Howardshands

So the live updates are on this site without video, right?: http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2015/draws/round=2000587/drawcentre/index.html Just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.

Everton 1 - 2 Chelsea Lukaku

http://www.espnfc.us/arsenal/story/2007150/arsenal-striker-olivier-giroud-foot-surgery-out-until-2015 Holy smokes, Giroud out until 2015. That's a big blow to Arsenal to be sure.

I view Kagawa in the same light as Chicharito but not quite done yet. Chicharito was a great player who seemed to be ruined by United's management of him. Kagawa was brilliant a while back but then inexplicably wasn't played as much as he should have been and his talent seems to be fading as a result. I still think he's got a lot of potential if anyone can pluck him away soon.

http://www.espnfc.com/story/2007670/borussia-dortmund-weighing-up-move-for-manchester-uniteds-shinji-kagawa Unfortunately linked with Dortmund now. =/

Ha! That's great. I randomly generated one for Iker Casillas that said "Star will net 10k pounds for every goal scored!" Which doesn't seem like the best way to incentivize a goalkeeper!

I'm not entirely happy about this, but I'm holding out hope!

ETOO SIGNS: Everton sign 3-times Champions League winner @setoo9 on a two-year deal. #WelcomeSamuel http://t.co/45wLXhDqae

I think i accidentally deleted part of my second sentence there but forget exactly what I typed, whoops.

Di Maria for me is in the top 10 of current players. So much higher so that as soon as he became injured, I had no doubt Argentina would lose the world cup. I don't know why in the world real madrid would give him up, but I am honestly very scared of playing man u now just because of him. He's that good for me.

I've only been following the team for about 6 years now, but was under the impression that we've been sacrificing the fruits of our good standings due to financial difficulties which we have recently broke free from. So wouldn't a couple more consistently top 7 finishes and great Europa League showing help us progress?

We'll be fine. What's our goal in your minds 5 years from now? To make the Champions League, be a consistently Champion's League caliber team, or what? If we want to be a consistently Champions League caliber team 5 years from now, we can finish as low as 7 consistently for the next 3 years, do well in the Europa Cup, and further build our foundation. I don't see us finishing lower than 7th, and it's telling that we tied with Arsenal and are very upset about it. That tells me that we've come a long way in a short time. In other words, this loss sucks, but with our end goals in mind the sting is reduced a good deal.

Wow. Lucky pass to the corner

As opposed to last week, I feel good about this

Atsu *

Also in!

Very poor defending on that one.

Giroud comes in and day poor midweek. I'm feeling very good about our chances right now

Announcer making a bit much of the goal not being called offsides. Any thoughts?

Naismith!!

K now we're even

And that's not a yellow!? Wth?!

"just seem to be forcing their physical prowess on arsenal at the moment." music to my ears on NBC

Rough for a yellow, no?

Goal kick?