Unbelievable Jeff

Fingers crossed for Jerome Champagne eh?

I think I would. I'd ruin 'em.

That's the thing, you hear what they say and its so ridiculous, just to get a reaction. And those ****ing Vanarama ads. 5Live only for me (or absolute classic rock).

As are the two Milan's.

You do strike me as the 'Talksport' type...

That is brilliant. I'm sure Brett will recognise where that is.

I think you nailed it 5 words in.

Here's a petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/the-english-fa-to-end-association-with-fifa

Tbf, I knew I could get a rise out of Batman...

Yep, it's a madeup story to try to unsettle the club.

Maybe, or trying to unsettle both Morgan and Jay Rod again.

Definitely, starting with Fonte please. He's been excellent for two years and I still get rid of him every game as he's not up to standard.

I'm not saying a lot of journalists don't want us to do well, I just believe a lot don't as well. See today's story, Pochettino to bid £35m for Morgan and Jay Rod. Another negative story about us.

Well, that's my theory screwed if Dalek thinks it's a good post...

Yeah, right. And as for asking Pap, I dressed it up as a conspiracy theory, and we all know he likes them, that's all.

Both.

Gosh you're getting really worked up about that aren't you?

You like conspiracy theories Pap, it's not competely out of the realm of possibility is it?

As said, I'm playing devils advocate, but as I said above I could see clubs paying journalists to write specific stories.

I disagree, I think the press could easily destabilise a club. All you need is to start questioning if the manager is going to leave, if players are going to leave, get the fans to start panicking etc and I think that could have an effect.

It's more league form in general for teams with smaller squads.

I'm sure some of them do. I'm also sure some of them don't.

So you say football writers don't earn much, you don't know that it doesn't happen or how much they would be paid, but they definitely wouldn't do it as journalists are an ethical bunch and its not worth their while? I just don't buy that. The fact they don't earn much makes me think it's more likely to be true. Considering your friend works for AS, perhaps he can tell you how much journalists and editors for AS and Marca get leaned on to present stories in a pro Madrid or Barca way. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm playing devils advocate here.

Please, you talk about journalists like they are an ethically sound bunch of do-gooders that we know they are not.

It's a nice problem to have, being in multiple competitions, but for me if we get to the Semi's it will detract from out league performance. If you look at league results for the smaller teams who do well in the cups they tend to drop off as they got closer to the final, and then after the final. Not sure there is much we can do, as we all want a cup final, but I can see it being our undoing...