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Must be serious if he has been suspended. Most of the time players will get a fine for being naughty but to make him unavailable selection when we could really do with him in the side seems quite drastic. The only surprise is that it has taken this long. It was well known he had history for this sort of thing before he signed, and was the reason why he was so unpopular with the Roma fans. It was a big gamble signing him, and so far it has not paid off. Just when we needed him as well, because Lambert looks burnt out at the moment and the only other option we have is an unproven teenager.

I'm assuming when Huffton said "had agreed a fee" that this was prior to the departure of Cortese and KL's statement.

Strangest game I've seen for a long, long time. Should have been out of sight by HT given our dominance. J Rod needs to practice his shooting. It's all very well creating space for yourself like he does very well, but it's meaningless if he is just going to waste chance after chance due to poor finishing. I hate to say this, given his legend status, but Lambert was a waste of f*cking space out there today. Was OKish for the first half but after HT he just wasn't on it at all. I'm starting to think that if we can get £7m for him we should take it. As for the injuries though - The Gaston one looks nasty, but (and I mean this with the utmost personal respect to him) he isn't actually one of our key players so won't actually be a huge miss. Lovren, on the other hand, is instrumental in our defence and if he is out for a while (which it looks like he will be) then we are seriously f*cked.

But in all fairness he did win the ball before this, so the ref actually made the right call.

Ouch!

Do you even need to ask that question? Of course we do.

Probably because we don't have another striker on the bench.

Oh yes we can.

J Rod would score so many more goals if only he could learn to hit the ball a bit harder. All too often he scuffs or under-hits his shots.

Who?

And now they seem to have fallen asleep again.

Sunderland have woken up at last.

If I was a Mackem I would be so angry and embarrassed to sit and watch this. They have been nothing short of a disgrace so far.

You already answered your question in your first line. Curious (and stupid) people will naturally want to open the attachment to try and find out what is in the parcel that is supposedly waiting for them at the depot. It's no different from the numerous spams I get on my work email with things like "Click this link to see if you are eligible for a tax refund", or "New voicemail waiting". It's just a clever way to get viruses past your AV by zipping it up and trying to convince you to open the zip file.

Russell Osman used to take a mean free kick. Could pick any number of those. Franny Benali's one and only goal (against Leicester?)

Blackburn may well have drawn with them, but they did not take points off them, as per the thread title.

Before anybody throws their support behind Cameron's fracking bribe scheme, I suggest you have a good read of this... http://www.environmentamerica.org/sites/environment/files/reports/EA_FrackingNumbers_scrn.pdf

Well yes, but Clyne tracking back to close down the winger then played him onside, which meant that playing the offside trap wasn't an option. I would have expected both our CBs, or at least one of them, to be aware of this and snuff out the danger. Anyway, it's academic. He didn't score and we won. Blue line and all that.

I'm with you mate. I was already raising my hands to bury my head in them before the ball even got played in to Long. He lost both Lovren and Fonte far too easily and ran into the box completely unmarked. All he had to do was guide it one side of Boruc or the other. While I'm not denying the quality of the save, he was helped by the fact that Long made a complete mess of the easiest scoring opportunity he will ever get in a PL game. Heart-in-mouth moment for every Saints fan watching I reckon.

I can see why some thought his booking of Lovren was slightly harsh, and I also think he was very lenient with Olsson when he cynically hacked down Lallana with a late, high challenge to prevent him from breaking clean away towards goal, because on another day a different referee might well have sent him off for it. Other than that he was alright. He didn't really have any big calls to make as there were no penalty appeals of any kind.

If you can't debate reasonably and can't address the questions I raise then you simply resort to sneering and childish insults. Do you actually realise what a pathetic excuse for a human being that makes you look?

FWIW I agree with him. Looks like he was trying to hook it 180 degrees for Lambert to run on to.

Nervy last few minutes. WBA went balls out to get an equaliser at the end and but for Boruc they would have got one. Other than that they didn't really threaten our defence, so a draw would not have reflected the overall play. Pleased we won, obviously. Pleased we kept a clean sheet, although it didn't really look like WBA would create anything. But aside from that, we really do need to sort out our attacking options when teams come to park the bus like they did today. Our final balls were very poor today, and we don't seem to have anybody who can hit a cross as speed instead of just lofting them tamely into the box for the opposition defenders to deal with easily. MOTM - Boruc for the last-ditch save which ensured the win. Great to see him back at last.

Aaaaaaaand...... breathe!

Never a foul. If they score now I'll be fuming!