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what?

the liverpool thing was a joke, but I think the rest is true. Hopefully next season will be better for him provided we make changes for the positive, and he is reduced to a sub player.

I believe he was there with Mourinho

Since when did we all become body language experts all of a sudden? I can tell fuck all by how a player stands, maybe it's just me, I don't emphasise details so much... especially ones that can be interpreted in many ways. A pundit or two speak about "off body language" and we all believe that. I don't know, I think some of you are overreacting a bit.

Reasons we got Meireles * He's Portuguese * He used to play for Porto and AVB knows him * He was on the market for cheap * We failed with Modric * He scored against us for liverscum Pretty much the same reasons why Bosingwa is still here and playing quite regularly (except for the liverpool and modric thing). National bias is quite clear to see when we have Portuguese managers.

CL official site confirms this. http://www.uefa.com/...quad/index.html But Lukaku still isn't in the squad E: petr.breu beat me to it

Wasn't Bertrand included in the squad in January? A team can make 3 changes, we let Anelka and Alex go that means we got to register Cahill, Lukaku and Bertrand (and imo Ferreira got excluded).. No?

Exactly. Luiz's long range passing was top class imo, he was by far the best long range passer in our team yesterday. Our midfield is simply non-existent, we play every game with 8 men (9 when Mata is put in the middle).

I'm afraid that's exactly what will happen. Sad state of affairs. And we will have to live with that stain of shame for a long time, the "flop club". Excellent article

not sure if serious

Why isn't there a separate post-match thread for this game as was planned?

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It was all about Ivanovic's cross... so glad he played there today, had it been Bosingwa crossing we know we wouldn't have scored from that situation.

His first assist to Sturridge against Sunderland was exquisite.. shame he can't do it regularly. The performance level of everyone has dropped over the last half a season, not only his.. he's probably one of those players who performs when the team performs.

We must grind out this season with the likes of Meireles and Lampard, we have no realistic replacements (Malouda? no thank you. Essien? Rami has taken over his spot, both of them don't fit in unless one is DMF) and we loaned out Josh and Benayoun (both were mistakes loaning out imo, they would be much more useful subs or starters). Hopefully during the summer we will patch our weak points, one of which is the central midfield position next to Ramires.

Would Moyes be able to handle a big club though? So far he's had to manage with limited budgets and "small club mentality", we don't know how he'd fare with us.

Yeah, but it just shows the problem when our often benched 33yo midfielder is top scorer (didn't Danny surpass him today though?). We have no real goalscorer in our team, every top team has a distinct main goalscorer. Our goals (as much as we have scored them) are distributed between everyone more or less. We didn't have one last season either, and it showed.

I've heard about the video, can it be seen somewhere?

Why were B'ham fans chanting for Mourinho? What was the purpose?

horrible

I FUCKING HATE WHEN MY STREAM DECIDES TO START SHITTING MY FACE DURING GOALS

Not exactly. We dodged Bosingwa and Malouda, so all's good for now. Of course it's disappointind that Lukaku isn't even on the bench, but 1 dodgy decision by AVB is good taking into consideration the latest trend.

Defence line-up is exactly what I wanted (Y) Hoped to see Torres dropped once and for good, but didn't happen. Am also worried about Mata, he's being burned out and we need him fresh against Napoli, but oh well. At least RAMIRES is back now I'm more confident of a win.

well, Lamps rarely argues with refs and other players, he's a model professional... you can start from there.

wow, Napoli coach's suspension gives me hope now. Hopefully it marks the end of the fairytale.