malcolm waldron

Plenty of talk earlier about biased reporting but this clip from The Guardian (yes i know no one reads it😉) is typical of the London media's inherent blinkers. At the time the commentators on TV were lauding the blind pass from Jorginho that led to their second goal. The same too on MOTD last night. I then thought Oriel's pass was near enough exactly the same - and led to Che scoring. Here's how The Guardian saw both passes: 1. Jorginho swept a glorious ball over the top and Werner lobbed McCarthy before nodding into the empty net. 2. Chelsea’s loss of composure was summed up by Zouma’s failure to deal with a routine punt in the 57th minute. Cracking last 60 mins though and it's just a shame the game couldn't have lasted 5 mins longer as there was only one team in it at the end.

This may have been covered earlier but I'm getting fed up with the Sky strategy of appointing a 'fan' to co-comment. They should be there to analyse the game from both sides and identify what TV viewers maybe can't see. Instead we get a lop-sided commentary culminating in Neville still banging on about a potential red card a whole three minutes (sorry - I timed it) into the second half. That quite simply is a fan talking and not an expert summariser. At that point i muted and synched up to 5Live where Chris Sutton was far more objective and even identified two free kicks on the edge of their penalty area that we should have had but which weren't given. Somehow i doubt Neville did the same. Still, a cracking match and proud of the team taking it to the opposition so well.

Anyone else think the KDB free kick was taken from the wrong place? I haven't watched the replay yet but my first thought when Armstrong committed the foul was that we were lucky not to have given away a penalty there. I was only mildly panicking thinking that it's very close to the goal and the angle isn't great. We then see the ball being spotted a few yards back and more central alongside the 'D'. I know its all academic but at the time I wasn't happy........

It's not often I use the ticket site so please bear with me. I'm buying two tickets tomorrow and having tried a dry run today (to know more for when I'm eligible tomorrow) it wasn't obvious how I buy two together at the same time for the two season tickets. Can I select two seats at a time and then assign them to the two STs, or do I have to select one seat, attach to a ST, remember the seat details and then go back and get the other seat and attach to the other ST? It can't be this option surely?

I might be mistaken but wasn't one of Nigel's many corporate jargon expressions 'hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard'?? I expect todays game may well be a mirror of that phrase and it will be very interesting to watch the commitment and togetherness of both teams, and how hard they visibly work for each other. My mind goes back to last week with Redmond cutting in on to his right foot and spraying a 40 harder straight into space with no red and white shirt anywhere near. The look on his face was one of pure 'I've just produced an amazing pass and you lot should know what I'm going to do......' Never mind, he may still turn out to be the new Henry. As others have said, I've gone from looking forward to home games knowing whoever we play we're going to give them a battle, to a feeling of we'll be lucky to beat Burnley. All in two seasons. Having said all that, play a 352 with Boufal central and we'll provide a barnstorming 4-0 home win.......

It's not often I post on here but sometimes I'm party to news which simply has to be made available. I shouldn't be letting any of this out wanted people to know whats really going on at the club (but please please do not pass this on to anyone else as my source's cover is likely to be blown. Anyway, here goes - this is what I've been told: VVD may well go at the start of next season - my source wouldn't say where but think top 4 or main Spanish cities Cedric and Bertrand are in demand and may well go then too - my source wasn't clear to where but did categorically rule out Bournemouth as an option Kat may well sell her 20% share over the next 5 years. My source didn't say to whom - but likely to be the new Chinese owners and heres the real juicy stuff - I'm told that apparently a number of players (think Shane, Bouf, Jimmy Ward P and Stuart Taylor) want to play more football. As I said, I don't often post on here as I dont want to ruin my source of information, but check my history and you'll see that I correctly predicted we'd leave The Dell in 2001, I predicted we'd wear yellow and blue at Cardiff in 2003, correctly predicted we'd be promoted in 2012 (although my source didn't tell me in Feb that year that Reading would be champions). I was widely criticised for stating we'd wear the black away kit at Wembley this year but sometimes you have to leave misinformation in order not to blow your source's cover. So - I'll probably go quiet now until next year but if you hear of a highly placed executive casualty tomorrow morning (think nice Audi leaving the training ground today) you'll know my source has been rumbled......

My view is that as soon as we see the words 'executive director' Les Reed in a Telegraph article, it means Jeremy has been spoon fed an article from the club. The fact, therefore, that the article is already expressing doubts about Thomas T's ability means that we can already rule him out of the equation. Read back Les's Telegraph stuff from the last 2 years and a pattern emerges (relaxed, quiet summer, no need to sell Mane, etc etc.....)

So, the three teams who have seriously challenged the big clubs have not tried to copy them using far poorer resources but instead found 3 different tactical approaches to shake things up and give the big clubs something to genuinely worry about I'll be pleased if we give Swansea something to 'genuinely worry' about having really failed to worry a ten man Watford and a below par Sunderland side in the first two homes games.

Glad theirs two of us that find these sort of errors extremely frustrating….

Agreed. How poor do all of those UA kits look compared to the Adidas ones immediately above.

A pipe of Pringles will suffice…..

Been anxiously watching JRod and his recovering knee from those videos and during the tournament last weekend. Can anybody who's watched the streams of the games comment on his knee, as i'm sure he looked like he was limping having finished off the 10th goal this afternoon.

I'm really annoyed now that a bad week has been made a lot worse by the fact that everyone knows the grandson is a massive Saints fan apart from me; although I have seen a young kid not far from where we sit in the family section eating a toblerone on match days. Is that him.....?

FFS - dont people realise how far we've come. Three years ago we didn't even have a betting partner - let alone an Asian one. Now we've got one, and not just any Asian partner - but SBOBBOT or whatever they're called. If anything signals how far we've come in the last 18 months it's this announcement - FFS.........

Can someone explain the justification for the massive price hike? I've only bought the sash kit out of all the recent shirts but I'm sure this was around £40. Why are the club now charging £50 and £40(!) for children's shirts - complete rip-off. Obviously we're not as high up in the Adidas pecking order as West Ham are with their bespoke template. Very disappointed for the 2nd year in a row.

Pardon my ignorance but 'dm me' ?? As you can see I don't tend to post on here much - just check the damned thing far too often!

I might be able to help here. Let me know how to contact you.

Just thank you Marcus - thoughts are with your family.