Barry the Badger

So what? If that is the case, I don't particularly consider that "fair".

His main fear is apparently that all the big money players will go elsewhere and the Premier League will no longer be "the greatest league in the world" and the big 4 will no longer be able to compete with others in Europe. Frankly that sounds bloody marvelous.

You mean except the ones we caused. Palestine springs to mind.

You are perhaps confusing me with somebody who said it was fine in the Middle East.

It's actually pretty complicated. I don't know where I stand on it. On the one hand, it's clearly an utterly disgusting and horrendous thing for them to be doing, given the values and culture I've grown up with. On the other hand what right do we have to inflict our social beliefs and values on a group of people we have no real relation to?

I do think the Carling is better than the Carlsberg was. At least its not as fizzy as the Carlsberg, so I feel less like I'm going to die when I have to down it at half time and immediately get myself up to row kk.

It's not that funny. When Lowe was bringing this stuff in we were utterly **** and it didn't help at all. Now it is clearly making a difference.

We definitely do, but it's not too loud and I rarely notice it. At least it's not bloody Tom Hark, now THAT is cringy.

I did wonder if it contributed slightly to the wierd atmosphere around 30 mins (as well as the scorching heat and the fact the football was pretty terrible), people around me stopped watching the game and were instead trying to work out when they should go for the half time beer/food run. I also reckon quite a lot went down even earlier than usual.

yep, I emailed them and they said it wont go online until general sale. Be nice if they put that in the info really.

Teams will get chances against us. We're an attacking team and I bloody love it!

I think we've been found out.

No. Nobody knows.

I never saw Pulis in person, could he genuinely be easily confused with a massive dog? Poor guy.

Yes, Cortese has killed them because they are part of our history and if there's one thing Cortese hates, it's history. He's going to replace them with two grizzly bears who will be trained to maul anybody who sings past players songs during a match.

I see it as a show of belief in the players.

I still can't believe that statue was anything other than a joke.

Was quite funny when he went to give it short as the defense were under pressure and the whole northam went a bit mental.

To be fair I would like to see more managers pulling interviewers up on their idiotic questions. "would you have liked to see more end product from your team?" "would you have liked to see them make more chances?".

It was hardly an 'experiment', we had no fit right backs.

One of the issues is that diving has become acceptable provided there is contact. Commentators condone it saying "if there was contact he has a right to go down". Referees have contributed to this as they no longer give a penalty unless a player goes to ground.

I had a Liverpool supporting mate along with me for this one and he was MASSIVELY impressed.

I wonder if that's the incident mclaren was banging on about?

To be fair, we thought he spent most of the game doing a man marking job on Greening, leaving Hammond free to boss the midfield. I think he took one for the team in this respect. He does need to cut out the occasional sloppy passing in the centre of the pitch though.

Who would you have played there?