 and it’s his second year refereeing. I apologised on behalf of the club and stressed how much I hoped it wouldn’t put him off refereeing. Refereeing is such a hard job and the lack of respect shown to referees is shameful.

See futher: Ben Arfa, Hatem & the ‘blinder’

Someone’s burying him.

Teams may well have gotten better at limiting him but he still has to be dealt with. Which creates space for other players and then you look at how Joe and Joe have been able to cause a different problem on the opposite flank.

But no it’s not. An 18 year old can send you a pic. If a 17 year old does it they are a child for image offence purposes. Regardless of gender. Sexual communication is any child under 16.

Wait that doesn’t make sense as a joke.

Under 16. Even so, I’d get a new phone.

Can’t knowingly communicate with a person aged 16 or under for the purposes of sexual gratification. Also you’d get into bother if a 17 year old sent you sexy pics.

Coote injected him with it.

Draw a line under it.

It’s definitely worse to mock the disabled.

Did Laurent Robert score the best individual goal in Premier League history with his backheel against Fulham? Criminally underrated. All the time we have to listen to drivel about Bergkamp, or Rooney's blastie. Neither is a patch on that.

There's not really another player like him is there? He's an absolute merchant of destruction.

Combine the two - big joelinton banner captioned ‘show racism the red card, [insert the tweet]’

He’s been neutralised as our main threat, so we’ve changed the way we’ve played.

Why couldn’t that trivela go in?

20 minute burst at the beginning of the second half turned the game on its head. Wild considering how on the fringes he’d been for the first half.

He’s so quick and carries the ball really well.

Villa over coaching corners to the point that you have all of your defenders within 30 yards of liverpools goal. So fucking amateurish.

Is he not just doing the old Mourinho's available to work press-briefing.

One of the issues of being 'the onion in the bolognaise' is that if we don't win a game it just looks like you've done nothing.

That’s cute.

Cos baby The mags are winning games ably cos after all we’ve got Lewis hall

He never plays like someone who hasn’t played for ages. Really steps up when called upon.

It's not the despair, I can handle the despair, it's the hope I can't stand.