Football 12/3-14/3

[Samadini]

The sad thing about tonight is that's the most competitive we've been away from home for fucking ages, even if we didn't look like scoring.

We've just had about 3 weeks off after being destroyed by Chelsea and we used that time to keep McClaren hopelessly going on for another game and give Benitez 3 days to prepare instead

[Jeet]

They're talking about free kicks on 'MNF', and they asked Ronald Koeman who is the best taker he's ever seen. He thought for a moment and said Juninho, as in the ex-Lyon geezer. This wasn't a satisfactory answer for Ed Miliband, who followed up with WHAT ABOUT MESSI AND BECKHAM.

Such knobheads.

And Carra says what about some Everton player eh,eh! Koeman had no idea who he was on about or what he said

[Lee]

Danny Drinkwater Sky MOTM was ridiculous. Kante was head and shoulders above everyone. I'd have all of the back four, Okazaki and the keeper ahead of Drinkwater as well.

Drinkwater was awful whenever he got into the last third.

Yeah, I find that odd. I thought Drinkwater was really poor and probably the main reason we played badly tonight.

[Shindig]

Sorry, I'm just trying to reconcile my brain with Mark Schwarzer being part of a league winning side.

[Toby]

Hey, that's a two time UEFA Cup finalist you're talking about.

[Shindig]

Crikey, you're right. Those were a fun couple of years.

[niko_cee]

On the BBC text thing:

"71% of the earth is covered by water, the other 29% is covered by Kante"

That Besic guy Everton have was the first person I saw this in reference to.

[Max Power]

Grinding out these shitey 1-0 wins like true Champions.

Kante was our only above average performer tonight. We've never put two bad performances back-to-back this season so I fully expect us to smash Palace on Saturday.

[Max Power]

I swear his English is, if anything, getting worse.

He plays it up. It's defintely got better. He is properly mad though.

[ItalAussie]

How's Tottenham's run home? Any traps?

EDIT: Looked it up. I'm going to have to support Liverpool for at least one match. This is going to make me feel dirty.

[Shindig]

I sincerely hope that if we go down, Rafa exercises his right to stay put. He made Lascalles look proper last night.