John Boy Saint

So with the raft of offences from the FA read out on the sports news this evening, like Pep commenting about the ref pre match, and dopey Sturridge thinking he was cleverer than the system.........has Charlie gotten away with it, or are they giving him Tuesday in the Spotlight without the riff raff cluttering the headlines.

Beat Leicester in the cup and it will be manna from heaven for the advertising team “guarantee a ticket to Wembley with a half season ticket” forgetting that Man City stand in the way before the ticket becomes valid.

In the midst of all of it Yoshida knew he was offside and had the presence of mind to be very certain that he did not touch the ball after it made contact with the Watford player. This weekend has been peppered with rum decisions, Cardiff winner the goal scorer came from offside, Mitrovic for Fulham has a good goal chalked off incorrectly, last weekend Wolves have a perfectly good goal rubbed out for offside when the guy was played on by 2 Spurs players. These aren’t just ‘one of them things’ mistakes these are multi million pound mistakes, especially when you are scrapping at the bottom of the table.

Pretty sure I read somewhere not that long ago that about Wilson. That he basically tripped and fell into football whilst en route into another field of life entirely.

Bertrand is on 4 yellows - hopefully Deeney will pull his tail and he gets the 5th to earn a suspension: that might see the pack shuffled, a different captain, and a bit of effort from left back............alas that won’t be in Saturdays game.

Far from it, can't recall a Captain who saunters round the pitch with a face like a smacked backside. If you are wearing the Captains armband you have to put in the effort and be seen to put in the effort for 90 minutes, not put in the odd flash of a run and decent cross. Just watch back the first Wolves goal from this season Traore has the ball and has put his foot to the floor to race into our box, just as he passes the ball for the player to score, oh hello look who has just turned up in the Penalty box our Captain casually trotting back to defend. If folks notice the laissez faire attitude from the stand, then the players must notice it too. If Deeney plays on Saturday you will see fire and brimstone from the bloke wearing the Watford armband, and if this season so far is anything to go by our Captain will also be easily spotted sat on the side of the 'room' twirling his Olive around in his Martini.

With the slight possible exception of Rodgers, that top 5 looks bloody grim! Ok Moyes might have the stigma of the Man U poison chalice hanging around (bizarrely he was binned with a far better win ratio than his successors had after the same number of games). Pearson could be interesting but then is he tucked up nice and tight in Belgium on King Power money, think Billic will have probably learned where it went wrong at West Ham. Either way if the trigger is pulled, I think the bunch of stumble bums currently getting a game need someone not scared of kicking some backsides to get them fired up and performing.

To be fair he hasn’t been the worst player on the pitch, and more shots on target than Long.

My day has been cheered up by the advert on NBC Girl sat in the passenger seat of a car with a touch of HayFever - sneezes and blows the whipped cream topping off the top of her coffee - very funny.

Think I might open a bottle of wine

Wow penalty

What is it with Hoedt opening minutes v Liverpool og opening minutes v City og!

Pop up world for me

Reading the Peter Crouch column last Saturday - his headline piece was very true "Loftus Cheek - If he cost Chelsea £35m he would be playing every week". Harrison Reed v Clasie - Reed everytime, but there are loads on here who prefer us to blow a wad on a Carlos Kickaball rather than blend a talented nipper into the squad. ......................no doubt some bellend reading this will take this comment as re running the all kids relegation experiment and filling spots 1-11 with nippers: Blend them in.

Mike Dean has his bestest Spurs underpants on tonight!

Hard to disagree - some poor sod up in Row GG would have had that full in the mush!!

You obviously weren't watching on Saturday afternoon (although Saturday afternoon was the cure for insomnia) within seconds of coming on he put one of the Newcastle players up in the air leaving him in a heap on the floor, ref signaled that he had won the ball, Shelvey didnt like that and went after him with a misplaced stamp that JWP just skipped out of the way of. Aside from that its a myth he can't tackle.

The late Bobby Robson once said that if he could make his perfect player he would mould together, the strength of Shearer, the pace of Rod Wallace, and the skill of Le Tissier so them 3 and Jimmy Case to kick em all up the backside. Can I have Phil Boyer on the subs bench please?

Someones won the lottery!! May as well just as well use the £500 to light the bonfire Lighthouse is having down his garden after finishing his chores on Sunday afternoon!

A few injuries in the right places might be helpful in forcing Hughes look a bit deeper into his squad for options that might work better. Wouldn't be too upset if Bertie picks up a yellow (5th) and misses the game v Watford.........at least I wouldn't have to watch our "captain" jogging back to defend an attack in progress ahead of him. I might take up Lighthouses offer to do a different kind of shredding to that we will likely endure on Sunday afternoon! UPDATE: Steveo think you yellow card wish might go right out the window - we have Lee Mason as referee for the game

You could hardly blame him for being less than enthused (If that were the case). Pretty certain he got a renewed contract recently keeping him here until 2021(?). Same old inert strikers being named in the squad for first team games pointlessly running about the pitch or cluttering up the bench. I certainly would be bloody frustrated and slightly lacking in motivation. Just be good to see him given a run out and given as much of chance as Messrs Long and Austin have underservedly enjoyed.

Walked past a bookies today saw the game was on - thought “should put a tenner on Burton winning & Hesketh to score” - alas carried on walking Cracking volley too

Nope just a journalists mind at work - and the silly sod said what he thought out loud (well loud enough) in the wrong place. Made worse by the fact that he works for a very respected organisation.

On paper their average transfer value per player is £69.2m v our £11.2m per player, I think you are safe in that assumption. .............but then football isn’t played on paper.

Watch out I had my sanity questioned for a similar utterance............