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Is a correct answer, though not realistic.

Totally agree. Though maybe Riise needs a rest sometimes (though obv not yesterday)?

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Owen was sold for £8m + Nunez, Garcia and Alonso were bought for a combined £16m. Taking into account wages etc, we still had to "add" to the Owen fund to buy those two, surely?

I was gonna correct you then as well

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FAO Elisha Scott - is that your solemn word on the matter? I'm trusting you, if I go change my name now you'd better be right

TBF, Crouchy and Nando have gone to s*** without my doing Oh come on. Let's be realistic here, yes we started "well" in that we had a lot of possesion but not once did I think we were going to score. Did Cech have a save to make other than Crouchy's challenges in the air? It was only a matter of time until their (admittedly) better players made a decent chance which Gallas put away.

SuperKev has a ring to it I think.....

Nando! Why didn't I think of him, the overrated journeyman Spanish fop. I'm going to blame him! Where was he yesterday, hiding on "the bench", scared to come on because "Rafa wouldn't let me"? w*****.

Neither are true. They've been playing on it all season, got a bit used to it. Away teams play on it for 90mins a season, we've played on it 180 through the CL as well, still doesn't mean we're used to it.

I'm quite tempted to blame Kev and Bigal

Honestly, still seething today. Seething at the toadying Chav c***s who will cheat, dive and moan their way to a second title. Seething at our toothless, anaemic performance. Seething at not seeing anyone back Pepe up. Seething at the s****house ref for causing the whole incident. Seething at that utter, utter t*** Gudjohnson for rolling around as if his ankle was broken. Watch the replay Eidur you prick, Pepe unfortunately doesn't even touch your ankle. Seething at Crouchy being expected to reach his own flick-ons. Seething at Momo and Xabi for forgetting the art of passing. Seething at Stevie for going missing, and then remembering I'm more seething at our board for not shelling out for a right midfielder. Seething at my bird for saying "don't worry honey, Chelsea are just better than you are" and being right. Seething at Robben. My mind can't comprehend the hatred it has for him. I just couldn't live with myself if I ever did something like that. It's...just....poor form. Any calming advice?

So this is 4 pages of a "Bring Baros back on" thread?!

Don't think I'm being melodramatic, I'm not wailing about it or calling for Parry to be sacked. I know if we want investment it has to be the right people, I just don't think football is an attractive option and certainly not for the benevolent "supporter" we want, rather than a Glazer type. I think this mythical, Kraft-esque investor would have come out of the woodwork by now if he/she wanted to.

I know, but we've been waiting for that for 2 years now. Can't see anyone investing TBH.

Good post. Thing is, I'm not sure we're going to be able to afford that final push. I can't see us having enough money to ever buy similar quality to them.

Sigh. Really, really poor. Most, if not all the team look like they've hit a brick wall, our passing and movement is off and the Reina incident will only detract from what was the most anaemic performance of the season I think. I think the season is catching up with a few now, it seems a long time ago Momo was ruling the pitch and Xabi's radar is all over the place now. It's all one-paced and at the end it was embarassingly long-ball to Crouch. His presence helped us at the start of the season, it's hindering us now. I'm not going to even get into the Reina stuff, ridiculous but what do you expect from the classless Chav c***s? Odious jumped up pricks, but you can't deny they've bought quality all over the pitch. Jobs for Rafa this week: 1) Set pieces. Nothing else. Just get some invention again and get us marking properly. 2) Terminate Warnock's contract. Horrible positioning everytime I'm afraid. Great tackler but just has no clue where he is. 3) Screw Crouchy's bird. Do anything, just make him f***ing angry. About as angry as I am now. Make him want goals. 4) In between set pieces, introduce Sissoko, Xabi, Gerrard, Kewell and Crouch to each other. They've obviously forgotten who each another is. And then have them pass to each other again.

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