John Boy Saint

My Missus baulks at most weird spirits that I bring home like a stray dog I have found on my way home, so my Parma Violet Surprise is safe in the cocktail cabinet. Just got to learn not to drink it and enjoy a cigar at the same time.

We just need to get right in their faces from the off, we did that v Newcastle and they looked super wobbly, Villa look like they could be ultra wobbly if we get into them and get a few in the back of the net early on. Bradford looked very well organised, must be an ex Southampton thing.

Funny how the value of €12m seems to be the going rate with most of the players we are associated with.

He got the heave ho right on Christmas (not nice) when Burley turned up with his own goal keeping coach, then ended up with good old 'Arry down the skates.

Just as half baked. You could have 3 potential subs for positions viewed as under performing being audibly, to those on the pitch, being called back from warming up and shown the play book, might make those on the pitch go ooo-errr is that for me an play a bit harder for the remainder of the first half: of course that could backfire with a bit of over exuberant play and a silly freekick given away. You would think that with the amount of sports psychology that exists these days, silly ideas like ours would have been considered in some form or other.

Kiss my backside you plum!!

Coles was not as great as is lead to believe, most of the keepers he had were not too shabby. If a fat lad in the offy can point out some of the faults of the keeper to Coles, when said lad didn't know who Coles was, and Coles implements what he was told, most of which was bloomin obvious. The bloke is arrogant and struck lucky with Jones then Niemi in quick succession to boost his "Aura".

Is it turned off off as in powered down or just in standard sleep mode. There is a website called Where Are You or Find my phone something of that ilk, if you have have access to your emails via your phone from what I understand you can trace it with that. One of my mates couldn't find his phone as we were preparing to leave La Manga for our flight home we used this website as one of the lads is a bit of a player and his wife uses it to track him!! We tracked it down to the Golf buggy shed it was that accurate.

Pretty much the same, had a feeling of we just went through the motions of having to play the game, if we got something out of it then ok. 5-1 was a bit cheesy but Adkins sat down for most of the second half says a lot. I have to say next time we have Mike Dean as a ref beforehand we really must practise chipping the ball against anyone in the boxes arm, that has to be the most gift wrapped penalty decision ever. Ah well C'est la vie.

Perhaps we should start a little fund for you to go down for a beer at least 3-4 times a match.

What was nice about that afternoon, apart from the bleedin obvious, was the Stadium announcer giving out the score that guaranteed Walsall staying up so all of a sudden everyone in the St Mary's was happy.

Iker Casillas as the makeweight in the Shaw to Real Madrid deal, Mourinho has already tested the water by dropping him for the first time in ages for the Malaga game just before Christmas.

Hitch a ride on a barge travelling along the Leeds Liverpool canal

Just to add another Bird to the thread: That is a bloomin Rook that even with the highest academy status "richer" bigger clubs can just roll up and pilfer younger players at a fraction of their value before they reach 18.

Years ago when I was about 19/20 I was trying to get out of shop work into a selling job preferably out on the road I was getting plenty of first interviews many of which were good interviews but never got any further. Then my girlfriend (now Wife) said why don't you grow a moustache as they look at your face an think you are too young. Within weeks I was sporting a splendid facial caterpillar and hey presto second interviews became the norm, the only barrier to over come was the lack of experience and that soon passed.

I use the Nivea extreme(?) gel in the Silver can. Seems to go on and on not the cheapest but if you keep your eye out at Boots they have 3for2 a few times a year, it doesn't go off so I stock up and the price becomes acceptable.

Cork - because he sets the tempo for the team, last season Morgan did that job, as he did on New Years day with Cork at RB Shaw- what a gem he is. He has had players with formidable reputations up against him and he has just tucked them in his pocket, even Wenger took Oxo off that side because Shaw was giving him very little room. Also very impressive to see a young lad taking his chance firmly by the throat. Fonte - since he realised that he CAN defend at this level has been increasingly impressive. Rickie - even at this level defenders are becoming more fearful when he is cruising about the box like a shark even more so when he drifts out of his "natural" position.

Brother in law has a Chelsea ST he said last night that QPR were the worst team he had seen all season (despite their win) 10 men behind the ball all game and that if Chelsea didn't have passengers like Luiz and Torres they would have opened them up. Hard to call who the 3 will be Blackpool a few years ago were on the cret of a wave seemingly out of trouble and then fell like a leaf in Autumn into trouble, so as others have said there could be a team no one expects. Reading could all of a sudden find their feet and do a repeat of last year to come from no where and by comparison breeze into a safe position come May.

If you went to Stoke on Saturday Jeromes pile driver would have given you an uncomfortable drive home then!

I like ones like Chris Bairds a few years ago, we all thought we had pigged up another free kick when Bale passed to Surman who seemed to miss it completely to a massive groan from the crowd then out of the blue Chris Baird, running in, launched it like an Exocet from outside the box into the back of the net, had the keeper got his hands to it his wrists would probably have snapped.

Yeah right!! First wobble he came to double fist punch it skimmed off his knuckles over his head thankfully no one was there for Arsenal. The Goal for Arsenal was preventable as there was no Arsenal player in reach of it Boruc should have shouted to collect the ball and Guly would not have tried to cut out the cross.

Wad ya mean NA out?! Nicola and Les out!!!! Have we not met Messi's €205 buy out clause yet?!

Take it back to whence you purchased it from, if it's a Supermarket throw your toys out of the pram: they will kiss your feet.

First time in ages a quiet night in, we normally go round friends (and vice versa) and getting Chinese Steves culinary delights in. Mrs JBS just changed jobs to sort out dot.com in our local evil empire so was up at work at 4am sorting out all those loverly internet orders so she will probably not make Midnight. Eldest Daughter is just off down the pub when her mate extracts a digit: great being young.

Chelsea have sold all theirs because they are stunned at how cheap the tickets were: they haven't been able to see their beloved team for ess all season!!