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chaileyjem - I never suggested they don't care; they're professionals with the same standards of personal professional pride as the rest of us. You can always find players who'll commit to the club, give 100% and engage with the support. That doesn't change the fact that they are, again, like...

I've always maintained it's about the shirt - the players wearing it are largely professional transients, apart from notable exceptions like Ian Champan and, recently, Calde. He's the sort of player we've lacked and he'll be wearing a Brighton shirt, so will get no stick from me. But I can't say...

Apart from the leg-break bit, absolutely. I was very happy for them until I saw that. You expect it from the support - it's part of the currency of fandom. But the players? And to come out and suggest that such delerium was the result of being pleased that they were the last home nation in -...

Ran around showing more enthusiasm than the rest of the team combined to that point, and scored our goal. One of those days where the players simply don't want to be there any more. I liked Loft, and he's done OK for himself at Port Vale and Gillingham.

Remember him winning the Man of the Match award in a 1-5 home defeat to Stoke at Withdean, last game of one season there - about 2005-6 I think - despite only coming on after about 70 minutes.

That was a reference to something Barber said in response to the criticism last season of the constant fixture changes, wakeytom. If the Chief Exec says these things are taken into account, it's not unreasonable to ask the question - there's precious little evidence that we're considered at all...

Among the first things each of them, Hodgson and the FA fella, said was that we have a good group of players. They're still telling us the same rubbish directly after the latest abject failure at a finals tournament. These players are simply not good enough - their first touch has been inferior...

This is why I told Sky to eff off. I wasn't paying to be part of the problem any longer. Seriously, this is taking the piss. Second consecutive opening home league game on a bloody Friday night? Bad enough they moved us so many times last season, but to ruin the first home game again is just...

One of the best simply for that name - absolutely outstanding.

Still not over the crushing sense of disappointment from last season. No enthusiasm for the Euros and no sense that we're going to do as well next season, but that's borne out of that feeling rather than any objective reasoning.

Telling words! All we've had to judge him on this season is one and a bit games domestically, and managing to look better than other players for a few minutes in a friendly in which we played a hopelessly poorly conceived system, with several players out of position, against ten men. His...

He's certainly been the better player this season, hans, on account of Wilshere barely having kicked a ball. Drinkwater, by contrast, has been a mainstay in the title-winning team, playing most weeks and competing against international-standard players regularly. Regardless of your views as to...

Clearing out for a big move, so took years' worth to the recycling centre just a few weeks ago. Had tried selling them in blocks of whole seasons at a time on ebay, but got so little for the stuff that did sell that I ended up ditching them.

It wasn't a vintage season for kits, was it? I saw the home kit derided as 'eleven Andy Pandys on acid' in one newspaper. Quite liked the shirt, but the striped shorts? No. Just no.

Hodgson's actually a tactical genius. Recognising that expectations of the England team are now lower than they've been for many years, he's found a way to lower them still further by coming up with a system which entirely blunts such weaponry as we have by accommodating Rooney at all costs. I...

I know, mate - I was there. Most intimidating atmosphere I've ever experienced at a football match.

Unless I've missed a result somewhere, the 4-1 win over Millwall that season remains the only home play-off match we've ever won.

Stand or Fall gets my vote, too. So seconded. Or fourthed, or whatever it is now.

Out of the country this weekend so can happily completely avoid the second running of the devil's own Cup Final. A plague on both their houses, but for what it's worth, I hope United win. It's one of the things that makes you hate United even more though, that on the very, very, very rare...

For me that's less of an issue than him being fictional and didn't even occur to me. You're clearly a details man, Sidcup.