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I was watching on a stream at home but it was very unreliable. Going into the final moments and Liverpool got a corner, and the stream froze and continually buffered with the Pool player about to take the corner. Next thing I know, I heard the goal sound effect from Bet365 which I had open in a separate window. My heart sank as I assumed that Liverpool had scored from the corner. When I clicked on the Bet365 tab to look at the update, it took me quite some time to register that it was us who had scored and not them!

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/956146749252489221

What you have described is sleep paralysis, and is a completely different phenomenon from night terrors in children. My daughter (who turns 4 next month) has had it a few times but thankfully not too severely. As someone else mentioned, it's hard not being able to console her but she clams down eventually and never remembers in the morning. Hans made the point above about limiting the amount a kid can use ipads etc.. before bed. We always make a habit of reading to her every night instead of letting her watch stuff on the tablet, because I've read some research about using backlit screens right before bed being really bad for your sleep cycle so I always avoid it myself.

Or just do away with transfer windows completely.

Just what does Dembele have to do to get a card FFS!?

This is it in a nutshell. When given the right instructions and tactics, we have a squad that is easily capable of top half in this league. But if we stick with a manager that is incapable of using tactical nous to engineer a win from a leading position we will inevitably go down.

Ultimately, he was. We just had Aldeweireld on loan for a season in between.

I think what he is getting at is the fact that his departure from Saints ultimately resulted in us signing VVD from Celtic and bringing him to the attention of Liverpool, who have now signed him as a replacement for Lovren.

My bold... Herein lies the problem. We don't appear to have any of those in our team at the moment.

Really? I reckon that's one area where we are alright TBH. Cedric, Pied and any one of Yoshi, Stephens or Bednarek able to play there in an emergency seems to be perfectly good cover in that position. What about a goalscoring AM to replace the ever-fading Davis? What about a solid, international quality CB to replace VVD? What about a reliable 1st choice keeper? It seems that the club has got its priorities wrong... again!

The offside decision against Long was very harsh. He was closer to being onside than Benteke was in the build-up to Palace's equaliser on Tuesday

Should have been more than 1-0 cos we missed some really good chances (Stephens and Gabbi for instance). But WTF were those subs about? Boufal played OK from what I saw, so he takes him off to replace him with Powderpuff Redmond, who manages to misplace just about every single pass he attempted. Every single one of us on here could see that Davis was having a shocker, so he takes off our best midfielder instead. Waits until the last 10 minutes and Long has got cramp before replacing him with Gabbi. I'm happy that we won for a change, but f*ck me this guy just doesn't have a scooby-doo.

Stephens had to score that, surely!

Released from his contract? That's a shame, I thought the recent material from Chic was pretty good

That would infer that he actually knows what his best 11 is, when the evidence suggests he doesn't.

I see today on Twitter that Everton have agreed a deal with Beskitas for striker Cenk Tosun. Would this effectively end their interest in Walcott, leaving us in pole position to sign him?

So the more understanding, the less wisdom?

The spend money and bounce back bit. Our club structure and business model just won't allow it.

6/1 on Bet365. Just lumped all the winnings I made from betting on Palace to win at HT on it. Will be a nice little sweetener in May when the inevitable happens.

We 100% won't do that.

AS our performance against ManU showed, we are sometimes capable of achieving that. When we apparently try to win games, we inevitably fail.

Absolutely f*cking pathetic. No fight, no desire. At 2-1 down into the final ten minutes, in a game we simply have to win, the play was just so pedestrian and easy to defend against, like it has been all season. We should have been throwing the kitchen sink at them but there was just nothing. Just the same old turgid crap we have been subjected to since day one. People can point to our lack of decent strikers, but that isn't even the biggest problem. You could stick Aguero in that team and he would struggle to get double figures for the season because we are just so incapable of creating decent chances. Whether that is down to the players' ability, or the tactics they are being asked to play is debatable, but one thing is absolutely clear - you cannot sit back on a 1-0 lead in a game like that. Palace were sh!te in the first half and there for the taking, yet somehow we contrived to make them look world class in the second half, because our clueless manager was out-thought by a dinosaur like Hodgson. So Mauricio - F*ck you and the horse you rode in on, and f*ck the board and Les Reed for allowing this situation to develop the way it has without addressing the glaring weaknesses in the squad and the coaching staff. We are almost definitely going down now. If nothing changes at board and manager level then we are well and truly fooked, because there's no way they will turn it around from here.

Nope. Me neither. Not enough quality and not enough fight. A better manager might get a but more out of the squad we have, but I fear it's too late now.

Forster would have let that in. Good save.

Clearly the much better team out there, but as we have seen too many times this season, a one goal lead is not enough for us. Palace look ineffective going forward, but they may well change tactics at HT, so I hope we can adapt and continue to contain them, because as poor as they have been they still have dangerous players. Another goal early in the 2nd half would be very welcome.