Lighthouse

Sadly it's still a small part of football. Get 20 or 30 000 people together and you will always get a few meat heads trying to prove their superiority by braining each other. Hopefully your son doesn't get put off going to games because of this.

Jozy Altidore is still playing for Sunderland. As long as this is the case, we have nowhere near the weakest options in the League.

I know Norwegian and Emirates have it. I think American have it on some long haul routes but I'm not sure who else. I'm assuming you're on the Norwegian flight out of Gatwick.

Christ almighty...

What's with this tidal wave of hindsight against Tadic's penalty? He scored one against Arsenal, he probably takes them quite well in training and yet you are all saying he should have give it to someone like Pelle or Toby who you have never seen take a penalty. No doubt if Toby had taken it and skyed it into row Z it would be all, "why didn't Tadic take it FFS! He scored the last one!"

All teams go through patches of poor form. Obviously this was a disappointing performance but we are still 5th and will still be there until next week at least. A definite need for some more fire power in January I think.

Man City are the only team who have outplayed us comprehensively. Things aren't going well at the moment but form is temporary. We are still 5th unless Arsenal score a shed load. Europe is on the cards, so is a cup final and we've got a chance to go shopping coming up in a couple of weeks.

Oh fiddlesticks.

Why not Tadic?

Last missed pen? Sharp against Blackpool in the only one I can remember in over 5 years.

I thought you told us they were over after we lost to Man City.

Wet Sam losing.

David Prutton is a Sky pundit now?

Pleased for Jake. If he is genuinely good enough to be in contention then I look forward to seeing more of him.

Don't like the Wombles one. All they've done is stick the word 'wombling' into an otherwise dull X-mas waffle.

I'm fairly sure that kind of thing is illegal anyway.

I went to all of them, forgot they were Friday nighters. How that Saaaafend game didn't get called off I don't know, we had to swim the last part of the journey. The Royals fan I was working with after that game didn't shut the f**k up for about a month.

This one intrigues me as it is surely open to interpretation. Are they talking about the Treaty of Versailles or more like 5.56 ammunition? Either way, sounds kinky. I think I might do some more research.

For me this is good news, now I can feel even dirtier when I watch it.

I remember losing at home to Colchester on a Friday once. The game and atmosphere were dreadful.

Don't see any point in Friday games, just means the Saturday is then boring. It's also the one time of the week when traffic is worst, especially on the motorways. Spare a thought for the Saints fans living in London, the Midlands or the West Country who would have to try and drive or train it to St Mary's between 5 and 7pm on a Friday.

I remember that game, not because I went but it was the day I flew out of Manchester to go skiing. The flight was delayed by the snow, turned out it was the start of a cold snap which hit Western Europe. When we landed in Grenoble it was -7, by the time we got up into the Alps it was below -20 and stayed there all week. Coldest game I can remember being at was Leeds away in League 1. Was about this time of year, the fixture before X-mas I think and was -5 all day. It was made all the worse by a truly dreadful game where both teams were rubbish. Leeds won it through a peach from Snodgrass. Best bit of that day was leaving the ground on the bingo bus, we saw a Leeds fan fall flat on his arse on the ice. Was lying there giving us all the Vs, whilst looking a complete tit, flat on the floor.

Maybe but I wouldn't offer Torres more than half of that.