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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

No, I quite agree CEC. But if somebody came to you in whatever organisation you work for, and told you that you needed to shift from a 5-day operation to a 7-day operation, with no extra funding and the same number of employees, how exactly would you respond to that? I seriously doubt you would shrug your shoulders and say "oh well, I'm pretty well paid as it is, so I'll just get on with it" would you? If Hunt wants the NHS to be a truly 24/7 organisation, then it needs extra funding and extra staff. End of. You don't even need any business training or experience to work that one out. But the funding and staffing levels have dropped dramatically since the Tories came to power in 2010, and with them still in power it is only going to go one way.

On the flip-side... http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-doctors-strike-patient-safety/22458 And from the comments section...

I haven't heard a single person suggest they are. People who choose to go into medicine deserve every penny they earn IMO. This isn't about the money though, it's about the imposition of longer working hours for people who already do too many, for no extra or even less pay, by a man who co-authored a publication calling for the abolition of the NHS. This is all part of the master plan to under-fund, undermine and destroy the NHS as we know it, so that the idea of privatisation can be sold to the public much more easily.

Yet we're ranked 53rd out of 241 when it comes to population density... https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density

So the health secretary has carried out his threat to the BMA and pressed the nuclear button with regards to the junior doctor's contracts... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35548091 It's hardly a surprise is it. The fact that they tried to introduce the Trade Union Bill should make it obvious to all just how much contempt this Conservative government has for workers' rights. It seems they will go to great lengths to undermine the NHS and portray it as a bungling, inefficient organisation, in order to gain public support for its plans to carve it up and privatise it. Even Thatcher, with her insatiable thirst for privatiastion, didn't dare touch the NHS. With the junior doctors' contracts issue, on the one hand we have a Conservative minister with no direct experience in the healthcare industry telling us these contracts will increase patient safety, and on the other hand we have the BMA and the junior doctors themselves claiming the extra hours they are being asked to work will actually have the opposite effect. So who do you believe? The people on the front-line, who know exactly what problems the new contracts will cause, and those who represent them? Or a Conservative MP, with direct financial links to private healthcare companies, who has been proven to have deliberately misrepresented research relating to the issue in order to gain support for his proposals?

Because PL football is much less a sport and more of a spectacle these days. Every bit of drama and controversy creates headlines and helps to sell its popularity to the masses.