Cornish Steve

Here are the tables after the West Brom game. No one predicted the correct result or score, but several managed 2 points: AlbanyNYToffee, Deacs, milesey, millwallforever, mogsy, pete0, Romey, and TonkaRoost. This means it getting very close at the top of all board: for the month, the season, and average per game. Remember: your name appears in the 'points per game' category only if you've predicted at least a third of the games this season.

Hate to be a copycat, but.... Palace 2-2 Everton Mirallas

From Greece's new finance minister: Hand over the money! http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/80679000/jpg/_80679471_greececonfepa.jpg

Apologies for not posting an updated table. It's been a very hectic start to the year, so I took advantage of the two weeks between games. Will update the table later today.

Think I might tell this joke to the wife. PS - followed through on that. Does anyone have a place to say for a few weeks?

It's called negotiation. If you tell the world that you're willing to sell, you've just given the buyer a huge advantage in negotiations.

So which goal would get your vote? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLkkvJF97I

Like West Hame hoped to bag a win? Did you see what I did there?

It might be a holiday for you, but not for us in the South. I have a very busy work schedule tomorrow and will have to content myself with occasional visits to the BBC website to see the score.

This is the club's way of saying that we won't be bringing in a striker to replace Eto'o during the January window.

Romelu Lukaku is only 21?

OK. I'm going to run a multidimensional regression analysis of points versus three independent variables: (i) home game versus away game; (ii) current position of each opponent in the league table; and (iii) whether or not McCarthy played. Then I'll do the same for whether Mirallas played. Let's see if the numbers really do show a dependency on these two players.

Do you expect fans who live thousands of miles away to have season tickets? Is the new definition of a fan someone who attends games? Just ridiculous.

You chose only negative examples. What about a team ranked third in its Europa group that finished top? Is that the sign of a poor side? How many people here, earlier in the season, stated that they'd take 17th if it meant we won the Europa league? Is that all forgotten? It's nonsense to be talking about relegation battle with half the games played. To suggest that we have tough games ahead is also pointless: We have played each team once and we have to play them all again. Worry when the season is 80% over and we're in the bottom three. Until then, it's mid-season, with the final stages of the Europa to come.

Gone. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2913965/Everton-striker-Samuel-Eto-o-set-exit-Goodison-Park-return-Italy-Sampdoria.html

President Obama has made up for being MIA last weekend. John Kerry visited the French to give them all, quote, "a big hug". And then they all held hands while James Taylor sang Kumbaya. How nice. "Monseur Hollande. On behalf of the American people, maybe I can present you with this compilation of songs by your new friend, James. It will fit nicely alongside the compilation of President Obama's speeches that the Queen of England gave you last year as a Christmas present."

Man, there are some crap names in that list! Did I read that correctly - Glen Johnson?

This was very evident in the match against West Ham. Games are 95% guts and only 5% glory, something I suspect he still needs to learn. The most valuable players are not the headline makers but those who consistently put in a shift.

One of Madrid's highest earners?

The most concerning statement in that article is that Barkley decides to play it safe if the crowd give him stick for taking a risk. Frankly, he should ignore the crowd.

The fact there are any restrictions at all is counter-productive. The free market works; protectionism, no matter what the form, eats away at competitiveness. The overall quality of the Premier League will drop if we keep insisting that foreign players are hurting local players. The real answer is to invest in English youth.

Party pooper.

You're the type of person who inspires T-shirts such as therapist.com.

No rumours that I know of, but this guy has been tearing up the Scottish Prem this year for Dundee United. Don't we have some time type of loose association with them?

Only when we're against the wall do we seem to really kick into gear. Maybe, at kickoff, the scoreboard should tell the players we're one down and have only ten men.