Shays Given Tim Flowers

That Sir Bobby one is class.

Basically the stuff wanted/needed in the summer.

If £250,000,000 is what people see the club as worth after due diligence then he's not getting what he wants for the club this lifetime.

This forum has a huge problem with the word average at the moment.

Its not clear. He could be saying you can't compare Allardyce to Southgate at National Level as Southgate has a lot more experience than Hippo head. He could also quite simply mean comparing him to Allardyce doesn't make sense and it would be like if someone compared Allardyce's tenure to Southgates (i.e not really comparable). Either way it's completely gratuitous and not really a strong point but clearly designed to rile Allardyce.

Love his reference to Southgate too.

Merino didn’t seem to have anything in his legs yesterday.

Ever bothered with context?

Pulis has made people a lot of money.

Might be keeping Hayden for more winnable games.

It's f***ing embarrassing. We've been outclassed as basically everyone expected way before the team was picked. Had a couple of decent moments and it's a shame the goals all came from individual mistakes but these things happen. Can only hope the players in question learn from it. Move on to the next match. Chelsea away is a free hit. Some people seemingly rate the squad far higher than they should.

Or not done at all. Starting to look like he doesn't know what to do. What can he do? It's not like the team is performing beneath objective expectations.

Subs were ready to come on before the goal.

Just so fucking thick

Would sub Diame for Aarons and move Hayden into centre. Possibly Shelvey for Merino too.

Merino looks knackered.

Football needs to go down the colour commentator route. Have one guy constantly routing for the non big club.

Ridiculously gifted player, Hazard.

If that was his man then as well it should be. Lejeune needed to get something on the cross and no one was anticipating the second ball.

Average does not have degrees, by definition.

Thick as mince from Clark.

Communication is such a big part of things too and clearly there's problems with this, compounded by very fluid attack play by Chelsea. Unless you know Rafa better than Rafa (TCD).

Not a patch on Diame, Perez and Gayle like.

Need to see out the half.