Lighthouse

A serious crack addiction.

I thought 'Orn was a Watford fan? Didn't we decide once he was a 13 year old paper boy of Indian heritage or am I thinking of someone else?

That's sort of the point though. It's all well and good standing on the street with a megaphone shouting about how evil corporations are avoiding tax. Pretty much everyone is opposed to that. All he is doing is pointing out the obvious with no actual solutions to the problem.

Is he really any worse than Dalglish, Hodgson, Schteve or Brenda? We may have only been 15th when he was sacked but Poch only took us up to 14th by the end of the season. Supposing he had kept his job and taken us to 8th like Poch did then following year. He could have ended up somewhere like Liverpool or Spuds.

Brand is a plank, just a champagne socialist full of easy answers with no substance. I have no idea why anybody lends credit to his political ramblings.

Always thought he would be a decent manager for England U-21. Might get them playing some decent cohesive football. Can't be any worse than Stuart Pearce standing there shouting.

Nonsense, we've made loads of defensive errors in games featuring Morgan. We've lost plenty of games and put in some poor performances. He is an important player but we aren't doomed without him.

You can't claim Morgan's absence was responsible for Toby getting injured, Fonte's back pass, Forster not coming for that free kick or Tadic's penalty being saved? Those are the moments which decided our fate, not a lack of creativity in midfield. Why do players suddenly become awesome when they are injured? Morgan played 90 minutes at home to West Brom and we were dreadful. He also played in tonnes of crap Saints performances last year. How was that defeat at Norwich any different to yesterday.

Agreed. He just provides the most frequent hilarity. Lambert didn't feature Shaw is injured Chambers was suspended Lallana was first in the showers again. Poch won (in the last minute again) Gillett scored for Yeovil Adkins got spanked 6-1 Boruc let in three but still won Surman played 90 minutes in said game Osvaldo's Inter are playing Chievo tomorrow night Michael Poke was an unused subsitute for Pompey Tommy Forecast got the night off from his Saturday job at the Harvester in Hamble Michael Antonio and Danny Fox drew 0-0 for Forest against Rotherham. Dexter Blackstock also played and was subbed off Dan Petrescu have a very nice afternoon walking his dachshund, Jurgen. I think that about covers it.

I'm not sure what Liverpool fans are expecting to be honest. They've combined the Liverpool team which usually finishes 7th with the Saints team which finished 8th and they're expecting to be er... winning the League? If you factor out Saints and West Ham having such a great first half of the season, they're about where you'd expect them to be.

I wonder how broadly the term 'verbal abuse' can be applied. Supposing one character tells another to 'f**k off' in any mainstream, non-pornographic movie. Supposing I wrote to the British film regulation authority and told them I found the film highly arousing, would it then get banned?

I think they want their £20m back. Can't really blame them, you could buy most of Toxteth and Kirkby with that and still have enough change to buy Stewart Downing.

I think that RAWK thread on Lovren might be my new home page.

Oh Dejan. Just when I thought I couldn't love you any more...

Toilet seat and Lovren playing in a back three. 1-0 after 12 minutes. Wish I was watching this.

I don't think 'inbred' is something you can aim at people on council estates. If anything, that's something you would aim at the upper classes and royalty who generally marry into wealth and privilege and all seem to be distantly related to each other. If there is a stereotype associated with council estates it's probably people being mixed race, which is about as far from inbreeding as you can get.

Morgan isn't the be all and end all of our team. We were by far the better side against Man Utd and we were good for a point at the Emirates until Toby got injured. Did we really play any worse yesterday than we did at Villa Park? If that penalty goes in, Burnley start chasing the game, more space, leaves them open on the break. We could easily have taken 7 points from the last three games, no fluke. I wasn't at the Man City game but from what I've heard we were outplayed in both halves. He is an excellent player and he has been missed no doubt but for me the poor form of Pelle and Tadic has been far more of an issue. It's not as if the midfield is struggling to string three passes together, which surely is Morgan's forté.

Lovren and Lallana starting at Old Trafford this afternoon.

What gave you that idea?

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Have you ever considered being head of recruitment at Liverpool?

I've got two pints of diesel in my garage. If you want you can come round and we can drink that together.

Yeah but if you're going to lose a game, that's the way to do it. I'd much rather have the lions share of the possession and chances, then cock it up when it comes to shooting. It means we aren't far off putting in a decent performance. Imagine playing like Man U did on Monday but without RVP. A misshapen defence a midfield giving the ball away hopelessly and the whole team being generally unable to string three passes together. That would be much more alarming.

Not quite, although it has probably been in the microwave a bit too long. A bit dry and chewy.

I'd personally go with: Forster Clyne - Fonte - Gardos - Targett Morgan Victor JWP Davis Tadic Long