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Our qualty is really showing through now. Wanyama having a great game and winning the midfield battle at the moment.

FK in a really dangerous position. Right call on the handball before it I think - the guy was falling over. Decent effort from JWP.

Handed off J Rod just as he was about to run all the way around the outside of him.

Boruc has redeemed himself there. Excellent save.

Dirty git Walters.

God dammit! My internet connection dropped and I lost the stream. Log back on and it's 1-1! Maybe I should randomly reset my router during the 2nd half!

Wonderful tekkers from Wanyama there!

Great chance for Lovren to level there.

Stoke playing us at our own game today. Pressing in numbers high up the pitch and forcing us back. This could be the toughest test we have faced so far this season.

20 seconds on the clock -keeper scores. What the actual foook!?

Despite the met office accurately predicting last week's storm before it had even formed you mean?

Eh?? If you follow the link to the NASA report, it makes no such claim and offers no 'proof' whatsoever. As for the second link you posted, I refuse to give any credence to a website littered with adverts for Climate Skeptic merchandise and which offers nothing but the author's opinion.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pacific-ocean-warming-15-times-faster-than-ever-before-8916297.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492912417/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk Click on the 'look inside' option.

IT all comes down to availability of police officers. For a match at Newcastle there will be officers brought in from the entire Tyne & Wear region, and likewise for Sunderland. If they were both playing at the same time then police resources would be stretched too thinly between the two matches. There's also the potential for violence with rival fans travelling on public transport before and after the games.

The thing is, I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for my electricity if I knew that the energy firms were using the extra capital to invest in renewables and more efficient methods of power generation. But they clearly aren't. Last night I attended a fascinating talk at Sheffield University by the authors of a new book called Project Sunshine, which looks not only at the scientific aspect of ending our dependence on fossil fuels but also at the historical, political and economic factors which have led us to where we are now. Their main argument was that the technology exists already to move away from a coal/oil/gas based infrastructure, but the political will and economic conditions do not. Everything is all about the short term - the energy giants only care about making quick returns for their shareholders, and governments only give a damn about winning the next election. Quite simply, as long as the global free-market economy exists in its current guise, we will continue to get shafted in the short term, by way of profiteering from the multinational corporations that hold all the power, and screwed in the long term due to the lack of investment in technologies that will free us from the volatility of the global energy market. Pugwash is quite correct. The situation is only going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

My other half is expecting our first child in february, and trying to pick a suitable name is so much harder than we thought. I know from first-hand experience what it is like to grow up and go to school with a somewhat unusual name, and just how cruel and hurtful other kids can be when it comes to ripping you about it, so I was very conscious of this. Mine isn't a particularly weird or pretentious name, it's just uncommon, and it didn't help that there were a couple of characters on TV during the 80s that I shared it with which became the butt of all the teasing I received. Of course, my parents weren't to know that would be the case when they gave it to me, but that didn't stop me from resenting it at the time. We thought long and hard and managed to come up with plenty of girls names that we both liked, but just couldn't agree on a boys name. Every suggestion that one of us came up with was rejected by the other. But it's academic now, because we've had two scans and they both showed it's a girl

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I'm a little confused. .. Why has our game at Sunderland been scheduled for the week after all the other ties for this round? And will it be on TV as it's the only game that night?

Interesting read that. I never knew Ian Branfoot managed Fulham. Was that before or after his time with us?

I guess they are going by the logic that Fulham were so ineffective at getting past our midfield that Dejan and Jose really didn't have that much to do, whereas Senderos and Amorebieta did pretty well to restrict the scoreline to only 2-0. That's the only reasoning I can think of for it. But then they've only given Schneiderlin a 6 and both the Fulham CMs a 7! What the actual f**k!?

"Spare a little change?"

Just read that again and absorb it... 6 clean sheets in 9! Last season we only managed 7 in total. When was the last time a Southampton team could boast that kind of defensive record I wonder? If memory serves we had a really good run under Hoddle while we were still at the Dell but I don't have the stats for that right now. This is the absolute bedrock of our success so far this season. We just look so solid and composed all the way up the pitch, with not the slightest hint of the schoolboy errors that cost us so badly last season. Lovren looks to be the signing of the century (after SRL, of course) and the improvement in Fonte this season is just incredible. With a top quality goalie and two full backs with the potential to play at international level as well, teams must really be starting to fear playing against us, and it's not as though we have to 'park the bus' to defend effectively either.

Chelsea and Citeh are playing each other so they can't both go above us, but at least one of them will regardless of the result. Worst case scenario we will drop down to 5th if Spurs beat Hull at Home - which I fully expect them to do.