[button08]

I would love Villa to finish third above Liverpool and Arsenal.

Villa are on a great run and will be a bigger threat next season but i dont think they will break into the top 4 this season

[Yudster]

WOOOOOO! 2-0 at Carlisle! We really are on a roll. If only Sky would update the tables a bit quicker i'd have a clue what it means in reality.

[Munki Bhoy]

Another 1-0 for Man United. Meanwhile, Villa and Arsenal both drew today, so that's another game gone for Arsenal to claw their way back in.

[kendra k]

Bad luck, Liverpool.

[Munki Bhoy]

Bad luck ITV1 viewers. Liverpool are rubbish without Gerrard. And that boy Lucas is like playing with ten men. Even before he gets sent off. Seriously, he's rapidly becoming the worst Brazilian footballer I've ever seen, and we once signed a guy called Rafael Scheidt was was very well named.

Still, if only they'd had someone who could have stepped up when Torres went off injured. Some kind of star striker...

[button08]

everton were the better team,crap without gerrard you say good enough to beat man utd without him.keane wasnt good enough

[kendra k]

Who won the Steel City Derby? We did! Good job, you Owls!

[Munki Bhoy]

Good late win for Liverpool today. That might do them the world of good in the long run. Coming back from dead to win like that without the talisman will be very good for confidence... even if it was talisman mark II that won the game!

I'd rather not talk about my rubbish. We reach a new low by scraping a home cup win against a team from Division Two (third tier). I think the worst bit was the fact they were better at passing and moving than we were. Hideous. Especially with a Rangers game coming up next week.

[Bonanzoid]

I hate Chelsea so much. Sorry Lottie.

[MK Chris]

I realise I know very little about football (albeit possibly - but only possibly - slightly more than Roman Abramovich, but whatever), but surely giving someone so little time to take charge and start getting results, as is so often the case and not just with Chelsea, is * stupid? I heard someone say a while ago that it took Alex Ferguson quite a while to start getting decent results at Man United, so why aren't people given more time?

To be honest, I can't see how football - at least top flight football - can be described as a sport over business now anyway.

[Yudster]

Fergies job was on the line for two years after he joined United - possibly more. But things weren't run by sponsors and financiers to quite the extent then as they are now, so decisions that were good for football could still be made. You don't get that now. Football is a secondary consideration.

I can't believe they are saying Grant might go back. If I were him and received an offer, I would take great (and possibly public) pleasure in telling them exactly which part of Mr Abramovic's anatomy they could stuff it into. After everyone knows that he was the infamous manager who had to wait for the owner to fax the team selection to him on match days, how could he possibly agree to go back? Surely no amount of money would be worth the humiliation.

[Munki Bhoy]

Why are people not given time any more? Money. The game has been ruined by it. If you don't win the trophies, you don't get the big money. If you slip out of the top four in the Premiership you don't get the megabucks of the Champions League. So that's why managers that don't get the results are given the bullet. That's why managers who get the results but bore the arse off all the paying public keep their job.

Football used to be about entertainment. Now it's about balance sheets.

I'm moving to Barcelona. They grow the majority of their talent (half the Spain team on Wednesday will reportedly be Barcelona players) with the occasional buy in, and they play the most entertaining football in Europe.

[exeter4eva]

exactly why you should stop watching the over paid, money grabbing ponces that pass themselves off as premiership footballers and watch lower league football, more excitement and fans who actually give a damn about the football club and not calling for the managers head just because they aren't in the top 4 and a club that cares for its fans and doesn't just see them as a source of income.[/rant]

[Munki Bhoy]

It's not confined to the Premiership, but they are the biggest offenders in the world for it. Sadly, the big two up here are stricken badly by it.

And if the entertainment value doesn't improve at Celtic Park I'm not renewing my season ticket next season. I've seen enough teams against us this season play better football, and most of them have done it on a budget that comes nowhere near what Celtic spend. Rangers are no better, they bored their way to the UEFA Cup final last season and haven't got any better this season.

And then have the CHEEK to claim they can't compete with the money of the big leagues. Nonsense, they both just piss away the money they do have paying through the nose for English Championship rejects and the latest flavour of the month from the SPL.

The funny thing is, if you didn't count Dani Alves and his single 20 million euro price tag, Barcelona would have spent less than the two of them.

[Yudster]

I don't think I have ever seen Frank Lampard play a worse 45 minutes of football. I don't like the little tosser, but he's a good player - what was he up to for goodness sake?

[Munki Bhoy]

You'd think England and the commentators would be happy. They tried new things, new players and the like against the best team in Europe and probably learned quite a lot about their team in 90 minutes.

But no, as usual, it's doom and gloom. England lost, pundits don't understand what international friendlies are for, and the honeymoon is over for Capello.

You are NOT the best team in the world, you are NOT the best team in Europe and you do NOT have the best players. Spain are just better than you. It happens. Deal with it and move on.

And you wonder why we hate you...

At least Capello himself seemed fairly happy. You might want to try and hang onto him, he seems fairly good and might just be capable of turning England into the team your idiot pundits think they are. Or at least get close.

[Bonanzoid]

I still think international teams should have to have managers from that country. It doesn't make sense that they can pick anyone!

[hdsport82]

Just to back to Chelsea for a second and I knows it a bit old news but I missed 606 on 5 Live on Tuesday but have just listened to the podcast...Danny Baker was loving it the first few minutes are an absolute joy to listen to!!!

[Yudster]

So Gus Hiddink has stated that he believes Chelsea can still win the Premiership this season, and this is presented as a newsworthy comment. Now if he came out and said "No, we have no chance this season, I'm going to concentrate on the Champions league and FA Cup and ignore the Premiership" - now THAT would have been newsworthy.

[Munki Bhoy]

I'll not talk about the non-event that was the Old Firm game on Sunday.

Much happier news - Eduardo's back in the Arsenal team tonight, almost a year after that horrendous leg break he suffered. Not only that, he scored the first goal tonight.

I'm no Arsenal fan, I'm just glad to see such a talented footballer back playing again. Those kind of injuries have finished careers in the past, I'm glad this one hasn't.

[Bonanzoid]

Yeah. I still feel for poor Martin Taylor. It was a horrendous tackle, admittedly but it was not intentional and the poor guy was in the dressing room crying after he got sent off. He visited Eduardo in hospital too.

Shows the difference between respectable guys like that and pricks like Roy Keane.

[Yudster]

It is hard to imagine your way into the mind of a person who will deliberately try to do someone else an serious injury. Roy Keane is unfathomable in many ways, that being merely one of them.

The Eduardo one was a totally different kettle of fish as you say - I bet Martin Taylor was happier even than Eduardo last night. But jeesh, I'll never forget the footage of that injury - I think they showed a "full frontal" as such for a couple of seconds on Match of the Day, and they gave a warning but I didnt realise they were going to show the full extent of the injury, with the bone sticking out and everything - I don't think I'll forget the sense of shock that gave me when I saw it.

[Munki Bhoy]

A couple of months ago, everything looked rosy. Now we do nothing but draw and the evil ones are benefiting and sitting pretty at the top.

Celtic, Liverpool... whoever.

[Yudster]

We've just lost three in a row, two of those at home.....gulp.

[Bonanzoid]

I just decided to be a Real Betis fan instead of a gloryhunting Sevilla fan here, and that very day they got humped 6-1 by Real Madrid after holding Barca 2-2 the week before.

Bawz.