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What, by flopping over in the penalty area at the slightest puff of wind to win us innumerable unjustified penalties?

I've always said the only "expectations" we are entitled to are that each player does his best when on the pitch and, ideally, doesn't get caught shagging granny-hookers or doing a line off the buttocks of a small child or alsatian dog. I don't know what gives me any rights to have "expectations" greater than that.

You need to habe a serious read back @Nibs There is true hatred from some people, arrogant aggression from some and even at least one idiot f**kwit who claims to be a Chelsea fan who actually "cheered" in the match thread when Willian got injured and had to go off. As soon as that happened this dick posted something along the lines of "hurray, let's hope he's out for a while". Just think about that, mate. A Chelsea fan cheering an injury to one of out own players and hoping it's a bad one. And you know that we have a number of people who are google experts who regularly cut and paste their "stats" to prove the lad is the worst Chelsea player since Frank Sinclair and the worst ever PL forward since Emile Heskey. There's even one of those a few posts above, someone who can't accept that Willian stepped up in "that" season.

Other than me, obviously!

Deliverance was filmed in Leigh Woods, Totterdown and down the Avon Gorge. In the scene where the hill-billy says "squeal, little piggy, squeal", you can just see the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the background.

You should have popped down Bristol @chi blue, particularly round the pikey City areas. They all had bad teeth and played banjos as well.

That is just revisionist bullsh*t, and you know it. It is typical of people like you who make outrageous and. frankly, quite stupid statements and then, when they get called out on them, back-track and try to make themselves seem reasonable. What you actually said was " I dont believe for 1 second he was injured for the final. ........................................... Blatant ploy by him to give his new employer a better chance." So you said directly that a player pretended to be injured to allow Arsenal a better chance to win because he was going to sign for them in the near future and so, by implication, wanted to make them like him. I called you out on that as it did then and does now make you look like a prick, and a childish little man at that. I bet you were one of the ones who got all screamy and pants-wetting about some instamatic photo posted by Willian a couple of years ago as well. And selective comparisons are also bullsh*t. I didn't compare Willian to Gronkjaer, I said that a large number of people in here thought of Willian as a sub-par Gronkjaer, and that, paraphrasing myself here, they were tossers for doing so. But you really are the first of the Willian-haters to come out with such complete and utter bollocks as "the player pretended to be injured so that Arsenal would like him".

You still didn't answer the question. If Willian is as bad as you and many others have been claiming for several years, surely choosing to play would have helped his next employer. If his mere presence in our team makes the chances of Arsenal losing greater, then he can't be that bad, can he? So which is it?

That just makes you look like a prick. "Blatant ploy"? f**king tosser. If he's as sh*t as you have persistently claimed, he would have given L'Arse a better chance by actually playing. So which is it? He's sh*t or he's so good that he improves our chances of winning? My view is that I'd have been OK with giving him a 1-year contract with rolling 1-year option based on performances, but he want's more security than that and apparently wants to stay in London, so, if Arsenal are wiling to give him that, he goes with my thanks and blessing. The man has been nowhere near as bad as a lot of you claim, and the most virulent disdain appears to come from across the Atlantic, for some reason. Don't understand why that would be, but hey-ho. But, basically, the player didn't conform to the stereotypical fantasy that a lot of people had in mind about how he should play, so they wrote him off as some sort of below-par Gronkjaer, totally ignoring the "statistics" that he has been fairly consistent throughout his entire career across several clubs and internationally in his goal-scoring and assisting numbers. Shame he's going , but thanks for the time here.

The Makalele's goal record was 'kin atrocious, and he couldn't assist for sh*t. TF we got rid of him, eh?

The first few series of The Bill, I'd agree with you, after that it got all mushy and unrealistic. Early Morse again, yes, but later on, not so much. And definitely not Lewis, cramming fanciful storylines onto unbelievable characters to keep the money coming in on the lesser ITV Freeview channels. I know Luther got huge admiration, but it left me cold every time I watched it. Bodyguard was good, as was Life On Mars. The second series in the 80's, again. not so much. The Rebus series with Ken Stott - excellent, Rebus with John Hannah, not bad. Great couple of series recently on Channel 4 was No Offence. Joanna Scanlon was 'king amazing. Some years ago I used to like Cracker From America Hill Street Blues still stands up incredibly well, and was the ground-breaker for a large number of subsequent great programs

I'd forgotten that @Boyne Was very good, I think. I've been trying to find a program called Turtle's Progress, about a small-time criminal in West London in 1979, seemed to be the inspiration for Minder. I can find it on DVD but nowhere to stream it yet.

Doesn't get much better than Line of Duty. BBC IPlayer has all 5 series, it looks like both Netflix and Amazon Prime have it as well.

Isn't that Callum Wilson's mum, as well?

They do like a good turn-stile blagging, do yer chicken-mourners.

Makes more logical sense than most of the posts about the player, to be honest.

Well, in the first place, it's not always necessary to play fingers for strings, though that can in some cases be the simplest, at least for the beginner. Sliding into a note is usually easier using 2nd and 3rd position fingering and a thumb-fret for blocked F and Bb shapes will take some practice but will be well worth it when you want to play the classics, particularly the fast part of the Theme from Jaws. There you go, young grasshopper, now all you need is a cello. Oh, and some talent. And enthusiasm. And time. And some sheet music. (don't take everything to heart so much, petal!)

god hates you because you keep on blathering on about football matters when it's plain as a pikestaff that you know nothing about it. I get the same adverse response on a music forum I frequent when I give them my forcefully held, but intrinsically bollocks views on cello-fingering.

Splendid album, that. Gotta love Mr Guy. I saw him in London at the Royal Festival Hall some years ago. He had a young lad to play the complicated bits of the solos and another young lad to bring on "Mr Guy's cup of tea" between each song. We were in row 2 and it was one of the best blues concerts I ever saw. You started me off, now, so I've got that album on. I'm torn about my favourite track, it's either his Mustang Sally version or this

There you go lad, I corrected your spelling for you.

I just think that is a simplistic view of the subject. Just because a defender clears it, it doesn't count as "hit the first man". By definition there are always more defenders than attackers in the penalty area for a corner, so the odds are always in favour of the defence. He does overhit them form time to time, I grant you, but then why is there never anyone attacking that area at the far post? I agree that his corners aren't prime beckham level, but I don't think he is any more inconsistent in corners than anyone else. My ideal corner taker would be Reece. That boy has a wicked cross on him. Was it 2 or 3 free headers from Willian corners that Rudiger or Zouma couldn't manage to get on target the other night?

Those two posts aged really well, mate. Probably best not to be too pessimistic (or optimistic) but just take it as it comes. Either we'll get top four or we won't, we'll see. But the ridiculous gloom in here (not specifically you) every year, regardless of how we are actually doing, speaks volumes about peoples' grasp on reality.

There you go, fixed that for you. That would be because that isn't the player that he is, that we bought, that every manager has used in that position, that Brazil consider to be acceptable for their squad and that Barcelona were reputed to want to but last season. Horses for courses, mate. Willian fulfils a role, but not as an out and out goal scorer. Never has and never will. But playing out from the back against a hard press from a team of donkeys who run around a lot, I can't think of anyone I would rather see running with the ball or receiving the ball in a tight situation. Oh, and just because a lot of us repeat it over and over, doesn't make it true that his corners always hit the first man. That's just lazy and slack comments. You can't blame Willian if the rest of the team prove unable to get on the end of corners, the defenders are more committed, or, as the other night, our main corner targets proved they couldn't hit a banjo with a cow's arse from a free header..

Prince Buster channelling his Inner Otis.