sharkyvilla

Yeah there isn't a huge amount of coaching that can be done at international level. Let's face it, most of our players are thick as shit but do have some ability and physical strength to their advantage so I would think a motivator is more useful than one of the world's top coaches. Mourinho fits into both categories and I wonder whether he would be up for it if he leaves Real in the summer and he wants a job to keep him going until Sir Alex retires or snuffs it.

At least one of those wins we still had Milner along with Downing and Young whilst McLeish has none of them. In hindsight it was probably a mistake not giving him the job full-time instead of going for Houllier, who I really blame for the mess we are in. I'm not convinced he really wanted the job though. I actually thought we played well for the most part against Newcastle and don't mind losing so much as I reckon we would beat most teams with that kind of performance. I don't think his signings have been that bad. Keane and Given have been great, N'Zogbia is kind of finding his feet but still a bit under-par. Hutton has been toilet but we needed a Premiership right-back for as cheap as possible so I'm not sure what other options there were, assuming keeping Luke Young was a no-goer.

All in all it's another total **** up by the FA. I don't blame Fabio for walking out though I'm really surprised he is giving up on a final opportunity to add the international honour to his CV. I reckon he would have stayed on if Harry had got sent down but either way the media would have made his job a nightmare as they always do leading up to tournaments. Redknapp may get a little more leeway and the players can get on with it. I reckon we'd do quite well under him tbh. For some reason Capello has just never clicked with our players, probably because of his poor English and the way having got to the World Cup he tried his best to get players in who had absolutely nothing to do with getting them there. Either way the whole world is playing catch-up with Spain so we're not likely to win it.

Does it really matter who is captain? Just pick the best side and put the armband on whoever has the most caps

We were barely playing with 4 men during November

Is the Welsh job really that stressful? He would have plenty of time off between matches to be with the family. It's just very sad and it looks like we'll just never know.

It really was a great goal he scored. Number 9s should never be allowed in their own penalty area at the best of times, his tackle yesterday was an utter nightmare. To be fair it was a collective brainfart and despite the complete misery I feel today I think I'll forgive him. Did someone let the England batting coach take our half-time team talk btw?

'He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup' - Noel Gallagher about his brother

Does he really dive? Doesn't he just make a meal out of any contact? There's a difference between the two and is primarily just to take the piss out of Real's tactics maybe you didnt see last season when we went down clutching his face when Xabi Alonso grabbed his shorts Again that is making a meal out of contact. I consider a dive to be when the player pretends he has been fouled and there was no contact. Making a meal of contact, even if it is to a different part of the body is a legitimate tactic, especially when it comes to Barcelona who are often intimidated as it's seen by poor managers as the only way to stop them.

I can't believe Savic is really as shit as he has been showing. Mancini's tactics didn't really help him, it was almost as if he was trying to give him help by playing him alongside two more experienced defenders yet he ended up more isolated than anything. He'd be twice the player alongside Kompany I reckon.

Does he really dive? Doesn't he just make a meal out of any contact? There's a difference between the two and is primarily just to take the piss out of Real's tactics

What I don't get is if Real are going to go into these games with these tactics why don't they do it properly and break Messi's knees

Reminds me of Peter Brackley and Ray Wilkins when they did Football Italia on Channel 4 with James Richardson and Paul Elliott doing the analysis. Legendary. Scott Minto is shit though so brings things down a peg or two. The refs in these things are ridiculous.

If Harry gets sent down then I reckon he'll take over from Capello as England manager for 2 or 4 years and then take over from Fergie. If Dalglish was to stand aside then there's a chance he could be at Liverpool I suppose but they won't be in the Champs League. Spurs is probably too small a club for his ego. Either way would any of us tell our grandkids of the day they watched a Jose Mourinho team play?

Diarra was ridiculously lucky to stay on but what a **** strike by Alves, I nearly spat out my red wine when that went in. They bring it on themselves tbh do Real, should be down to 9 men in most classicos. Kevin Keatings and Gerry Armstrong are the best commentary team on telly aren't they?

I just worry that the same thing will happen as with Cahill, he makes his move and fulfills his potential elsewhere and we think 'what if...'. I still think there is a Premier League-standard goalscorer in Delfouneso. If I were O'Neill I would definitely put a bid in for him.

Proving it was deliberate is tough if you ask me, but Mario's reputation may count against him. Meanwhile Messi's hattrick was ridiculous today.

Absolutely spot on. I love the way Barca make a meal out of everything Real hit them with as it exaggerates and takes the piss out of Mourinho's abysmal tactics in these games. The drama queens add that extra bit of hilariousness to the whole thing on top of the quality football from Barca.

I regularly watch seasons 1 - 4 but I break out in a horrible rash if I watch seasons 5, 6 or 7. Up to season 4, this was the greatest tv show ever made. I'm up to series 3 on DVD. I watched it when the show was on originally but just thought it was about time to watch it again now I understand a bit more about politics. It really is amazing and could watch it over and over. If I could be any TV character it would probably Josh Lyman. Other than that, Darkplace and the IT Crowd have me in hysterics whenever I put the DVDs on or watch random youtube clips

I got it for Christmas and just finished my first season with Villa. Ended up 15th and got the jill n jack. **** rock hard, probably too hard in all honesty. I can't work out whether I'm enjoying it or not. I got 7 red cards during the season and Dunne scored a ridiculous amount of own goals, Bent scored bugger all, Gabby got 1 goal, thank heavens for Delfouneso or I'd have got relegated. Came fourth in the Olympics too, had my right backs sent off in the semi and bronze medal play-off inside the first 20 minutes. No chance, it's not as if I have them doing aggressive tackling either. Just a cheating bastard game.

I just don't understand why QPR. He could end up playing Championship football at the shittest ground in London next season. I don't think he's guaranteed to keep a side like QPR up in the same way he did for us. It would be better for him to bang the goals in for us, go to the Euros and knick a couple of goals before Rooney gets back and then have offers from all over the place (before turning them down to stay with us).

Tbh these lists are almost impossible to compile but it seems for the most part fair to me. Aguero should be top 10 at least though.

Haha I loved that urban myth. It was so proposterous that it became believable! Weirdly the other day I was watching a BBC news round-up of people who died in 2011 and the bloke who wrote Baker Street was on it for being dead and it mentioned the Bob Holness/sax thing. Very sad news although Ed Milliband's slip up made me piss myself.

I reckon Hughes had the Chelsea job lined up with Hiddink over-seeing until it took so long for Hiddink to become available that Roman just thought **** it and went for Villas-Boas instead. By then McLeish had been appointed I think. I'd love to have got AVB in with David Dein as chief exec to rip up the scouting and playing set-up but just dreams unfortunately. I see no hope at the moment.

the profit might of been 'good' but there was no need to sell these players, we didnt need to sell them at all, by selling these weve took 3 steps back to the mess we was in before, had we kept them, we would be in a better state and certainly higher up the league chasing europe, which could have gained us more income than the profit we made on the 3 players not clever business imo by the board, they chased the penny, and missed out on the pound So if we had kept Ash at the club this season and he left on a free transfer, how would that have helped? Imo if you sell someone for 20m, double what you paid for them, then you can get two players in, sell them for a profit, then get another four players in, then theoretically you can end up with a better team. Spurs have kind of done that, but the difference is they have made much better decisions off-field with a tighter control of wages and more imaginative recruitment.