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What gets me about some of the women who are co-commentators is that they try to sound like the worst of the blokes - they lower their voices, shout madly and make idiotic comments. Blokes don't need any help with that - they've been doing it for years. At least find your own style. And if they want to make the male and female games equal, then start using blokes for the women's game. Carney, personally, I find fairly decent - better than some of the men doing the job, but she is better on the radio, when they seem to encourage her to be herself. But the whole self-conscious indulgence is getting ridiculous, from the lipglossed Laura 'Oh, it's all so sexist, even though I'm forever tweeting pics of me in my underwear' Woods to the barking pundits who say nothing beyond 'he'll be disappointed in that' cliche.

I still can't believe how badly reffed that game was. He completely lost it. Embarrassing. How are you supposed to 'respect' someone who is so blatantly incompetent? As for Palace, they were cheats as well as cowards - in other words, entirely in the image of their manager. Since when has standing with your arms up blocking a throw-in been allowed? They did it pretty every time. Same with blocking free kicks - one of them got booked for it, all of the others didn't. And that wannabe albino, leaping on the backs of opponents until they fall over - that is not how tackling is supposed to be. And if players go down, a la Newcastle, with 'cramp' - drag them off the field. Everything about that team reeked of shite. If you're a lower league team playing a PL team in the cup, then, yeah, park the bus and gamble on a breakaway goal. But if you're in the same league, then for god's sake play as though you think you have a right to stay there. I'm sick to death of parking the bus being elevated to something positive - it's so easy to coach an infant school team could play it. It demands effort and concentration but that's it. No intelligence, no genius coaching, no merit. Every team that plays that way should be mocked relentlessly, not indulged. It's a shameful way to play in a league you claim to have earned the right to be. And oh yes, I haven't watched anything since, so maybe it's been discussed, but in the Spurs game VAR 'explained' they couldn't correct the Diaz decision because 'we can't stop play'. So how the feck did they manage to stop the play for the Palace pen? Fecking magic? An act of God? The whole system is a shambles.

No. We’re playing a boring team.

It’s a cowardly way to play when you’re at home. Drives me crazy how it keeps being depicted as impressive. Hughes is basically just shoving every opponent over, with impunity.

Why on earth did it take that idiot so long? The game is a shambles. And yet again the strategy of parking the bus at home is being hailed a some genius tactic.

1. That pitch was a disgrace as a potato patch. 2. I cannot work out why the repeated drying of the ball prior to a throw in wasn't prohibited. I read that rule at the start of the seaon. I thought maybe I'd misremembered, so I checked and sure enough there it was : 'The new rule on the towel ban approved earlier this month will also prevent players from using items of clothing offered up by fans to dry the ball for better grip'. So why suddenly was that wanker Wilder allowed to use it? 3. Three points, thank for feck for that.

Because we won, you sad fecker.

Absolutely right. Some people have an absurd expectation about a back-up player - they seem amazed if they're not as good or better than the first choice. If they were as good or better than the first choice, they'd either be gone already or on their way out to another club on a bigger wage. Add to that the lack of rhythm, and that's what you get, and what you always get, outside of dreams.

I don't get this. When he's confident, yes, you can. When he's not, no, you can't. If people think those three or four pens after he'd missed a couple, when he fired them at the space occupied at the whistle by the keeper's knee caps, were good, then god knows what they're taking. Sometimes, his confidence goes, like Gerrard's went, like just about anyone's goes, and then, if you're remotely sane, you WILL doubt him.. Are you asking people to ignore any reality and demand blind faith? Doubts come and go depending on the evidence in front of your eyes.

After listening to Andy Burnham, the PL has decided accept his request for a second independent assessment. This has now been completed, and the following recommendation has arrived:

I still do. It's a bog outside Killarney.

Yes. But the replays really need cutting. The coverage generally responds to changes in the game, but as far as replays are concerned it ignores the fact that the sheer pace has increased. There's just no time these days for lazy replays of banal scuffed or shanked shots. Wait until there's a break in play, or, better still, wait until half time. I don't want to watch two or three replays of a crap attack when I can hear via the crowd sound that we're already off on an attack. I just don't get why they think anyone thinks that's a good idea.

I usually do that after a few minutes, once I've heard what they're like. I miss hearing our fans, that's the thing, but I just cannot stand the endless drivel. But it's not just the commentary - it's the direction, too. I honestly cannot believe why few others get pissed off with it, but the direction is crap. These days, a keeper can make a save, bowl the ball out and it's in the other penalty box about eight seconds later. Now that's a basic fact. Yet they still show the keeper make a save, and then go straight to multiple replays. You know the ball is already back in play, and yet they're still gambling that there's no goal at the other end while they go to the second or third angle of the replay. THAT is why watching on tv is so stressful these days. You literaally miss larrge chunks of really key moments of action.

Yes, it was quite striking the change in his approach since he moved to Sky. The thing you want from commentators is some kind of perspective - especially for the first goal. I mean, where do you go after the first goal if you over-hype it that much? He shrieked like Tyler when they scored today. It was a shite goal by any perspective. After that you could almost sense the still-sane part of him thinking, 'God, I hope there won't be any more goals, because I'll have to summon up Freddie Mercury levels of camp excitement to describe them!'

Decent result for us. I would have taken that before the game. We played some really good stuff before their goal - patchily, but there were several sequences of great one-touch passing, really sharp - and we came back into it later on - well enough to make a mockery of some of the ridiculous moans on here. Some 'fans' are so ludicrously quick to dismiss this team as inferior to a Sunday league team, I mean, christ, take a fucking look at yourselves. Diaz bothers me - even before the disruption to his season, he just doesn't seem to want to race past opponents like he did when he first came here. The rest were good in places, poor in places, but if you slam a team in transition, who gets a good result there, then something's really wrong. Foden, by the way, with his ridiculous head-holding and constant attempts to get our players booked, is even more of an arsehole than I thought.

Yes, that's right, it's not as if he's quite good at it. He'd be shite against your Sunday league team, I bet. You'd have him in your pocket, whilst your mates score six against the rest of these shite oil-rich league champions. That's what's so soothing on here - the refreshing sanity.

No, we should have had two by now. For fuck's sake stop acting like a manc lord haw-haw.

Depends on how good a DM we can get. Look at Rodri's price and wages.

We played some very good stuff up to that point, but losing a goal triggers a mad rewriting of the 'game plan' and suddenly it's 1/10s all round.

Drury's gone full Tyler.

I genuinely find it offensive - at a time when some good souls are trying to keep food banks stocked up - that these fecking idiots are spending thousands on cards, banners and a bloody plane to make their protests. I honestly can't see why that should anger people less than the ten point deficit. You don't need to spend any money at all to make an effective protest.

They've currently raised £27,998 on GoFundMe for their idiotic banner protest - where are the wankers who only a few months ago had enough spare cash to hire a plane to fly over Goodison for about the tenth fecking time? Even their protests reek of dodgy accountancy.

How could the PL do this to poor old Mother Noblett? It's cruel beyond belief. They've had to set up a Just Giving page to pay for all the flags they need to display for the manc game. Apparently Mike Parry has been persuaded to swallow a whole tub of cinnamon in order to raise more funds in case they need banners for a second match. After that they'll be reliant on Jenny Seagrove selling her donkey sanctuary to pay for some post-it notes. It's a really dark day when you can't even get away with a tiny bit of financial incompetence without some busybody sticking their snout in.

"You don't need to be corrupt to be fined but they are corrupt". "Ten points all round!"