Lighthouse

Shame Lucas is playing, he might actually make them good. Looks like it took Lovren all of 3 months to get dropped from the first team. Liverpool have got one expensive bench. In other news Chambers gets to spend this evening keeping Grosskreutz and Immobile company. Live on Sky 1 for those who are interested.

How is Lambert an 'option' for Pelle. He is pretty much the same player just older, slower and less fit and mobile. If Pelle isn't working Lambert certainly wont. This is exactly the kind of game Lambert would have gone missing in last season. I do think we need another CF but not an inferior version of what we already have. Someone with the pace to play off the last man, which is not one of Pelle's attributes. Maybe Long would be suited to this, I'm not sure.

A player with plenty of bottle

Well, since you've already decided my opinion, you don't need to bother reading the rest of this post. Tennis is different. If you take a decent male player from any Sunday afternoon tennis club and put him up against one of the Williams sisters or Sharapova, he will get destroyed. Men's and women's tennis are fairly similar in terms of ability because they played by roughly equal numbers at grass roots level. The strongest players will always be men because they are naturally stronger but women's tennis is still worth watching in terms of skill and ability. Does anyone know if there are any rules preventing women from playing in the men's football league?

Jenson Button would have been a very credible winner that year, it's just that the Man U fans rigged the vote. The Zara Philips year was worse in terms of actual sporting achievements IMO.

I'm drawing a comparison because it's the same sport. If I want to watch football I will watch a decent quality game, like a Premier League game, Champs League, WC etc. I, along with pretty much everyone else wouldn't want to watch a Sunday League match on TV or at Wembley. My comment about positive discrimination is simple. You can find hundreds of men's football games of similar quality which wont get played at Wembley with exposure on national TV, yet this women's game got just that for no other reason than it is women involved. Put simply, if those players had been men of equal ability they wouldn't have been on the news or at Wembley. Your last line is just petulant. I put forwards an opinion which you happen to disagree with. I'm not frothing at the mouth, I didn't even watch the game and my TV is off. I just saw the highlights on the news.

If I was a footballer I'd be sure to share my house with a couple of bad tempered Alsatians. Hope this doesn't get to Victor's head too much. The money wont be an issue but the invasion of privacy and shock can unsettle even the hardest people.

I think it would be simplistic to say Davis was the reason for our poor performance tonight. After all he went off injured against Leicester following a fairly forgettable 0-0 performance by the team. In fact that first half wasn't all that different to tonight's performance, minus the error from Forster. Plenty of possession and a couple of decent chances without scoring. Having said all that, I do rate him and he is definitely in our strongest 11 at the moment.

A point away from home, you can't be too unhappy with that. There are always going to be crap performances, tonight was just one of them.

Second in the League with no hope of European football? You really are a melon sometimes.

Why would you weaken your team for the fixture you are most likely to win? Why leave him out because he is on a yellow? It just means he misses 2 games instead of 1 when he finally does get booked.

Well it's not a sell out is it, for two reasons. 1) Giving away free tickets to 10,000 people who have little or no intention of going isn't 'selling'. 2) You can't claim you've sold out just because there were only 55,000 tickets available. Using the same logic, I could print 2 tickets to see me picking my nose at Wembley, give them to two random blokes in a pub and claim I've sold out Wembley because all available tickets have been taken. Why the need to question my sexuality? What is it about not wanting Sunday League standard football on TV which makes you think I'm gay? Why would that even be an issue for you if I am?

Was looking for team news on Saints twitter feed and had a small heart attack when I saw Gazza starting. Thank f**k it was just the U-21

That's where you're wrong IMO, it is less worthy of being on TV. I think the England women's team would probably be beaten by a half decent Sunday League men's team. You wouldn't sit watching a men's Sunday League match on TV, so why would you watch a women's game of similar quality. There is no other reason to watch it other than the fact that it is women playing. To me that's positive discrimination in favour of women, which I disagree with.

23 for me. The only ones I missed in the top half were Ships, Maddison and gorgeous Iain who were all before my time so I'm not to ashamed about that. Took me a while to remember Lallana for some reason and I was surprised to see Gaston on the list, thought he only had about 3.

I think that's the one where Enckleman got sent off and was replaced by Postma. This was in the days before we found out he liked a dildo up the bum.

We don't generally lose when we're on Sky, that's the biggest myth out there. Off the top of my head we've won against Everton and Fulham last year and Reading me Man City the year before. We also got a 1-1 draw against Arsenal. The home win over Liverpool 2 years ago was also on one of the subscription channels.

If tickets were limited to 55,000 how come 10,000 of them didn't turn up? Surely if they were that hard to come by people would be selling them on the black market for a nice big mark up. On the subject of which, does anyone know the prices for this? If you're after equality you need to be asking at least £50 a ticket for a game at Wembley.

More 'Spurs away' defending from Lovren for the second.

This kind of stuff is all possible for some people but not everyone. Bingo bus - It saves money but you then have to get to St Mary's (or possibly Winchester/Eastleigh is the other pick up?) through rush hour traffic. That means leaving work even earlier which isn't an option for everyone. Sure you can eat before you set off but again that will take some time and mean leaving work earlier. Then you're going from about 4pm to 1am without any food. We can sit here splitting hairs over the finer details but it's different for every individual. Even if the bingo bus works out perfectly for you, and you go max. cost saving you're going to spend 5 hours sat on a coach, have to leave work early, get to bed after 1am and fork out £60. That just isn't everyone's cup of tea.

The ONLY reason I would want to go to this game instead of watching it on a warm comfy sofa is for the atmosphere and to cheer the team on. Sitting in silence, even if we score in order to avoid getting kicked out/head kicked in just isn't worth going at all for. For me it would be away end or nothing. Even cost saving and with a fairly efficient car (baring in mind the traffic) you are going to spend at least £85 and be starving by the time you get home.

£40 a ticket, £50 for a return drive to Brum. A pie, a pint, a Burger King at the services and parking will easily make up the rest. Even if you find someone to share a ride with you're still looking at £75

Brenda, if it's any consolation, we don't have any sympathy for you either.

Personally I reckon all tickets for TV fixtures should be half price, with the resulting drop in revenue being covered Sky or BT accordingly. For many people £100 on a evening out in Birmingham just isn't an option. Not when it could be a choice between that and buying the kids X-mas presents.