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Ritchie to get a yellow so he can miss the cup game (where he would have been rested anyway).

Get in Dundalk

At least Ashley is finally understanding he needs to fuck off and leave Rafa to it. We've stabilised both on and off the field this season. Being bought by a Chinese consortium could set us back to people thinking they know best and reverting to the same shithouse mistakes that got us in this mess. Can just imagine us buying loads of shit and unwanted Chinese players to be managed by O'Leary to 'sell the brand' in China.

Inter Milan 1-1 Southampton @ 5/1 Man Utd 2-1 Fenerbahce @ 15/2 £37.50 on each, £25 on the double @ 50/1

Do players not decide themselves when to warm up a majority of the time? I presumed that they have to be ready to go on to the pitch at any given time, so they go out when they feel they need to.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/19747531

Other than Diame, none of them are starters anyway.

https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/788646765406846976/video/1

Have you been reading the Chronicle? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rafa-benitezs-decision-leave-aleksandar-12046018 IMO, he wasn't used because he wasn't needed. If it was still 0-0 at 65/70 minutes then we'd have seen him. But we were controlling the game and didn't need to change anything which is why the subs came on late. He'll have a part to play this season, but he cant drop Gayle when he is scoring so many goals.

The mackems should probably be more concerned about themselves than even bother to check our results or performances at the moment.

We parked on a side street about 5 minutes walk from the ground, got out really quickly. Never use car parks as they tend to be a nightmare to get out of. The one thing I will say is the away end is incredibly hard to get out of when it is full, so very few exits for the amount of supporters there. If there was ever an emergency it would be a complete nightmare situation that would end very badly.

He could have played deep for us but it wouldn't have turned the rest of the team into Liverpool standard superstars. Apart from Colback of course. Yes. That's why I said it works for him, at Liverpool. So you now rate him then? I don't know what the 'real' Wijnaldum is tbh. For us he was an attacking player. And he spent most of his time hiding. At Liverpool he's playing in a role we never gave him, in a specialist system with much better players around him. So I don't know. It seems to be working so far at Liverpool. I don't rate Henderson higher than Wijnaldum and he seems successful in the same system. Where's he playing at Liverpool then, surely not DM? Seems interesting to buy him and not have him trying to score goals like but maybe that's why Klopp is England manager and I'm not.

Cant believe he's still only 24

Agreed. Expect us and Norwich to start pulling away from the others.

3-1

His end product is questionable at times but I thought it was one of his better performances today. He still has a lot of room for improvement, but I wouldn't have picked him out for criticism today. Would still rather see Mitro play, but Rafa knows best. On route home... Solid win, another tricky away test passed and top of the league - roll on Saturday!

Stifler getting 6 tickets in the hope that he could find some friends to go with, now had to hand them all out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37691110 How many 4-1 wins have we had over the last eight years? I cant imagine it is too many.

Dr Tony quite scathing of Di Matteo

Where is good for a pre-match pint at Barnsley?

They are in Liverpool, so it's not all that wrong

The new camera angle at Anfield is awful.

£25 on Man Utd to win 1-0 @ 9/1 and £25 on 2-0 @ 16/1 because either on them would be absolutely typical Mourinho.

The FA Cup truly is brilliant, to be fair. The amount of money it brings to small part-time clubs is excellent.

That is stupid, if true.