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I think all fans of football prefer it when Carroll and Nolan don't play. They're very much players from the 'old West Ham' style; I much prefer the way they actually try to pass the ball more than twice in a row now.

Gotta be honest, I preferred it when Lovren was starting every week and gifting the opposition goals and letting Mignolet take the stick for it.

In their last ten victories, Spurs have won 2-1 eight times. Couldn't be bothered to count how many of those included a goal in the last 5 minutes.

Nun time?

No idea who he is, but his name is perilously close to mine! If anyone's unsure, I have friends, a girlfriend and can stump up £5 a year to fund Steve's vodka-fuelled match previews.

So basically he didn't buy his ticket soon enough and it sold out, so he's claiming discrimination against the club? What a helmet.

Good to see that Lallana still can't tackle.

needastream.com is your new best friend. Excellent site.

Oh, I completely agree. Bit surprised we played that shape at all, I was fully expecting 3-5-2 so Davis/JWP could interchange more.

This is odd, I thought he was one of our best players today, behind Elia/Betrand/Clyne. I was much more expecting a petty thread slagging off Pelle or Davis, not JWP.

Just got Osvaldo back haven't we?

Yoshida playing about 5 yards behind the others, keeping him onside. Got lucky I think.

Definitely wouldn't. I'm not going to see a penny of that £20m, and I can't imagine it will actually have much impact on our summer spendings.

Benteke surely can't be too happy at Aston Villa at the moment...

You play Nikita Jelavic as your main striker and you're always going to struggle to score. Bruce won't be there much longer.

Gutted to see him leave, I have a proper little man crush on Jack Cork. Excellent player, model professional, and surprisingly prolific striker. Bony 2.0 for Swansea, I think! Hope his career continues uphill from here and the Swansea fans take to him well.

Ramírez starts for Hull for the first time in ages (November I think?)

Still just think this is lazy journalism. They need a story, some could argue we need a striker, he played under Koeman, therefore we MUST be after him.

Definitely want Chelsea to win against Liverpool with a highly contentious last minute penalty decision, so Liverpool go away exhausted both physically and mentally. Poch can go do one too.

Because in the Premiership, to get in Garth Crook's Premiership Team Of The Week for the Premiership, you have to be either a goal-scoring Premiership defender, an English Premiership player (bonus points if you're an English Premiership defender that scores Premiership goals), or play for a Premiership team that traditionally finishes in the top 5-6 Premiership teams in the Premiership. He didn't even know who Yoshida was until a couple of Premiership matches ago when he played in the Premiership and scored a Premiership goal, despite Yoshi making 49 Premiership appearances for the Premiership team Southampton prior to that Premiership appearance. Phew!

Afraid I don't know, I don't follow Serbia football. Can't believe many teams would have the spare cash to buy a whole club like Borac Čačak, but if they go down then they might be worth a punt, showed good character getting promoted into the SuperLiga last season. Usually big portions in Serbia though, so they're probably not too young or hungry.

Is there anybody in the AFCON that can nobble Toure so he's out for the rest of the season? Without him I reckon we could do it.

In which case he'll play 4 average games, then injure himself and be out for a year. But he is young and from our academy so chances of Wenger signing him are pretty high!

I'd have thought training with world class coaches in one of the best academies in Europe would be more beneficial to Gallagher than playing League 1 football and getting battered on pitches used more for rugby. Looking forward to seeing him back, seem to remember he had very good movement off the ball even if his shooting left something to be desired.

All winnable games, on paper. I just really really hope that we can beat Liverpool, give Lambert a rousing chorus of 'Southampton's goal machine' whilst putting 6-7 past Lovren and breaking Lallama's ankles. West Ham will be tough, don't think we'll win that unless we've got Toby back to deal with their lump upfront.