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You (and his agent) might be right but I must confess I'm struggling with the logic of him choosing us based on the fact 'we are/were going somewhere' over choosing another club were he could earn more money and which is already 'there'. Personally, I would assume he felt more confident of a regular starting spot for us in the year before the World Cup started and that's what swung it for us. Now that has worked out for him he's using the 'vision' against us and wants away so he can earn more corn. I think he also safer in the knowledge he'll get a regular starting spot for a bigger club than us now too.

Not a Cruyff turn in sight and he has a normal haircut. Also, I signed him for Doncaster in my FM game for 10 minutes and he didn't go to the press and agitate for a move once. He's a rubbish replacement AL.

Morgan conducts himself with more class than our other "stars" have in their left toes. Chuffed to bits for him. He won't look out of place

If you hold back on braking news then it means you are accelerating on spilling the beans doesn't it?

Better hope we get Romulan Lukaku then

Clyne all day long. He adds an extra dimension to our game and I can't see that Chambers will ever overtake him.

I've a got a tenner on the wind being next goal scorer at 9/4

An eagerness to justify his reputation, fit in, his price-tag, please the fans.....causing him to do things he would not ordinarily do if he was in a more relaxed frame of mind. He had a bad game but it wasn't his poor execution which was the key point for me. It was his poor decision making caused, I believe, by some of those things I mentioned at the start. I think he put extra pressure on himself after his early miss and he went downhill from there. That is trying too hard.

He's a quality player but he had a bad game today. He seems to be trying to hard and from all we know about him it's clear that he's a sensitive soul. He just needs time and a bit less expectation and it will come. He oozed quality against Denmark in midweek and his strike rate in Italy was very good. He's not turned into a bad player overnight and i'm sure we'll be raving about a performance of his pretty soon. Anyway, we just took the **** out of Utd on their own patch and trampled over their midfield. The only disappointing thing about that is their plastic fans are so plastic they probably don't even care. Lallana and Lovren were absolute quality!

That was offside (and why didn't Fonte just step)

Lovely bloke and a quality ref. I haven't thought about Brian Butler in years but as soon as I saw this thread I saw him and his stocky, smiling figure dressed in black running around a football pitch well into his 50's. You never saw any crap in a game he was reffing. RIP Brian and thanks.

Sweet. Boston Goals!

No, we won't come close but I couldn't care less really. If we get top 10 I will be thrilled. Thrilled is something old people are but I've promised myself I'm gonna be it if we get top 10.

Awwww.....no Bearsy Investigates on Crystal palace. I am spending a whole post, which I would usually dedicate to extremely insightful post-match comment, just to register my disappointment about that. I even have the site in my favourites on my work laptop and I NEVER put personal stuff on my work laptop. Can't say I blame you cos it's clearly a lot of work and maybe a bit soul destroying when anonymous idiots who contribute nothing good at all to anything, take the easy target and start sniping. In any case.....awwwwww, a little light in my week has just died

Yellow star falls out of Sterling's ass shocker!

This. First thing i said when he'd finished setting up. Fantastic save though

It's so nice to have Clyne and Shaw back in the starting line up. They make so much difference, not that their replacements did anything wrong. They're just not Clyne and Shaw. Lovren was magnificent again and I also have to start eating my words about Fonte. He has looked assured in pretty much every game this season. I thought Vic and Morgan bossed it, even though Vic can give cheap ball away sometimes (and against a better side than Liverpool were today that could be a problem). His presence in there is big though. Osvaldo is looking like he's starting to click too. He's clearly got the quality and it's just a matter of time before he catches fire I reckon. Massive result and performance. The back 5 were different class today.

basium meus pinguis unus

I hate him already the eloquent, knowledgeable, impartially analytic swine!

Boruc is a good keeper. Best we've had in a few seasons that's for sure. When I think 'weakest link' he doesn't usually spring to mind.

That's a worry then because he was one of our best players.

No, that's simply not true. He didn't have a bad game. He had a decent game under the circumstances and at times his touch let him down more often than we are used to seeing but that's forgivable in my opinion. When you have little support to help you out you need to try something different to keep the thing and hold the opposition off. I think that contributed significantly to him losing the ball more often than usual (and yeah, occasionally he could have done a lot better). Add to that the amount of work he got through and the effect that fatigue has on performance and it's perhaps not so surprising he was poor in the second half. As has been said above though, I would also challenge another striker to have played that role much better on that night. Not a brilliant game from him for sure but there's no way in hell he can't hold his head up.

Sky Sports ratings are giving Ricky a 7. I think that's generous myself but taking the relative scores they've given to everyone else i'd say they are pretty much spot on.

Unfortunately SRL has been poor in the 2nd half. Given cheap ball away. I could find a few easier targets to shoot at in that England team though. Wilshere, Walcott, Walker, Milner.........take your pick.

Lolz. Quality comment in a quality thread!