Madmax

Absolutely zero need for Mikel here. I'd love to see Ramires and Oscar in a three with Matic.

He laid his cards bare in this regard with the team selection and the subs for the Shrewsbury game. In a way it's good because it helped me (completely) temper expectations after I'd let myself get carried away with his comments about Baker, Solanke, Brown etc in preseason.

You know CatMan, you speak too much for an Inter fan.

His genius knows no limits; the man even made Mikel score.

No Luiz?

Except it was O'Shea who kicked him not once but twice before he paid back in kind and the elbow was nothing if not completely incidental to the need to jump in order to head a ball. Two occasions for which anyone not named Diego Costa would not get any grief. He thrives on confrontation; he becomes half the striker he is without it. You personally may not like this facet of his game but trying to pin his bad performance on it is not criticism.

Amazing (not) how this is only thrown about when he doesn't score. Not after Everton (Coleman), not after Liverpool (Skrtel); only after Sunderland and Newcastle.

There's hope yet as long as Mangala's back.

AKA the 'Put your FM hats on and come up with a mix of the yoof and the no-hopers' fixture.

Think I speak for all of the forum when I say COME ON EVERTON.

When does Ivanovic pick up a suspension? Is that the only way he'll be ... erm, rested?

Well that was hilariously predictable. All that talk about invincibles and of course we fall to two shit goals. Mikel misses an open net --> they go up the other end --> Cahill reverts to being a Bolton player --> goal. Hazard hits the post --> loses the ball --> Cahill reverts to being a Bolton player again --> goal.

Favourite moment yesterday ... smacks a freekick into the first tier, turns around with a look like he's never done it before. Oh, Didier.

Unreal.

All I want for my birthday is for us to twat this shower of shit. More of this hilarity, please :

Complete shit - both the performance and the viewing experience. I hope Gus The Meerkat and his crap band of ogres fuck off to the Championship. Still, unbeaten and top of the league so nothing to cry about. Plus, November is done with.

Sunderland's persecution complex is hilarious. Fucking small time. The ref's buying into it as well so fully expect this to end 1-0 in the 87th min. It just feels like that kinda day.

Strange performance from Branna so far. He's not getting forward too much (probably been instructed not to), but he's not doing his primary job well either. One great tackle aside, he's been unsure and Wickham's got the better of him.

I remember him solely from playing FM 06

Yup. But still, his belief is shit.

Figured. I vaguely remember watching Kalou or Cole score a late goal in the roundup. They were showing Newcastle's relegation match here.

wth, I don't even remember this. Is this the last match of the 08-09 season? Did Kalou or Cole score as well?

Can anyone find a video for Anelka's performance in this fixture in 2010-11? (day after Torres arrived, so 01/02/11)

Saw it was eurosport, knew it was Paul Parker, kept on scrolling.