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Tobias Aldeweireld is three years older than Van ****. I reckon in three years time Virgil will be regarded as a genuinely elite defender.

Not a bad performance against a much improved side with a lot more to play for. 2-0 or 3-0 would have been fair enough.

Finding someone who does a similar job but can shoot and play an incisive pass would be better.

I would go for this line-up: --------------------------------------Forster----------------------------------- Cedric----------------Fonte--------------------Virgil---------------Bertrand ----------------------------Romeu---------Classie---------------------------- -------------------------------------Davis-------------------------------- --------Mane---------------------------------------------Tadic-------------- -----------------------------------Pelle---------------------------------------- Another option would be to have JWP or Davis in Mane's role (particularly as Van Aanholt, Sunderland's left back, is probably one of their best attackers) but it's important for the team that Mane plays himself back into form so I don't want to leave him out. If Pelle is starting, which he obviously will, then the 5-3-2/5-2-3 isn't going to work very well so let's go back to having Tadic and Mane flanking him and allowing Cedric and Bertrand to get past them. Bench: Gazza, Targett, Yoshida, JWP, Juanmi, Reed, [Gallagher?] Gone from a strong bench to a ****e one in no time! Bench:

Van Dijk went down, we kicked the ball out. They threw it back on and lumped it up the pitch towards our box. Costa chased after it and tried to win it back so Fonte had to tussle with him. Atkinson gave a non-existent foul against Costa because he thought "I'm not having this on my highlights". Do it made no direct difference to anything but showed that he is a massive ****. Although for what it's worth I don't think teams should give the ball back if the other team chooses to kick it out. But they normally do.

Definitely. He has all the attributes, just suffers from insufficient game time to keep developing. I guess it depends how much he enjoys living in London, partly. Can't see Arse selling him to a "big" club so unless he really wants to stay in London you would hope we would have a chance.

We should have got him sent off. Someone should have squared up to him then gone down. If he wants to play like that then **** him.

--------------------------------Forster------------------------------- Cedric--------------Fonte------Big Dijk------------Bertie Davis-------------Classie-------Romeu-----------Targett ----------------------------Mane------------------------------------- --------------------------------Austin------------------------------ Not sure the 352 is a great idea against Chelsea at the moment. Willian is their main man but he will run from deep. I'd go with a back 4 but use Davis and Targett to close the spaces outside the central midfielders. Mane should play. He's our best attacker. I want Austin to start. Pelle doesn't merit a start at the moment and Long is still too erratic to rely on as a starter game after game - he's also a cracking sub. Long, Pelle, Tadic and JWP on the bench - great options!

There are loads of dogs in most of the town centre pubs. HAHAHAHAHAHA lolz.

I'm coming to the view that there is too much uncertainty in the event of either vote outcome to put too much stall into "evidence". I know that sounds tremendously unscientific but given that, as far as I know, no major country has left the EU or done something analogous recently any "evidence" is most likely to be anachronistic or so heavily inductive as to be "scientifically" dubious in any case. To me, the question is qualitative more than quantitative.

I think he has missed two matches due to "head issues" and, in my opinion, he hasn't give his all in a number of matches. It started around the time of the league cup match against Villa. There were numerous occasions in the second half when he just strolled back instead of tracking their midfield runners. On his day he is good but he's not worth pandering to excessively. The only worry I have is that we don't get any decent offers for him this summer and we have to watch him being even less bothered next season as his contract runs down.

There is something quite sinister about the "stay" argument that if we leave we are going to get screwed over by the remaining members. We're not trying to screw anyone, just potentially to reflect the result of a plebiscite. But apparently if we vote "out", our lives will be made miserable by a group of 27 countries pursuing vindictive policies. It's a strange sort of club that is akin to the mafia or a drug cartel when it comes to leaving it. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave....

Trump is an utter buffoon, but Cruz is a nasty man. I am Sanders, then Stein, then Clinton, then Bloomberg but I'm more Trump than Cruz!

I think the question is fundamentally quite simple and boils down to a choice between economic stability (relative) in the short/medium term and the fundamental principles that you want the country governed by (which is a much longer term argument). I think the economic question clearly favours remaining and those that argue it does not have not come up with any convincing empirical or deductive argument that I can see. I think the argument from principles clearly favours leaving. The European Union is not a good organisation, open borders is a stupid idea when there are large wealth disparities between the countries, rules are frequently flouted on political whim (see Greece's admission to the Euro, for example), sovereignty is ceded, "ever closer unity" seems to have irreversible momentum etc... So, to me, it's a question of conviction largely, not economics. If the leave campaign can convince me the economic pain will not be so material as to render miserable a vast swathe of my life and other people's lives then I think it makes sense to lean towards "leave".

It is quite interesting. Italia 90, Euro 92, Euro 96, France 98 and even Jap/Korea 02, I had proper passion for England. But, in the last ten years or so, it really has wilted. On the whole, the players are not likeable. The managers are uninspiring. There is no identity to the team. I'm not sure exactly why that has happened. I think it's partly the management determination to stick with proven failures, the triumph of celebrity over team, the refusal to acknowledge that poor players aren't very good and plan accordingly. I think, on the whole, it is that. It's obstinacy. It's failure to recognise that a vast swathe of the squad is completely ill-equipped for international tournament football and we have been persistently lucky with easy qualifying groups. We need to recognise this and do something about it. Obviously there's FA chance of the FA doing anything useful though.

No, **** Leicester. Skanky, undeserving fluke merchants

Let's see how many Vardy scores over several seasons. Beattie got 23 league goals in 02/03 but either side of that he got 12 and 14. I suspect Vardy will end up in similar territory. PS. Leicester to go down next season.

Plus a red card - good chance we might have done. We had three penalty shouts in that match (handball by Lovren as well as the two fouls on Djuricic) and the first two ought to have been a red card as well. Plus a possible red for Mignolet's handball that wasn't given. Friend did as much as he possibly could to ensure we got a worse result than we might otherwise have done.

It's an ego thing with Clattenberg. He referees the match 99% of the time better than any other of the current referees IMO but he can't resist making "big" decisions for the attention. Jon Moss is the complete opposite. He referees most of the match badly, getting loads of minor decisions wrong and issuing cards seemingly at random. The three worst challenges in our match at the weekend were by Swansea players yet they got no yellow cards. What he doesn't do is give "big" decisions unless he is absolutely clear on them (whereas Clattenberg wants to show what a visionary he is). On the Yoshida incident: it was clumsy and could have been given however Moss should have given us a free kick for the foul on Fonte immediately before so it would have been a travesty if they had got the pen.

They have the worst pass accuracy in the league, the second lowest possession and the second lowest passes per game. They get 10 men behind the ball then whack it up to Vardy. For some reason they get away with numerous fouls in their own box. They've been very lucky and very skanky and have been fortunate to combine that with a striker on a huge hot streak. The reason they are where they are is down to a high shot conversion rate. Basically, the Prem is so weak that an in-form striker can carry a team to top 4. We saw that with 'pool and Suarez before. http://goal91.com/soccer-zone/leicester-have-the-lowest-passing-accuracy-in-the-league-and-are-19th-in-terms-of-average-possession-and-passes-per-game-plus-other-stats---5495.html Good for them but a rank indictment on English football if they achieve anything.

Glad Arsenal won. Leicester seem to have immunity from penalty decisions. They commit a blatant one pretty much every time I watch them and get away with it. Their dour anti-football has no place near the top of the league. Spurs to win, Arsenal second. The funny thing being that Spurs were probably better when they finished fourth under Redknapp than they are now but Poch will end up looking like a genius.

Is he on that Index? Buy, buy, buy!

And now he books Classie for the exact same foul he ignored a minute ago! ****ing joke!

How the **** can Moss book Romeu for nothing and then not book Ayew or Cork. Useless ****.

Disgusting attacking display. Absolutely rank. Not sure what Koeman is thinking with this selection. Pelle is a complete waste of a shirt and Davis is not a wing-back; he can't tackle, he can't win 50/50s and he can't go on the over/under lap. Get Pelle off and get Mane on. Get Cedric on for Davis or Romeu (yellow card!).