Dr Gloom

I'm sorry mate but Qatar? do me a favour. It's a charmless, characterless, backward desert backwater. One of the less plesant emirates, and that's saying something. Never in a million years should they be getting the world cup

A world cup in russia - just what a game accused of corruption needs.

The year before that we played Brazil in "Le Tornoi" in France the only thing we've won in my life time. Ronaldo was without doubt the best player in the world by a mile at the time, better than Messi is now imo, and Campbell marked him out the game, he never came close to getting a kick, best I've ever seen him play and that reading of the game was evident on Sunday you're right. Also he's old, but I can't remember too many players his age that quick, he's got 2 years left at least imo. I'd have Campbell and Taylor two centre halfs, Simpson is no where near as bad as he's made out on here. i agree. he still a bit to do before he's a proper attacking full back as his final delivery is a bit shite at times and his positional play isn't always the best but he's pacey, he overlaps well and he's loads of potential - he's canny young still. i'm not sure i'd have taylor ahead of him at right back if i'm honest. he might be better defensively but i think simpson would offer more going forward.

got to say i'm a big fan of my cheesy pasta dish. it's a piece of piss to make on a school night though contains about a million calories a serving so wouldn't recommend eating it every night of the week. basically, cook some linguine till it's al dente. at the same time, gently fry some chili and garlic. combine the two then add grated parmesan, gruyere, cheddar and gorgonzola and a table spoon of double cream. stir thorgh cooked pasta till melted then season to taste and throw in some fresh basil at the end.

aye, i enjoyed that - a good, faithful adaptation. looking forward to seeing the next two. hoping hollywood doesn't murder it, though i think david fincher is directing so should be worth a watch

fucking shit cgi for a high concept film as well tbh. roland emmerich's obsession with disaster movies is becoming a bit tedious now

You haven't watched this then: Mega Shark v Giant Octopus (2009) Starring Debbie Gibson no less. I've not seen it but should I be worried that my wife has a copy ? Yeah, I'd definitely be worried Jimbo

my inlaws accuse me of being a scrooge but i'm sorry, for me christmas starts the week before and end on jan 2nd. if you put your tree up now it'll be dead come christmas day

i'm personally a big fan of their current stadium, the mestalla. nice steep stands right on top of the pitch

there was one interception campbell made on sunday that was just different class, reminded me of watching him for england in france 98. all our other defenders were backing off and he just stood his ground and made a perfect challenge, the attacker running at him seemed to bounce off him, campbell stayed on his feet then found a black and white shirt when he cleared it. he's old, but he's still good enough.

Campbell/ Collicini centre back is one area we're fairly well covered for once.

hell yeah! not going to happen but you never know. fucking hell, if only we had some ambition and threw a bit of money around - not loads but enough to attract that sort of player. if we could add johnson, bellamy and carrick to the squadf - all players who you could potentially lure with the right cash, we'd be close to being a top side.

bitter dour jock tbh. i accept he was a class player but he's been a shite manager every club he's been to bar rangers and maybe galatasaray so why the fuck do sky keep wheeling him out as an expert match analyst. may as well have joe kinnear giving his full time thoughts

taylor and campbell both looked solid. we're probably better off for central defenders than we have been in years. you could make the case for any of them being in the starting eleven. taylor and sol aren't a bad backup pairing. we're not looking as blessed up front mind. shola annoyingly reverted to type ysterday after some decent performances this season. ranger coming off the bench is still raw. agree that we're crying out for someone with pace to get on to the end of carroll's flick ons. he won everything in the air yesterday but shola was always the wrong side of his marker to get on the end of anything. so annoying that we didn't bust a gut to get bellamy. with him and carroll up front this season i reckon we'd be challenging for top 6.

It killed me that, I said literally 15 seconds before the goal if we can hold on for one more minute we'll win this. Best I've seen Kalou play to be fair, and I think he's shit. Does anyone know what Souness said? it was along the lines that the players feel; the pressure from the fans. hard play to play because we graon ever time shola gives away the ball. apparently it's the crowd's fault for shola having the touch of a rapist.

Routledge should do that more often. He's got the beating of Cole for pace

Trademark Taylor to go missing when they're in a dangerous position. Wonder who he pointed at afterwards? Anyway, 1-1 is not bad. We've looked half decent in patches. Ameobi has looked poor, Routledge has no end product and Jonas hasn't been involved enough. On the flip-side Tiote has been good (spare what could easily have been a penalty), Guthrie's a different player in the middle. Their movement is so dangerous when they get forward, we need to be anticipating their runs and defending not only where the ball is but also where the ball is going to be. routledge looks a bit scared to take his man on. I wonder if he's been instructed to get early balls into the box i stead of trying to beat cole

So Chelsea are back in it because of the crowd? Fuck off souness, bitter twat

Bad time to concede but on balance it's been a good first half. Good game plan from hughton. We still look dangerous when we go forward. Agree Carroll is crying out for a pacey front player to get to his flick ons cos he's winning absolutely everything in the air.

when doesn't he! He's just less shit in some games than others He was brilliant against the mackems and against Chelsea in the carling cup

Shola having a bit of a stinker

So far so good. Knick an early goal and defend well and look to get forward when we can. Looking dangerous when we do go forward. Chelsea having lots of the ball but not creating much so far

That's a bold attacking line up? Shit or bust

If we can bat till mid afternoon we could put them in with a target they can't chase down in the time giving them a session and a half to see out. The wicket is pretty lifeless but the Aussies won't fancy that, especially if the real swanny comes to the party. His first Innings was the worst I've seen him bowl since he got into the side. Another 150 runs on the board will make it interesting. This is proper test match cricket with swings both way in momentum. Bring it on! One things for sure, that Australian attack is the most toothless I've seen. The barmy army were singing "one Mitchell Johnson" at one point

I never knew he was a dirty rag like? What a bell end Our school never played cricket, it was just for the grammar school toffs. I can appreciate the technical side of it like and also enjoy it as a backdrop to a day on the sauce. I only really take an interest if we're playing the Australians though because it winds them up to fuck if we win. Basically we've gone from likely to lose this test to it now looking like an odds-on draw. No bragging rights then as such but it was just nice to see the resiliance from an England batting display with backs to the wall. Strauss was on a pair when he came in so the first ball must have felt like the equivalent of a world cup penalty to him. And a draw's still slightly better for us than them on balance as we only have to draw the series to retain the Ashes. How a draw though, surely if we get more points than them we win? You pulling my chain now, Steven? I know fuck all about cricket. Do we just say to them, look we'll just call it a draw eh? I'm a cricket JCL myself, but I can answer this one: let's say England get skittled out tomorrow with a lead of 300, and Australia go in to bat. Three results can still happen: - England bowl the Aussies out for <300 = England Win - Aussies knock off the runs = Aussie win - Aussies don't knock off the runs, but haven't lost all their wickets come the end of the day's play = Draw