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Villa came back strongly after the sending off and scored and defended robustly. Looked good for two or three more if they had a full side.

Means fuck all...flip it round, we hit the bar, had a goal disallowed and Given was run ragged, also after they went down to 10 men

How did Derby get on?

ftfy

Fucking hell Derby fans in full on plastic Kopite mode!

Are you even out the relegation zone yet?

Cheers, but I was listening to the game on Ramsplayer as I can't find a RD stream down here, but thanks for fixing it for me Jim'll. Oh, and yes we are out of the relegation zone.

West Ham have also been busy in the transfer market and new £10.75m ace Matt Jarvis made his League debut. The ex-Wolves winger cost almost the same price as Swansea's entire team

What. The. Fuck.

Torres has scored two more goals than Liverpool so far this season.

Have Liverpool scored yet?

Team Spirit. Cost a lot less than , Jarvis, Johnson, Carroll, Adam, Henderson et al

watched the highlights, read the match report.
Felt like a typical spurs game, the kind of match that during our run early last season, I thought we'd managed to rid ourselves of.

Make all the running early, make chances, don't take chances, opposition either hit us on the break and we huff and puff, but can't score, or in this case we score, and then let in an equalizer/winner at the death.

As a bright point, don't think we played that badly, West Brom are a good side, Lukakalu (sp?) looks a handful, Verthonghen looked classy coming forward, but still looks like he needs to get upto speed with the physicality of the Premiership. Kaboul is his preferred partner. VdV is playing higher up the field, off the striker which relieves him of the need to come back and initiate play and I think we'll play worse than this game and win.

Wondering whether Huddlestone will play straight away for Stoke?

Also think this season is going to be much closer than people expect, Swansea look good, Everton aren't sleeping in the blocks like they usually do, when the season's gun goes off. Chelsea look much improved, Torres seems reborn with Hazard and Mata feeding him, exciting, nail biting times ahead..

Hansen and Lawro wrote Chelsea off yesterday and so no chance we can do anything.

Spurs were dangerous in the first half without actually causing many real problems. You were ripping the wings up but there was nothing in the box. VdV was playing well. Did he go off because he can't last 90 mins? Second half we managed to stretch the pitch and get at you.
@ Clive - Chelsea could easily win this year.

Lakaku is starting to look good. Hope he does well for you and Clarkey.

Hansen and Lawro wrote Chelsea off yesterday and so no chance we can do anything.

Never trust men who have not updated their hairstyles since the early 1980s.

Phew, mine had a radical overhaul just a few years ago.

Lukaku is a beast. Long was starting and I like him but Lukaku made him look weak and ineffectual. He has that extra bit to his game that long just doesn't have. He'll be starting for us soon and if we play like we have done in both second halves then he will score goals

Clint, VDV's fitness is always a doubt, but I think its also probably AVB looking to freshen things up, and keep him and Siggurdson happy. Rotation and all that..

Spurs'll be lucky to finish top 8 this season

I think it's Chelsea or City this year, with Everton and Utd goin for 3rd

big match next week involving two of the top four

West Brom 1 Everton 3

After the Spurs games yesterday, I'm really suprised they didn't look to get Sahin as part of the Modric deal.

The had such little creativity and no technician in the middle, it also showed me again the deficiencies in Lennons game and I'd play Sigurdsson wide right, what he lacks in pace - the rest of his game makes up on Lennons.

I never look forward to playing Stoke, the bald maniac shouting into the touchline mic all day and Shawcross et al galumping all over the pitch trying to snap in half anything foolish enough to stay still long enough.
If we come out with at least point and no broken bones I'll be happy.

Lukaku is a beast. Long was starting and I like him but Lukaku made him look weak and ineffectual. He has that extra bit to his game that long just doesn't have. He'll be starting for us soon and if we play like we have done in both second halves then he will score goals

That Lukaku looks like a bigger Drogba can be deceptive.Last season I think most people expected him to move like Drogba as well. He certainly had the strength and with more height, was a real presence on the pitch. What he lacked was Drogba's finesse on the ball. In preseason he showed a developed lightness of touch and, if this continues, he could be one of the best strikers in the game.

I think it's Chelsea or City this year, with Everton and Utd goin for 3rd

Lawro and Hanson disagree and so you must be wrong.

Lawro and Hanson disagree and so you must be wrong.

Let me guess, they both reckon Big Red could finish in the top 3?

I think it's Chelsea or City this year, with Everton and Utd goin for 3rd

lol

That Lukaku looks like a bigger Drogba can be deceptive.Last season I think most people expected him to move like Drogba as well. He certainly had the strength and with more height, was a real presence on the pitch. What he lacked was Drogba's finesse on the ball. In preseason he showed a developed lightness of touch and, if this continues, he could be one of the best strikers in the game.

Ill be taking interest in West Brom games to see how he develops, big hopes for him , totally agree with what you said abut developing a better touch and awareness of pass to bring other in to play, with Odemwingie to learn from not a bad loan deal.