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Just goes to prove what I was saying, Lambert and Morgan booked;Antonio as principal fouler of the day,lads are trying to get through this one with a minimum of effort and no bookings for the 4 cards already brigade.Must be taking the JPT seriously then, otherwise they'd all be queueing up to get booked.

Pardew won't though. That puts Morgan on 4 bookings as well, that makes 5 in all. It was obviously his turn to do the hatchet work today as Hammond,James,Harding and Jaidi can't without getting a ban.

Indeed, now is not the time for Negative Nellying.

too many players trying not to get booked, it's not only the suspension for 5 yellows that's a pain in the butt but also the decline in natural aggressivity when you're on 4 already.

Bart is probably better on corners than KD.

Jane Austen doing the commentary again I see.

AP obviously doesn't rate Thomas in the position and there's no-one else.

We need to score soon, other results (or latest scores) are going are way a bit so 3 points would be just great.

He was at Montpellier (or at least a homonym was) perhaps ART knows him.

Probably explains the low turnout on the forum today then, that and being dragged to the shops in a distinctly wimpish fashion.

Not here, snowing lightly, must be about 0°

They've all been dragged down to the shops by either the Mrs or their Mum.

Hammond, that makes 4, one more than I thought, which is even worse. If we have a bad tempered game we could end up with 2 or 3 players suspended at once..

That's a real pig ,we have 3 players on 4 cards already and now we have to play 5 or 6 games with stand in right back again, including Leeds and Colchester. The squad is big enough but a lot of the "cover" isn't really viable. Personally I'd try to sign an out of contract right back, but looking back at the Mettomo fiasco you'd have to wonder if it would be the right choice.

Strachan is overated in today's game. He's a Timex watch in a digital age. He did a decent job for us but could have done much better with the European outing. He had good players, he also signed some extremely bad ones.He didn't get the best of of some players (like Delgado who he had no time for whatsoever-just out of principal I expect) Kevin Davies was allowed to just waste away under Strachan and he's since proved he had a few good games left in him.

I'm sure AP will field his strongest available side anyway. Probably our first look at the new centre half we'll be getting.

He scored a lot of goals at wherever he came from though.I'm not even sure he took penalties before he was at Saints,perhaps he wasn't a full back before he came to SFC though.

Certainly scored a lot of goals for a full back, couldn't say how many were penalties though.Probably scored about 70 goals in his career, once held the goalscoring record for a full back-which he obtained from a penalty against Utd--I think. Goalkeepers have moved on since then though. At one time there were relatively few penalty saves, now it's about one in 4 or something like that.Not surprising with all these 6ft 6 + keepers with reaction times which would shame Usain Bolt.

I reiterate, what would count against him is his complete lack of major international tournament experience.I'm sure you could find some Jimmy from the Commercial House League who's never missed a penalty either, but to pass on his "talents" to an experienced pro who's been there and done that and who's trying to score from 12 yards to put his country in the WC final in front of 100K is something completely different. Zidane only missed 1 penalty in his career, because he slipped in a friendly against China in 2006, but I don't think there's any question about him being given an offical role to tell Thierry Henry how to score from 12 yrds.

I just can't see that England would employ a man with no coaching qualifications and just a handful of England games to his name to coach players who are by far his superiors .Do you think Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard are going to take any notice of an international non-entity like MLT? Those guys have actually scored penalties for England, they don't want some also ran telling them how to suck eggs.The 22 for the WC will be composed of seasoned internationals, some of them with nigh on 100 caps to their name, MLT is just an also ran in that company.

If England want a penalty coach then I assume they'll ask Shearer. He has coaching qualifications, has scored 54 penalties (including some for England) and knows about pressure in major international tournament. MLT is just not in the same league on the international scene.

Only 1.8 million for the monthly salary bill, no wonder they're crap.

Battiston was about 60 centimetres into the box when Schumacher hit him. The ref was a complete knob, Dutch ref for a game involving Germans should never have happened.Schumacher said in his book that he was trying to get the ball-well he would wouldn't he.He also said there was "substance use" in the German national side and in several Bundesliga clubs. As he had no proof he got slung out on his ear from booth club and country.

3 players on 4 cards now then, we'll have to be careful on that.

American Pie 1 actually is where you get Michelle's band camp flute confession. In 2 she just sticks a trumpet up Jim's jacksy.