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You weren't alone. Villa gone. Swansea in trouble and I think the black cats may have used their 9 lives.

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Ouch, you could feel his embarrassment.

Important partnership here, these two hang around and they could win us the match.

Off to Swansea then.

I'd be more than happy to see this start, really don't want McCarthy, Coleman and T C brought back to early and Del looks in need of a rest. I want him fresh for the 2nd leg.

Would be nice if we took control of things by winning games consistently. If we continue performing like we have done the last couple of weeks that must surely happen.

Chelsea 2 - 0 Everton

Very good news.

Interestingly the life expectancy of a Real manager is Currently less than 2 years, only Del Bosque has got anywhere 4 years since 1990. In that time they've had almost 30 managers. Edit - not entirely sure that really was interesting

Fair enough.

Ok, I accept you're point, the final decision does reside with the club. The reality is though if players cause enough fuss they get their transfer. The best thing the club can do is negotiate the best deal and conduct themselves with dignity. The result is the same though the player leaves.

One thing I will say though is Martines deserves credit for keeping Stones this summer. Assuming the board were pro selling (an assumption based upon history), he would have had to stand up to them and convince them not to sell. He would also have had to talk to Stones and keep him motivated and part of the squad (of course Stone's character would have played its part). Something that not Many managers have successfully achieved previously.

It's not just Everton I'm talking about though Mike, in general a players contract means nothing. Invariably if a player wants to go they go. Every now then a club keeps a player after they asked for a move and more often than not things go sour. Occasionally as in the case of Stones and Saurez (must be more but can't think of them) the players continue playing without a fuss,but history tells us they still move on later while under contract.

Hopefully. Unfortunately there is always the other option that Barkley won't develope into the player we think he will.

If we're not careful these puns will continue till the new millennium and wel'll Lando ourselves in trouble.

I'm d roid of any enthusiasm for this now.

Probably a good thing we batted first. Not sure we would have done so well looking at 600+.

You're flying Solo on this Matt.

No way on Alderaan am I getting drawn into this again.

If he sticks to that I'll be a happy man. Don't under estimate the power of the force though. (Player/agent power didn't sound as good).

Probably should have said. Based on the quality of his performances this year the rest is getting paid!

I know, why are the footballing gods so cruel?

The worlds best golfers still hit 100's of balls every day.

Ah oui. But that wasn't what I was looking for because I think we have that. We need a bit more maturity, leadership, fight. It could come from Roberto, it doesn't seem to.