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Yeah right! Griezmann, Giroud, Lacazette, Benzema, Martial, Fekir, Coman etc. Do you really think Loic Remy is going to get a call-up? And secondly, do you think a few good games for AVFC in a relegation battle will do him any good? Ridiculous.

Stupid idea. 1) Why would Loic Remy want to sign for Aston Villa, be it only a loan? He is 28 years old and in his prime, he needs to find another club in England or go abroad where he can make top dollars. He will be chased by tons of clubs and will definitely have other suitors than us. He might be mates with Remi Garde, but that sure as hell isn't going to dictate his next move. 2) Why would Chelsea loan him out right now? It doesn't harm to have him on the bench for when Costa is struggling, and they only have Falcao next to Remy. Makes no sense at all, even if they manage to bring in someone new in the next month.

To stay up, we have to emulate roughly what Liverpool and Everton have done so far this season - that will get us to 36ish points in the end - which will probably be enough. Swansea only need 17 points in 19 games to reach that target, but who is to say they will do any worse than us? The Premier League is super tight this season, the level in the middle of the pack is higher than it has ever been in the past - expect for us, we are the worst team in the league by a mile. Southampton are a good team, everyone is praising Koeman and their level (they just beat Arsenal 4-0 mind) - but surprisingly they are 12th on 24 points. Copying their tally in the next 19 games would not nearly suffice for us, that would bring us to 32 points and we would relegate. How would our team suddenly turn around and play even better than what Soton have done so far this season? Manchester United are only on 30 points right now due to some incredibly bad games lately, but they were top only 3-4 games ago - copying them would only barely save us from relegation. It is not going to happen. Our manager does not have experience and don't know this league very well, our team is by far the worst in the league and we have won one game out of 19. To be honest; even if we spent 100M on new, experienced players in two days, it would still be an enormous task. I have given up already, there is no way we will escape this - but I am of course hoping for a slight miracle. Next up we face: Sunderland, Crystal Palace, Leicester, West Bromwich, West Ham and Norwich. It goes without saying that we need to win AT LEAST three out of those games. What do I predict? I think we will do much better and end up with a run of around 4 wins - 7 draws and 8 losses. That will significantly improve our current state, and we will end up with approx. 27 points. Relegation is a certainty, unfortunately.

I think we need to sack Tim Sherwood as soon as possible, the two week-window right now is perfect in that sense. The sooner the better, we will absolutely struggle with relegation if he continues to be in charge of this football club. There is no room for sentiment in football - that is when you are left with too little time to perform miracles. I am all about giving people time to carve out results, like Liverpool should have done with Brendan Rodgers. They probably pulled the plug because they know they will get Jürgen Klopp, which will re-energize the whole fan base and city in two minutes. However, I am not willing to give Tim Sherwood any time because he is in my opinion not a good manager at all. He has done everything wrong over the summer, he has bought in a lot of players that are not going to perform in this league until they are settled - and that takes more than just a few months. When all of them are adapting together, it can create dramatic consequences and we are seeing them already now. We never deserved to win the first game and really could have been standing here with 1-2 points. Team selection, tactics, purchases, motivational speeches,interviews, handling of the media - everything strikes me as irrational - it seems like he is playing Football Manager in real life. Sure Sherwood has experience as a (mediocre) footballer in the Premier League, but I see no substance from him and fear that we will go down when the season ends. Not only that, we will be down long before the season ends. The quality of the Premier League is very high this year, everyone is beating each other - even the big teams - except for us and a few, selected others. Sunderland are crap, but they will get a new manager and some much-needed change, Newcastle will become better because they have a decent squad and spine. Over time I think they will develop a better system with their new manager and players, but I fear that we will not with Tim Sherwood. He is a fraud, someone who has talked his way into Tottenham and Villa because of his experience as a player - the right man at the right time so to speak. When he gets the sack from Villa, and I am 100% sure he will be sacked at some point, he will never get a job in this league again. It's a tough decision to sack a manager - but it should not be tough to sack Tim Sherwood. He doesn't even have faith in himself, which should be enough to pull the plug. Get him out!

The victory yesterday has done everything for us. 3 points out of nothing, against a team with nothing to play for basically. Fantastic stuff, and I think we were good as well. We passed the ball around and I didn't really fear an equalizer in the last couple of minutes, another sign of confidence in the team. We are safe, we will definitely get more points from now and until the end of the season.

I hate it when referees destroy excellent football matches, it happens often in the Champions League due to the extreme tempo in games. I was very much against Hawk-eye as I want the game to be similar in the Champions League as it is in the 6th division so to speak, but I admit I was wrong. Goal-line technology is an excellent addition and it takes no momentum out of the game like I feared. We need to introduce more technology though, it would be so easy to fix: 1) Violent, unpunished acts should be informed to the referee - and he can give the player a red card instantly. Someone punches a player, the referee gets a message in his ear and it's all good. We are of course talking blatant acts of violence, definite red cards. Now one might argue that something can be obvious to one person and debatable for another, but we are talking Joey Barton, Zidane-shit here. 2) Wrongful dismissals. The game is now ruined and Chelsea will win the game easily, because the referee was fooled by Oscar's "pain" and Chelsea's reactions. It was never a red card, the referee would have pulled it back had he seen a quick replay.

The fact that Ronaldo doesn't care about appearing to be a clearing in the woods doesn't prove anything other than the fact he's a clearing in the woods. I've no doubt Messi is probably a tax avoiding prima donna, and don't really care about the Messi v Ronaldo thing that much. Personally though I'd rather watch Messi creating team goals for Barca than watch Ronaldo sulking because someone else on his team scored and it might affect his precious record breaking. His celebration in the CL final summed up everything I dislike about the man. Utter gimp. Yeah celebrating after scoring the final goal in the Champions League-final... how dare he! Sometimes people forget these guys are only 20 something year olds winning a football game, this time the biggest jackpot of them all, and they are entitled to celebrate however they like. Stupid comment.

Being soft vs. hard has got nothing to do with Hutton. Yesterday he was thuggish and it only reminded me of scum like Joey Barton. Not only the tackle and kick which was violent, but also the petulance afterwards when he stole minutes from the game as well as our momentum. He then went on to cross in for the goal, happy times, but if the referee had seen the incident Hutton would have been red-carded and we would have never won the game. This time we were lucky, but over the course of the season he will cost us points when doing stuff like that.

Foster should have gone in the first half, but refs often don't award anything when the striker manages to finish on goal (which is kind of a weird rule). We would have cruised the win if that red card had happened. After 87 minutes, Alan the idiot Hutton should have had a clear red card after kicking Berahino in the dick. We would never have won the game if the referee saw the incident, so the game is obviously about the little moments. Sick game.

It's all about 38 games, not what happens any given Saturday. We beat Liverpool away and drew United at home, doesn't really mean much in the big scheme of things. Burnley getting points at Chelsea and Man City is not about Burnley, it's about Chelsea and City not playing at the level they can. A 80% Chelsea will still beat a 100% Burnley-side, but sometimes they are off. Yesterday Burnley were lucky, they should have had red cards and penalties against them. Then Matic reacts and gives Burnely the upper hand, even though Barnes should have been sent to the stands.

Ridiculous. Do you know how it is to play in La Paz after being in England/Italy for 10 years? Do you know how his stamina is and how his oxygen uptake is? I don't either, but it should be mountains above yours I'm sure! Anderson was always a honest player, injuries ruined his career and motivation. Happens to a lot of them.... he has won the Premier League ( four times) and the Champions League by the way.

I do. I also remember that it didn't happen. I have called people monkeys before, probably a few black guys as well when I was playing football myself. Didn't mean it in a racist way, Clattenburg didn't either I would expect. Behaving like a monkey is pretty self-explanatory. Now..... making monkey chants and throwing bananas at black players however, cannot be misinterpreted. Happens in Spain, Italy and Russia doesn't it?

Foolish idea/post to be honest. It's not that I don't agree that these Chelsea-fans are absolutely disgusting, but you cannot punish an entire crowd because of the behavior of a few (which cannot be identified pr. person). Do you punish all muslims because of the incidents in France and Denmark? No, that's kind of the whole point world leaders are trying to make these days. Most fans behave well, pay their expensive tickets and want to go to matches, it's not like you can punish them because of an incident at the train station. Traveling, drunk, British football fans aren't exactly the most well-educated people in general - so this sort of thing will always happen. Not the racism part necessarily, which is unspeakable, but generally behaving like words removed, thrashing stuff and beating up innocent people. Chelsea shouldn't do anything, it's up to UEFA of course. Either ban Chelsea or ban their ability to have traveling support the next time around. We have seen much worser things going on, especially in Poland and the Ukraine before the Euro's.

We'll definitely not see Lambert on TV as a pundit, nobody can understand the shit coming out of his mouth. I guess you have some characters with dodgy accents on already, but he is actually impossible to catch for the average viewer.

Dive??? Uhm, quick question, what happens if Rooney doesn't anticipate that the keeper is flying into him like that? Oh yeah, broken legs... it's not a **** dive, it's a moronic tackle by the goalkeeper.

As long as Steven Gerrard doesn't pick up that trophy on his birthday and last game for Liverpool, like it would mask over his failure to ever win a Premier League-trophy, I would be happy. Not necessarily a huge chance for us winning the thing, but you have to be in it to win it... just ask Swansea and Wigan and the other teams winning out of nowhere.

What matters is Premier League-experience, not what people have done in League 1 and the Championship. Tons of managers have done brilliantly in the lower leagues, then they have been found out in the Premier League. It's down to finances and the gap being too big, but it's also about charisma, smartness and the ability to find the right players. Sherwood has experience from Tottenham/Blackburn as a player, as well as being the manager for Tottenham for a short while. I wouldn't call Sherwood inexperienced and Lambert experienced to separate the two fellows (I don't count the Colchester and Norwich-years as huge, beneficial experiences to be honest). Both are inexperienced, Lambert failed, let's hope Sherwood does not.

Tim Sherwood? After a few days of searching? Disasterous! 28 games in charge of a very good Tottenham-side - 10 losses and rightfully sacked. What has he done to earn this position? Absolutely nothing! Mediocre player, mediocre results for Tottenham, no experience...

I don't want Tim Sherwood anywhere near our club in this state, what has he ever proved? He lost 10 out of 28 games for a very solid Tottenham-side, he has never manage before.... We cannot afford the risk to bring him in when we are in the relegation zone. I would actually much prefer Ole Gunnar Solskjær as our coach, he at least has some experience from the doldrums. Not that I want him here now... but he is a better choice than Sherwood.

Yeah same here.... not necessarily a fall-out, but I think he has just lost all faith in Lambert. He should be the one to enjoy this moment the most, it will be interesting to see who comes in and what kind of football we can expect.

It looks like the players have lost their belief as well, and that is always when the board reacts. They should never react to moronic football fans (although the correlation between a crap manager and angry fans is high), but when the players don't give a shit we're entering into dangerous territory. Players don't owe us anything, they'll leave for better clubs in the summer and we'll play Derby in the Championship. Two good subs now though. Weimann and Sinclair have been woeful and needed to be subbed, although I am not so sure what Joe Cole will give this team. Hopefully I just jinxed something, somehow.

People think Jelavic has been bad, but he has just been smart. Of course when he gets the yellow card, he cannot do it anymore, but until then he will continue harass our defenders and destroy our momentum. Then of course you have idiots like Weimann retaliating and getting a yellow card instead. Oh and Okore owning Jelavic? Don't know who won the header (might have been Jelavic), but Okore rushed into the challenge and they scored a few seconds later. Not so much owning going on...

We are utterly clueless, the entire team is clueless going forward. Benching Benteke and playing Weimann/Gabby against a compact and defensive Hull-side? Even more childlish and pathetic from Lambert, you don't bench your only good player - regardless of form. Weimann and Gabby have been wide strikers/wingers for years, they have no clue how to make the correct runs or play together, it's easy for Hull to defend. Westwood? Not a tackler, not a runner, makes simple, easy passes because he doesn't know how to do it differently. Sinclair has no confidence and runs into defenders instead of running past them. He needs time to become anything close to what he was, but starting him away to Hull without Benteke on the pitch is probably not the wisest idea. Get Benteke on the pitch, and we might score a goal.

Everything here is true, except for him being a brilliant short term option and that he would win a few games. It is impossible to predict what he would do with our team, but it would be very easy to look at his career and write him off an as absolute tool of the highest order.

Would he? We have Christian Benteke, who is struggling because we are insanely weak in midfield... why would Rickie Lambert make us better? They are hardly a match made in heaven. It's players like Kieran Richardson that needs to be thrown out, with him in our team we will actually relegate quite easily