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Anchorman in midfield.

^ For being a racist cunt.

Ten sports or ten action?

Aye. I'm calling him Goldilocks from now on

He's a natural born killaz, dude. A technique killaz as well.

Welcome!

One more Neymar thread?

Before this weekend, 9 out of 15 had been missed. That's 60%.

:541: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1oO92cKLms

You used to follow Mirror and that little turd Lipton? You should be shot!

Yep, everything works fine on Firefox. Chrome =

Where's my rep you bitch?

We could use this one for most of your posts.

I expected real analysis when I read the title, Blionheart is great at that. My 2 cents - 1. I was very impressed with the pressing. We gave them next to no time or space on the ball. No surprise then that they couldn't play their high tempo passing game. If you see the match again, you'll find Rooney has to drop deeper and deeper as the game goes on because they couldn't get him on the ball. But there are a few individual culprits here. Sturridge and Bosingwa didn't close down well enough on the right and it allowed them to shift flanks with long diagonal balls. While most of the blame for their second goal has fallen on Mata, Meireles and Terry were the bigger culprits imo. They should have been breathing down his neck but allowed him to continue his run and Nani took his chance. 2. I wonder if it would be beneficial for Sturridge and Mata to exchange flanks. Once Sturridge picks up the ball on the right you know he's going to cut inside, makes it predictable. Mata on the other hand can drift inside or beat his man on the outside. 3. I picked up on this pre-match and it was validated yesterday - Ivan shouldn't be a CB. He is reckless and has a tendency of going to ground to easily. Him and JT will be exposed by pace all day long so makes no sense to pair two identical defenders against the paciest forwards in the league. 4. Meireles yesterday had too much of his game taken away from him in the first half. He did alright in that position against Sunderland but he needs to be played in a slightly advanced role if we're to get the best out of his attacking talents. Ramires for all his industry and enthusiasm is shocking on the ball. Mikel is more suited for that DM role but he was little more than a slow paperweight after he came on yesterday, doing his cause no good. Yoiu could see Meireles was immediately more threatening and influential as soon as we switched to 4-2-3-1 at HT. 5. If there's one criticism that I can think of against AVB yesterday, it would have to be the Lukaku substitution. I expected us to go 2 upfront but Lukaku was stationed on the right wing and he looked awful. 6. We did our best to get Torres firing yesterday. Balls played between their centre-half and full-back which Nando used his pace to latch onto (twice - for the Ramires chance and the goal). Nice to see.

Rubbish. Great report otherwise, as usual.

Since when are clean sheets the primary indicator of a good gk?

Torres, by far. I wasn't extremely impressed by Mata tbh. He had his good moments, especially in the first half, but went missing a bit in the second when we switched to 4-2-3-1.

I'd like to post a screenie Alex, but can't. Only reason i can even post is because I'm using that other editing mode (top left icon). I can't post in the normal mode, I can't post pics, I can't quote posts either. Maybe this has something to do with Chrome, I'll try Firefox tomorrow.

I think there are moments when human emotion transcends football and any decent bloke out there would feel sorry for Nando today. He was nigh on excellent for 90 mins and we saw what a difference he can and will make at this club. He's getting there, be sure of it.

Alright, so we lost. But we didn't fail. I saw a team play out there. Team being the keyword. I saw an eagerness and hunger to play football, not ugly, boring park-the-bus nonsense. I saw a team that was more than ready to take on the much more fancied opposition on their own turf, and I saw them achieve this. We battered them, and we bettered them. We played positively, with purpose, without inhibitions, with no fear and with conviction, certainly something to be extremely proud of. How many teams would have responded the way we did, after going 3-0 being at HT (a scoreline that was unjust, let alone flattering)? Our attitude was faultless. Shoulders didn't drop, heads didn't bow. Sure we were guilty of being ruthless in front of goal, but that I can excuse if I see passion and commitment on the pitch. We rallied together, stayed strong and gave better than we got. It's early in the season and sterner tests await, there'll be disappointments along the way but I'm massively encouraged with the performance today. We're heading in the right direction, don't let a mixture of bad luck, small fallacies and refereeing incompetence overshadow a fine outing.

- Tommy Docherty

I can't edit my posts. Once I click the edit button and type the necessary changes, on clicking 'Save changes', a dialogue box pops up with the message "Your post is empty". On clicking "OK" it takes me back to the edit screen and a little ribbon appears at the top saying "You must enter a post".

Will we bump ex-player threads every time they score?

Bolton trailing to Norwich.

2007-08 Stats : Malouda - Apps : 27 (9), Goals : 3, Asssits : 3 Kalou - Apps : 32 (14), Goals : 9, Assists : 10 Just 5 more starts for Kalou, which is not a big difference.