Patrick Bateman

The only positive we can possibly take out of this game is that we didnt sign Rojo.

 

Hah, agreed!

To be fair a few on the forum did say that he was a typical World Cup wonder ...

Hmmm but when the first lady spends £43 a month on a mobile phone, you have to look at "needs" more closely. Surely costs for food should be covered before the latest iPhone?

 

Fortunately I don't need to use food banks, but then again, my phone bill is a lot less than £43 a month.

I was going to pull out EXACTLY the same quote;

"She gets £71 employment and support allowance, a sum that shrinks to £15 a week when you take off bills for gas and electricity (£25), petrol for her mother’s car to drive to appointments and job interviews (£10), mobile phone (£10) and the £11-a-week bedroom tax, which she has had to pay since her youngest moved out of their two-bed council house. "

My monthly income is higher, yet I spend £12.50 a month, SIM only, on my 3 year old iPhone 4s - I get unlimited calls, unlimited texts and 2 Gb of data a month. I genuinely don't understand people wasting so much money on mobiles, especially when they're on such a tight budget.

I actually hoped he'd get a red so we would be spared him versus Burnley.

I thought that too, haha, shameful!

TV showed him being chatted up and poached by Luke Shaw. A|t least Man U will [paid a better price that anyone else.

Koeman's substitutions stink. We should and could have won had Koeman used Gardos and Reed.

Who would you have substituted for Gardos and why? Who would you have substituted for Reed and why? I'm genuinely interested in your footballing masterclass.

OK, let's leave him out for the next game.

 

Who does everyone think we should play instead?

ANYONE would be better currently. F**king hell, Hesketh looked more lively with better runs, I'd play him instead. He CAN'T be worse on current form.

Just let that sink in for a sec.

Yes and they're all good players. Just that Mane has been terrible for a couple of weeks and was particularly sh*t tonight.

He was good, I've always said he's good as back-up, especially when playing with Fonte who can marshall him.

Oh so Mane is tonight's scapegoat is he?

He was bloody awful to be honest and has been poor for a couple of matches now. He's not "tonight's scapegoat", he just wasn't/isn't good enough at the moment.

Carroll looks to have steadied the ship at the back for them. They surely cannot play that badly second half? Never in my lifetime have I seen a more ragged Utd side against us (and I include the 6-3 in that as well).

 

I would keep Mane on. He's so unpredictable it might just work. Shane Long is being an utter pest. If we can continue to keep it away from RVP and Shrek this is 3 points nailed on.

Him and Wanyama our best two players for me.

Ipswich are 2nd in the Championship - this is not a soft draw!

Annoying more than anything. Oh and a bit boring.

To be honest, both teams look fairly average, we look marginally better, could end up being 3-1 I'd say ... I can hope.

Chambers at fault for Stoke's first goal, then s/o later on.

Lovren unused sub

Lallana and Lambert ineffective according to Merson.

He's turning into a horrible, niggly little turd. Perfect Arsenal signing.

Wouldn't pay any attention to it, it's just boring and a waste of time even contemplating what he's supposed to have said. He's dull.

The question is right, CCTV, increased and improved policing, banning orders and all seater stadiums have had an impact, only significant thing they've missed out is ticket prices.

My thoughts exactly!

The worst thing I have ever heard (as in offensive to my ears) is the noise of kids and children at a womens football match. ****ing hell, that is awful. It actually means I can't watch womens football.

 

Luckily at men's games you rarely hear women or children.

Same with U21 matches - that horrendous high-pitched noise.

Compare with the sound of Fenerbache fans, 100% blokes, proper deep, guttural noise;

This one is even better;

How do you know people weren't offended? I am offended when Chinese people are called chinks. I am quite offended by the stereotyping of groups of people, be it jewish people or the way Art talks about Malaysian people as if they're all the same. People should be challenged when they make ignorant comments like this.

 

And just because something worse is happenng somewhere else, doesn't mean we should ignore the lesser event.

Where do you stop? I'm offended by many things. I'm offended by Strictly Come Dancing. I'm offended by newsreaders with regional accents mis-pronouncing many words. I'm offended by the miserable f**ks who stare at me in first class because I don't wear a suit. I'm offended by South West Trains, Portsmouth, bad driving, bad breath, bad hair, bad dress sense, ill-behaved children, drunken women talking boll*cks, the postman dropping his elastic bands on my driveway, people who choose to drive French cars, The Sun, The Mirror, ITV, new housing estates, simply many things.

But, generally, I let it all ride. People, everyone, need to lighten up a bit. I'm not excusing out and out racism, but all this getting offended too easily (people complained about the Rugby Union advert where everyone hates the English FFS, I thought it was funny. I'm offended they pulled the ad, I don't get a voice) or on behalf of other people is just ridiculous.

I bet it's Sheffield United ...

People on mobiles (non hands free) whilst driving. It makes you a cuunt.

 

I struggle to understand the mindset of people who attempt to text whilst driving. Utter mongs.

It's the dickheads you see driving, whilst holding a mobile to their ear, in a car which is clearly fitted with bluetooth or some other system that doesn't mean they need to hold a phone. Morons.

I can drive better after 5 pints than about 90% of the population when they are sober.

 

There should be IQ tests for driving also.

True and agreed!

Plus add to that anyone in a Range Rover seems incapable of driving properly.

There is a possibility that their full backs/wing backs on Monday will be Young and Valencia. We should be attacking them at every opportunity with wingers and attacking full backs.

Absolutely this! It should be the most attacking formation / team we can field. I have a feeling we'll let in a couple, but we may score a few too ... hopefully.

BT Sport "commentator" was on about Arsenal. Apparently there was no other team playing in the match. He did manage to mention Pompey at least once (reference Ramsey when he played in the FA Cup Final for Cardiff who it would seem managed to lose to them). His sidekick, Michael "ever so interesting" Owen was equally plank-like. I don't get BT Sport (was watching on a stream) and it is unlikely based on the show last night that I ever will. The only thing that could make their show worse would be if Andy Townsend was involved.

It is still Owen's "the most lethal weapon a player can has is pace" comment that cracks me up. Because obviously nothing else matters. We should never have got rid of Jonno "Quick" Forte!

Am I the only that saw this as an excuse to stalk UJ on twitter?

 

Hiya!

 

Too weird?

What is 'UJ' on Twitter? Feel I am missing out on something.

I've come to the conclusion that all train companies in this country are terrible. I have the dubious pleasure of using the Thameslink line from East Croydon to Farringdon at the moment, since I started my new job two months ago I reckon the train has arrived at East Croydon on time once and not arrived into Farringdon on time at all. There is always at least one blocking point, whether it's at Norwood Junction, Herne Hill or Blackfriars, which always has a knock-on effect of all the other trains following on behind.

 

Southern trains are pretty crap as well, although at least with them there are so many between East Croydon and Victoria that you don't tend to actually notice the delays too much.

You've got a point, I have to suffer East Midland trains too every couple of weeks - they are always late, always overcrowded and their Guards incredibly miserable. One thing going for South West Trains, generally the Guards are good humoured and willing to help.

I commute in to wloo on the leafy rural dorking line. Trains are often late by a few mins, but rarely by more than 10 (by which time the next one, or preceding one, whichever way you look at it is coming along. For me the main problems are

 

1. seriously overcrowded trains from 7am onwards (having said that I always get a seat cos I get on near the beginning of the line) - SWT have lengthened all the platforms on the so called commuter lines to take 12 car trains - the only problem being that the platforms at wloo (1-4) still only take 8 car trains - good planning (but apparently this is going to be fixed when they free up space on the old eurostar platforms in the new year))

 

2. the wloo commuter lines are saturated at peak times - our trains join the wloo main line just before wimbledon and there is often a queue to feed onto the main line (presumably waiting for the weybridge via surbiton trains to get out of the way!), then a queue to get into wloo waiting for a platform to free up.

 

3. It suddenly became academic yesterday - our company, funded by private equity investment, ran out of cash so we will be closing at the end of the year, so temporarily no more commuting until something else turns up.

Christ, sorry to hear that, puts the train issue into perspective

I don't mind commuting, it's the only 30/45 minutes of the day I get to myself.

That's the bit I DO like about it. 50 mins, sat on a train, with my own thoughts, book, silent working - whatever I want to do!