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Was going to mention a certain taxi driver doing a one man attempt to get the game abandoned!

Saw John for the first time in years at the JPT semi final, sure he got 3 months in Guys Marsh for that smoke bomb! Only one regret about that cup run, thinking half Lois jeans/half cords was acceptable up at Sheffield!

Mackerel up at Forest, the Navy Provost steaming in with their long sticks outside Fratton, the "Hello Pompey" giving it the bird banner up at Blackburn, the road if coaches up at Sheffield and carnage at Highbury. That was a cup run and a half for a 16 year old.

I've seen these given, but my personal opinion is that they shouldn't as it isn't deliberate handball. It ball to hand, as opposed to deliberate hand to ball, but it does have to be consistent. As you say they was a ball to hand just before that that "no one" has picked up on.

Sooooooooooooooooooooo fecking proud of this bunch of players, the manager and all the staff supporting them. Big shout to those making the journey to support as well. It just goes on and on and on Red Stripes being cracked open as I type. And just seen Fonte & Elia interviewed after the game. Very impressive.

I'm Ming the Merciless (no one else has a clue what's going on),

Always want us to win every match we play, but have to say in hindsight I might have swapped a defeat for his injury (if it is a 6 weeker). **As long as I am allowed to change my mind having slept on it and Ward Prowse, Davis, Reed & Cork perform superbly on Saturday and it's only a two week tweak!

Cheers

Soooooooooooo proud of this lot.Wonderful.Couldn't bring myself to watch and hoped to tune in and grab a point, so this is a superb result.What was the issue with Toby (fccuked or walking wounded?).

But you do know there will be a meltdown this summer when Toby gets tapped up by United & leaves, we get involved in a stand off and spat with Arsenal & Schneiderlin, Clyne is courted by Liverpool, City & United, Bertrand stays at Chelsea and Victor is a target for Spurs. On top of all that Koeman leaves for Barcelona and Pelle says he prefers a warmer climate and wants to sign for Bournemouth.

Fair enough, after all football is all about personal opinions. Agree that Yoshida has looked better in recent matches and was pleased he's signed up as think he is a decent enough replacement player for us. Just think Chambers is better (and will continue to get better). My last counter would be that when Clyne was out under Poch, then Chambers got the nod more often than Yoshida (at least that's how it remember it!!).

He's not worse than our four current centre halves, worse than Toby & Fonte, better than Gardos & Maya. Currently he wouldn't make it in our first choice back four ahead of Toby, Fonte, Bertrand & Clyne, but if we went 3/5 at the back then he'd get the nod ahead of Maya.

Very pleased with that point. At times we couldn't get near them and a winner for them seemed inevitable, so fair play for digging in and holding them at bay. Around the 80 minute mark we got a second wind, but with the sending off it was batten down the hatches. Some great defensive performances out there today, particularly when you consider the calibre of the players they were up against. Really missed Bertrand and Clyne (particularly going forward), although Yoshida & Targett did ok deputising. Would have to say City for the title after seeing both teams, and Ivanovic really is a grade a #*#%. A great player, but ruins it with his play acting & histrionics.

No idea of the veracity of it, but someone who is apparently "close" to Ings passed on that Liverpool were sniffing around and agents have already been trying to do the deal. As someone else has already said, I find it difficult to believe that even if someone was sniffing and Ings was keen that Burnley would sell this side of June 2015. If we had the chance, then think I'd take him.

No idea if true or not, but we really seem to be overawed by them today.A bit like our first time back at Anfied when I got a sense the players (& mgmnt) were overtaken by the occasion. On that form today, I would say City are going to give Chelsea a run for their money.

We came up against a City side firing on all cylinders and were simply not good enough. Thought we may have weathered the storm after they tore us apart for the first 20 minutes, but losing Schneiderlin was probably just too much for us to handle given we had no other midfielder (good enough) on the bench. As someone said above, it was very much like the Chelsea game where an in form & very decent side outplayed us. Target for me would be to try & get 2(or more) points from the next two games & win in the Cup.

Dunmore Rovers?? Or United?? they were loosely based on Watford where they filmed the show (similar kit, pop star owner). Think it was also filmed at Derby (was made by Central)

Sadly, I think the biggest complication is that one of the "bigger" teams (inc those on the Continent) will be sniffing around come May!

Toby for me. Both very classy, but just think centre half is more important a position for a team.

Don't normally go I for schadenfreude, but feck me I did enjoy Lallana on the bench, LOLvren having a mare and Rodgers squirming in post match interviews.

Imdeed, absolutely outstanding, cool, calm, controlled. Real pillar at the back. Signing him up would be a fantastic coup (who are Atletico Madrid's centre backs?? As they must be mustard).

Defensively (apart from the slip up towards the end) we were outstanding. The back five plus Big Vic gave us the platform to push on from. But going forward we weren't at our best (although Leicester did make it hard of us). Morgan had a real off day IMHO and Tadic struggled. Pelle was decent and Mane looked lively, but we didn't create much. Davis & Cork also struggled to make an impact, so fair play to Koeman and Long for changing the game. A decent gritty win.

Agree It wasn't just how good he was (at times down here he was out of this world!!!), it was also the impact on the Club and City of signing the Current European Footballer of the Year. Even though McMenemy had a knack of signing talented, experienced players (Osgood, Ball, Watson etc), this signing was huge. Only here for two seasons, but his impact was enormous.

Indeed Stu. Keegan dipped out after Espana 82 having not really recovered from his dodgy back and missing a sitter as England were dumped out in the the second group stage (having not lost any of their 5 games!!). And of course we finished 2nd in 1984 (we finished 6th & 7th with Keegan)

Always thought Rogers was overrated and last season he hit lucky with an inform Suarez combined with the other title rivals having a mare and/or rebuilding, but even then he couldn't manage to pull it off. Lambert was a stupid buy for a club in their position and signing Ballotelli is just dumb. IMHO He won't be around for the start of next season (which will make it even more interesting regarding those he bought!).