The Kraken

It always amazes me that people get so rowdy about others having some contacts that feed them little snippets of information. Its utterly bizarre. Its not exactly something to be proud of, "being ITK". Its just a quirk of fate. Yet some people get so angry about it, simply because they aren't. Weird.

Shawcross got given a chance and looked awful at the top level. He's also hardly setting the world alight at Stoke, their strong defensive record is well on the wane. John Terry is a massive c*nt but, right now, he's the best English central defender out there.

While JRod had a complete shocker on his debut, you have to think that if he keeps banging them in he simply can't be ignored. I normally would say that he's nowhere good enough for England but we're not exactly blessed with an abundance of top quality forwards.

Supposedly been in and out of rehab for some time, big into heroin. I fail to have sympathy for him, I'm afraid.

Especially so with Theo out. I can see JRod missing out, and perhaps Lambert too. But right now Lallana should be in the first team IMO, let alone the squad. If he doesn't go for any reason other than injury then Roy has completely lost his marbles. I just can't see him not going.

If Carroll hadn't got himself sent off yesterday he'd have done himself the world of good, he's a complete menace when he's on form. Sadly for him and England, those times aren't nearly often enough, and he's clearly a bit unhinged in the head; he quite obviously meant to make some form of contact with Chico, and while it was a complete over-reaction from the defender Carroll shouldn't have been so thick to put himself in that position. I hope Rickie goes to Brazil but I fear Hodgson may opt for Carroll instead. RL needs to keep doing what he's doing, but if Carroll comes back on any sort of goal scoring run then I think he'll get the nod. And I wouldn't be surprised if his red card gets overturned (even though I think it shouldn't).

Good idea, that'll definitely be the benchmark to see if they turn out to be Giggs, Beckham, Scholes etc. This summer. Yep.

“Any group of people like us coming through are aiming to do what those United players did," said Chambers. "We are doing everything we can to try and achieve that." How very dare he.

I'd have thought most sensible people would be able to recognise that the two things are not mutually exclusive.

Extra saag aloo at the curry club for you then.

Kruger is so "genuinely excited" to get involved with Saints that he's buggering off to the Winter Olympics first, and (by his own admission) only taking this job as he had no other offers as a head coach from ice hockey.

I'm back to zero infractions. I need to up my game.

Really? Have you never read his posts before? The poor lad can find his own "evidence" in even the most flippant of throw away comments. We're getting a 50K stadium, don't you know?

I still find it humorous that poor old Jimmy was so incensed that he wielded the infraction stick. I'm surprised he gets through the day with such an overly sensitive nature, bless him.

I've got nothing other than making a poor pun of Kraken Rum

Seems like a bit of a rum deal.

Stamping on people's dreams is serious business.

A fair analogy, IMO.

If RL gets injured then we're struggling. JRod just hasn't done it when playing up front, he's much better when playing from a slightly deeper position. And Gallagher, while full of promise, can't be relied upon to get us goals. So I'd say we need a striker. But won't get one, clearly.

It's an entirely theoretical question, but ask yourself this. Would you prefer our last ten years as it happened, or would you prefer we had spent 10 years in the Premier League finishing between 8th or 9th and 16th, and with no visits to Wembley in any of the cups? I'd take the last 10 years every time. The championship holds no fears at all for me, I thoroughly enjoyed our time there even when we were relatively sh*t.

I actually met the chap Rich before he opened up, he came to a game at St. Mary's with us through a mutual friend. To be fair to him he seemed very open to ideas and gaining as much opinion on restaurant choices as possible, from us just as regular punters. He was very passionate about the venture too, so fair play to him, it took a lot of hard work to get there but they've done well.

Is it just me that barely registers that Sherwood ever played for Pompey? And couldn't give a f*ck in any case?

Rockstone are good but 7 Bone are decent too, the brioche bun is lovely. The chili fries are excellent too.

It's an hour for free now. The9 will be overjoyed. Round of applause for Kat.

They fancy Sunderland have a chance of causing a major upset.....??