Minsk

2-0 is our new 3-1. A clean sheet and a win with both Fox and Guly involved. AL and Boruc as joint MoM for me.

Nice take by JRod, and desperately needed to give some breathing space.

Should never have been a corner, but no idea why the goal was disallowed.......

Undoubtedly. Looks like we have gone 4-4-1-1 and are looking for movement from JRod and AL

An interesting substitution, especially with Osvaldo already off.

A good half of football, for any neutrals. Swansea having a tad too much ball for my liking. Boruc our MoM so far, just edging it from Lallana - who scored a beauty. Dyer and Bony the best players for Swansea, in that order.

Which just goes to prove that smoking inhibits a player from fulfilling his potential. I know there is a lot of love for Claus, but he really wasn't that good when Killer wasn't there to look after him.

About 30 years ago I was offered the opportunity to switch from the RN to the USN. Financially it was a very good offer (promised promotion, etc) and the US look after their military personnel far better than our government does; however, had I accepted the offer I would have had to relinquish my British citizenship - which was something I was not prepared to do. I often wonder now if I made the correct decision, but am sure I would do the same again if sent back in time to chose again. Now, of course, I live here in Belarus. I have a residency permit which gives me all the rights of a local citizen except the ability to vote in elections (there are many comments I could make here, but will refrain from doing so at this time..........) The only other 'advantage' having a Belarus passport would give me is the ability to travel through, work and live in Russia and Russian Federation countries. Again, to get a Belarus passport I would need to relinquish my British one (and pass both written and oral tests in either Russian or Belorusian language). Even the most nationalistic Belorisian would admit that I would be mad to do so. To answer the OP, no way would I give up my British citizenship. Interestingly, in Belarus children are permitted to have dual nationality but (as the law stands at present) must decide at 17 which one to keep/relinquish. It then states that, 'the other nationality will be longer be recognised'. In other words, if my daughter still holds a Belarus passport after her 17th birthday they will not accept that she is also British. However, a child (under 18) cannot relinquish their nationality. As she is a girl this is no biggie, she will just keep both passports - but a boy would have to do national service; which, here, is 18 months of unpaid slave labour working on some General's dacha.

I think it is a squad game and at some point this season - whether due to injury, illness, suspensions, or simply tactics - he will be in the starting line-up. When that happens it will be up to him to make himself undroppable. However, whilst we are on a winning or unbeaten streak and creating plenty of chances I expect him to remain on the bench.

Ossie and Rickie both score; clean sheet; my 2nd correct 2-0 predicted scoreline in a row; up to 4th in the table (some very strange results today); excellent stuff!!!!! oh, and the skates lost 4-2.....................

This. Chelsea offered him higher wages than we did; he joined them.

And, of course, every single one of them must be a Pompey fan... right Sue?

Away to Sunderland then... meh.

Home to Burnley would be my choice. On paper, the most winnable.

Just seen Gaston's goal - excellent strike!!

Big Jos makes the game safe (he said, hopefully)

Hmmmm, I make that 3-1 in favour of Gaston

On Sky they said we were playing 4-4-2 with Gaston and Lee up front.

And, thankfully, that's his last post today......................

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! No more needs to be said...................................

Some really excellent performances from our players today. A couple of great saves from Boruc; all the back four superb; Morgan and Vic ran CM; Lallana really starting to look good; some nice touches from the other three, just need them to start scoring - which I am sure they will very soon.

Get in there!!!! Defs 2 Fwds 1 - but who cares where the goals from, so long as we score them. Would have been even better except for sensational saves by Mignolet to prevent Shaw from scoring his first prem goal.

1+2 - Hard for me to chose between 70's and 80's 3 - this decade 4 - 90's 5 - 00's

4 of our 5 points have come against the teams currently sitting 19th and 20th in the league. Just saying.........

Ditto