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Good effort. You forgot Xavi though.

Exactly - no idea why Pardew didn't seem to rate him more. Maybe Papa has made it clear he doesn't want to stay?

Bit of afternoon sex is always welcome.

I would love us to sign both of them.

You have to be a sad case to decide to post balls on a football forum just to try to get noticed. What a drip.

Surprised Semi is off. Expected him and Calderon to be competing for RB. Can't have any gripes with the rest of the list apart from McLaggon. We should exercise the Waigo option IMO but I have a feeling we won't.

It's utter nonsense to say that Solent started this with the "Liebherr isn't happy" comments. And because Solent have a commercial tie-up with the club with repsect to online radio commentary it means that every word they utter is indubitably worth repeating ad nauseum? The first recent press articles predated that and were rehashes of the ones that appeared around the time of the interviews earlier in the season.

Agreed. They needed a lucky goal, a dodgy penalty decision and a wrongly disallowed Spurs goal to beat a poor (on the day) Spurs side. There is no way they will get all that against a much better Chelsea side.

That is lovely. Maybe we should all email the link to the club. If anything it will show that we should look for something better next time, even if it is too late this year.

Spot on. We are lucky to have someone as professional as NC. You don't need to look far in football to find a few examples of a CEO who hasn't really got a clue about running a business...

That is great. Different, atmospheric and imposing

Oi! Photoshoppers... can't believe no one has done the honours yet.

£6bn is not a lot in the context of annual government spending anyway. As to the point someone raised about the markets - when you are beholden to them to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds you have little choice but to take notice.

It's the infantile and partisan-at-all-costs glee based on nothing other than pure prejudice that offends me.

I would have preferred that too.

Well, I am affording you some latitude at the moment. It is very much a watching brief though.

Exactly!

Well, what exactly are they reporting anyway? He is unhappy at not making the play-offs. No shizzle Shurlock! I think we all are, along with Pardew and Cortese. There is no doubt the local media have made themselves look silly lately. First there was to be a meeting at which Pardew's job was under threat on Wednesday. Then the meeting was to be postponed to Thursday. Then what actually happens is that it is confirmed on Thursday that there was a meeting on Wednesday and it was a straightforward review and planning meeting, as most normal people had predicted and which you would expect any competent business to hold regularly.

I'm not doubting that but it would be a logistic and commercial nonsense.

I think the point being made is that you are correct and that, if the reason for this disproportionate quantum-leap in footballing standard is down to the incommensurate distribution of money between the PL and the rest of the FL, if an incommensurate distribution of money occurs between the CCC and FL1, a similar gulf might be expected to open up in footballing terms between those two divisions.

I really hope Blackpool win. Cardiff City in the Prem would be awful.

Arizona - carp idea mate, give it up. A Saturday ST, however, would be a good idea.

You mean the administrator from one of the most respected insolvency practitioners in the country's back street office in Southend? That one? Fry, I think old bean. Anyhoo, you were arguing for the OS to be shut down a few days ago so I'm surprised you still bother to read it.

God, please no. A sure-fire sign of a crummy team.

I like the revisions apart from the rather gormless "125" and red blob. That should be left how it was, or replaced with a picture of Markus' head IMO.