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When your holding man is one of your better players then it says more about how poor we have been as a team rather than how good Nicky Butt has been, with money tight and positions need filling it makes sense to get rid of the older players in the squad with a short career ahead of them if we can get good money. If we could get £2 million for Butt and replace him with Sidwell on a free then that would represent excellent business for the club on and off the pitch.

I don't think that's enough of a reason to keep him, he may or may not go on playing like Speed did but getting £2 million for a 32 year old who's on £40k plus pw would represent good business for the club.

The Departed - One of the best films I've seen in a while, really enjoyed it.

I'd let him go if could get somewhere close to what we paid for him back, with him reported to be on massive wages and in the last year of his contract it would make sense to get what we can for him.

It was typical of alot of modern footballers who for some unknown reason smack it for the top corner when a calmly placed low shot will be an easy goal, its really fucking annoying! Fair play to Martins for his efforts before Sib missed though. And fair play to Parker for backing Martins and getting after Stead for the foul as there's not much of our players fightng for each other and they often just leave each other alone when anything happens. Obviously if he'd done something stupid and got sent off he'd deserve a bollocking, but for me its about time we saw teammates backing each other. Agree with all of that. The way Martins took his goal reminded me of Paul Scholes in the way he had to adjust his body to keep the ball down, great finish.

Sibierski's miss was fucking ridiculous.

I used to love fizzy cola bottles when I was a kid.

I wish they'd put Amir Khan against someone who'll at least have a go back.

VDS's fault tbh.

Has anyone seen a post match interview by Roeder yet?

My dad's got a private box for this one from the company he works for, he didn't ask me if I wanted to go though.

Sky Sports player ratings... Given 7 Moore 6 Taylor 8 Carr 6 Solano 7 Milner 7 Butt 7 Parker 8 Duff 7 Sibierski 6 Martins 9 Onyewu 6 Emre 6 Dyer 6

Should be safe now.

If Man Utd and Chelsea get through to the FA Cup final then 8th place will get us a chance to defend our Intertoto trophy.

I can see West Ham staying up, they're a team in form where as Sheff Utd and Wigan are struggling.

Up to 10th in the league now.

Full time results... Arsenal 0-1 West Ham Blackburn 1-2 Aston Villa Boro 4-1 Watford Reading 1-2 Liverpool Sheff Utd 1-2 Newcastle Wigan 1-3 Bolton

Full Time.

Great save by Given, nearly 2-2 then.

4 minutes added on.

Premiership latest... Arsenal 0-1 West Ham Blackburn 1-2 Aston Villa Boro 4-1 Watford Reading 1-2 Liverpool Sheff Utd 1-2 Newcastle Wigan 1-3 Bolton

Straight into the wall.

Sheff Utd free kick 25 yards out...

6 minutes left.

Gooch coming on for Solano.