Sour Mash

Do you think we're playing good, exciting, attacking football or not? Beating Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool at home, in a first season in the top flight for 7 years. Of course that will attract the crowds. Still at least a third of the games haven't sold out, so looks like our capacity isn't too far off being the right size for our support.

You thought JWP was the right sub against QPR and Norwich? He definitely wasn't.

No, that's more to do with the endless supply of cheap labour we have imported into this country over the last 40 years.

which is the main reason they exist and emply people in the first place.

I'd suggest that there is still influence from above, the inclusion of JWP as an inapropriate sub at times suggests there is pressure to get as many academy products into the first team as possible. There is probably more harmony now though, as MP has been picked to specifically play a certain way.

Sky's football coverage is pretty good full-stop. Everyone likes to moan about them, but what they produce is excellent.

Well as £50 is more than enough for food, that shouldn't be a problem then. How many pairs of shoes do they need to buy each year?

You can buy a load of food for £50 a week. These people are still having their bills and housing paid for and subsidised on top of £50 worth of food each week. That's more than generous.

According to this link, its after rent and bills http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9964767/Iain-Duncan-Smith-I-could-live-on-53-per-week.html £50 is more than enough on that basis.

How bad are QPR? Unbelievable.

Exactly. Anyone in doubt, go back and watch the BBC footage of Adkins and the players after the Coventry home game last season.

Just got back from a cracking trip to the two England games. Think Montenegro are a decent team, that play in a ground with a top atmosphere, not an easy place to go for most countries. England were beating Brazil only a couple of months ago. We'll qualify for the World Cup. Yes, we could have a better side and Hodgson isn't particularly inspiring, but we could be a lot worse. Look at Scotland.

Didn't reach their potential? Lampard, Gerrard, Cole, Scholes, Ferdinand etc, how have they succumbed to the privileged lifestyle as their talent waned? They've had amazing careers. Didn't quite work for the international team, but that's not unique to this set of players and has more to do with management, tactics etc.

How is it "quite symptomatic of the supposed 'golden generation' of English talent"?

ON that basis we'd couldn't say we've won the FA Cup in '76?

Rodgers does speak Spanish fluently I think, learnt to coach over there for a couple of years or something.

I've noticed that as well. Generally our chance conversion rate has been pretty poor of late, not just Lallana/Rodriguez.

What were those announcements at the end of yesterday's game all about?

I thought it was Boruc's best game for us - not because he had to make loads of great saves, but constant excellent handling of difficult crosses under pressure, in tough conditions - a lesser keeper could easily have given the opposition a couple of chances when Liverpool were piling on the pressure in the 2nd half - he was completely solid. My only criticism would be his tendency to start time-wasting so early.

I thought Shaw was knackered in the 2nd half, part of the reason he was caught out of position a couple of times. As much as I enjoyed his bursting runs in the first half, I felt he was maybe doing too much and it would take it out of him. Conversely my only criticism of Clyne is that there were quite a few opportunities for him to bomb on both with and without the ball, but he chose to sit back - he was outstanding defensively though.

He was excellent in the first 20 mins or so yesterday, then seemed to already tire by about the half hour point and got frustrated when he tried beating his man a couple of times and failing.

It's sung slowly loads, just most of the time the rest of the ground (and a fair bit of the Northam) don't join in. Was an excellent rendition towards the end of the game though. Thought we could have been louder when our backs were to the wall at 2-1 and the team needed as much support as it could get.

Agreed, while it obviously helped us on the day, was sad to see, he'd been such a class player in his prime.

No, just incorrect.

No, just incorrect.