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First time Sherwood's substitutions have impacted the game positively. Grealish and Ayew completely changed the game. Now all we need to do is get the starting line up right.

So Davis goes in aggressively, concedes a free kick then kicks then ball away, gets away with a talking to. Westwood gets booked for running away with the ball. Excellent, consistent refereeing.

No doubt Sherwood will come out with his 'no-one's hurting more than me' crap again. There's plenty of fans, including myself who have been watching the same old rubbish for years now who are hurting a lot more, Tim. At least he used to show a bit of passion, now he just sits there like the ghost of Paul Lambert.

Downing most definitely went back on his word. If you remember he said that he wanted to repay the faith we'd put in him when we bought him while he was injured and he said he wasn't going to move even if we were relegated. 

I think what's more infuriating about Delph is that he did it twice, once just after he said he would stay and that unlike Downing, he was a real fan favourite who felt like he loved the club. 

I see Tim Vickery isn't a fan of Romiro Funes Mori who signed for Everton.

"I would love to be wrong about Ramiro Funes Mori. But the only really good thing I can say about him is that language is not going to be a problem. That's important for defenders, because defending is nothing if it's not collective. When Argentina's economy tanked in 2001, Mori's family relocated to Dallas, Texas. He grew up there and speaks very good English as a result.

"He's left-sided, and he can play left-back as well. But I don't think he has the quality, the physicality or the pace to survive in the Premier League."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/33590187

Ouch.

I see he's gobbing off on Twitter now. Good work Charles you waste of space.

Please Lord can we get some real speculation soon? Don't think I can stand the avalanche of crap Cavani/Berahino memes.

The team of Ruud Gullit and Martin Keown makes me long for Hansen and Lawrenson. I wouldn't mind but I think Lawro's an absolute moron.

In all honesty in the long run its probably for the best, he will learn from his mistake and this will guard against overconfidence. More importantly, my twitter timeline has been a lot less congested with mundane retweets since it happened, which can only be a good thing.

Ran my parkrun in sub 26 minutes which is the fastest I've done it since my injury. I was running 5k in about 22 minutes reasonably comfortably at that point so still some way to go, happy with the progress though.

Interesting quote coming out of the press conference from Sherwood "Traore is fit. He hadn't trained for a week during negotiations. The Premier League is a tough league. Hopefully we'll see him at some stage this season. He's definitely one for the future." 

Wonder how far off he really is, I'd imagine Sherwood is trying to dampen expectations somewhat but doesn't sound like he'll be involved for the time being.

 

People say 'guesstimate'. When did it become so unfashionable to just use the word 'estimate'.

I've always assumed they are two different things. 

 

An estimate implies some sort of knowledge, experience or thought process whereas a guestimate is pulling figures out of ones arse. 

 

Ah, so a bit like a guess then? 

People say 'guesstimate'. When did it become so unfashionable to just use the word 'estimate'.

Sherwood giving Clattenberg some stick 

Christian who?!

Support is absolutely superb, I'm sure it's helping us drive forward this half.

I never bet on Villa but William Hill have us at 10/3. That is outrageous IMO.

You can get 17/5 at Bet Victor. I'm also tempted.

The fact that I'd thought of both of those annoyances weeks ago but I'm so lazy it has taken until now to post them.

People who don't use bus lanes when they are not in use (particularly when they start gesticulating at you for correctly using it). 

People who use the left hand lane on a roundabout when taking the right hand exit.

 

He will bully liverpool and any other team with soft cbs

Good job he plays for us and not against us then.

 

Yep, fortunately for us Liverpool don't have a big centre forward who can bully centre backs.

Now watch those vile plop fans backtrack

There will be no backtracking, it'll be 'Benteke has raised his game by playing for the mighty Liverpool, adapting his game to play the Liverpool way'.

Cap'n Jack has really lost it now. Mind you, did he ever have it?

The utterly hilarious Jordan 'bants' that are doing the round at the moment.