S-Clarke

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Like LVG has just done. Man Utd were unlucky apparently, and the players did their best.

Pretty solid I thought, not much attacking input, but solid in a defensive sense - if not really tested a great deal.

Preoccupied with the Ice Bucket challenge.

LVG's post match interview, what the actual ****? He thinks they were unlucky and that you cannot read into the game as they had lots of kids and injuries, they did their best. They played Kagawa, Hernandez, Evans, De Gea, Welbeck, Jananzi............ He seems like a bit of a fool to me.

I thought he had a great 2nd half, stretching the game, getting in behind, causing the havoc in and around Pelle that opens the game up.

Cheers. That would imply something is pretty much done and dusted, and given that Toby is the only one with what seems to be real legs in the media at the moment, then it could well be him.

He's just a nutcase.

I was going to mention the same, lots of hugging with the players, a long and thoughtful hug/chat with Fonte at FT too. I'm hoping it was just the fact that he got his first goal! But I do believe he will go, with Clasie coming in. A bit of a dim wit move if it happens, to be honest. You don't sell PL experience in a pre-season season like we've had.

First half - never play like that again. 2nd half, more like it. Hopefully gives him the lift he so obviously needed.

I'm just flabbergasted at what is happening at Man Utd. It simply looks as if SAF just held that club together.

The first half was diabolical, utter dog ****e stuff. Reminded me of our **** days back in the bottom of the NPC. Can't recall anything of interest. 2nd half, we came out like we'd had a rocket shoved up our arses. Why didn't they start like that? More pace, more pressing, more intent to attack. We took the **** in the 2nd half and the gulf was so clear to see, whereas it wasn't in the first half. You've got to hand it to Pelle, kept missing (not sitters by any means) and kept coming back, again and again and again. He was always going to get one eventually as he kept getting in the area's and making himself available in the 2nd half, it was much better from him. Still lots to be done. I Just hope I never, ever, ever see us play like we did again in that first half. We'd get destroyed by PL teams if we did.

Can't say I've had a problem to be honest. I use Chrome as the browser here and it works fine. You get the odd little stop and start during the game, but nothing major what so ever. You don't get any pop ups or annoying ''download this to play'' rubbish. I hope I'm not raising the awareness which leads to it's close down!!!

http://offsidestreams.com/site/shop/

They have so many channels to choose from, and every PL game is shown live somewhere...so chances are you'll get it. I've not missed an away game via it as yet...

Easily. It just works, every week. No need to download annoying software/plugins/popups. Just login, you get an embeded flash player and you just select the channel you want and it just works within the browser. I connect my laptop to my samsung TV and even the non-HD streams look pretty solid. I hope this stays kind of under-ground....as this has been an option for a year or so now!

He actually cost Dortmand £17m!

That's a surprise! But cheers for the heads up, will be on offside streams later in that case!

Tottenham are being linked with a couple of midfielders in the French media, with L'Equipe reporting that Mauricio Pochettino has joined the list of admirers of Paris St Germain teenager Adrien Rabiot. PSG want in the region of €10million for Rabiot, who has a year left on his contract. Tottenham are also reportedly in advanced talks to sign Alex Song from Barcelona, with Marseille also interested in the former Arsenal midfielder.

Back in training this week. Maybe be enough for a place on the bench...who knows. Frustrating really that his season is already being fragmented.

Absolutely. I think this is why people still have Gaston in the back of their minds, we simply don't have another player like him and that's why we're all hoping he now shows something on a consistent basis...starting with tonight, hopefully!

At the moment it feels to me as if we have too many 'safe' midfielder s. That's not to say that they are poor etc, but they are more inclined to play the ball sideways or backwards to retain posession rather than gamble with a forward pass. Last season Lallana often provided that forward pass, and Lambert would drop off to provide it as well - Tadic seems to be the player who looks up at what's in front of him, but the game seems a little fast for him right now. In many ways, this team is crying out for a Gaston type player. Someone who can receive the ball in the centre and stretch the game to the flanks, someone with a bit of bravery to make the killer pass. Might not always come off and we may lose possession at times off the back of it, but you need a player willing to do that, otherwise you play out 0-0's for fun.

He's more of a wide man than an out and out striker though. If he wants regular first team football, he may consider us.

Can we sign you instead?