hypochondriac

Hope we are on first tonight. Bet we aren't.

Claim to fame: I got a kiss from Lucy Pinder (she was presenting me with a signed football at SMS but that is not the point!)

I would take a draw but would love a win. We really are hitting some good form. Same team please.

Thanks Kraken that was of course my very obvious point.

Erm that isn't all he was saying was it. He was absolutely adamant that he was 100 percent offside. That was soon changed when it was clear that he was utterly wrong.

I don't think a few weeks ago it was controversial to think Adkins' time was up. We had a horrendous start and it did really seem that Adkins was not up to it. He has really turned things around at the moment though so I'm incredibly pleased.

I'm sorry FC but it's very difficult to show any respect towards such a patronising poster as derry. He continually makes wild statements about the team and how it should be changed and he justifies these by saying he was an ex manager as if that elevates his mad views above the less enlightened posters. Additionally the last time I made a very reasonable non abusive comment about something he had said, I get unprovoked abuse in response. He has been proven wrong again here (look how adamant he was that it was offside that soon changed when everyone said it wasn't.) yet cannot admit it. He could do with learning some humility as it would serve him well.

My concern is how he will perform after he gets a contract from us. I'll see how he is for the entire season before giving him too much praise but he is in a good vein of form at the moment and long may it continue.

Oh I'm sure derry thought he was off. The arrogance of being adamant he was and trusting his own judgement over numerous others (including tv replays and our own manager) is something else though.

That has been key to our success. After Tottenham it seems to me that something changed as some players have been disposed of and we are now playing the right players in the right positions.

A dm isn't an attacker. If cork is injured then we really have no backup and I dot want to see the defence unprotected again.

Why did adkins question the ramirez offside decision? Did he not say he had seen it in real time and was happy with the decision?

Cork has been vital to getting that balance. I'm sort of hoping we get another dm in January in case he is injured because we don't really have any backup.

It's thoroughly bizarre. There are tons of decisions at football that I question and then subsequent tv replays show me why a ref did or did not make a decision. I kind of trust that the linesman or ref is going to be better at spotting things than me sat in the stands as firstly they are closer to the action and secondly it is what they do for a living. If a ref is wrong following replays then generally the reaction is well they will learn from it in the future its unfortunate they got it wrong. According to derry as long as he is satisfied when he sees it in real time, then that is the barometer for whether a ref or linesman should be criticised or not. Strange.

He was very poor. Still we won so I'm not too fussed!

He's not wrong. Even when he suggests putting a defender in midfield it isn't wrong. He's an ex semi pro manager you know and it's the troglodytes on here who fail to appreciate the subtleties of management that are in the wrong. I expected better from you tdd.

So you are changing what you say now. Before he was offside and there was no debate. Now the linesman's decision was correct in real time. Which is it? Methinks you have seen the replay yourself and are issuing a hasty retraction as you have made yourself look a little foolish...

Gheyest idea ever.

I'm going to check when I get home and lol if it shows onside. He was a semi professional manager you know...

As will I. Award for most pompous know-it-all poster?

Well we shall see from the tv replays won't we. I would suggest they are probably more accurate than your eyes. Unfortunately I was not in line so didn't really have an opinion.

It's the flowery language in all of his articles that I find most curious. It's unlike anything I have seen in a newspaper before.

Not sure how heroic it is to kill yourself. Sad yes and feel terribly sorry for the family he has left behind and that he got himself into the state in the first place.