Lighthouse

I will almost guarantee that is a fake. At that range it would blatantly obvious you are looking at a commercial airliner, the two of them are barely half a mile apart.

8 League games between now and January. 4 of them against Villa, Palace, Everton (home) and Burnley. The other 4 are more difficult on paper but even if we lost all 4 and Swansea in 5th won their corresponding 4 fixtures, we would only be 5 points behind them. Or we would be 4 points behind Arsenal if they won all 4 of their games. Assuming we at least match Arsenal or Swansea's results in the other 4 winnable games, we are still going to be within striking distance of the top 4 come January. Maybe not in the top 4 but certainly in the mix.

There are cheaper ways around it I'd have though. If you're signing English players just to make up the numbers then you might as well sign Jermaine Wright and Paul Wotton.

I can't see why City would be after J Rod, if they need a player they will be aiming much higher than that. He's had 3/4 of a good season and a bad injury, I can't see anyone forking out for him in January personally. More likely summer if he proves his fitness and regains some form. That said, if someone did offer a big fee I'd take it and reinvest in another player without the fitness doubts.

I don't think Liverpool hold quite the same appeal as they did in summer.

Johnson just looks lost half the time when he is asked to defend. Clyne is a far better player all round.

We will probably get Shakhtar, Anzhi and Hapoel Tel Aviv. 3 absolute nightmare away days.

I wouldn't expect to win any Premier League game comfortably, especially away from home. Just look at how close QPR and Leicester pushed us in our own back yard. I'd put us down as favourites but I think any 'expectations' may come around to bite us on the arse.

I can almost read his mind. "Liverpool won the European cup 30 years ago, so Lovren must be better than any Saints players."

Rickie Lambert. He went for £4m in summer and I doubt anyone would pay more than half that now. I really can't see many Premier League clubs coming in for him. Maybe one of the teams down the bottom but can you honestly say you would rather have him than Austin, Ings or Ulloa?

I always thought it was, "and now you'd better believe us." As for the OP I wouldn't put money on any of the bottom 3 getting to 25 points. I know they can't all finish with so few but Leicester and Burnley are both hopeless in front of goal and QPR's defence is hilarious.

No, it was the right decision. As a life long Liverpool fan he simply couldn't turn down the chance to play for them, even knowing he would be on the bench more often than not. I consider myself a 'first team regular' in my current job but I'd give it up in a heartbeat to be a fringe player at Saints for £40kpw. More likely than not he would be on the bench here anyway. We already tried to replace him with Osvaldo and it was becoming clear last season he was well past his sell by date. If Lambert had stayed we would still have bought Pelle. If Lambert can't get into the team ahead of no-hopers like Borini and Ballotelli then he'd have no chance against Pelle. Dare I say it, if Lambert wants regular football, the Championship is his level. I don't think he has it in him to be an effective Premier League striker every weekend. Just look at Grant Holt as an example.

I do wonder how long Liverpool can sustain their current model. Spunking all that transfer money and big wage packets on the likes of Carroll, Downing, Lallana, Lovren, Markovic whilst not qualifying for the Champs League can't be making their bank manager too happy. Added to that they've always had an Owen/Gerrard/Fowler/Carragher type talisman, with Gerrard on his way out it's hard to see where the next one will come from.

I'm not sure about that, Rickie doesn't seem like the sharpest tool in the box to me. He might be a good coach but I wouldn't hire him based on sentimentality. We are in a position to pick the best personnel from around Europe so Rickie would have to prove himself in that field before giving him a coaching job.

No. He was booked against Liverpool, Swansea, Sunderland and Leicester.

Oh that Spurs performance was hilarious.

You are putting a lot of faith in Balloheskey, Borini, Lambert, Johnson et. al. overhauling what is already an 11 point gap. If we were putting those performances in with that team would you be betting on us to be top 4?

Bit of a cliche Trousers, you could say any game against a team below us is a banana skin. A bit disrespectful to Villa too I think, we shouldn't just go there and expect to win despite recent form. Don't forget we only took a point off them last year, although how they won that game at St Mary's I'll never know. Wont be an easy game and a point wouldn't be a disaster. A win would set us up brilliantly for our tough run of fixtures though and we have to be favourites. I wouldn't change the team from the Leicester game but with 17 international players departing we need to hope there are no injuries.

That's sort of a default setting for Roger whenever he reads Chambers name on here. Chambers will do alright at Arsenal and has time on his side. He isn't a stand out talent like Shaw is and I'd say £16m was a decent enough price for him.

I can't wait for the next edition of #asklovren on Twitter. He never did tell me what his favourite non-ferrous metal was and I'm eager to find out.

If results carry on like this it wont matter. If we're doing the business against everyone outside the top 6, whilst Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool are throwing points away we can stay ahead of them. West Ham and Stoke beat City Swansea beat Arsenal Leicester beat Man Utd Everyone beat Liverpool No reason we can't do likewise. The only team I look at and think we can't beat is Chelsea.

If you take Liverpool out of last years table then Everton would have been 4th on 72 points. I would say that is roughly the bench mark this year.

One has to feel sorry for Poch.

Pelle was offside. Had he challenged for that it would have been a free kick on the half way line and would have allowed Leicester to get men forward.

He doesn't look like the kind of bloke I'd want to have a misunderstanding with. "Ronald, I want to play up front." "Yes Victor" "Ronald, I want to play in goal next game." "Yes Victor, of course you can"