Scally Bob

They are a decent lot, Baggies fans. Strange that at Wolves a few miles away it's still 1973 and the bizzies at the Hawthorns are perhaps the worst of all and always have been. And Villa fans are some of the worst small-time fans in the country. Fair play the Baggies though; their reception when Gerrard was taking the corner was great, not like the normal beauts who boo him then want him in their Ingerlund team.

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Portsmouth are the worst team we've played. Everton's problem is that they over-achieved last season and average-at-best players saw themselves in the Champions' League playing at the Bernabeu or the Nou Camp. Appalling management failed to keep their feet on the ground-from Kenwright through Wyness and ultimately to Gollum-and instead of having a plan B in case they didn't progress they were probably booking up hotels in Paris. What exactly were they going to do if Villareal beat them? And Bucharest? Now it's back to reality. Their squad is a year older, the players brought in are poor, their motivation has gone because they know fourth was a one-off, their team spirit has diminished and virtually none of those players (some now on improved contracts) will ever play in Europe again. To make matters worse we have shown how to push on rather than gloat about a League placing that nobody expected. It serves them right. The bitterness on Wednesday made me sick. I hope they go down and go bust.

Just after the second goal (I think) Plod were taking a lad out in a beige jacket on the running track in front of us. He looked like he'd shared a difference of opinions with someone or other.

It was surprisingly quiet leaving last night. They were an odious bunch in the Park End but just gobby. Some left after our second goal! No matter how bitter they are even they can see they've got more to be concerned about than hating us. I hope they go down.

No offers of cash/beer/other tickets. I will only accept a Bolton ticket in our end-if I can't get that somebody else is front of the queue. Can meet at Woodison tonight 07736 360137.

He thinks Newcastle are going to have a good 2006 Did I miss something? Has Souness been fired?

I see the referee is Poll. They have him there with Clive Thomas and Collina because he disallowed that goal after the final whistle. It's all a RS conspiracy, don't you know?

It doesn't matter how "up for it" they are, they are a very, very poor side and Rafa is tactically light years ahead of that bug-eyed woonker. I will be annoyed with anything less than three points.

No sympathy with the Bitters but defend your comments Sir! What about the World Club Championship final?

You forgot to add that it will happen before Everton win the League.

Being richer than people in a Blackburn alehouse doesn't make you the Sultan of Brunei though, does it?

Yeah but if you give a cow a violin it won't play a tune on it.

Is he related to Steve Harrison or is that a wild allegation? I saw Juan Sebastion Veron in Manc then later the same day in a restaurant (Harpers) and he said hello. Which was nice. And I saw King Kenny and Jocky outside Wing Hing. And Larry Lloyd in the bogs at Pemps, a stylish dive nightclub in Wigan. And Graham Poll in Majorca. And Nicholas Parsons at Manchester Airport.

Wallchart This wall chart is a good one. Argentina v Brazil in the final based on my guesswork.

Offensive tripe. Says everything you need to know about Millwall and Ingerlund fans. How can they employ somebody with such limited ability and call it journalism? I don't go in for PC but this garbage isn't even funny.

It's only for this season though with a bit of luck and Fat Head's astute management. We should be able to charge their fans the same as we get charged and force the other club to take their full allocation with no returns to stop them profiteering at our expense. How funny would it be when 300 Bolton turn up but the other Fat Head's club get charged 3,000 x £38? That would teach them.

After fleecing us for £42 a throw, I see Wigan fans are being charged £15 for adult tickets. If the FA had any spine we wouldn't get ripped off like this.

You need your head testing if you think leaving us to join mid-table no-hopers (at best) like Villa is a good career move. It just shows though that Rafa was right. And so was I! Baros ain't good enough.

Stam's drugs bust was part of the whole Holland national team thing. Ferguson has never worked out how to defend at the highest level-he didn't take Jocky to the 1986 World Cup for example-but he got rid of Stam for non-footballing reasons. If he was taking drugs at Old Toilet (which I doubt) it seems they have a plan for dealing with that anyway. And Veron played well last night as well. Frguson couldn't accommodate him and Keane and that's his fault as well. Haar de haar

I hope he wasn't including us in his comments. Why should we be jealous as we haven't conceded in ten games anyway! I watched the Milan derby last night and the answer to the Munsters' defensive frailty was on show: Jaap Stam. He was awesome. Started at right back then moved into the centre when Nesta went off. Despite all the usual defensive suspects being out Milan defended well and Stam scored their second equaliser. I know they conceded three but one was a ludicrous penalty, Dida was at fault on the second and the third was well taken. The Munsters meanwhile labour with that joke Ferdinand who will never be in the same class as Stam. And why? Because blotchy face knew the balloon was going up on his dodgy transfer dealings and he shipped Stam out pronto. Conflict of interest for certain. I love it.

As I said in an earlier post, the sum of the parts in the Chavs team is greater than the component parts. The media would have you believe that Terry is Bobby Moore and Lampard is Zidane. They are decent Premiership players but not even close to being "world class". Drogba IS a donkey though, and Robben and Duff are in poor form at the moment. That might just be because Maurinho keeps messing them about-or is it unacceptable to say anything about him either? No? OK then: he produces horrible teams who cheat as much as they can get away with, intimidate players and officials and have perfected gamesmanship. They ride roughshod over the rules of the game because no financial penalties can bother them. Rafa's better than this self-proclaimed "Special One" he just hasn't had endless pots of laundered money to spend. That's why they are 12 points ahead of us-and why Maurinho is nervous about us.

Apart from laughing and joking whilst aled up on 9/11 in front of a load of Americans, telling West Ham at Christmas that if they didn't improve he was off and kissing the badge of a team he didn't support when growing up. And without Makelele to do his donkey work he's average.

Lumplard's performance showed that he is nowhere near "world class". He needs a grafter like Makelele alongside him to do the dirty work. I don't recall Souness having to send somebody out to do his tackling. Great midfield players get hold of games and dictate them. Gerrard will be doing that next season with Rafa's guidance. Last night all he had was that dog Essien who is an alehouse kicker and has no football brain. Essien's as close to Makelele as I am. So the result was that Lumplard looked what he is: a decent enough player who has by chance ended up surrounded by other good players. The sum of the parts is greater than the individual components in that team.