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You can say that pretty much every season though. Look at 02/03. Killer giving away a last minute penalty against Spurs Paul Jones Howler at West Brom to give them all 3 points. Djorkaeff's last minute equaliser at Bolton Andy Cole's last minute equaliser for 10 man Blackburn Throwing away a 1-0 lead in the last 5 minutes to lose at Everton. The following season Ambrose equalises for Newcastle with literally the last kick of the game, we throw away a lead to lose at home to Bolton. Those mistakes aren't what got 'condemned' us it was being gash the rest of the time.

I can't believe we got relegated in probably the easiest ever season to stay up. All 3 promoted teams were completely gash that season and 34 points would have kept us up.

If he's already in that state he's probably had 10 already. I doubt it would make any difference. I don't think drinking would be an issue in terms of people getting drunk. Those that drink will turn up hammered anyway and leave 15 minutes before HT to get another beer. The main problem will be goal celebrations and beer getting chucked all over the place.

A mate just posted a Russian titled version of this on Facebook. At first I just thought it was Maverickski and Icemanov fecking around.

I think it's more to do with effective policing and CCTV being used to ban hooligans from the grounds. Now any wannabe hooligans know this so they take it somewhere else after the game. I doubt we took away their beer and all the trouble makers sat down and said, "I say chaps, lets all sit down and watch the game like jolly good sports."

Norwich 2-2 League game under Pardew (not the JPT when Waigo got the last minute equaliser) was pretty good. DC scored an absolute belter. Then we went up to Carrow Road later in the season and beat them 2-0. Saints were more impressive but it wasn't as thrilling as a contest. Reading 2-1 away win under Poortaloo. Was expecting to go and get hammered, we were so bad and they'd won their first 8 home games in a row. Instead we played them off the park. Villa 4-1 This season

If Villa go down I wouldn't mind nicking Benteke off them. He's about as decent and realistic a long term replacement for Lambert as I've seen this season. Unless by some miracle one of Chelsea's 5 managers over the summer decide they don't want Lukaku.

Remember him looking like a fish up a tree playing in the hole in a home defeat to Blackpool. Was nowhere near ready for first team Championship action when he was here, good luck to him though.

Where is MLG with a comprehensive list of players out of contract. I can think of. Forecast (Finally, can we have a national holiday to celebrate?) Kelvin Forte Butters Puncheon Chaplow? Initially signed a 2 and a half year contract, 2 years ago according to wiki. Did he sign an extension? Frazer? Signed 3 years ago come summer. Not sure how long the contract was and if it was extended. Dickson - Pretty sure he is out of contract. Barnard? - He did get an extension, can't remember how long for. That's 6 definites and 3 maybes.

We've already sent 11 players out on loan this season and only 2 of those are youth players. The other 9 are clearly surplus in this league and if we stay up I could well see them leaving permanently. Many are out of contract anyway and wont be getting a new one. Added to that Kelvin's contract is up and I'd be baffled if he got a new one, same as Butters. That's 11 players and you could easily see Chaplow and Lee leaving too. That's 13 straight away. Then there are players like Richardson and Fox who may well leave to get regular first team football in the Champ. If ALL those players left we'd still have 19 players on the books with first team experience Boruc, Gazza Clyne, Shaw Yoshi, Fonte, Jos, Forren Morgan, Cork, Davis, JWP Puncheon, Lallana, Gaston, Guly Lambert, JRod, Mayuka Not beyond the realms of possibility. We would then have maybe 5 or 6 decent signings to bring in and hopefully the likes of Chambers, Hoskins, Sinclair and Stephens making the occasional appearance.

TBF, that has never been tried. He could be right and we'd be in th Champions League if we'd played that system from the start. After all, Burley had a similar idea about Pele and it turned out to be a stroke of genius. Or it could he horse sh*t.

Have you been on JustMike's facebook page?

I saw the enitre Saints career of: Steven O'Halloran - Half an hour sub appearance Ian Pearce - My first away game, at Scun.thorpe (and against Adkins) under Pearson. Iago Falque - Flakey only played for us last season. Once. Home defeat to Leicester.

Not much love for that MK Dons effort so far but I laughed my arse off at the time. One centre half smacking the ball at the other, great coordination. Also not really a classic goal as such but when John O'shea scored on the last day of 05 to give us the lead against Man Utd I went a little bit nuts.

I'd honnestly take our fixtures out of all of those. A trip to Spuds is about as tough as it gets, in theory. Every other game I'd have labled as winnable. Swansea, Liverpool and Chelsea are about the toughest of the rest. I don't think Reading's fixtures are all that good. Yes they have some home games against other relegation candidates but those games will be edge and could go either way. Fail to win a couple of those and they will be in big trouble. Then they have away games at Arsenal, Man Utd and Everton. Trips to Fulham, West Ham and Norwich wont be easy either. I'd have them down as draws at best, unless they pull off some astonishing results. From those fixtures I'd guess at February 23: Wigan (H) WIN March 2: Everton (A) LOSE March 9: Aston Villa (H) WIN March 16: Manchester United (A) LOSE March 30: Arsenal (A) LOSE April 6: Southampton (H) DRAW April 13: Liverpool (H) DRAW April 20: Norwich (A) DRAW April 27: QPR (H) WIN May 4: Fulham (A) DRAW May 12: Man City (H) LOSE May 19: West Ham (A) DRAW Thats 37 points being VERY generous and assuming they will get 10 points from 12 in their relegation crunch games. That's only 10 points above what we've got now. If we win our home games against West Brom, Wham, Stoke and QPR I'm 90% sure we will finish above them.

Just watching MOTD. Nailed on penalty, no doubt about it. Also, Barry's goal gets funnier every time. What a finish.

October 2010 - Jason Puncheon is booed off by (a minority of) his own fans in League 1 and ends up getting loaned to Millwall a week later. January 2011 - Jason Puncheon slags off Cortese on twitter having been frozen out completely and flopped on loan at QPR. February 2013 - Jason Puncheon scores the opening goal in a convincing 3-1 win against the English Champions and celebrates by wiping his arse on the corner flag, whilst 5,000 fans in the Northam sing, "Jason Puncheon, he sh*ts when he wants." Hands up who predicted that a year ago.

Apparently so.

I might get a printout of the BBC results page framed and hang it on my wall. Couldn't have been better, even in League 1 the results were literally perfect.

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Would you have dropped Hooiveld or Yoshida? If you'd asked me (even before 2 tremendous performances tonight) I'd have said neither.

In fairness very few people write players off so rashly. The culture of internet message boards is such that a very vocal minority get a disproportionate amount of attention. It may only be about 6 or 7 out of the couple of thousand registered users we have who wrote off those players. Most people just had doubts, which isn't unreasonable. Afterall you don't get stuck down the bottom of the table without quite a lot of suspect performances from a number of players.

The last properly decent team we beat by my reckoning was Man Utd in August 2003 when Beattie scored from a corner. I don't count Liverpool in 2005, they were crap in the league that year.

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