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I'd suggest West Ham have it all to do in the second leg!

Moyes is giving off a bit of a Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys vibe at the moment.

Thank you, Big Sam and thank you Rolls Moyes for taking Villa's pathetic but utterly inevitable FA Cup clanger out of focus.

Lot of talk about diving going on. Wonder if the media will turn inward and look at the ex-player brigade they employ whom all without batting an eyelid continue to defend the act of cheating. Nahhhh.

The longest serving Premier League managers list... 1) Wenger 2) Pardew 3) Allardyce (watch this space?) 4) Rodgers 5) Lambert Rodgers was appointed the day before Lambert but they're basically the bloody old guard at this point!

Its hard not to see similarities between the two sides, chiefly that both are much more designed to counter attack than dictate the play. There's been some derision about our possession stats in recent games but the truth is that us having 52% possession is largely a waste of time, we're just not good enough to make it count. In the end for all the huff and puff it was clear when Sunderland were all out of ideas and I thought our back line stood firm (though I fear Luna is a disaster waiting to happen). It'll be interesting to see what business Poyet will conduct in the window, that Fulham game right after the cup semi-final looks pivotal at the moment.

Lee Cattermole: the gift that keeps giving!

Okay that's it, time for a winter break, four defeats on the spin and we haven't scored in 6 out of 9 home games this season. I mean even an already jaded old bore like me can't help but be dumbfounded by such ineptitude. Today Palace would have battered us were it not for Guzan but hey its all relative, they won anyway, chuckle chuckle. And of course tis the season so another game at Fortress Villa Park in two days time! Sort it out, Lambert/players/Randy!

You might say he's Delapidated.

Did Bradford get a bye to the final like last year?

We all know Moyesy will bring in new players in January to propel the team's fortunes and by that I of course mean he'll coax Nicky Butt out of retirement.

Chumps League Draw Man City vs Barcelona Olympiakos vs Man Utd Milan vs Athletico Madrid Bayer Leverkusen vs PSG Galatasaray vs Chelsea Schalke vs Real Madrid Zenit St Petersburg vs Borussia Dortmund Arsenal vs Bayern Munchkins Zenit only scraped through with six points from six games, we should be strong enough to deal them a bloody nose.

AV-Be seeing ya.

Hard to believe this giant of the global game currently don't have a manager!

Never in doubt! (And by never I of course mean so desperately in doubt that I now require an oxygen mask for the rest of my days!)

West Ham-Sunderland has a multi red card vibe about it to me.

Well, my description was off but ultimately they had a penalty, Sidwell scored, 2-0 not 2-1...close but no cigar!

(to the tune of Joy to the World) Moyes to the world, David has come! Let earth receive mediocrity Let every heart prepare for doom In Devon and Surrey sing In China and Malaysia sing In Devon, and Taipei and Surrey siiiiing

Wouldn't be a World Cup without Ghana beating the USA and Jerome battling Kevin-Prince.

Luminous and as a live performer, forget about it, few better out there.

2013: the year Fabian Delph became a man (now how about the others!?!)

Couldn't really make a case for Jol staying on, though I don't keep too close an eye on teams even more drab to watch than my own. Still firmly expect Fulham to beat us 2-1 on Saturday by way of "response", presumably having been a goal down. My crystal ball reckons the equaliser will be a 88th minute penalty (Clark or Luna being responsible), while the winner will be in the 98th minute courtesy of Steve Sidwell, a volley from 25 yards. Line up your pennies and have a flutter, tell 'em I sent you.