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Andy Carroll scores :|

What? We need Reina in goal really (for the semi at least).

Oh and Shola's equaliser against Spurs (H) was another great moment this season.

Yeah. Cabaye, Ba, Ben Arfa, Guthrie, Best, Cisse, Gutierrez, Taylor off the top of my head have all scored some genuinely class goals.

There have been a few games this season where we've got say a 2 goal lead in the first half and not gone on to score a couple more just to make things comfortable, but I'm not bothered as long as not getting said goals doesn't result in dropped points (Wolves at home being the match that annoyed me most).

This. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-4kbVNVvaU

Got to question how much enjoyment you get out of supporting a club tbh.

Fair enough I guess, and to each their own, but well... who cares - for now - as long as we're winning matches and riding high in the league table. Rather win 2 games 1-0, than win one 6-0 and draw the other.

One of those comments - Isn't he saying he'll support France even though he's English because of Cabaye and Ben Arfa? Oh dear oh dear

So that's 2 games we've not controlled but have got wins. We've controlled plenty of games prior to them though. We finished with much more than 20% possession for the record at Swansea (IIRC), that was just a stat at one point in the game. Either way we invited their pressure, we invited them to have the ball and pass it sideways because a) we are and were good enough to just catch them on the break, we knew they're pretty poor when they get into the final third and that we could cope with them (hence most of their shots being tame long range efforts) and c) we were able to conserve energy in both that match and for the one after it. Today was a poor, tired performance against a team fighting for their lives who've played well as of late and we had the quality - like all good teams do - to win a game we performed not too impressively in. Feels to me that you're exaggerating a bit, basing your reasoning on a selection of matches but not the entire season thus far.

Interesting read that, cheers Chez. Any French players/journos/ex-players/Blanc(!) etc said anything about him recently that we might not know about (I read that article CT posted a while back)?

How are we scraping wins? You're talking utter nonsense.

Easy now, let's not say things we don't mean. That's a bit much.

Says you you miserable cunt Oh please. You're still giving me grief for worrying over relegation last season. Didn't even say I thought we'd go down, just I wanted to watch till it was mathematically definite before being completely comfortable. Am one of the more positive on here and keep most of my negative thoughts about the club to myself when at the game or at the pub etc.

Get in there.

That's the spirit!

Murphy said at h-t that the ref awarded it because of Stephen Kelly's (non-existent) clip on Kalou, nothing to do with Murphy. Bizarre and not deserved. That said the ref has been atrocious against both sides, if that wasn't a pen then Hangeland's blatant push on Lampard was.

Thats the big one for me mate. Yeah, am trying not to think about it. Would love to confirm Europa League and then worry about the CL. Would be gutted now to not get into Europe.

Taken a side from League One to looking a proper comfortable Premier League side, higher in the table than the Swansea that everyone is fawning over.

Hold on - did I just call you a twat?

I'd give it to Lambert, personally.

That turn to start the run off was sublime.

Bit of a twat that OP tbh, no need to gloat to that lot. Bet he's the sort who criticises them for being too obsessed and all.

Amazing thing about Ben Arfa is that he's actually scored a better goal this season than todays (the Blackburn goal, obviously).

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