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I'm not too deflated by the defeat. More concerned with yet another injury to add to the list. Sakho had been playing well and his absence means a return for Lovren, which is a scary prospect. Henderson and Sturridge can't return soon enough, and hopefully Milner and Sakho aren't out for long.

Fucking bogey team. Fuck off Palace.

We've played well since they scored. We've had chances and can win this. Keep it up lads. Can and Moreno need to concentrate. They both can be good players but are so brainless at times.

Ibe has been excellent when he's had the ball.

Yeaaasssss! Get in Coutinho.

Oh no, Lovren on now. Hope it's not a serious injury for Sakho. That's the last thing we need.

Great, looks like Sakho is injured. Wouldn't have been involved had Can looked up and passed, just kept hold of it for too long. This ain't German fotball mate, you don't have long to hold onto the ball when you're near the opposition box.

Shit defending. Palace doing us again.

Fellaini will probably end up scoring or flicking on a route one goal.

City looking really good, winning 3-1 away to Sevilla even without Silva, Aguero, and De Bruyne. Sterling having a great game. Cunt.

What's wrong with our strikers? 3 of the useful ones are all injured leaving us with the hapless Origi. Have to feel for Jurgen here, he's not going to get us up and running if he doesn't have any fit strikers to call on.

I think we'll improve considerably once Henderson is back. Coutinho and our attackers will be the better for it too.

You don't need to cut £12BN from welfare. To take money from citizens is cruel and typical of the Tories. We could reclaim £12BN by stopping tax evasion, making the super rich and corporations pay their fair share rather than claim we're powerless to stop them from funnelling their cash overseas or using legal loopholes to avoid paying the tax they're due. Root out tax and benefit fraud and we'll easily reclaim the £12BN the Tories want to take from low income families.

I hope he gets the sack. It would really wound his pride to be fired twice by his beloved Chelsea.

I think Chelsea could field their under 15's and we still wouldn't win at Stamford Bridge. We just shit ourselves over there.

I miss Suarez.

Hard to judge him fairly in the current, rather average team. But he looks very raw. Pace and skill but finishing is suspect, as is positioning, runs etc. He's 4th choice striker and it shows.

We'll get better when Henderson and Sturridge are back. Jury's out on how much Firmino and Benteke will improve us. But we still need some quality signings in the summer if we want to challenge for a top 4 place next season.

With the injury problems we have up front he would at least give us another option, even if it isn't the best. Right now it's impossible to say how fit and injury-free Benteke and Sturridge will be in the new year so would be worth having Markovic around.

Excellent player, one of my favourites when growing up. Newcastle would probably have won the title in '96 had they not messed him around to accommodate Asprilla. And Souness ballsed up when he let him go.

Any brilliant conspiracy theorist tell us what's really happening in the Middle East? A Shia-Russian alliance vs Sunni-NATO involving Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. Despite all the claims of wanting them gone, no one is really doing anything about ISIS. Syria and Iraq carved to pieces, refugee crisis from these lands causing chaos to the EU, a new Intifada seems to be starting in the Palestinian territories. Revolutions and insurgencies that have toppled or destabalised despots who were previously untouchable. Is this chaos in the Middle East being orchestrated? Or are these events all coincidental? The truth is out there.

True. I think he's a seriously talented player but inconsistent and lazy.

I'm not saying he should. I'm saying unless he's unable to play, he should play. Is Sturridge unable to play? Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. I don't know any more but I'm sick of the amount of games he's missed now. This is a big season for him. If he has another season like the last one, it will probably be his last with the club.

I don't know what to make of Sturridge. He's obviously a fantastic footballer and goal scorer but these injuries are taking the piss now. How badly hurt is he? Can he play through the pain barrier? Give him some painkillers and let him get on with it? If so, he should be made to play, not sit out yet again, picking up a fat pay cheque again for doing nothing. Eusebio would play through injury after injury after injury for Benfica. They'd give him painkillers, bandage him up and he'd go out there and bang in the goals. It ended up crippling him but fuck me, that's commitment to your club. Then you have some players who break a nail and don't want to know.

Is it me or does Dembele ALWAYS play well against us? He even had good games against us when he was at Fulham. Doesn't turn up for most other matches though.