Dr Gloom

Tottenham beat Chelsea in the race to sign Steven Pienaar from Everton http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/ja...pienaar-everton how many midfielders do spurs want? we should be sniffing around some of their rejects tbh

hopefully smith still injured

we should keep routledge and get swp in

i agree with that sentiment parky. we've weathered a difficult run of games and come out of it with some decent results and in a good position in the league. with those three players all set to return i can see us having a decent end to the season. i'm confident of a solid mid table finish though whether that will be enough to move us above sunderland remains to be seen. 50 points would be an excellent return and we're on track to get around that total. our form would have to nosedive pretty spectacularly for us to end up with less than 40 points.

we played some of the best football we've played in my lifetime with him as our assistant to sbr so i'm made up with the appointment. seems strange to give him such a short term deal

Good stuff

no chance.

I quite liked the white socks under gullit

we've been the master of those in recent windows like.

Villa are about as fashionable as turnup jeans imo. Sunderland, Villa, Everton three clubs who are about as sexy as Jodie Marsh. Compared to Sunderland, they're more fashionable. compared to sunderland, stone wash jeans, cowboy ties and tie-dye shirts are fashionable

the premium you pay for an english player is madness. £24m for bent ffs? he's worth no more thsn £10-15m tops if you ask me.

He's hardly bottled it. I don't recall Harper making that many mistakes this season. He's usually pretty solid. Krul looks like he could potentially be better in the long term - his shot stopping and agility is better than harper's but he's still very raw and young

I might start a new thread - herpes vs Chlamydia

Yeah, we're all crying ourselves to sleep about that. Massively overshadowed the second time in a season we've played you off the park.

The mackem bitch makes no mention of the kid invading the pitch to push harper over but bangs on about the magpie's wings being clipped!?! At least she accepts Sunderland were shit and lucky to get a point. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/ja...-premier-league

How can you be confident when you look at the two derbies? We the better side in both games.

Harper is decent enough for now, krul one for the future. Other areas need improving more urgently. I can't remember the last time we had such a weak collection of strikers

That combined with the fact that he's total shit and not even any Spanish sides fancy him

While it's disappointing that we failed to hang to a much deserved win in the dying moments, it's satisfying to see one of our worst squads in about two decades comprehensively outplayed Sunderland over two games in the season and to only just miss out doing the double over them. I'd be surprised if we don't finish above them. They're pretty awful.

Oooh you lot are just too hard.

smith

Thread title should just be owen desperate tbh

just seen the king's speech. excellent. firth might get his oscar this year - brilliant performance. 9/10

Their ground is the biggest hovel I've ever been to and I say that as a traditionalist. I've been to some of the best stadiums in Europe, and my all time favourite is the Baseball Ground (RIP). Have you been to Goodison it's absolutely shite. Needs bulldozing, you don't even get a sense of history when you're there. I don't know how you quantify fame, but no one notices them nationally, they're just perceived as a boring club. I'd say even Leeds have a bigger profile, and are certainly a far more interesting club. They won trophies when smaller clubs did, the last time they won the title their average gate was 31,000 in a 54,000 stadium. It sums the club up. They're just nonn descript in my eyes, amuses me when they condescend Newcastle. I know a blue dipper as well, and he seems to think the club will become a big Tranmere if current trends on Merseyside continue, because all of the youth seem to be supporting Liverpool now on the back of their CL run, whereas even in the late 70s Everton had the majority of support on Merseyside. I view them like I view Aston Villa - boring, non-descript, woeful support home and away vocally and numbers wise, just dull nothingness. Obviously their club is as important to them as some other clubs are to their fans, but pah Everton, just non-descript dullards. i've been a few times mate, yeah. i've got family that are evertonians and i've been the a that's why i felt i had to speak up. i've been in the away end to see us play them but also in with the home end in the gladys street and bullens road end. they don't sing that much but when they do the place can be rocking.