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Haha. You know what, I wrote a piece about this a couple of weeks ago explaining my living situation. Here it is: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/i-live-in-a-shed-london-gentrification

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Loris, Piotr - this is great. You just can't get excited about blokes named Adam or James.

Gonna go to Husky's for today, not sure about Wednesday because I think I'm going to the Echo

How do I nominate this for 'best new thread' at TLW's End of Season Awards?

I live in a shed (seriously) in London for £850 a month. Great city, but I must say I get a bit depressed when I stay at my mates' £300 a month castle in Aigburth. Anyone been to Huskys the newish red bar in Elephant and Castle? That place is great.

A weird game. Really surprised we took three points from it, if I'm honest. Have any other London reds been to Husky's Bar in Elephant & Castle? Watched the game there earlier - the most surreal/unusual one I've been to. A mix of pissed-up guys singing Gary Mac songs and two Nigerian reds who'd come straight from church, got absolutely wasted and just kept shouting 'Joe Allen'. A pitbull named 'Dogleash' barked when we scored, for fuck's sake. My mate and I joined in with him eventually. Will be going back.

would anybody on here give up their kids/wives/whatever to have the skill of Steven Gerrard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Q5VbZRpTQ

A haiku. I like Firmino Have never seen him play but I like Firmino.

Yeah... But have you seen the way he receives the ball and turns 180 degrees? My, oh my: it's like poetry in motion, like watching Swan Lake. If we can just play a game that encourages Adam Lallana into positions where he is just constantly receiving the ball and turning 180 degrees, then we're in business.

I can exchange it for an unused raffle ticket from my school bazaar in '94

I think Markovic was our best player in that position last season, despite the fact he just shouldn't be playing there.

Obviously I don't mean literally give it away.

I know it's a long shot, but me and my ticket 'guy' are currently not on talking terms, so if anybody is trying to give a spare away after we get smashed at the Britannia, let me know

I think he became exposed when we started playing Lallana at RWB. That was fucking mental.

Having only seen him there in one or two U21 games and the dying embers of games, I'm gobsmacked that people are so clued up on what kind of CM/DM Emre Can is. We know that he's a confident RCB, carries the ball well, but who knows what he's capable of in the centre of the pitch? I have a strange feeling that he still won't get the chance for a while as he's raw, we have an unbalanced team and that we could well revert to a panic 3-5-2 when Stoke do us with one or two 'breeze past Moreno and cut it back' type goals. Still, he was out best signing of last summer by some distance.

My dad is a Villa fan, so I rang and asked him what he thought Benteke would be like for us. 'I hope he gets 30 goals for you this season, but I think he'll be shit. His best form for Villa was when they were just continually smashing the ball up to him. Otherwise, he can go missing in games and you can just forget he's on the pitch a lot of the time.' ...Fuck you, dad.

What is Brendan's obsession with buying strikers who are obviously not suited the system he plays? Let's get the plan A sorted before the squander all of our money on plan B.

"Nathaniel has a tattoo of himself as a three-year-old on his arm holding a football. Other tattoos he sports include Big Ben, a phone box and the London Eye." This guy either has an ironic, self-deprecating sense of humour or is an absolute mongol.

This is brilliant. I said rarely..

I don't mean that he rarely gets the signings wrong, just that he is usually pretty on the mark in terms of his knowledge of the players and what they're capable of

Tim Vickery recommended that we buy Bacca as a replacement for Suarez when it was nailed on that he was leaving. He rarely gets them wrong.

Also, aren't all the other clubs going to make fun of us when they see 15, 31, 45 and 50 running a muck? We're the new Spartak Moscow