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Standard reporting tonight that Green's West Ham future is in doubt as contract negotiations have stalled.

I was close to the pitch, near the halfway line and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be considering they play rugby on it. I thoughtSchneiderlin had a fine game and managed to play some football on it. The tactics may have been as much to counter Watford's style as to deal with the pitch.

Yeah I admit it. you got me. I only think Lambert's better because I'm a Saints fan.

Not a couple. Ten.

It hardly proves he's up there with the top goal scorers. 15th on the list and fewer than half the league goals scored by the top goalscorer. He's a good player, in my opinion Lambert is better. If Holt's so valuable to Norwich why have 10 of his appearances this season been from the bench, or has he been carrying an injury or something?

Van Persie Arsenal 22 Rooney Man Utd 17 Aguero Man City 16 Ba Newcastle 16 Dzeko Man City 13 Yakubu Blackburn 13 Adebayor Tottenham 10 Balotelli Man City 10 Dempsey Fulham 10 Fletcher Wolverhampton 10 Graham Swansea 10 Lampard Chelsea 10 Bale Tottenham 9 Bent Aston Villa 9 Holt Norwich 9

I think Lambert is better. How many starts has Holt made this season and how many goals, is it double figures? If we were to get to the PL I can't see Lambert being on the bench much.

It matters to me how my team wins and I think it matters to a lot of West Ham fans. Watch as Big Sam becomes Fat Sam becomes That Fat Ba..ard Allardyce. They've won 1 more game so far this season than we have btw.

Think that one struck a chord with the Academy of Football.

A draw was probably a fair result. I was along the side towards the end where the penalty and sending off occured. Difficult to see thepenalty as it happened so quick but the way the Saints players were so incensed by the linesman's decision strongly suggested it was a dive. I had a reasonable view of the sending off and Taylor bundled into Sharp quite heavily. I don't like to see a straight red for something like that which is far less than say a dangerous tackle but these days they are given and I've seen softer reds. I had a goodview of the handball for which Saints should have had a penalty. Great atmosphere from both sets of fans.

You are unlikely by challenging him to change the behaviour or opinions of someone saying this kind of thing. I challenged someone in the past with predictable results. The appropriate and sensible thing to do is to report the incident to the club and he'll get banned.

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This from the report on the Claret's Mad website: "We were only in the eighth minute of the game when the Saints marched into the lead. It was no surprise to see Guly Do Prado involved. He turned in as good an individual performance yesterday as I've seen from a player all season in the Championship." Secondly let's nail this assertion that Guly was responsible for Skate's equaliser. Granted he might have been more decisive in either staying on the post or attacking the ball but the reason their player had the opportunity was because he was unmarked. The reason their player was unmarked is because our favourite midfield player Adam Lallana wandered off and left Fonte (I think Fonte) with two players to mark, one of them the goalscorer.

This is what's called being damned with feint praise.

Good day for bollock chops. Acquitted then Capello resigns.

It's relevant to the extent that it's fact. Things haven't gone so well of late but the goals haven't dried up. My point was in response to an argument that our midfield freezes in front of goal. I suggest the midfield is there primarily to help create goals. The forwards will deliver if the supply is there.

Except that Saints are the highest scorers in the Championship FF. Someone to pick out Lee's runs is required in midfield. I've been impressed with Reeves.

It's easy to come on here and slag off the manager and criticise the players but how many of us didn't bother to turn up.

Sounds like Saints fans have really got to him. He's set himself up for the return fixture. He'll need nerves of steel at St Mary's

A reasonable summary Brummiehants except I disagree that Fox went over the ball with the challenge for which he received his first yellow card. It was a perfectly good, hard tackle. I think Hughton said he thought the booking was warranted because the tackle was "fairly fierce". Well, if you get booked for fairly fierce tackling then we may as well all go and play beach volleyball.

I'd be worried if, in good weather conditions, we'd had that much possession and created so little but 0-0 to the weather tonight. Sending off, my ar.se.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/feb/03/fans-portsmouth-winding-up?INTCMP=SRCH

Is it Danny Murphy?

You're wrong and the central midfield. It did ok. The reason we didn't capitalise on our possession was poor delivery from the fullbacks. If we go up and continue to play a similar formation we need better quality from fullbacks/wingbacks.

He made one diagonal run so fast I thought he was teleporting.