shurlock

Hard when only Pelle is up top and they drop off. Conditions didn't help today. Quite a few balls intended for Elia were skewed out of touch. But quite a few skipped off the wet surface beyond players reach. Moreno's introduction helped shore up their left where we had earlier been getting joy with the diagonal.

Yoshida and Wanyama my MOTM. Clyne and the Serb lad were good in the first half.

Was he questioning the parentage of little Alfie or whatever Lallana's nipper is called?

Lovren in defense, especially if it's for Can makes sense with Pelle's strength in the air.

Not the question you asked. You asked how do we know he had a personal connection. He says as much in his own words. Will leave it to you to ponder over his precise motives. Can't fault your effort; but the edge and elusiveness are no longer there. Will go read a Stephen Lawrence or Mandela thread to remind myself of the glory days, when you were in your pomp.

Sign reads "It could have been me". Not hard, is it.

I guess they didn't teach you logic down in Plymouth's ivory towers, though Pap isn't covering himself in glory either. To paraphrase the Libertines song, "her old man, he don't like blacks or queers". In this case, because her old man doesn't like queers, does it make them less racist? No. But, in effect, that's the absurdity you're dimly peddling. Disliking one group doesn't take away from the possibility of disliking another group -or make that dislike any less intense. Indeed, its quite the opposite as these things often cluster (but that's a separate, empirical point). Now change the basis of the abuse. Had the fans been treating everyone who wasn't Chelsea like c**ts -note the subtle distinction- then your argument might be on slightly firmer ground. But there isn't a shred of evidence, nor have you tried to claim that Chelsea fans were abusing all and sundry -women, children, old people, anyone who had the temerity to get on etc. Rather you keep bleating on about the abuse of PSG fans. Which is to say, their abuse appears to have been fundamentally discrete, targeting two specific and identifiable groups, something which is perfectly consistent with a racist spin (see above).

Please explain why chucking off another group Chelsea fans are hostile to is evidence that they are not racist. Quite the opposite. I'd say it contradicts your position. If Chelsea fans were throwing people off indiscriminately, you might have a point. But they weren't and you don't.

Used to follow PSG quite a bit around France in the late 90s. Cut from the same cloth as Chelsea's more extreme element, arguably worse. The stuff they got away would never be tolerated on English terraces. The reaction to George Weah's departure, among over things, would have been front page news here.

Never had you down as a health and safety warrior. Let's be clear, they weren't pushing off all and sundry. They pushing off PSG fans including talk of stabbing someone - none of which is incompatible with being racist. Think about it.

You live in a village and commute to central London - not sure you're in the best position to comment. Having shared many a train-ride home with Chelsea fans, there's definitely something nasty that follows them around -would say their reputation for racism is pretty justified. Will leave it up to you to decide whether it applies to this lot in particular. All Ill say is that using race opportunistically to get a rise out isn't incompatible with actually holding those attitudes in some form or another. If anything, it makes it easier to cross breach certain taboos and view them as 'fair game'. Never mind how the victim interprets things.

Don't see a PSG scarf on that bloke - rather someone who's on the way home from work. Or maybe he's the Cass Pennant of the Boulogne Boys?

Their defensive record has picked up but still think they're vulnerable. For starters, get Pelle peeling off and targeting Can who's lightweight in the air and Mané running down the middle at pace at the lumbering Skrtel.

Surely, you know how he might have contacts, though? For instance, does he work in media or finance that would bring him in contact with the club? Or perhaps he has his own business and uses hospitality alot? Etc etc.

Yeh something to do with a recurrent hamstring, though many are still expecting him to slot back in. Morgan has always been pretty free from injury, so it is a surprise and concern that he can't shake off this niggle. But don't buy into this "it's because he's off" horses**t.

As long as it is nothing like the lovefest at Anfield earlier in the season.

For all the focus on Morgan's absences, Toby hasnt fared much better. From the Newcastle game onwards (i.e. Toby's debut), they have each featured in only 18 games -or two thirds of the campaign (all competitions, 27 games). Averaged across the entire season, Morgan's record is actually slightly better.

I thought Swansea was everyone's plucky comparator? How about Everton, if we're being serious. They made £31m in gate/matchday and commercial revenues, compared to our £24m, according to latest figures. We've been all told that we'll never be as famous or big as Everton, so I wonder what would count as success in these circumstances. To halve the gap? Roughly, generating an additional £3.5m in revenue? Not crumbs; but nothing like the supposed feast we've missed out on through incompetence and neglect. And nothing like the opportunities available elsewhere - even saving on agents fees, hardly the first strategic priority that comes to mind, is as financially rewarding as maximising gate/matchday and commercial revenues on the above assumptions. Never mind that success on the pitch, not a perfectly executed commercial strategy, remains the best way to bridge these gaps.

How are you going from NY to Toronto? Would really recommend doing it by the Maple Leaf train.

Or perhaps in real life -rather than your make believe world of computer games- gate/matchday and commercial income for provincial-sized clubs operating more or less at capacity don't really move the dial, compared to developing, finding and selling players for a profit, finishing higher in the league and being broadcast more often on TV.

Do you have a figure of the 'prize on offer' if we fully exploited these alternative commercial revenue streams, bringing them in line with other provincial-sized prem clubs? Let's just say, we're not talking gushing geysers.

More pressure on the scousers to win this game than us, especially with city next.

No his reference is to Steven Davis final ball.

[video=youtube_share;IsBdCskFv4A]http://youtu.be/IsBdCskFv4A Rinse and repeat.

Didn't he give us a last min pen up at the Hawthorns last season?