Saint_clark

Someone told me Left 4 Dead 2 is free on steam today only.

Agree, if it's what was actually said.

We're supposed to just take your word for it, given we can't watch it?

You mean the ONE moment of madness V Arsenal? The Stoke goal was not his fault, and if you were there and were trying not to get blown away like the rest of us you'd have known that. Nearly everyone in the ground said that the wind was going to affect the game, and lo and behold 12 seconds in it did.

I have to agree, the worst that can happen is he's poor as well and lets in a few goals. The "safe" option of playing Gazza means we're also likely to let in a few goals, so...

The one thing you can say about Cortese is that he isn't prone to knee-jerk decisions, everything is thought out and pre-planned.

Am I alone in thinking Cork was quite poor? Gave the ball away a lot, including for their second goal.

Really good opportunity to get back to winning ways here.

Of course it is, look at Reed, JWP.

Have you tried sprinting around for 90 minutes with a throat infection? I bet it's a f*cking killer, especially if you've got someone like Aaron Lennon to chase after.

Sims as well I reckon.

Ramirez looked the most likely to make something happen after he came on.

No it's not.

A cross along the ground 2 yards away from goal should ALWAYS be claimed by the keeper. He should have cut that out before it even got to Jos.

Too many people out on the lash last night I think, but it's no excuse...I'd much rather not drink too much and go to football in a decent mood/frame of mind.

Anyone got the stats for shots on targets/goals conceded since Gazza has been in goal? I can't remember him making any saves.

Actually didn't do that badly today. Some woman was laying into Fox after Hooivelds own-goal, which was bizarre.

Christ, what a bump this was. What did Dibden do to get banned?

Surely that's not legal?

All of these, and none of his good points included in the article. Exactly why it is cynical and strangely bitter, as I said before.

Sorry, you're right. We're not actually using that many English players and there is a foreign invasion of St Marys right now.

Well no, there's criticisms in there veiled as being objective. Stating that we spent £36 million all on foreign players whilst failing to mention it was only actually on 3 is misleading, for a start.

I actually agree with her that managers need longer before you can properly judge them, but she didn't need to make that point in such a cynical, strangely bitter way.

So the point she makes about pass completion is in contradiction to the point about Chelsea using less English players but being more successful (trying to say that it doesn't matter how many we use).

The long ball stat is meaningless as the requirement for a long ball isn't actually that far...also most of those are switching the play from side to side. The pass completion stat surprises me however, and I'm not sure I'm convinced about that one when you consider we rarely run with the ball (choosing to pass instead) and quite often pass it back and amongst the defence. But the tone of that article isn't objective or unbiased, it's almost bitter. And if you look at other articles written by her, you'll see she thinks Fellaini fits in perfectly at United and that she's written "spiteful" articles about other clubs in the past : http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A25494744