sandwichsaint

I've got three boxed and ready to give out as Xmas presents, really looking fd to them being opened and having a little look myself. Thoroughly endorse the appeal to buy one, shocking that these guys who have produced some of the most acclaimed sports books around are sitting on a shed load of their own money and with no distribution deal. We are truly lucky to have the history of the club chronicled in such depth and with such loving detail, has any other club got anything half as good as In That Number? Please buy one if you can!

Don't know about this season, it hasn't been open much. Last season the KA had to screen off the back yard and ran a strict 'door policy' (show your tkt, home fans only) for certain games as and when directed by the police - Spurs was one of the games that was home fans only. If he doesn't have a home tkt prob best avoid the KA?

Brilliant (did the missus veto Nicola?)

Tim Sherwood might.

I’m sure once we’re established in the PL and we have survived the difficult second season syndrome we can expect to really kick on in the cups. I fully expect the club to issue a statement in the summer, via Crafty Nic’s PR pals, saying that we are targeting both of the cups next season. The club will have realised by then that we will ‘never’ get in the top 4 and that we are ‘too good’ to go down and we will use the lure of both the FA and Capital One cups to start the second phase of the five-year plans with ‘Operation Wembley’. We will continue to spend big, luring players to SMS with the promise that we will always play our strongest sides in the cups, indeed the very best signings will have clauses in their contracts guaranteeing that will play in the early rounds of the league cup 'irrespective of the opposition'. Players will all stand a really good chance of picking up an FA Cup or Capital one cup medal, and we will rotate our league side accordingly. ‘What the fans of this club really crave is a big day out at Wembley, no one remembers where you finish in the league’ said sources close to the club.

Nothing wrong with 'seeking out space' ......

To replace MoPo? I think Dalek would disintegrate with joy.

Fixed it. I couldn't get it to talk to each other from Internet Explorer (some sort of 'extensions' stuff?, it works fine in Chrome. (you can make your list in IE, you just can't export it, at least in the set-up I've got at work) Nifty app, you can use it all round all the BBC radio stations.

I used this last week, you log in, you tag tracks you like on the radio (6 music for me), you compile a virtual playlist, you then export your playlist to Spotify, I did all this last week and it worked really well. I am now logged into BBC playlister and I have Spotify running, when I try and export my new playlist I go through all the motions, it looks fine, but it doesn't connect to Spotify and doesn't move the music over... it just re-directs me to a pop-up window pushing the spotify and playlister apps (it didn't do this bit last week). I have now downloaded the playlister app into Spotify but I can't see any way of logging into it and it shows my playlist as 'empty' (it just links back to the BBC site, where I am logged in, and I can see my music). All very gggrrrhhhhh! It worked beautifully simply last week and I can't do anything with it today. V annoying.

Excellent. I missed out on Villa W (which we should have won) and Man City W (which we should have won). Next 8, Spurs (H) - W 2-0 Cardiff (A) - W 1-0 Everton (A) - L 0-2 Chelsea (H) - L 0-2 West Brom (H) - W 3-1 Sunderland (A) - D 0-0 Arsenal (H) - D 2-2 Fulham (A) - W 2-1 W4 D2 L2 F10 A8

BBC have it that Newcastle are the team we have most PL wins against and have scored most PL goals against. Guess we must have a pretty tidy home record against them.

We lost at Arsenal and Chelsea no real surprises, but unfortunately the changes against Villa cost us, normal back 5 and we win that 2-0. problems now are going forward, any injury to Boruc was going to leave us horribly exposed and that's exactly what's happened. Shaw and Cork both been below par last two games and suspect both carrying g niggles in the last two games, Clyne now confirmed. looking at Tuesday looks like lovren possibly and Fonte definitely not 100/ . Ms out with unspecified 'muscular' problem. that looks to me like 5 of the back 7 have developed or are on the way to developing fatigue related injuries, the other two have broken bones from relatively innocuous collisions. Proclamations of two players for each position now looking very hollow. Take out Boruc, one of he CHS, MS and VW and we start to look like a Capital Cup side. hindsight is a wonderful thing but we are right up against it now for the Xmas fixture rush, time for MP to come up with a credible plan B and to limit our losses till we can get through to the window.

0-0 Italy 1-1 Costa Rica 2-2 Uruguay We'll go out in the group stages unbeaten and with our dignity semi-intact.

Not sure what your point is? That's a pretty decent showing for a sub coming on at half time for his first PL action of the season. Looks to me like he is doing in that graphic exactly what he was meant to do? 97% passing rate (probably our highest stat for any player in any game this season). I thought he gave us a bit of tempo at the start of the second half, his ball speed is better than VW's and he got us on the front foot a bit quicker which led to the first equaliser. He was involved in the second goal we conceded, poor decisions/technique/options from Gazza then Shaw then Cork got sacked. We were saying at 1-1 (and us absolutely flying) when are they going to score another goal from a defensive cock-up, sure enough it arrived right on cue! Ridiculous scapegoating of Cork on a couple of threads that I've seen (I haven't read all of it yet, traffic awful last night. got in at 01-45 this morning after dropping my Villa supporting nephew in Horsham, the longest journey, not a happy bunny this morning!)

Chamakh for England,

Scarey (if true?)

People not picking Cork in these line-ups .... is that because you are second guessing Poch and trying to pick the line-up you think he will play, or is it because you are picking the team you would like to see playing tommo? People seem to have v. short memories sometimes - one of our very best players over the previous two seasons, he always brought energy and tempo to our play, he covers a terrific amount of ground, he recycles and keeps possession very well. Would be absolutely ideal player to come in fresh tomorrow, point to prove and he would give a lift to everybody. JWP (still a very young player) looked like he was running on empty on Sunday, I'd give him the night off and have him ready for Saturday.

Three good points, number 1 is particularly valid and may well go a long way to explaining the relative under performance of Ramirez/Osvaldo ... looks like we need to buy athletes over footballers (it won't be pretty but it might be successful!)

Interesting thread and I think our good start has somewhat glossed over what was a concern at the back end of last season. I also think you have to factor in the standard of defending in the PL which is generally pretty good, chances are hard to create (for most teams) and scoring in general is running a little below where it has been for the last few seasons; change of formations? safety first tactics? video analysis/media saturation- every team knows every other team inside out? . I watched an entertaining game last night (Lazio losing 2-4 at home), it had some great goals (great finishes) but the defending looked a lot weaker than we see in the PL, three really good finishes in the second half but I don’t think any of those three goals would have gone past a PL defence (maybe Fulham or Palace LOL). The teams that are scoring goals are generally the teams with the best players, or at least the players that are on form (no shi7 Shurlock!) – Aguero, Suarez, Ramsey, Rooney etc. last time I looked we didn’t have any of these guys playing for us and unfortunately our two big money marquee signings, for whatever reason, haven’t really come off in the way we hoped. We are where we are, we have a very strong/balanced back 7 (subject to Boruc missing some games now), going fd we can be pretty pedestrian and pretty predictable, we don’t have (enough) pace or power to unsettle the opposition, instead we aim to play through them and use our superior thought/technique to create chances. Our FBs do give us good options going forward but that’s obviously more limited away from home and against better opposition. Poch has obviously set out his stall to play a certain way and the defensive side is certainly paying off, in theory one or two goals a game would see us to a very healthy points return and I’m sure he would say he is using the resources at his disposal the best way he can. It just seems weird how we (he?) can’t accommodate two internationals into our system? Rather begs the question where we go from here? Should we buy more/better foreign fancy Dans, the jury’s out on that one for me. Top and bottom is that we create relatively few chances, our attacking play is ‘constructive’ rather than ‘instinctive’, we are severely constrained by a lack of pace which means we mainly play in front of the opposition defence. Perhaps in the final analysis our attacking talent isn’t quite as strong as some on here like to believe? We would be a hell of a team if we had a Rooney or a Suarez!

Five results from five .... I hope GS is noting my long-range tipping skills. Things are due to pick up again now though but 7 points from the next three games looks a big ask!

Blue line, win on Wednesday and we can all move on.

We could swap him for Dixon and Speedie.

Reel 'em in, I love big Vic. I was digging at Batman's sensationalism (almost Alpine-esque at times) to see a negative in every positive. Unless I've been whooshed? Wanyama may very well pick up a suspension at some stage, it goes with the territory, but till then 'together as one' yes?

Always look on the bright side of life, de doo, de doo de doo do .....