Lighthouse

I know we’re a long way from safe yet but I’m definitely looking more at the Bournemouth, Wolves, Brighton area of the table this week. This team should be nowhere near relegation by the end of the season.

I’d actually quite like to see Leeds back up. Big club and a decent day out.

Most of our rivals losing by at least 3 goals. A draw in Palace - Cardiff would be brilliant.

Howe’s Spurs audition not going too well.

I believe the club will be holding a minutes silence for the victims of the Nakatomi Plaza attack, which was 30 years ago tonight.

Well this is festive.

Since promotion it’s got to be Everton away and Spurs at home. Lost our last 4 league games against Bristol City too.

Watching MOTD, if we conspire to get relegated from a league containing Cardiff, Fulham and Huddersfield, every single player should be lined up in front of a wall and shot. Utd are just strolling through Cardiff.

He was 21 by the time Koeman left and still not getting into the team. Hardly old but after 4 years of Premier League football he was still a ‘last 15 minutes’ sub.

I think he just got found out not having Wanyama, Virgil and Fonte in front of him.

He plays for himself, likes doing a few fancy tricks and dribbles and misses chances to advance our attack. He has been given many chances and failed to impress under 3 different managers. The bad attitude thing comes from a few things, mainly the way he plays but there were a couple of other incidents. Storming off when getting subbed off in a reserve game and all the sh*t he gave MoPe after his WBA goal. He had done f**k all for nearly a year before that and was shouting in MoPe’s face as if not starting him was a huge miscarriage of justice. He then got about 5 starts in a row and did absolutely nothing. It seems he regularly gets subbed off for Celta too, so can’t be doing anything special there.

None of those players mentioned strike me as having lacked confidence. They just have rather noticeable and regularly occurring flaws in their game. No amount of confidence will make JWP quicker, taller, harder in the tackle or more dynamic. Even under Poch and Koeman he never looked like grabbing a first team spot by the nads.

I hate when people feel the need to blame fans for something quite obviously not their fault. It’s not as if JWP has had any abuse direct at him from the stands. JWP has the cushiest job in the Premier League. He keeps getting big juicy contracts despite being an exceedingly limited footballer, who has never really fit into the side and secured a position under 7 Saints managers. Players like JWP (and 3 dodgy managers) are the reason we are where we are.

So we should keep him because he has a terrible fitness record?

With City losing, the title race is back on!

I think any achievement for Liverpool would be nauseating, unbeaten, Champions or otherwise. We'd never hear the end of it. If they have a miraculous streak of injury free games, like Leicester did, they can win the League. The difference with City is they can have 3 of their best players injured in Aguero, KDB and Silva and still spank 90% of this league. Take Salah and Virgil out of Liverpool's team, they're pretty average looking. Mane seems to have entered his usual winter hibernation recently and Firminho hasn't been up to much either.

Since we signed Gabbi he has scored 10 league goals (and 2 more in the Cup final). In the same period of time Austin has scored 9.

Good luck to him. He outstayed his usefulness here but to pretend he never did anything good is revisionist in the extreme.

Nobody deserves to start, it's the team most likely to win, which IMO includes certainly Bertrand and Lemina, probably Cedric too. I see no reason why those three (when Bertrand is fit again) wouldn't try as hard as the others.

This. Austin may have come off the bench to score against the only defender in the League less fit than he is but that doesn't suddenly make him good. Gabbi is better.

Don't forget Austin, Rasiak and Le Tissier. Oh and Speedie, Dixon and Hughes.

We'd be nuts selling our best player in January when we're in a relegation fight. I'd listen to offers over £40m next summer IF he stated his desire to leave.

Imagine my surprise that an electro-house DJ would ask a woman to do something vaguely sexualised. Getting Solveig to present an award for outstanding football achievement is just another of these hilarious mismatches which seem to be all the rage these days. Like having Danny Dyer hosting Have I got News For You and Elton John doing Formula 1 interviews.

There's nothing fickle about any of it. Fans don't go to football games to look at league tables, we want to be entertained by what's on the pitch. That didn't happen here under Puel and it looks like it's not happening at Leicester either.