Billy Whitehurst

Yes, but I can't see us doing anymore than that which was more my point. He'll spend the bare minimum to keep us up and we'll end being shite in the Premier League and fielding Lee Charmley and the tea ladies in the cup competitions. We've had loads of seasons like that (they were desperate times) and I don't see it changing. I'm enjoying us winning, even if it is against the likes of Rotherham.

I enjoy The Championship (lack of TV aside) even if the standard is woeful. We win most weeks, there are loads of games and the last 4/5 years in the Premier League were fucking miserable. This squad will get murdered in the Premier League and I can't see Ashley spending the money to make us anything other than relegation candidates. For me, the main downside of not getting promoted would be that Rafa would probably walk and we'd end up with someone of Pardew and Kinnear's quality. That said, we'll go up as we have Rafa, Shelvey, Gayle and Ritchie.

The Sels signing was a strange one. We didn't need a new keeper as we had Darlow and Woodman fit and Elliot and Krul coming back from injury. It reminds me of when we signed Karelse when we had Given and Harper. He turned out to be shite too. He was on the books for 4 years, I just hope we don't end up with Sels for that long.

Rafa needs his arse kicking for this. What a total fucking embarassment.

That's harsh from your workmate. Mitrovic is half decent (notwithstanding his performance today), Whitehurst was a fucking abomination.

Fairly sure this now qualifies as a stinker for Mitro.

They still won't qualify. Scotland didn't even make the playoffs for a 24 team European Championship and they are likely to finish 4th in their current World Cup qualifying group. There are only 13 World Cup places available for European teams at the moment and I can't see them getting more than 4 of the additional 12 places. They'll just need to settle for cheering England's inevitable 2nd round exit to Bhutan.

That would have made for a far more entertaining swearing in ceremony.

I've only ever booked as a package once and the transfers were an absolute nightmare (take and age to get to your resort and the return pick ups are super early and get you to the airport too early). We always book things separately and it works out pretty much the same or better. We mostly go to France and take the direct Eurostar, way better than faffing around airports but it does limit your choice of ski stations. That said, we were in Val Thorens last week from the 24th to 31st and our return got cancelled but they still managed to get us back only 1h30 late.

Hughton is doing a fantastic job at Brighton mind. He's a really decent bloke too which makes it difficult for me to dislike Brighton.

Yep, Colback is as poor in this league as he was in the Premier League. Dummett is shite but he is less shite this season than he was last season, he's probably a League One player. I'm not sure what Colback's level is but he would probably be out of his depth in League One. Maybe League of Wales or something like that.

For fuck sake. Brighton come back from a losing position, so do Reading. We've been awful for the last five games (Wigan, Burton, Sheff Wed, Forest and Blackburn) and our tactics haven't changed. Reading win their game in hand and they are within three points. We should be walking this league with the squad we've got, we shouldn't need the transfer window but its looking like that's what we need to turn things around. Our final ball,in the second half, was woeful. I really like Benitez but he needs a plan B (and to stop picking Colback, Dummett, Anita and Gouffran).

Jack Fucking Colback, absolutely shite.

Just saw this, it's excellent. Unfortunately, we had to cancel last minute and ended up swapping 20C weather in Lanzarote for wind and rain in Scotland (Mrs was absolutely delighted). Many thanks for these as we'll definitely go soon as my folks are there almost half the year. My old man did briefly describe Navarro as posh and then went on to wax lyrical about how cheap the booze is in various British sounding pubs. Your tips will almost certainly be more useful than whether pints are cheaper in Steptoes or Hennesseys.

Gyan is on £250k per week, fuck me! Professional football needs to stopped now before Steven Taylor earns himself a £200k a week contract with the Shanghai Shithouses, or whatever they are called.

If he has said something then he deserves his punishment. I just hope the FA are consistent as I'm sure this kind of shit goes on in every game. As someone else has said, if someone has calls him a bald bastard (although that Shelvey gives much of a fuck about it) or what have you, then they should get banned too. It's sad that it has come to this. If he really hasn't said anything then he should appeal and, if necessary, take it further. If he has said it then he needs to accept his ban and hope that these kinds of punishments are meted out fairly by the FA across the season (fuck all chance of that hapoening).

If they don't buy anyone then they'll be short in January/February when Kone, Djilobodji, Khazri and N'Dong go to the ACN.

The only places I know in Normandy are Deauville and Honfleur. Not a huge fan of Deauville as it is a bit like Cannes without the weather. We go to Brittany every summer to a place called Benodet which is nice, but a little dull (the in laws spend August there so we are duty bound to do at least a week there). Concarneau (a few miles away) is nice and the Glenan Islands are worth a day trip. I wouldn't stay in any one place for too long though as while it is pretty, you'll probably get bored fairly quickly. The cider and crepes/galettes are very very nice though. Don't expect good weather.

The Kangaroo takes the punch well, to be fair. If Amir Kahn had that chin then he'd be some boxer.

I wouldn't worry about it, it's all he's got and he probably knows it. That's why he has to play that way as he's got fuck all else to his game.

Shelvey will miss Birmingham at home and Wigan and Burton away. We should be able to cope with that

Fuck me, the officiating is dreadful. So delighted that cheating cunt Lansbury missed.

Amen to that.

Fuck me, I'm not sure Gouffran's penalty would have crossed the line even if the keeper hadn't jumped on it. Sels is fucking shite. Need to put this behind us before Friday.

No legends team would be complete without Billy Whitehurst and George 'Rambo' Reilly.