Being hypothetical.....

If Gerrard or Torres came out with what Riera did do you really think they'd be on the next plane to "Moscow"?

No, i think Benitez would be on the next plane to Madrid.

I aint fussed. It's too little too late for me.

They raised the prices last season when every other club in the Premier League either froze or reduced their prices. Had there not been significant unrest and bad feeling towards the Glazer's since January, you can guarantee that the prices would have increased again next season.

They're just trying to tempt those on the fence to renew, and those that don't have a ST to become OU members this season, and then get on the "waiting-list" for next season. Business wise, it's a smart move by them, as they realise a small hit on prices which could tempt more people to renew/join, is better than increasing the prices and risk losing thousands of ST holders.

MUST should come out now and try persuade people not to renew or buy a ST, otherwise the work done so far to unite the fans and highlight the problems with the Glazer's will have been for nothing, pushing any potential takeover further away.

Good old Calamity James, if we ever needed reminding why he cannot be our Number 1 at the world cup we've just had it

How does that work? Even though the transfer window is open in Russia, its closed over here so my understanding of it is any transfer of a player from a English club can be completed now but the player can't play until the next window opens. Is it different if selling to a foreign team who's window is open?

TBH, as much as I laughed at that, what could James have done?

The ball's being chased by Drogba and James has to clear it, any keeper in the world is going to get done by the ball hitting a divot like it did.

Haha city

My take on the two "elbowing" incidents.

Malouda lead with his arm. Got booked, but should have been a red, because he's lead with his arm. This should be the incident which finally ends the nonsense of not punishing a player if he's already been dealt with.

Gale and Darke need their eyes testing though. Gale in particular kept banging on about Malouda getting nowhere near the ball. Malouda won the ball ya daft b*******! It clearly came off his head.

Sturridge. Absolutely nothing in that whatsoever. Sturridge has the ball at his feet and is shaping to play the ball forward. Pompey player runs into his elbow. Accidents happen. There was absolutely no indication that was a deliberate elbow.

One Pompey player suffered a broken nose and the other a broken cheekbone

Won't be seeing the Citeh Mafia on here for a while I think

Everton Team Spirit

Ssshhhh EE



P.S. What was that about lack of class and your manager by the way???

They'll be on here don't worry.

Someone already said they won't come on when they get beat so he'll be here.

could well be thank you very much mr mowbray and goodbye after that result in the SPL

He did exactly the same to get to Anfield.

hahahaha Mancini, the class act!! EE wont show his face now anyway.

I see Messi got booked tonight for kicking the ball away after a decision went against him.

Obviously trying to bring a bit of Rooney's style into his game to help him win the comparison.

And they go on about Moyes having a lack of class? He utterly owned Scarfman tonight, and would of knocked him into next week given the chance

Indeed. I was listening to it on the radio and just praying Mancini would give Moyes the rope to hang him with. Moyes towering over him must have terrified him. I loved his press conference "I am sorry if I make a mistake. I am sorry."

Although he did lose his cool I like Mancini. Compared with the arrogance Hughes displayed he's a breath of fresh air.

Moyes again though comes up smelling of roses. Midweek he said Citeh have no team and basically called them out as mercenaries who don't care about the club they play for. That was displayed tonight as they gave up knocking on Jagielka's door whilst Everton remained solid and disciplined to the end. A lot has been said about de Jong this season, but in the two games against Everton he's been terrible. Osman, Pienaar, Cahill and Arteta is a midfield that just shouldn't work. The midgets should really be eased out of it by a competitive Premier League midfield, but they were able to boss it.

Loved Rodwell's flash of skill for Arteta's goal. If United or Chelsea scored goals like that and the one he scored at the weekend they wouldn't shut up about it for months. Arteta not making the Spain squad for the World Cup shows how poor England are. He'd stroll into any of the midfield positions for England.

There was nothing in the incidents in the Chelsea game at all. The booking was the right call and the Sturridge one was nothing.

Everton played very well. Our problem wasnt lack of spirit, it was lack of a midfield player that could pass the ball.

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That doesn't surprise me at all. I said when they were awarded it that it would be hard to convince people to travel to a lot of the games and it's proved true. The best thing they could do is extend the cheap ticket offers to locals to get the grounds full.

An England fan would be mad to travel there for the World Cup. I've been there a lot and you don't feel safe at times, you always feel it's about to explode into violence and you really can't travel around showing you are a tourist over there. There will be murders, there will probably be attacks on supporters and on teams.

"[iI was very close and I thought what I saw was a collision with two heads. Rocha was unlucky and we are disappointed because it is an injury for this player, but Malouda didn't mean to hurt him. It was an accident. The referee showed a yellow card, that was right. It was not a red card.[/i"

- Carlo Ancelotti

[iRicardo has gone to hospital to see how bad the damage is and Avram has gone with him.

Ricardo may not play again this season. I thought the challenge merited a yellow card but I only had half an eye on the incident when it happened.[/i

Portsmouth assistant manager Perry Groves.

How many supporters died during the 1995 RU World Cup?

TBH I don't really care if the tournament isn't a massive financial success. SA has responded to the challenge with some magnificent stadiums. I think the South African population can make the football World Cup into a far better spectacle than the RUWC was, and from memory the RUWC was a magnificent success.

Slagging off De Jong? Calling city mercenaries? Enfield Exile's head is going to explode when he reads this post. The 'very' count in his reply is going to be sky high. You might even distract him enough so that he doesn't mention United, Michael Carrick or something related to out of town supporters.