Crazy Diamond

Ah yes, so powerful a tackle he lost a boot!

He owns a restaurant from which he is banned. According to Sean Lock.

Carroll will fit in perfectly at West Ham. HOOF.

Has anyone consulted Deppo on Twitter?

Some racing seats for the management teams? We have a deal with a dealership with a local car dealership don't we?

Patronising too? Super. I realise the words of pundits with lengthy playing careers behind them don't count for much, but many have said that signing a player that has been in a relegated team a few times is a bad idea. For example - I have to admit that I laughed when Redknapp said he thought Holland were a bad team that would probably struggle to get out of their group at the Euros. But how right was he? Bang on. Holland never looked like winning. Ah but hang on, Redknapp signed Quashie. ...Wait a minute...!

Is Nigel 'Relegation' Quashie a quality player? It's very clear you won't change your mind. It's one of your traits. Never change your opinion, even when wrong.

The thing I always think of when it comes to those two is yes, they looked very good together, but when Birmingham got relegated the best moves they could come up with was Blackburn and Wolves? Not to mention they got relegated again. As you say, Johnson was a potential England player at one point, now look at him. Wolves fans can't stand him for one reason or another, both of them will be in the Championship next season and deservedly so, looking at their clubs' seasons just gone.

You can't have it both ways Turkish. Fancy new turnstiles and loyalty systems that appeal to players and make them sign up, or old style stuff to get Jermaine Wright types in.

Yet another Twitter wannabe. Ignore the lot of them, would be my advice.

How have you come to that conclusion?

Don't really understand the want for 26 minutes of a pre-season match personally...

Not sure what to make of it. Opening was really rushed. Didn't like that. There were some genuinely amazing moments where my heart was pounding, some brilliant twists... But I think the Dark Knight is the superior film. I think I expected a bit more but that's probably a result of all the hype around it.

Just seen it myself, you're right. Staggering level of detail.

As I mentioned earlier, he's certainly ambitious. A friend of mine spoke to him at a charity event, he said he was subject to interest from Chelsea, sees himself as a Premier League player.

I wouldn't. Says a lot that a team which - in their own opinion - thoroughly deserved the title and were the best team in our division last season immediately want to sign half a squad. Reading are a flawed club.

This is ridiculous. We want our club back. Where's Michael Wilde?

I'm not for one minute saying there aren't some total mongs amongst our support, I've seen and heard them. There have been times I've not wanted to go to games because of the attitude of some morons that support our club, but with regards to Guly I've not heard proper, nasty abuse. As for race, I'm not sure I buy into that. In fact, thinking about it, I don't buy into it full stop. There are those that are just particularly thick as well, such as the woman who sat next to me against Portsmouth and uttered "Billy Sharp hasn't done much today has he?" shortly before full time. People who defend Guly often compare him to Lallana and ask why he doesn't get much stick. I think they are two different scenarios. Guly gets moaned at because he is prone to letting the side down a bit. What I mean by that is when he flaps his arms to his side when he fails to control the ball or something. When he's being marked and just gives up, visibly sighs and shrugs his shoulders and complains. When for some reason he jumps into the air to control the ball and completely misses it, then barely jogs into a decent position. All things I've seen in one of his poor performances - and there have been a few, I think you'd only be kidding yourself if you denied it. Lallana, from what I see, doesn't do stupid things like that. My main beef with Lallana, and I do criticise him for it, is when he takes too many touches, is selfish and doesn't just shoot when the opportunity presents itself and a pass to a player in a better position isn't on. Cardiff at home, Lambert had worked hard to make an opening for Lallana, he just needed to shoot when the ball was presented to him. Instead, he takes two to three touches and ends up smacking it into a defender's shins. The two aren't comparable because they are frustrating for different things, and Guly is guilty of the worse frustrating things.

Wow. Hilarious.

Indeed, I've never heard someone abusing the guy, complaints when he deserves it, one or two when he doesn't. What I can't stand is when fans go 'Hey, lay off the guy will you?'. Why should I? I'd be told if I was doing a bad job, why can't I say it about a professional footballer?

Well, Spurs certainly are.

Yes, yes and yes. His best buddy Laurence 'skate' Herdman was lauding it up the other day when the Olympic Torch was nearby - waving like the Queen someone said! Pair of ****s.

Seven spaces on the bench from now on though.

De Ridder is just as bad for Guly for inconsistency if not worse. Average run of play for De Ridder: Comes on, runs down the right, cuts inside, slows down, has one man to beat... No two... No three, they're all getting back to mark him, he goes for the cross, it's deflected behind him for a throw in. The throw in comes to nothing. I really hope that we've learnt from the days of 'Here's his YouTube video, I know it's a side that does well to avoid relegation, but look! What a goal! I know it's a poorer standard of football, but look!'

I completely agree about the archaic view that if you run a lot to the point of exhaustion and are born and bred in the local area you're a good player. It's complete ********. I'll just say what I've always said. He's inconsistent and can make simple stuff look hard, yet on another day score a brace and look very good. I've seen him look scared of a football and shrug his shoulders, walk off with his head down when a defender marks him tightly, yet score a goal and inspire us to win from a goal down. I think he's a decent player. But apparently I'm not allowed to say that, as statistics show he's the best player we've ever had and to criticise him means that I'm a bad fan, don't know anything about football, am unaware of something called 'link up play' - if anyone would like to explain that, I'm all ears. Oh and I'm a plastic because I went to Crystal Palace away last season, but didn't go to any other away games.