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Yep, Lambert has never learnt how to play the ref.

When Franny scored! My mate pointed out he was unmarked as the free-kick was being lined up. When Franny assaulted John Fashanu. MLT's goals against Nwcastle. MLT's 30 second goal and hat-trick against L'pool in the snow. Pahars against Everton. 6-3 Pretty sure Iain Dowie scored a good goal once and I was there. David Lee beating a defender. Neil Heaney beating a defender. Ali Dia Mickey Evans heading the post whilst scoring. Doddsy taking a red card for the team v West Ham MLT free-kick v Wimbledon Barry Horne v Bolton in the League Cup (?) Sorry.... Got a bit carried away!

No, it was called Shatner's Bassoon.

Quite right. Roberts and Le Fondre will cause problems if we let Reading get a load of balls into the box from wide positions but they're both pretty impotent otherwise. Key is not to give their wide men room and to dominate possession against their pretty rigid 4-4-2. If we play well with the ball we will win.

I'm sure it'll all be above board this time. Anyhoo... do we get a day off? If we do then I'm really delighted for them. Brilliant news If we don't then, frankly, I couldn't give a rat's arse.

I'm sure he was. Your desire to hear some sort of valedictory moan is rather childish. He has a way of doing interviews. It works for him. It isn't going to change. He has the highest win percentage of any SFC manager since 1897. Given what he has achieved, moaning about interview styles not appealing to your tastes is frankly pathetic and smacks of a completely misguided sense of entitlement.

Michu's clearly a decent player but he's scoring lots of goals because Swansea are generally a better team than we are. We have hardly been short on goals - we've scored more than half the teams in the league have. Clearly the problem has been GK, centre back and left back in terms of personnel. We have also got our midfield shape wrong at times and are too gung-ho. With those failings I'm not sure having Michu around would have made much difference.

Bearsy.... Genius. Thank you.

A lady talking on the phone and the sound of water cascading into a swimming pool. Kigali, Rwanda.

I think Wigan will be fine but they would be the most likely "other" I guess. But I think all of the teams I mentioned have bigger concerns: I watched the Sunderland v QPR match on the telly and Sunderland were genuinely rubbish. The crowd was also on their backs pretty quickly. Norwich, whilst hardworking, are poor going forward and they won't keep winning games 1-0 all season. If Grant Holt and Wes Hoolahan are your best attacking players you really aren't that good. Villa are full of players who, frankly, I have barely heard of and they were carp against us. QPR will probably improve but they are quite far adrift already. Reading are tinpot. We have some really good players but are making too many mistakes. However, I believe we will keep imroving and should pull out of the relegation battle eventually.

Sunderland Norwich Villa Reading Saints QPR Pretty sure the bottom three will come from that group and if I had to pick the three now I would go with QPR, Reading and Sunderland.

Quite. If Boruc has been pegged as not up to it then we need another keeper in Jan or we need to get KD back in goal and try to keep his confidence up. Frankly, with our back four now looking much better and a decent run of games coming up I would have a high level of confidence in KD not to let us down. Gazza has the attributes of a really good keeper but should be out on loan for now, not being our Number 1.

I don't really understand people saying they would take a point. Norwich have not won an away match and have only scored 4 goals from 7 away games. Only four teams have conceded more away goals than them. They only have two points more than us. Our creative trio behind Lambert are all in good form and we score an average of 1.7 goals a game at home. We have no known injury problems. We should win. That doesn't mean we will but there's no reason to settle for a point.

Reading the stuff coming out of the PST, I'm not sure they really understand what they are doing.If they can't raise enough to have more than 51% of the shares in whatever the new company that owns the club will be called then all they are doing is providing free capital to some property developers. All they will have is a blocking vote over special resolutions (assuming they can raise enough for 25% of the shares) but they will have no realy control over the business of the football club.Fecking hilarious. No doubt they will still bang on about it being the biggest and bestest fan ownership ever (despite all objective evidence to the contrary). What a bunch of utter divs.

A firm of solicitors who did some work for one of the PFC entities claim that UHY should have treated their costs as part of the administration costs and therefore paid them some money out of the funds available to UHY. The judge said they are wrong and UHY were right. End.

Just had a look. First one looked like an, ahem, anticipatory fall although the defender did dangle a leg which probably made Ramirex think he was about to get swiped and you would not be at all surprised to concede a penalty if your defender made that tackle on a Man U / Chelsea / Arsenal etc.. player. Second one you couldn't really tell as the angle wasn't great. Don't think it was a dive but maybe just a stumble. Rodrigues' goal was onside though. FACT.

Nothing to comment on really. He's just not in the squad because we play with one striker on the pitch, we have four senior strikers to choose from and none of the other three have been injured for a long period recently. If Rodriguez, Mayuka or Lambert get injured then I'm sure we will see him back in the squad.

Lol. Obviously not.

Hopefully for the same reasons we would happily lend Forecast to a rival.

Yes, that well known football chant sung at players having a bad game. We certainly all know what you are.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume the sarcasm in my post wasn't obvious enough... It never took off en masse (presumably because most of our fans aren't morons) but there was a pocket to the right that tried to sing it a few times. Quite pathetic.

Just wanted to say a big "well done" to the divs singing that yesterday. Brilliant stuff. It's racism but without actually saying a naughty. Very witty. Hats off to you. Thick fools.

They can't start next season in admin, can they? I thought there was an FL rule about starting consecutive seasons in admin.

Anyway, his set-pieces are a far bigger crime! Useless!

So, basically, what we're saying is the ref thought Adam dived in the first half. Instead of taking the correct action (yellow card and a free kick to Swansea) he booked him for a non-dive in the second half and turned down a clear penalty. And that passes for decent refereeing in some people's eyes?!