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I was thinking that. When half the team is a booking away from missing a semi-final, it's a bit daft really. It's a tournament, passions run high. Bans should be reserved for a straight red or something daft like 4/5 bookings IMO.

What are you on about?

He's on double the wages of anyone in our squad. Mata isn't coming here

Him and his £150k a week wage demands? Think on.

Robson Kanu scoring against Belgium was pretty special, imagine if he scored against another top team like, let's say for example, Spain. That would make him one heck of a player.

A 3-0 win over Paraguay apparently. Belgium and Cameroon were both a.e.t. If my memory serves me right. I'm lying, I had to look it up. Add Spain and that leaves 3 knockout games we've won in 90 minutes in 50 years.

One kind of felt this was on the cards when the Belgians brought on Fellaini. If in doubt, send on the big name, big club, big money big ego; how very English.

Had to go through that in my head, it can't be right?! But no... Denmark in '02 and Ecuador in '06 if my memory serves me right. Pathetic.

More to do with the fact that if I'm not working Boxing Day, I'm usually visiting family abroad and miss it anyway. Personally I'd advocate a NYD game, then a month off for January and play until mid June. Whilst we're at it, might be better for some if the season started and ended later anyway. As in, the first weekend of September, so as not to encroach on school's summer holidays and the associated drop in attendances.

I guess it depends on each individual set of values but I'd happily play more games in the sunshine and fewer around Xmas.

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Everton strike me a bit like a chav who's been given £100 to spend on a night out. Get some new clobber, limo with his mates into town, a round of shots in Varsity, £8 to get into some sh*t hole nightclub, then... Hang on where's that £100 gone?!

Against what is a pretty poor Welsh team, let's be honest. Edit: bang on cue.

That's why they're back up. If they were good enough to be first team players for us, they wouldn't be content being sat on the bench. People say stuff like 'imagine if we still had Fonte, VvD, Lovren and Toby'... Well we wouldn't, two of those players are never going to be happy sitting on our bench and they'd leave. Yoshi and Gardos are pretty much our level for 3/4th choice CB. No offence but your other list looks a bit Championship manager. If you think we're going to be investing big in 7 or 8 players you will be disappointed. We've got Austin, Long, J Rod, Pelle, Tadic, Redmond, Davis and JWP fighting over 4 attacking slots. Add a replacement for Mané and 9 into 4 is already pushing it.

Fonte smacking Lewa round the head with a 3 year contract their, looks like a nasty paper cut.

He hasn't been in the squad for a couple of years now. His replacement was basically Mané. Assuming we bring in someone else to replace Sadio, I don't think we'll be bring in a third attacking midfielder, now we have Redmond. I think we'll replace Mané, Victor and Stek/Kelvin and that'll be us for the summer.

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Whoever we pick won't really matter as the FA just seem England as a Premier League All-Stars 11. Until someone is allowed to come in, drop the likes of Rooney and pick a player from the bottom half or Championship, because he happens to fit their system, nothing will change.

£36m for a player that inconsistent is quite a lot of money. Unplayable on his day, which hopefully next season is against Everton but absolutely nowhere for half of last year. Think he had a 6 month period where Liverpool were the only team he scored against.

Bottled any kind of interview.

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Please, no! Would be like watching paint dry and not very interesting paint, either. Beige paint.

Yes. Partly because they've played well, partly because I don't want to see us getting spanked by the French.

9? So you're basically including Kelvin as evidence we can't hang on to players. One day you my get your wish and we will have to sit through a season without a Lallana, Morgan, Wanyama or Mané in the squad.

Roy's interview, "we want to stay in the tournament." Not win it or get to the final, just "stay in it." Says it all really.