Slam Dunk

He may be the epitome of an absolute cunt but i'd have Hernandez over Sturridge any day.

Handing it to them.

We have really not been on our game so far.

Danny would probably have started in the League Cup anyway. Torres will likely be back in the side for the Swansea game. Unfortunately.

Of course I don't think players would just make it up, but The Mail are saying Mikel/Mata/Gourlay/RDM went to Clattenburg after the game for an apology, which makes me wonder to what degree of insult we're talking about. I can understand foul language/swearing, it's part of the game on the field to be honest. If it's racial abuse, considering the FA's agenda with it lately, he has to be sacked. Mind you, he should be sacked for sheer incompetence anyway. I'm also sure Clattenburg has been involved in something like this before... Not racial abuse, but insults/verbal abuse.

Does anyone else find it hard to believe a referee racially abused a player? I really do. I can understand incompetence and bias (not that i'm saying that's ok), but not that. The Mail are saying he called Mata a 'Spanish twat' and Mikel was the other player in question, i'm sure we'll find out the words Clattenburg used in due course. What an embarrassing day for the FA and English football.

Fuck this. Fuck United. Fuck Van Persie. Fuck Hernandez. Fuck Red Nose. Fuck the FA. Fuck Clattenburg.

He was hilariously bad. CL is a bit crazy this year, I have to say.

Can't complain, we were well beaten. We lost an away group game last year and we all know how that turned out. Anyway, moving on...

We are being beaten by the better team. It happens.

I wasn't expecting much from this game to be honest. We've been second to every ball, second in every tackle, haven't passed well and haven't pressed the ball well enough. If it weren't for Cech we'd be down 1 or 2 more and we could have no complaints. Shaktar have been very good indeed, they look so much more determined. The biggest pain in the arse about this is that it's probably the worse possible place to come before a big game on Sunday.

The Donbass is a hard enough place to come without giving away any cheap chances. Fernandinho deserved a goal to be fair, he has controlled this game.

Have to say, Shaktar have been mightily impressive. Oscar and Torres have been very poor overall. Same with the defence.

What is going on?

TORRES WTF

And the award for the softest yellow card ever given goes to...

Calamitous defending. Still plenty of time however.

Every Arsenal game last season:

Now SSN saying Bale's partner has gone into labour? This is hilarious.

Dembele is still out injured, Spurs say Bale is starting. Seems pretty concrete.

No he's not? Spurs twitter has him as a starter.

Liverpool makes perfect sense, Sturridge is all but gone already anyway. I'm not too bothered, just hope we get a decent fee (considering his contract is soon up). We'll buy a replacement (no idea who, highly doubt it will be Falcao though).

BREAKING NEWS: QPR DEFENDER JOSE BOSINGWA QUITS FOOTBALL TO FOLLOW DREAM OF BECOMING PROFESSIONAL BODYBUILDER!

Oscar and Neymar are so good together. Get him to London, Roman! The Iraq keeper has made some decent saves, one just now from a worldy run by Luiz.

They'll do any shirt.