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Well that's an annoyingly soft goal to concede.

Very impressed with Romeu and Clasie so far today. Victor who?

Lovely cross from Targett there.

Yep. Needs to be hitting the target with that sort of chance. Can't afford to be wasteful when playing Chelsea.

Really looking forward to seeing how well Long and Austin combine together. I reckon they could be a formidable partnership given a run of games playing together.

Aside from Arsenal on Boxing Day, which ones? I've seen all but about two games so far this season, and in the vast majority of the ones he hasn't missed through suspension he has been a passenger.

He can't even do that half the time though. He's forever lazily mis-hitting really simple passes and giving the ball away. I think he is worth keeping as a useful squad player, as long as he can square it with himself that's all he is. Something tells me he will never be happy with that though. He's far too inconsistent to be the world class player he thinks he is. If he could be bothered to put in maximum effort (and engage his brain before blazing into reckless, needless tackles) week in week out then he would be worth a move to a top CL club. But as things stand, I'm really not too bothered when he is unavailable for us because we have the strength in depth in his position to withstand it. We'll see what happens in the summer shall we.

I can't find a link but the other day I saw a news report from one of his rallies, where he openly encouraged his supporters in the audience to 'beat the hell out of' some protesters, with the promise that he would pay the legal fees. It scares the bejeezuz out of me to think there are millions of American voters who think he would be a good head of state and commander in chief.

Alright. What about Fonte's wild lunge on Sterling that also should have been a penalty?

So we should have had 3 penalties and Liverpool should have had 3 red cards? Wow, those are some amazing rose-tinted specs you're wearing. IMO (and I was at the game as well as having seen highlights) the only one that looked a nailed-on pen to me was the second one when Djuricic was scythed down as he was about to shoot. But it wouldn't have been a red card anyway because there were other defenders in the box so it wasn't a true 'last-man' situation. But aside from those incidents we didn't actually do enough to win the game. Sorry to say it but Liverpool were better than us on the day and deserved to win.

Not necessarily. The first one wasn't "bolted-on" as you say. The second one was when we were already 1-0 down, so there is no absolute guarantee that we would actually have won/drawn the game anyway had it been given.

He's a free agent in the summer. He could go on and get 20-odd goals and assists between now and June while on loan, it won't make a difference as we won't get a penny for him at the end of the season.

Is that even allowed?

Statistically, teams do not go down on 40 points. Mathematically, it is still 'possible' that every team currently below us could finish above us.

No, we are not. We are statistically safe, but nowhere near mathematically.

So Yoshida to take up the third CB role and Bertrand to move to the wing?

Yoshida coming on. Who for I wonder?

2-2 now. But we're still ahead on GD if things stay the same.

So that's twice now that Cork has been penalised for feet high, but he still escapes a booking? I really hope we can hold out against these 12 men and get a win.

Oh FFS. Yet another decent opportunity wasted by two utterly ineffective attacking players. If Austin is fit enough to be on the bench he is fit enough to be on the pitch. Get him on now Ron.

Sensible change. Romeu on a yellow. Davis moves to the advanced midfield role with JWP moving back, and Cedric slots in at RWB. And just as I type that Moss proves what an utter c*ck he is. Books Clasie for a nothing foul.

Me too. Fonte was on the ground, not jumping into him. It was more a case of the keeper banging the ball against his head and knocking it out of his own hands. And as for the two fouls that Swansea should have got cards for. This ref is worse than Clattenburg FFS.

What a chance. Long has to do better there. Has to.

I find it amazing that Koeman cannot see how much poorer our attacking play is with Pelle on the pitch. I don't think JWP has done much wrong. He's put in a decent defensive shift and got forward to support the attackers on the rare occasions we have had some possession in their half. Davis is wasted at RWB though. I can't see why you would choose to put him there ahead of Cedric who has been very good in that role recently.

Really? So how come 7000 staff were made redundant between 2010 and 2013 then?... http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/31/nhs-staff-laid-off-amid-savings-drive