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Each game is different. Did you expect Newcastle to beat Liverpool or Bournemouth to beat Chelsea?

He is quality and in an ideal world we would have him and Toby at the back with Jose as back up. Sadly it isn't an ideal world!

Nathan Dyer is an excellent example. I though he was a mascot when I first saw him.

They clearly thought that Martina was worth a punt as a back up defender. Perhaps having seen him in training with the squad they now think otherwise, although he has still made the bench.

Lefties, pinkos and bra burners? The 1970s called, they want their Duckhunter back!

Shaqiri is 5ft 7 ins same height as Clasie. I agree that Wise wasn't in the same class as Ball and Scholes but I still think he could play Premiership football if he was young enough today. Apparently the average height for a male in the is country is 5ft 9 ins so 5ft 7 ins is hardly midget status. Anyone would look like a midget stood alongside Pelle, Fonte and van Dijk!

I didn't say that Hypo and yet I am the one making things up?

Since I put him on ignore my life has improved no end Lou. Don't get into it, life is too short!

Ah I see! Well I still think that we have yet to see the best of Clasie. Dennis Wise was no giant but he had a perfectly good career. I think Martina was a last minute panic buy who is no loner relevant now we are out of Europe and Bertrand is back. Fortunately he is on a short contract.

Palace are my Portsmouth. Growing up in South London most of the kids supported Palace. They used to turn us over quite frequently in the 60s and 70s so I often got a load of verbals. Selhurst Park was a regular for me until I moved away from the area but I still go with some of my old school buddies occasionally. This is a must win for me!

But he also seems to be a shoo-in as the next Dutch National Manager and his name has been linked with Barcelona (not that means anything of course). Mind you Poch is toted as a great manager and he has still yet to win anything.

The summer was the problem. We had unforeseen injuries and European football which probably gave us a squad that we wouldn't have now without those things. But we are where we are and it will be interesting to see what happens in January given the situation as it is.

I am not sure what a "binkie" is but assuming he is a favourite you do know that Ron dropped Clasie on Saturday and that Martina has hardly kicked a ball?

I am surprised that you are using that survey again Fry after Shurlock has already embarrassed you about your previous inconsistency Thanks also for putting words into my mouth. Not once I have said that it is ok to punish homosexuality by death and not once I have defended any kind of extremism, but you know that and yet you still make the point. I will put you back on ignore now where you belong.

So you are not tolerant of Lefties then? And that is the thing isn't it? Allowing people to have their own beliefs no matter what you think? I cant answer you question about what "moderates" think of homosexuals in this country but I do know that, in the main, they don't throw them off buildings. I can answer your question about burkas because I saw an interesting programme on this a while back where several women were interviewed and they all said that the wore what they want when they wanted and sometimes chose to wear the burka. Does it really matter though? If they sign up to a religion and is says wear a bed sheet then that comes with the territory. Why is it your problem? Orthodox Jews wear a certain style of clothes. Why should it bother you what they wear? My partner has been asked to cover her shoulders in certain Christian churches abroad. You do it out of respect or you don't bother to go in. It isn't really a big deal. That isn't me being "moderate" it is me being "tolerant." Obviously there are limits and if "moderates" starting lobbing Gay people from roofs they would find themselves banged up. You don't have to be a "Leftie" to believe that those with a different way of living are perfectly at rights to live the way they wish (so long as it is within the law) without getting grief for being "different." I am sure I don't have to remind you that you don't have to be a "God Botherer" or a Muslim to be intolerant of people who are Gay. By the way, I don't think it is true about Farage. It doesn't matter what religion he signed up to, the "Lefties" as you call them would still have an issue with his politics.

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This club has been through more than a period of stagnation but the real fans stayed with the club. The plastics that have pitched up since we have been back in the Prem might fall away again but that is not the true fan base anyway.

What things am I at pains to dismiss that are worrying to many about Islam? Yes, I find it hard to understand why anyone would get upset by what someone else chooses to ware, but what else? I think I have made it clear that I do not support the terrorists and their actions. Intolerance is everywhere. This forum is a case in point. You seem to think I am of a left wing tendency. You could not be more wrong. As for being anti Christian or anti semitic and supportive of Islam, you have missed the point. It is not about being more supportive of one religion over another. I couldn't give a stuff what anyone's religion is. The people that bother me are the nutters that for whatever reason think it is okay to attack other with knives, guns and bombs. To write off the second largest religion on the planet because a small minority of them are murdering bastards only serves to perpetuate the problem. We all need to accept the diversity and differences in our societies and become more accepting of things we do not understand. That is not being supportive of Islam, it is being supportive of all of Mankind that wants a peaceful co-existence. You keep wanting to find a them and us. The us is the majority of people who want to live peacefully and guess what, that includes millions of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindu, Buddhists, Atheists, Agonostics etc etc

How did the subs work out on Saturday?

Cheer up Batman, we haven't been knocked out of the FA Cup yet!

And we beat Palace on the way to Wembley in 1976...

You crack me up Whelk! When I was a kid I wished that I had blond hair but I never wished that my skin was a different colour. Regarding knowing any Muslims, do you know what, I really couldn't tell you for sure. I don't know what religion many of the people I know are because that isn't a big thing for me. I tend to relate to people depending on how we get on, not what religion they are. As for "defending regardless". Do you think it is okay to label millions of people according to the actions of a small minority? Do you really need to know many Muslims to know that the majority are clearly peaceful individuals? Tell me, as you don't seem to think that they are all plotting to kill us either, why do you have a problem with me defending peaceful individuals?

Gotta admire his enterprise!

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You do know that Wenger has been advised to buy "World Class" Wanyama don't you?