Saint_clark

I think he's mistaking an academy that youngsters from all over the country want to come and play for as one that just splashes the cash.

Marcus Barnes must have done something to impress having signed a professional contract with the club having only been here since september.

Yep, there was one moment in the first half (which I think was the first highlight on sky sports) where he had the ball on the edge of the box, ignored the pass inside and took his man on, ignored the pass wide and tried it again and gave the ball away. At the time I thought he was just being indecisive, but watching it back he was genuinely trying to get through by himself.

I've got £2 each way at 2000-1, and £8 on top 4 at 66-1. It's only a tenner lost, but if either does somehow happen then that's the celebratory p*ss up well and truly paid for.

Yep, but the Scholes comparison still seems a bit cliche to me.

Other than being short and having ginger hair, what did he do today that could justify comparisons to Paul Scholes? Talk about building them up early.

What did 110 do to get banned?

Jordan robertson scored a better goal for us once.

Kidding, right?

He was a whisker away from scoring our goal of the season after some great work, he was a whisker away from setting up our goal of the season for Lallana, and he set up Osvaldo to score. He is very much capable of playing in this system.

Fair enough, I picked a poor choice of words. But the murder of innocents in the name of some higher cause is never justified.

Terrorism by definition - "the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims."

South Africa is anything but peaceful...

Jesus, there is another film. Idris Elba though.

He's already played him, or are you suggesting a sequel? Maybe they could make it a trilogy, releasing the third movie in 2018 in time for the 100th anniversary of his birth.

London bombings, terrorism or fighting for freedom? . The murder of innocents is never acceptable.

After the tackle on Shaw he was clearly telling a Villa player "i'll see you in a tunnel", and then something kicked off after the game there as well.

Maybe not, but he certainly should have kept it out. He got two hands to it and it STILL went in.

Lambert did nothing wrong today IMO. Positive - that move in the first half of one touch passes which ended with Lambert chipping it over for Lallana (and a Villa defender just cleared it for a corner) was stunning,

Where did people say they were "pleased to go on international training as they won't work so hard"? Anyway, yes I think we have. However we have seen squad rotation with Davis/JWP/J-Rod, Yoshida/Fonte/Hooiveld and Lambert/Osvaldo. So I don't think it's as much of a factor as people think. The decision to put Yoshida in tonight instead of Hooiveld was very strange.

He took himself completely out of the equation, you just know that Boruc would have been straight out making himself as large as possible. I'm a fan of Gazza and think he could come good but that was really poor.

I think it's part of Pochettinos style that we don't try too many "killer" passes. Frustrating, but he's the boss.

Could say Yoshida was at fault for all 3, first on obvious, second one ball went over his head (unacceptable for a CB to not get involved there), and third one he didn't close down despite having no-one else to mark. Gazza also should have saved the second and should have closed down quicker for the first.

Genius, that is.

Anything to give France the best chance possible, this isn't surprising anymore.