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I had the 'pleasure' of being sat amongst the Fulham fans last night - they are unbelievably small-time - silent for most of the game, 2 songs, joined in like moronic sheep when Luis started getting stick from a small group. The treatment he got - from the monstrous Hangeland in particular - was outrageous. At one point he was completely flattened by Hangeland and slowly got to his feet, only be be jeered as having dived by the Fulham dimwits. To his credit after this happened a few times in the first half he was fired up and went at their defence all the harder. 90 minutes of that shit clearly got to him and he made a gesture as he went off - big fucking deal. Bellamy got nearly as much abuse but he seemed to relish it - the sand in the vaseline - Luis should take tips from him. The way the FA is dealing with the racism thing is unbelievably inept/malicious - leaving him twisting in the wind for weeks - that tension would get to anyone.

1. Bellamy 2. Skrtel 3. Enrique

It's the sideburns that do it for me.

Wikipedia: A battle he was clearly losing about the time he came up with the album cover concept. The album which features a cover of YNWA - I dread to think what he did to it.

Some absolute gems on here: The worst album covers ever created A couple of my favourites: Warning! The following content is NOT WORK SAFE. Click the Show button to reveal.

Well said - it is and always has been a Liberal newspaper, and therefore indistinguishable at times from the tories. It does however host some writers from the left and that's what creates the confusion. Carvalho Diablo ruling on this thread.

Mark Steel: Unions just want the mums to pay Michael Gove believes the strikers want 'mothers to give up a day's work or pay for childcare' Mark Steel: Unions just want the mums to pay - Mark Steel - Commentators - The Independent Sometimes when there's a strike, it's tricky to work out the real issues causing the conflict. So the Government is lucky to have Michael Gove, who's decoded what the unions are really after. The strikers, he said, are "itching for a fight", and "want mothers to give up a day's work or pay for expensive childcare". Presumably, he's heard secret tapes of union leaders making speeches that go: "Brothers and sisters, we the working men and women of this country must stand united against the people ruining our livelihoods – mothers, the parasites. How much longer will they push buggies and dance to Davina McCall fitness programmes with no regard for the impact on our members?" Then they get the crowd to chant: "Two, four, six, eight, Make it expensive to procreate." Seventeen unions have held a ballot for the strike, and, in each case, they voted at least two to one to support it. Midwives voted for it, so for years they must have been telling women to push a bit more while thinking: "Hee hee, in a few years we'll make you pay a fortune to look after this little bastard. That'll teach you to let your waters break while I'm watching Cash in the Attic." Eighty-two per cent of head teachers voted for the strike, the anarchists. Because they spend every day bawling at kids in their office: "WHAT is the meaning of THIS? You do NOT walk down MY corridor without KICKING random people. I'm ITCHING for a fight now. PUNCH someone AT ONCE." A poll suggests that 61 per cent of the country supports the strike, so Britain must be on the edge of a bizarre revolution, itching for a fight with authority, in order to transform society by making mothers pay for expensive childcare. The Government also argues that the strike to defend pensions is unjustified, because people who don't work in the public sector have even worse ones. This might be a reasonable argument, if we assume that the money saved by the Government in pension payments will be shared out among everyone else with an even worse pension. The plan must be to take it round in a box for the homeless, and then look after their children for free. The argument that people should put up with being battered because other people are battered more makes as much sense as the Syrian government saying: "How dare these people complain about being shot at? People caught by the Gestapo for escaping Colditz were shot even more. These protesters are simply trying to make mothers pay for expensive childcare." But at least Michael Gove is imaginatively surreal. Maybe next week he'll do even better and say the strike was simply an attempt to murder polar bears by getting hypnotists hired by the General and Municipal Boilermakers' Union to bankrupt us by making us want to buy them the most expensive fish.

Damn right - our door, our rules.

1. Lucas 2. Agger 3. Adam

As you say in Strachan's heyday a faint whiff of Marmoset would have been a small price to pay.

Haven't watched this for quite a while - caught the last programme of the current series and discovered there is a lot more to watch on there than Bill Oddie and geese. I present the natural wonder that is Liz Bonnin : I'd certainly like to spend the winter in her southern latitudes. Is this the new queen of nature TV or any of you still 'holding a candle' for Uhlenbroek or Strachan ?

1. Adam 2. Johnson 3. Reina

This. Made up for Kenny - great response to some of the criticism he has been subject to recently. Good to see we had the character to dig out a win after being under the cosh for the previous 30 minutes. Great to see Glen Johnson getting back to the level he should be - we now have two top class attacking full backs (with another three in the wings).

Deserves a little bit of context

'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada' is an excellent modern western - directed and starring Tommy Lee Jones on top form. Sadly overlooked and well worth checking.

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With 2 goals from 7 starts Carroll is well on track to surpass that, and without the sulky twattishness. I agree he hasn't developed or even matched the potential he showed at Newcastle but its early days. There are signs of a decent partnership developing with Suarez, and he has had very limited service from wide areas - one of the strongest parts of his game. I'd like to give him longer than 11 league games before I judge him, same goes for the rest of the new signings.

He's shown plenty of potential - a young player in a rebuilt team. I seem to remember people cared quite a lot about Torres' lack of return.

World English Dictionary fallow1 (ˈfæləʊ) —adj 1. (of land) left unseeded after being ploughed and harrowed to regain fertility for a crop 2. (of an idea, state of mind, etc) undeveloped or inactive, but potentially useful

So Lucas is Brendan's dad then ?

Okay so I didn't express it very well but what I was trying to point out is that even proven top-class strikers can go through long fallow periods.

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Because they have all played in the same 11 games, where a team in transition is settling in and getting used to playing together. It sounds much more dramatic when you say '29 appearances' rather than 11 league games. For me all three of the players you name have been generally mediocre - for many on this thread that translates to 'shit'. These sort of drama queen responses are totally out of proportion after just over a quarter of the season.

After 11 games that really is a stunning level of idiocy.

Wow, I must have fallen asleep and missed 18 league games then - that sort of stat distorts the picture Code stylee. Clearly finishing isn't up to much at the moment but its more or less a new team and its going to take time to settle. For large portions of last season Rooney couldn't find the net but I doubt he got slaughtered by the mancs the way that Carroll in particular is singled out.