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Oxymoron.

Williams at Palace is very good.

Where would our 'English' team finish in the English PL? ....... top 4-5 at least? Doubt half the sides could field a credible English X1 (we're weak at CB but beyond that we can field a League Cup standard all-English X1) Viva la fairplay revolution.

15 seconds of this and you know what you're getting, any pub in any town.

Lots of people rave about Schmiecal at Leicester. Where will he be next year? I nominate Leicester.

Apparently it is, can't be bothered to follow the links but it is referred to above as this and my nipper told me today ( via Talksport, the font of all knowledge) that the players vote in January , make of that what you will. Seems a bit silly asking footballers to remember what happened last season ... perhaps more accurately it should be described as an August-to-January player of the season. Somebody with more time than me needs to go and check this out!

Why is it a January-to-January vote? Surely a lot of footballers own these 'smart phones' nowadays (or could borrow one from their agent?). Perhaps somebody needs to design an application ('app') that will measure players' performance/impact from August to somewhen about now? A proper PL August-to-now list ought to include Williams, Michu, Baines, Schneiderlin, Vertongen, Maloney.

Very good; don't over do it though, this is SWF, not Paxman on Newsnight.

Obviously depends if it was raining and what day of the week it's played on. In the interests of fairness it would obviously be played on a neutral ground ... I nominate Hartlepool away on a Tuesday.

Swansea?

This x10, absolutely no way were there 15k empty seats, which is equivalent to the ground being only 80% full, at OT this season .... risible. Only obvious 'empty seats' was a patch high up in the opposite quadrant, remainder of the ground pretty much 'full' bar the odd single seats, ground easily 90% full. On the opposite hand how come when Saints give out ever-increasing maximums when I turn on MOD I see plenty of empty seats (in both home and away areas)?

Ramirez had a reasonable game yesterday. I'm (easily) impressed that he hasn't gone into sulk mode yet, nor is he a prima donna, nor is there any evidence that he doesn't want to be here. Au contraire, I see a young man that is almost trying too hard to be successful and too hard to be liked. He constantly wants the ball and constantly tries to get us moving forward, yesterday he was excellent in defence and frequently worked hard to deny W Ham space, or to double up with Clyne. He clearly has great technical ability and good spatial awareness of the position of defenders and his own players, unfortunately he doesn't have the mind set to do the obvious/simple thing and feels the pressure to 'create' every time he has the ball. He is courageous (stupid?) in possession and always backs himself to take opponents on (when the easy ball would be the obvious alternative). If we could transplant a 30 year old top footballing brain into the body of a 21 year old innocent abroad we would have a world player on our hands, unfortunately we have a 21 year old who wants to be doing and taking everything, to the detriment of his own and the team's performance. I think we (the management) need to take a good long look at what GR can contribute (ability, inspiration, goals, improvisation, hard work) and get much more of a focus and a grip on this. No more 40 yd freekicks (no more free kicks full stop), no more running down blind alleys followed by the embarrassingly big fall. And FFS get his conditioning up to a level where he can play 90 minutes! If we could do all this we would have our very own Cantona on our hands, easily good enough for where we want to go but very much a work in progress at this stage.

Doubleonothing you have a PM, you're in.

I have a spare in Block 39, PM me before 9-30 if interested. Ticket definitely available right up to kick-off tommo, will meet outside the ground. If you see this later please put an email address on here and I will get back to you at lunchtime,

You have a PM.

Ticket is available again. 35 quid, block 39, meet outside at 14-20. Pm me or leave email address. Will def reply before 23-00 tonight, would like to get this sorted today, third time lucky! Hopefully.

Rory u got gmail .

I have a spare for tomorrow, I have provisionally offered it to 'Norm' on here via PM and text but he's not got back to me yet. If he doesn't get back by tea time I will definitely have one tkt available, high in Block 39, good atmosphere. £35, meet outside before the game. Anybody interested pm me or leave email address here. If Norm doesn't come back then I will be in touch with you early evening.

Chuck in a Spanish wildcard (striker?) and we could be top 7/8.

I'm looking fd to the Reading v Liverpool minutes silence.

Totally agree, when are we going to stop giving almost limitless amounts of money to the banks, the ultimate failing businesses?

Liverpool vs. West Ham ....... 2-0 Spuds vs. Everton ........ 1-1 Chelsea vs. Sunderland ... 4-1 Newcastle vs. Fulham ........ 2-0 QPR vs. Wigan ....... 0-1 maybe?

Really good footballler at Brighton. Liked or loathed at Liverpool, but always a good player. Total embarressment at the BEEB, should have gone 10 years ago.

Don't be a c/u/n/t.

Excellent.