Lighthouse

I agree in principle but we need someone better than Long and Redmond for the first half of the game. Both are substandard in front of goal.

Think he's playing further over at deep extra cover.

We are quite capable of finishing 8th with or without Koeman. He isn't worth being the 4th highest paid manager in Europe for, or whatever the stat was.

All depends on who's bidding. Because Palace and Stoke were both after him, that pushed the price up. With Clyne and Wanyama, Liverpool and Spurs were the only clubs seriously bidding so we got less. Either way, a player with only a year left puts us in a much weaker position to negotiate. Also Mané was not the same as Sissoko. The former was anything up to £38m with add ons, the latter is £30m. With that margin for error you might as well say we signed Redmond on a free.

And written off £20m in value. Financially speaking, keeping Mané for another year was about as good as the whole Osvaldo saga.

Two European games in 3 days, lucky they're both at home. I'd start with J Rod and Bertrand in for Long and Targett. Otherwise, same team IMO.

Great, confidence boosting win although Sparta really were dreadful. Forster had one Hollywood save for the cameras, second half, but otherwise had very little to do. Martina, Rom, Yoshi, JWP, Hoj and VvD all looked very good. Austin needs to work on his offsideyness a bit. Long wasted his chances, again. Good to see J Rod get another.

Really was nothing to get excited about, unless your FF and for some reason need to make up extra reasons to criticise Tadic.

Adkins first game in charge wasn't it? Lost 2-0 at MK Dons. 4 years ago today we lost 6-1 at Arsenal.

Are we counting Brenda as an honourable mention in this thread? Apparently, "there's no embarrassment," in losing 7-0 to Barca.

Some people don't seem to accept that not everyone is a diehard fan. For a fair number of casual fans, the expense and inconvenience of some games takes the enjoyment out of going. Even at home.

No, alcohol is banned for everybody.

It wasn't crazy, we've seen nothing from Gallagher to suggest he is Premier League standard, yet. Long didn't miss those chances because he was afraid, he missed them because he's Shane Long and that's what he's done his whole career. As an aside, exactly 5 years ago we lost 1-0 away to Swindon and ended up in the drop zone, without a manager. We managed to avoid relegation so, I won't panic just yet. The goal scorer that day, a Mr Charles Austin.

You must be easily amused because I find him quite astonishingly dull.

"What's 20 million" How about £4m more than our record signing.

Really? You really don't understand why we sold a player who didn't want to be here, who we'd still have to sell next summer £20m cheaper anyway?

Never mind him, he's still upset because Adkins got the sack. As far as he's concerned no other manager is good enough.

It was blatantly obvious, as Long was missing those chances, that we'd get robbed in injury time. Didn't think it would be quite that awful but it was coming none the less. On the up side, getting robbed at the Emirates is hardly inductive of a team struggling in a relegation fight.

First team for me, we really need a win for some confidence. Today's team with Hoj in for Clasie please.

F**k off Long! Ridiculous.

If that was Yoshida he'd be crucified.

Really? I can only see one.

Wish we were Stoke.

West Ham

My stream's a bit slow, we're 2-0 down against Liverpool here. Need to get that clown Mané off.