Sheaf Saint

Getting closer. Mane had a couple of good chances already.

Why does Koeman insist on playing Tadic on the right when it's clear to anybody with eyes that he is twice as effective on the left????

They have an excellent squad, just lacking a top-level CB to replace Terry (it's obvious why they were so desperate to sign Stones from Everton in the summer). Regardless of how badly they are playing defensively this season, the forward players just aren't doing the business either. They haven't just become bad players since winning the title last season, so there is obviously something seriously wrong in the dressing room.

Mourinho is a dead man walking, surely?

Remember this is Clottenburg we are talking about. Should have sent Costa off for the kick on Skrtel as well if he had seen it.

Had a fairly good game tonight. Set up Yoshida for his goal. Two assists in two games ain't bad.

Overall I thought Targett had a decent game tonight, right up until stoppage time when he got brushed aside far too easily by the Villa player to burst into the box and win the penalty (whch looked pretty harsh on VVD to me anyway). Decent enough performance to see off a dreadful team. Good to see Ramirez get another assist. Regardless of what his motivations are, I think he could make a decent contribution this season. Two lovely goals as well.

Is the draw being televised anywhere?

What time is the Qtr final draw?

5-1 win away at Barnsley in this competition a couple of seasons back?

Yep, got it. Thanks.

Which channel is it on on Sportsmania?

Targett having a good game so far. Doing everything needed in defence and making some good runs forward as well.

Totally undeserved result that. Leicester should have won it because they wanted it so much more than we did.

Sheet. Fonte down and in some pain by the look of it.

He got put clean through on the halfway line and tried an outrageous lob over the keeper instead of running at the goal.

Finally a 50-50 challenge goes our way. Have we ridden the storm?

Very bad choice from Mane there. Should have run with it - he had the advantage over the defenders.

We're looking really panicked at the back right now. Far too many individual errors costing us ground. We finally manage to get out of our own half and JWP gives it away really cheaply setting up another Leicester attack.

FFS - every ricochet is landing at the feet of a Leicester player at the moment. We need a lucky break.

******* ell. Blatant handball there.

JWP looks a man possessed today. Getting stuck in all over the pitch.

Wanyama gets his customary unwarranted yellow card.

Those laws only apply when the lies printed directly affect the reputation of an individual or an organisation. But when a government minister stands up in parliament and tells outright lies about, say, the state of the economy and the actual scale of the promised deficit reduction, gets called out on it by the IMF, and then subsequently repeats the same lie, nobody is being defamed and under our current laws there can be no legal consequences. Given that the BBC, Sky, and the vast majority of the mainstream media failed to report on the IMF statement which contradicts Cameron's deliberately misleading comments about the deficit, how many people actually know about it? How many ordinary people, who are generally far too distracted by brainless crap like X Factor or posting pictures of their dinner on instagram, will go to the trouble of searching for such information? That's the kind of influential disinformation that buctootim is talking about. Surely there can be no rational argument from anybody, regardless of their political leanings, to support such a system that allows MPs (and the media) to say anything they like to the public without fear of prosecution for deliberately misleading the electorate.

It's interesting to note, though, that up until the crash the Tories broadly supported Labour's spending plans, because they had lost the previous 3 elections and felt that this was the best way to appeal to the centre ground, in much the same way that Milliband and Balls supported the Tories' austerity principle because they hoped it would win them the necessary votes from the centre. But as soon as the crash happened, the Tories changed tack completely. They saw an opportunity to scapegoat the Labour government for the recession and portray themselves as the saviors of the economy.... "Don't trust them - they caused the economic downturn. Trust us instead, we'll pay off the deficit in 5 years and get Britain back on track". On your final point we are in total agreement. It's pretty obvious that Blair could see the oncoming storm and jumped ship before he could take any of the blame for it.