HanoiVillan

I'm pretty sure you did. I've been playing for three years and there weren't any over Christmas in that time, and I don't really see how there could be. The thing about double gameweeks is that it involves some, but not all, teams playing an extra match. Famously, the Christmas period is impossible to fit any extra matches into, with clubs playing every two or three days.

I can pretty much guarantee that this won't happen.

If final league positions were actually determined purely by revenue, we could stop the troublesome process of actually playing football, and just declare Man Utd the champions for all eternity.

I think it's basically impossible to deny that he's been one of the reasons we've struggled this season at this point. He gives 100%, but we do look just so much more solid without him.

This is a good point. His candour in interviews is welcome - I appreciate him not trying to spin us lines all the time. He could easily have pretended the first half was fine yesterday, or brushed over it and moved to the second half, but he didn't, he admitted it was poor and below his expectations in a way that leads you to believe that he'll actually work on what went wrong, albeit with the limited tools at his disposal.

Gabby may have had a rough few years, but even now he's 3x better than Sinclair will ever be.

Nobody is disputing that it's fair to criticise Bunn, and I don't think many people are in much doubt about his limitations as a keeper, the dispute is that you suggested replacing a keeper who - for better or worse - has kept 3 clean sheets in his last 5 PL games and saved one penalty with a guy who's been absolutely dismal all season.

I was disappointed that 'politician hit with dildo in the face' didn't get more love, but then I did bury it in the TTIP thread, so divorced of context, here it is:

Yes. Shelvey and Townsend are good signings, Doumbia is supposed to be pretty good as well although obviously he flopped at Roma. Shelvey in particular was excellent today. Their defence is crap, but I think they'll eke out enough points from their front six.

I'm not trying to be a dick, but he's still got 7 days to suffer a setback in yet. I'll start worrying about Sturridge when he's successfully completed the warm-up.

He spent £8m on James Chester who has barely played and always looks appalling when he does (although to be fair, he's a CB and seems to always be brought in as a RB). In fact, they played again with four centre-backs across the backline today. It's willfully perverse. And the situation with Berahino is just stupid. He's clearly the most talented player at the club by such a long distance, yes his attitude is poor, but it's a chicken and egg thing, his attitude is poor because he doesn't get picked and he doesn't get picked because his attitude is poor. Something needs to happen to break the chain, and for Pulis it seems to me he has the choice of either a] being sensible and just picking him, even if he's lazy for a couple of games, or b] losing enough matches that they slip into real danger.

Can someone change the info on the main screen? Currently says it's a Saturday game.

It was definitely a goalkeeping error, he came out way too far and visibly committed himself early. Nevertheless, Gabby had to finish it which he did with a little bit of insouciance, it was nice to see. Even when I saw the error, I couldn't believe Gabby had actually scored until the ball rolled across the line.

It's hugely, staggeringly unlikely. Today we went from something like a 0.1% chance to maybe a 0.5% chance. Beating Liverpool next weekend is vital - we suck away from home, so most of our points will have to come at VP, and Liverpool are pretty rank at the back. If we beat them I'd peg us at something like a 3-4% chance which would be a significant improvement but still incredibly unlikely. What Leicester did was a miracle. We're aiming to do something similar yet slightly more challenging, but with clearly worse players.

Guzan is finished, and rightly so. Bunn should be number one until the summer, when we bring in that Daniel Bentley or somebody like that who can be a long-term number one. Bunn will suffice as backup from then on.

I'm sure you're getting fed up of people responding to this post, but I think it's a good question and I was wondering the same thing myself in January. Ultimately, I don't think we can play on the counter attack effectively enough with the personnel currently at the club. When we used to do so under MON, we quickly got the ball out to the side of the pitch, to Young and Downing primarily, and their pace transitioned the play from the edge of our area to the edge of the opponents' very quickly. Unfortunately, we don't have pacy, incisive midfielders any more. That lack is why I'm less against bringing N'Zogbia back into the squad than most people. However, where I do agree with you (or I assume I do), is that currently our build up play is just too slow. In the first half today we so often found ourselves passing the ball from side to side of the pitch 30 yards from their goal, and it's because a] we don't break fast enough, and b] nobody is prepared to take on a man. An injection of speed is definitely required in our midfield play.

We know he doesn't have anything to do with transfers, and he doesn't have anything to do with finances, he just does a little bit of light photocopying from time to time.

It was a weird performance from Westwood today. Basically the polar opposite of what his strengths and weaknesses are normally claimed to be: he was quite strong in the tackle but his passing was wasteful and timid. He looks low on confidence.

Have 30 points from Lukaku and 25 points from Khazri on the bench, was a bad day for anticipating scores. I did horribly in the predictions game as well.

Unlike most posters on here, I have a certain perverse admiration for Pulisball, but I have to say, his legendary stubbornness might just be undoing them at the minute. Just play Berahino.

And I said, I don't blame him. He gets plenty of abuse off fans. I very clearly didn't say every single person at the ground had abused him on social media.

Try reading what I actually wrote again.

Decided against free agents, but our match up is a cracker! We're tied at 92 points each after the three o'clock kick offs. I should have a slight advantage though - I've got one more player to play than @maqroll, and he has Kouyate, who for some reason isn't playing? Not even on the bench for WHAM. I thought I was truly screwed when Huth popped up with two goals at lunchtime!

We lost 4-0 to Man City at home last weekend.

Nah, having seen the abuse our players get on social media I have a hard time blaming them to be honest.