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Tignes is good, perennial snow on the upper slopes, pricey though. I shall be at my usual (and local) stations from time to time, Chalmazel and Super Besse, cheap and cheerful and about my standard cos I'm a bit wobbly on the tricky stuff.

Think we might see a couple of changes, perhaps Osvaldo to start with Lambert on the bench and personally I wasn't over convinced by JWP's contribution on Saturday, a bit stereotyped, perhaps he was worn down by his international duties, depends how much we're counting on his dead ball delivery really. I'd start Gaston but then I don't play FIFA 14 or CM.

of course it was, if you look at the OS gallery you'll see José bear hugging Giroud a few times as well. He's always done it and we can be quite thankful that it doesn't get penalised more often. He needs to cut it out.

Victor won't make until the end of December without another yellow card so we'll have to go to plan C for at least 1 game. Morgan drops back into his old role and Davis or JWP take over his.

the game has got too fast and too elaborate for the level of the refereeing. It's a global problem. In the end they'll just have to adopt the Franco-Italian approach and blow up if it looks iffy. In today's Cardiff Utd game the ref obviously bottled out of sending Rooney off, I hope the review commission will correct that.

We're still 5th then, still believe we could in theory finish above Liverpool,Utd and Spurs. Artur will have to cut out the comedy though.

He's a penalty king, not much use if you don't get any.

but they were extremely efficient in the last 20 yards. Still a gift goal after 14 seconds helps.

Looks like Utd are going to be scraping the barrel to get a decent side out today. Must have 5 or 6 regular starters out I think.

And Lamela, makes Gaston look like a good player at less than half of the price, I really really wonder about the standard of Italian football sometimes. City's signing Negredo looks like a good player though.

Oh yes it would, can't touch a keeper in France, instant whistle job. Anyway here's a little video, sorry about the 30 secs publicity but at least you can stop it and see Giroud pushing Boruc with both hands. After that it's up to our resident refs. http://www.football.fr/angleterre/articles/video-boruc-dribbleur-ridicule-440116/

foul or a game for men ? decide for yourself. Probably not a PL foul, would be in Italy or Spain.

I liked what Wanyama did yesterday but I do think he could distribute the ball a weeny bit better (or quicker) on occasions. However with Lambert having a shocker like he did yesterday perhaps it wouldn't make much difference. Lambert with 1 shot and 53% pass completion just negated whatever we tried. Osvaldo has to start soon...and Gaston

Well I watched the match on Foot+ yesterday and the absolutely couldn't be more pro-Arse than that French commentators said that there was a hint of a foul, they dismissed it in a flash because well Giroud is god innit. Giroud is a very dirty player but as we all got told last week against Ukraine he does it so well he deserves to get away with it. I've a recording, I'll have a look at half-time in the Spurs-Citeh game.

looked like hamstring or maybe a dead leg.

didn't think they were a better team at all, just got lucky when we got sloppy. We were poor in attack though, good build up, not much at the end of it.

I'd expect him to be rethinking that now. We looked very weak in defence without Lovren and with Shaw being injured. Can't see Yoshida wanting to stay in the background for ever so we might need a CB.

that would be 2-1 to us then, think JWP will score today.

****i* no Lovren, a zero pointer for us today then.

Football is a team game, a bad team can make a good player look crap and a good team can make a crap player look fairly good.

don't get your hopes up. The French CMs for Brazil will be Cabaye,Pogba,Mavuba and Matuidi, only a long term injury to one of those 4 will give anyone else a chance. Hodgson has said he doubts if there will be any new faces whatsover in his WC30 and France will be exactly the same. It's over for Morgan this time round I'm afraid.

Unless he can finds a Swiss gran or something he can book his summer holidays from now on. Won't get picked for France unless he moves to a CL club in January of course but he won't do that.

We've just had a 2 ft snow dump, pretty exceptional for mid-November.

Shaw will soon be of no particular interest to Southgate anyway.

shouldn't be too much of a problem for them really. Lovren didn't play last Friday, thought he was a regular starter for Croatia as a rule.