Shays Given Tim Flowers

I think great players have often had the benefit of playing in great sides which means less thought has been needed about how to nullify and defeat opponents. Likewise players who go straight into a big club as managers probably don’t have to look at maximising their resources in the same way at players who have gone to clubs in difficult situations.

20 caps for England back then is not to be sniffed at.

That’s great

Not averse to Miggy's pace here. Having seen the problems Skiprat Sonya in brine caused him at the weekend.

I would rather Howe than Pochettetino, I know that's not really what this thread was about, but I have more confidence in Howe taking us forward.

I do have some concerns that if we go on an aggressive recruitment drive this summer we are going to have an influx of high quality players and a manager tasked with keeping it all together whilst acheiving on field success. Not sure Howe would be brilliant at that given his relatively low profile. Worse problems to have I know. Howe deserves the opportunity to take the club forward and I'd be disappointed if he wasn't given it.

We're going to be that annoying team with nothing to play for but still 100% professional and up for it.

They were terrible against us. They might get the odd result from it, but as I said, it reminds me of us under Kinnear.

Everton haven't looked better under Lampard IMHO. They are just blood and thunder, little else. No control of the game, no plan. If you want to call today a plan then by all means do but it wasn't much of one.

Everton are playing like us under Kinnear.

Scarface would have been a different movie if he’d spent a year consolidating.

The Brazillians were good, with Bruno MOTM and again looking comfortably the best player on the pitch. Another good performance from Krath. ASM had a frustrating first half but grew into the game and is showing some promising signs of maturity.

Fucking hell this guy is the real deal. His distribution is incredible and he is always on for a pass. Keeps producing moments of absolute quality too.

Norwich are a sound club.

Not sold on us chanting fuck off to the championship.

Longstaff with the conversion.

pretty much to the word.

Sickens me when Kaka is right about anything.

Beautiful finish to be fair.

he hates the sport he loves.

I’d forgotten how much I enjoy Gary Birrtles

It looked promising yesterday that there were little pockets of attacking play that started to click.

Edouard looks like Chris from the Wire

I proper love Miggy.

The gall on us to say Martins wasn't 22.