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A welcome, positive statement ! Wouldn't it be nice to see her at Wembley in May with a red and white scarf around her neck, a little camera in her hand and a lovely big smile on her face !

Clearly positive news, thankfully we don't have Labour to Balls it up (yet!).

From the News article on trimming the squad (or not, depending on how you read it!) : Barker explained: "I would like it to be a lot less than I have got now, I don’t know the exact number, but you are talking about high 20s" Is it only me who thinks that the manager should know exactly how many players he has ? Perhaps he struggles to count up to thirty but otherwise it really comes across as incompetence on a grand scale ! I am willing to bet that the manager of my local Sainbury's knows exactly how many staff he has and it will be a helluva lot more than the high 20's !

Ouch indeed... TBF she was very gutsy and took on a very difficult dive ! Mind you, being a Skate she should be at home in the depths !

The Snows that I nearly bought from are BMW dealers in Newport http://www.snowsisleofwightbmw.co.uk/ and it was a toss up between a 5 series there or an XF from H A Fox which is what I bought in the end ! I guessed that all the Snows garages were BMW and owned by Skates but maybe I'm wrong ??

On the assumption that they were Skates, I held back from buying a new motor from them and bought from H A Fox instead ! I hope that I did the right thing ??

Cortese certainly stood by the mantra 'live by the sword, die by the sword', he should also have considered 'as ye reap, so shall ye sow' but he should never have forgotten the old saying 'never bite the hand that feeds you' !!

Thank you MLG for the link to the press conference as Sky Sports News was a waste of time !

Just started now !

Am watching SSN, they say 'coming up soon', will let you know when it's starts !

RIP Trigger the legend !

"Don't go Breaking my Heart" - Elton and Kiki.

We have no influence whatsoever so que sera, sera !

Don't forget Mrs Lallana from yesterday

Can I suggest that you watch it again and you'll find that he looks up in Lallana's direction just before the ball comes to him, he then plays it first time with spin right into Adam's path so that he does not even have to break stride ! It was as intentional as it was audacious, utterly brilliant !!

If you want to read it sooner, you could always download it to a Kindle or similar device if you have one ?

Someone said a few posts ago that you should take US dollar traveller cheques but for me this is plain daft ! Firstly you have to go to a bank which is open and queue up etc.. You suffer twice from exchange rate shortfalls and commissions (3 times if you have money left over!) so it is far better to go directly for Singapore dollars ! There are ATM's all over the place and this is the most convenient way to do it, best to take out sizeable amounts each time rather than small as you tend to have a standard transaction cost but (having been there many times!) it is the best solution IMHO !

I thought that too, in fact quite a few of their players looked similar especially the guy called Treacy ! Didn't seem to hinder their movement but it was noticeable ! (Maybe their kit was too tight:))

A win is a win in the cup but we made bl**dy hard work of it. Burnley were effectively dead and buried at HT but our defensive lapses let them back in ! Yoshida was ok but Jos was a liability ! Kelvin didn't look very good either ! Ah well, another home tie and we keep learning and moving on...

When I saw the OP title with the word 'blame' in it, I expected the usual suspects to dominate with their pathetic wind-ups ! Pleased to say that almost all posts have been objective and considered ! Happy new year everyone !

Perhaps you should draw up a guest list and submit it to the club in advance ? It's never good to have the wrong type of people at a football match

Whatever team we put out I think the key is to have a very strong bench so that we can change the game if or when necessary ! Surely our reserves can be better than their reserves ?

Morgan had a poor game by his own high standards but he worked his nuts off as did the rest of them ! In those conditions (you probably don't realise just how bad they were!) it was almost impossible to rely on his trademark long passing game. It's pointless IMO to criticise one of our top players after one sub par performance against such a hugely expensive and talented squad like Chelsea. All about opinions of course but that is mine !

Well beaten in tough conditions but we worked really hard throughout and perhaps understandably, tired later in the match ! With Mata, Hazard, Oscar and Willian running at you on a soaking pitch it is far from easy ! Although we lost I see no case for criticism, not that it will hold back our resident WUM's I'm sure !

Oscar is a cheating little git, well done the ref for seeing it correctly !