The9

I heard on the news (Sam FM) today that Cook has said that "defender Adam Webster" (or whatever his name is) was "not for sale". This also brings home to me another of the reasons they're not doing as well as they should. They are terrible at knowing when not to look a gift horse in the mouth. If anyone is any good in L2 and someone offers you money, you should probably sell them, and with a meaty sell-on clause too, because the level is low enough that replacements are ten-a-penny and you'll probably not notice they've gone. Though maybe that only works for teams with a decent academy or scouting set-up, or at least an effective policy for getting in loanees - you know, teams who can replace players reasonably easy for nothing.

I believe so, it had his face on it, so he held it up next to him for ID when he went to claim it.

If they're that interested in buying them, I don't really care if they're being suckered. FWIW there's one in my house (proper logos fwiw) from Arnhem, when the wife did her usual trick of insisting point blank that she wanted to buy something and was not having any kind of rhyme nor reason not to do so, especially not "they'll be a quarter of the price in 3 hours and you'll never look at it again anyway", and then practically made the guy put the price UP with her enthusiastic "negotiating". When she tried it again in Midtjylland I just claimed not to have any cash left on me and she was drunk enough not to challenge it.

Meh, you're 2 years ahead of the rest of us if they manage to retain their success in any way. Well done. I like them because they're not one of the same teams as every other season, and because if they win it they show that it IS possible to win the League without having to be one of those clubs or with the money they have, which will encourage others, which can only be good for the competition. In fact the only thing I don't like about it is that they're having to be incredibly spawny with injuries and suspensions to stay up there, which actually shows why this doesn't happen more. We got very excited when Man City won their first Premier League title too, at the time, fwiw, and I still think I prefer them to any of the other big clubs despite their general ridiculousness of wealth.

As I've mentioned before, my favourite pointless penalties are the ones where the player is running out of the box to the side and they're tripped from behind by a clumsy defender, usually leads to the striker's feet staying exactly where they were, toes pointed to ensure they're still in the box.

Because it wasn't one. Had none of the fouling occurred, Skrtel would still have been in position to stop Pelle who would have either taken the ball away from goal or shot straight at Skrtel.

That would almost certainly be a copyright-dodging matter. Just like the unofficial scarves with half a club badge or something resembling the official logo which isn't. (eg for them just a Liver bird, or in our case maybe half a tree and some water with a ball and a halo somewhere around. The Man U ones usually have the familiar shape of their badge outline with something like a trident in red in the middle).

Tbf on this occasion that's more down to the number of scousers in the vicinity flogging the bloody things. I saw a Charlie Austin scarf for sale outside Yates's FFS.

Not a patch on numerous other occasions in the Northam. Must have just been the quiet bits being louder than usual.

Really? I thought it was one of the quietest set of home fans we've had in the entire time at St Mary's until it went to 2-2. Yeah it picked up a bit when we got level and that helped at that point, but it was awful for most of the 80-ish minutes on-pitch before it.

Just for once I actually agree with you, I thought the atmosphere was terrible on Sunday until 2-2.

He scored 2 goals after that, there's no logical reason why he'd be dwelling on that 45 minutes later rather than anything that happened in the interim.

I think this is the most likely. Though as he swapped shirts with Clyne shortly after he may have just been thinking "what was it I was going to do now...?"

In the sense that he continued to be crap (gave us a pen for a Skrtel shirt pull when Pelle was doing exactly the same thing to Skrtel, didn't book Ward-Prowse for three very loose challenges where he more or less sort of might have got some of the ball) but a bit more in our favour, yes.

Well he should have had his flag up immediately just to indicate the player was in an offside position and interfering given that he either jumped over or swung at the ball, and he didn't put it up until Liverpool were already off celebrating on the touchline and Tadic had run 10 yards towards him, which suggests SOMETHING happened other than the lino doing his job properly in the first place. Re: Mignolet save, good job they missed it, we scored almost straight after from the resultant goal kick. You could hear the "you don't know what you're doing" chants on the highlights.

I'd like Leicester to win the title, but in the cold light of playing them next, I've revised my "I don't mind us losing to them" comments of a few weeks ago, I'll be happy for us to stuff them. FWIW if Leicester get the bad injury luck that's overdue to them they'll be missing their entire team against us anyway.

He didn't hang around to shrug at the Northam yesterday for some reason.

It shows that we need to sign a centre back, anyway. Cedric starting and Martina covering RB and CB ahead of Gardos frees up room for Targett (instead of Gardos) to cover LB/LM which also gives the option of using Bertrand at LCB in a 3. I doubt we'd pick 4 strikers on the bench so that gets Tadic in ahead of Rodriguez.

To be fair Cedric was completely hung out to dry against Bournemouth, who played Daniels and Gradel up against him and we let them get to the edge of the box without challenge repeatedly. Though he didn't get any support from the midfield even after the substitution which barely improved things.

He should have passed it across to Pelle about 30 yards before the collision with Lovren, totally wrong decision-making all the way - on the bright side at least he didn't overrun it, which he often does when dribbling.

I think they meant when he left Saints to join Liverpool, as opposed to anything that happened on Sunday. If you meant then, apologies - and you'll have to ask his old hair stylist about it.

Or if you like, Long ran into Lovren with the ball nowhere near and deliberately impeded him, defensive free kick.

Nope, the whole point of the song is that there's basically only one occasion that they actually were, as opposed to the numerous times they just positioned themselves like that.

Absolute toss idea.

Didn't do himself any favours with the "only remember 3 things that happen in the match" brigade by making those things 3 backheels to the opposition in the first half, but actually he was busting a gut making runs off the ball and kept doing so (with Mane's assistance late on) right to the end - the notable exception being him not bothering to make an angle for a pass from Wanyama in the centre circle, when Vic went to the corner flag instead.