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Came across as one of the game's gentlemen. As Watford manager he laid into their fans for abusing shearer en masse during a game at Vicarage Rd (99/00??) He didn't have to do that, but he felt it was the right thing to say. A little unfortunate in qualification for USA 94 with the Koeman incident and Norway turning up out of nowhere with a blinding qualification campaign, but on the other hand he probably made his own luck with too much geoff thomas, carlton palmer, playing batty at full back etc

Cheers Steggy. Are there any bars in particular for away fans to steer clear of?

Won't make any difference mate. The only league game he will miss is Brentford, regardless of what we do in the cup he'd be back for brentford as he'd have missed 3 league games and 2 in the cup. the replay would be before brentford. Tbf, I thought this as well as they were fannying on confirming what would happen to Brentford if a replay was necessary and there was a suspicion it might not be played that weekend at all. Seems to have been confirmed that if either team needs a replay the game will now revert to the Saturday.

7.5 for me. I'm actually confident in our ability to get to the 90 points mark that would normally secure promotion (12 wins and 2 draws) but Leeds, Reading, Huddersfield just aren't dropping points at the moment and I could see us being pipped by one of them. Brighton will walk away with the title.

Throw the cunt... unless they've agreed with brentford that if there's a replay the league game will be postponed - as opposed to moved to Saturday- in which case draw it and throw the replay which will complete Shelveys suspension and get ready to go in the league again vs Rotherham, hopefully with a new proper no. 10 in the team.

Just fuck off and don't come back. Not just the foul for the free kick, but spent the whole game getting rings ran around him time and time again. By Blackburn fucking rovers. A fucking embarrassment. Anyone who thinks he'd be an acceptable option for even a mid-table championship team is either vastly under-estimating the league or used to go to school with him so thinks he's Ginola.

I'm not going to start criticising Rafa, partly because I don't subscribe to this view that our squad is by far and away the best in this league. Imo we are where we are due to the manager and in spite of the squad, not the other way around. That said, we've conceded the first goal 7 times and lost every one. By anyone's standards that is woeful and something is wrong. The players would struggle to assemble a proper set of testicles between them but leaving subs to the last 10 minutes is pointless, might as well not bother.

Were you at the game ? Ando and that opther guy made it sound dreadful despite the win, in fact only reason we got the three points according to Ando was because of the sending off. Was Ando just being his usual miserable self ? My mate at the game reckons we wouldn't have won without the red card. I would probably second this although it's debatable if we actually got any better after the red card, we were shit before it we were shit after it. Maybe they would have buckled anyway?? Special mention for Forest's antics though, appalling doesn't cut it. All sorts of gymnastics, and it won't ever be mentioned but while the whole fracas leading up to the red card being shown was happening Pereira had grabbed Gayle by the collar and was shoving him from behind towards the milburn touchline presumably to try to get a reaction so he could indulge in some dramatics and get him sent off. It's absolutely institutionalised cheating in what is a poor replica of a once proud club.

I think the difference between yesterday and say wolves or blackburn are that Sheff Weds are one of the best teams in this division, they got to the playoff final last year, have one of the best managers and one of the best players in the league (Forestieri) and came into the game on a decent run of form. In short they were not the no-hopers cannon fodder many on here seem to have written them off as. They were always going to create chances and on the night did a number on us tactically, particularly down their left channel getting a man in between anita and lascelles leaving lascelles in no mans land. The goal was coming to say the least and this is my main gripe. It was obvious that our tactics weren't really working, and that we had a bit of a "rough patch" to ride out, and the response from the dugout and the players on the pitch was to put their head in the sand and carry on as we were until the inevitable happened. Tactics, subs etc are the managers department, obviously, but the players need to be able to judge when we're getting battered, roll their sleeves up, gee each other up and concentrate on riding out the storm without conceding, or if we do concede then have the belief that we will get back into the game. Call it bottle, guts, bollocks, gumption, nous whatever, we currently lack it on the pitch. This is borne out by a look at our stats, six defeats but only one draw (when should have won handsomely), turn three of them into draws (especially vs huddersfield and sheff wed) and we're looking at the table laughing. A draw yesterday wouldn't have been a disgrace, it's the kind of game the 09/10 team would have made sure they got something out of and it's one thing we'll need to learn to do if promotion is to be secured. Also I'd echo the numerous comments above about the manager leaving it too late in the day to change the personnel and formation when things aren't going well. Anyway, Friday is another day and a very winnable game.

hes bound to be too slow behind someone and just half run into/ half jump on their back. just got 10/1 on him for first card with skybet. Printing money* * nailed on to be second player carded now, just to spite me.

That first frame is one of his best ever. Or I'm drunk. Or both.

It's a load of bollocks really. As much as I agree with anyone's right not to wear the poppy, and find the whole annual circus surrounding it tedious, I think if people want to wear it they also should be able to. I know anything can mean different things to different people, but the poppy as a political symbol is a world away from shitcunts like Argentina holding up banners in support of invading the Falklands before kick-off. The problem I'd imagine from FIFA's perspective is if you allow one, it's harder not to allow another and it would be a slippery slope. If we want the slightest chance of hosting a world cup in our lifetimes the best thing is to take the fine and not kick up a fuss.

Tough game this one, they're one of the best teams in the league imo and will have their best player Forestieri back. Guaranteed the pisshead up front will be right up for this one too. Shelveys availability- or otherwise- could be crucial.

Yeah, most people thought yesterday was going to be difficult and so it turned out. Therefore another very good 3 points. Definitely. Burton might only have a 6k capacity stadium, but on the pitch they've been good especially at home where they'd only conceded 7 all season before yesterday. Was always going to be tough, it certainly was, and we didn't help ourselves with a series of basic errors handing them the initiative at times. Luckily Gayle and Diame kept their bottle, took their chances and it was a good 3 points to come away with. Nigel Clough has bleated on about a penalty they should have had in the 94th minute but I don't recall any incident or any big shouts from their players, anyone else recall this?!?

Think it's negotiated between the clubs to an extent (although the police will obviously have a say) hence Hull giving man utd more than they gave us presumably so that they get a decent allocation for the old trafford leg. The mackems got a massive allocation at old Trafford when they were in the semis presumably because they gave paying man utd away fans a shedload of tickets for the SoL game ahead of their own freeloaders.

Oh well, hopefully they get dumped out and the manure fans are more interested in leaning over giving the hull fans wanker signs than applauding their own team off at the end.

It is the sort of thing you'd tell a player if you were trying to sign him mind. Story checks out for me. Unfortunately for Quinn, Baines obviously had two or more brain cells to rub together and saw through the cunning scam.

Don't worry mate I'm sure their fans will all be along soon to explain how it's not their fault and actually the opposition is cheating not them.

Fyp. You're speeling iz atrowshus

Dear Me... you'd expect that sort of stuff from a fans website or something, but thats the local rag??!!! The bitterness being shown, you'd think we'd cheated 2 of their players being sent off, and won the game??!!! The internet doesn't half turn people into tits like. Every Forest fan we saw in the chippy afterwards said that the refereeing was scandalous, they'd got away with one but they were very happy with the points thank you very much. We just said fair enough, hopefully it'll probably even itself out over the season. Thing is, that sort of stuff doesn't get as much attention as semi-literate drivel which is just published for the reaction. This journalist was on twitter peddling his shite yesterday and when he saw the reaction probably thought "I've got a canny piece of clickbait here like" and saw advertising revenue £-signs in his eyes. As for the Forest fans, fuck knows why they're so put out about the whole thing, probably due to the current state of their club. If I'd seen my club win two European Cups then fall into a state where they haven't been in the top flight for nearly 20 years, play in a shitty small stadium with thousands of empty seats for one of the biggest games of the season despite the presence of shitloads of Norwegian tourists (who seem to be the only people that bother to support Forest these days) then I'd probably be damaged in some way too.

Even weirder given that they just got three points handed to them on a plate against us too!!!

Forest fans are on twitter in meltdown about it. You'd think they'd be happy with their cheated three points.

Can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want to change a winning team/formation. Probably because we change the team every single game and it rarely, if ever fails. Can't for the life of me understand why anyone would keep posting 4-4-2 formations despite the fact that Rafa has always and will always play 4-2-3-1 Yet he said 2 weeks ago that he is willing to play them both together but doesn't know when. Blackburn are an awful team in relatively awful form compared to us so today wouldn't be the worst time to try. It'll be when we need a goal with 20 minutes left. Think Norwich at home. I know what people are saying, but I just think for the time being if it's not broke don't fix it. Having said that, if we go up I think we'll struggle to get goals with this formation next season as I don't see either Mitro or Gayle as a 20 goal PL striker and I don't see any of the "3" as being capable of chipping in regularly enough to compensate in that league. 4-4-2 could definitely be worth experimenting with later in the season.

as if that was up for 15 hours before anyone pulled me up on it! People probably reading it thinking "a'reet weirdo, I'm steering clear of you, fucking racist." For the benefit of any doubt, it was a shit autocorrect folks.

shints- damed if he does, damned if he doesn't!!