shurlock

Brilliant Leicester

VVD's technically better; Toby is positionally better and the more intelligent defender. That gives the advantage to Toby IMO.

He was v. good, though he's still rough around the edges positionally. While Yoshida shoulders the majorityof the responsibility for Sunderlands's goal, VVD could have also done better. Was too aggressive coming to the ball and didn't show the defender onto the wrong side.

Yep MOTM by a country mile.

You mean other than being involved in our best bits of play and forcing Boruc to make his only save of note. The service was terrible -we've switched from hitting long balls to Pelle to hitting balls down the channels to chase, regardless what the opposition is doing. This bitty, percentages football isn't conducive to our skill players. Not just Mané who is also suffering from bad form. Otherwise Mané (and Long) was picking the ball up deep in our own half and having to release the ball quickly sideways or backwards. Running at 3-4 bournemouth players made little sense. Had Romeu, JWP and to some extent the fullbacks (though esp in the 3-5-2) not been sitting so deep but occasionally making runs and pulling defenders, the likes of Mané may have had more space to carry the ball into. But that's not how we've set up recently.

Rat-faced c**t - is he confirmed for KD's testimonial yet?

My understanding from people directly involved is that Balls was against the Euro in principle - the whole Five Tests business was just a convenient way to give this visceral opposition the patina of technocratic credibility and rationality.

Ticket now gone.

I have one spare adult ticket for Bournemouth. PM me if interested.

Look at Martin Wolf of the FT, one of the world's leading economic commentators -vehemently opposed to joining the Euro; but completely in favour of staying in the EU. Or even your very own sweaty pinup, Ed Balls. Not to mention lesser known figures like John Major - he might have negotiated an opt out from the single currency during the Maastricht treaty negotiations or something trivial like that. Who'd have thought it's perfectly possible to hold two logically and mutually exclusive beliefs. The sheer, brazen audacity of it.

Nope, Johnny Bogusnonsequitur.

The ref also overruled the lino on the Itchen side for a corner - the incident was literally in front of the lino. Even though it was ruled in our favour and that lino arguably had a worse game than the ref, not sure how atkinson could give it as his sight was blocked by 2-3 players. Very odd.

Would love a bit of Costa's nastiness and aggression in the side, though tbf Long and Austin do have a bit of an edge. It's the Willian and Oscar-type theatrics I don't like.

Was watching a very different game to you.

Other than an eye-catching track back and tackle in the first half, thought Clasie was pretty anonymous and struggled to impose himself on the game. Easily overshadowed by Romeu in CM.

guess it wasn't a proper pink-faced toff, pig squeal.

Got lucky with Harry Kane? What does that even mean? Have Leicester got lucky with Jamie Vardy or Riyad Mahrez that account for nearly 70% of Leicester's goals? And shouldnt kids be learning from Spurs defence? After all, it's the best defence in the league, part of a side that also manages to score plenty of goals. This place, in your own words, throws up some right proper helmets

Am happy he pretty much slapped down the Mark Noble for England calls.

Thats the second disallowed goal we've had at the Liberty from a keeper spill/flap - we had an even clearer-cut one in 2013's nil nil.

Do you work in advertising?

Come on, people, don't you know the real story is Corbyn's failure to raise it at PMQs yesterday?

Political coverage is a poor example: the adversarial nature of British politics, the rise of spin and the perceived values at stake (the media's image of itself as the Fourth Estate) invariably bring journos into contact with opinion and analysis. All news outlets -not just your hypocritical strawman, the BBC- follow the same formula. Watched Adam Boulton recently? However it doesn't follow that this extends to other areas of the news where straight reporting is more embedded in principle, if not in practice.

Somewhat of a Hobson's choice but Trump > Cruz. Cruz is the proper loon. Trump is all fart and no s**t by comparison.