Upsetter

Her salary may not have anything to do with the incident, but the fact that she was offered a rise certainly does. It's like this. Employee gets upset, threatens legal action. Employer offers pay rise. Employee refuses pay rise, opts for legal action. Of course she is well within her rights to do so, but turning down a pay rise of such magnitude is bound to cast doubts on her motivation. Note: I'm not attempting to pass judgement here - how could I without knowing the full facts of the case? No I'm merely making the point that Eva Carneiro is either extremely principled or extremely greedy. There is no middle ground.

Yet another reason to laugh at Tottenham: https://twitter.com/90thMin/status/735925927520145408

Hilarious if true: Jose Mourinho’s Man United move has stalled because Chelsea own trademark to his name

From the Daily Record: Rangers stars Rob Kiernan, Andy Halliday and Lee Wallace attacked by Hibs fans as staff are spat on

I was horribly sure that Liverpool would win. I can't remember ever being so glad to have been wrong.

Sorry but in my ever so 'umble that's utter bullsh*t. Benteke was gifted a goal from a goalkeeping mistake. There is no doubt whatsoever that Begovic should have done a lot better with the cross. Had he done so, Benteke would have got nowhere near the ball and we would have coasted to a deserved victory. And to address another point raised elsewhere, how is a goalkeeping error Hiddink's fauilt? Something else that's been bugging me for most of the season is the willingness of so many supporters to choose to believe that a player either isn't trying or doesn't give a f**k (or that he's "just sh*t") when he might well be injured. Eden Hazard looks back to his best, and so it's fair to assume that he's over the injuries that plagued him for so much of the season - injuries which were widely reported, and yet his loss of form was all down to him "not being bothered to turn up". Now I don't know the bloke, but from what I do know of him, I find it far more credible that his poor form was in fact a result of a series of injuries rather than just not being bothered. There were plenty of positives tonight, if you care to look for them, not least Tammy Abraham making his first team debut, indications that we may just be ready to bring in a few of the youngsters - not that I'll be counting my chickens on this one, and of course there was Eden Hazard popping up with another contender for goal of the season. We learned (or had it confirmed) that if Courtois is on his way out, then we're either going to need to find a suitable replacement, or Begovic is going to have to do a LOT of work on handling crosses. This was an end of season game for both teams. Had we been challenging for the title, no doubt we'd have approached it differently, as would Liverpool if they didn't have a Europa League final to look forward to. On the whole I thought we were the better team, we would have deserved a victory, and had Begovic not handed the chance to Benteke on a plate, there would be very little reason to complain. Had Liverpool not been gifted an equaliser, tonight's match would have been among the relatively few season's highlights, up there with doing the double over Arsenal and ensuring that Tottenham wouldn't lift the title. As it was, it turned out to be a decent but disappointing result. Of course that's just how I see it.

Wonderful stuff from Billy Paul who tragically died just over a fortnight ago:

Honestly I didn't think we were anywhere near as bad as most of you are making out. Looking at Sunderland's three goals, the first was a bolt from the blue, one of those unstoppable, once in a lifetime goals, on a par with Nigel Winterburn's winner for the Arse, which can also be said of Kanu's equally once in a lifetime hatrick, a couple of years later, Sunderland's second equaliser (from Borini who like Lukakum always scores against us - deal with it) and eventual winner came in a three minute spell in and around the time Ivanovic was injured, surley a contributing factor. Ultimately, as has been proved so often, football is a game of small margins. Costa should have put is 3-1 up. Had he done so, Ivanovic injury or no Ivanovic injury, the way the game was panning out at that time, I couldn't have seen Sunderland getting anything from the game. I Again, Sunderland may have been "only a bottom three team" but they were - still are - fighting for their Premiership lives. Besides which, with Norwich losing yesterday, the third relegation spot will surely go to either of the North East teams. And given who's currently manaaging the Magpies, I know who I'd rather see go down.

No not at all. It's actually been proven that Costa has an extraordinarily low fouls to yellow card ratio,With eight minutes to kickoff I haven't got time to go into more details, just check out this page on the BBC.

You're right of course. The FA Rulebook clearly states that players are well within their rights in winding up Costa, and that if he should react - no matter how persistent the provocation, that said reaction shall be deemed to be entirely Costa's fault. A subsection of the same rule goes on to say that Costa winding other players up is utterly reprehensible, even when such winding up is apparent only to the match commentators and/or football journalists. The FA will be delighted to have been told that the third Costa related rule - that Costa's ratio of fouls per yellow card should be among the lowest in the league - has been fully adhered to

I've just had a look at the BBC report of these charges. They manage to say that there were "12 yellow cards during the game" - and that there were "two mass brawls" someone managing to overlook the fact that nine of the twelve yellows went to Tottenham players, or that these "mass brawls" were instigated by Clattenberg-endorsed thuggery on the part of Tottenham players, whose second half performance was arguably the dirtiest, nastiest, most petulant display of the entire Premier League era.. And never mind all the rest of it, Guus Hiddink being pushed to the floor, Pochettino steaming on to the pitch,the three or four Tottenham players who should have been shown red cards according to the rules of the game. Incompentent or corrupt, you tell me. It truly beggars belief that Tottenham haven't been shown a single red card all season. To hell with this sh*te about Clattenberg wanting to keep all twenty two players on the pitch, to make a "fair contest of it". What he actually achieved was to give Tottenham carte blanche to repeatedly commit red card offences without fear of proper punishment. Clattenberg, the FA and the BBC are every bit as bad as each other.

I'm fine thanks, and all the better for having seen us royally screw up Tottenham's *ahem* title hopes.

No that's fine thanks. But fuqque me sideways,,I've just realised I'm older than BlueBeard.

Cheers, great stuff/

That's fine with me if it's ok with you.

Thanks for checking, Somehow it never occurred to me that the name might already be taken. Maverick. should be ok though, same name, full stop included.

Apologies if this is the wrong place, but it does seem as good a place as any, fresh starts and all that. To cut to the chase, I've been told that there are some people here who aren't exactly fond of my username, which is fair enough. It's easy enough to understand how its meaning could be misconstrued. And so I'd like to request a change of username, to Maverick if at all possible, which as many of those who know me would agree, does actually suit me quite well.

Don't mention it... well ok, you can if you want! Nice to see some of your fellow supporters, on Foxes Talk, showing their appreciation too: The Eden Hazard/Chelsea Appreciation Thread Eden Hazard is a blue, Is a blue, Is a blue. Eden Hazard is a blue, He hates Tottenham!

The entire squad were unfit/unready at the start of the season. I do remember Mourinho saying that the team peaked too early last season but that this season and and so this season we were deliberately aiming to peak later in order to make the latter stages of the Champions League a priority. Easy to say with hindsight, I know, but at the time I honestly thought this was a mistake. That it's far better to get off to a winning start. As it turned out, the players were late returning for pre-season training, which was itself something of a disaster, they looked nowhere near ready against Arsenal in the Community Shield, and even worse at home to Swansea. So you had a squad full of unfit, ill-prepared players playing catchup, more susceptible to injury as a result of being not fully match fit, and as we all know only too well, things went from bad to worse, and there was a time when we did look to be in real danger of relegation. In all seriousness I'd say that this lack of preparation was far more responsible for the huge dip in form than the commonly held belief that the players were deliberately not trying, or couldn't be bothered. I'd also say that rather than lack of ambition, that it was complacency at all levels - boardroom, management and players - that was responsible for last summer's lack of investment. Complacency and piss-poor preparation together go a long way to explaining this season's slump. With Conte coming in, it's reasonable to expect that lessons have been learned.

You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I have to ask, how can you as a supporter actually ascertain the level of fitness of Hazard or any other player? There have been numerous reports of Hazard struggling to shake off a variety of injuries, more than the occasional niggle, that would suggest- to me at least - that a succession of injuries rather than can't be bothered-ness were responsible for his ineffectiveness for so much of the season. If that is the case then I very much hope that last night's second half performance is a sign that the Hazard of last season truly is back and that he doesn't leave in the summer. Talents such as Hazard's are few and far between. Had he managed to maintain last season's levels of performance and effectiveness would have made a massive difference to the current season. In fact I'll go further than that. There were times during last season when Eden Hazard almost single-handedly carried us over the line, and it's his massive drop in form (for whatever reason) that's been as responsible as much as anything, for the huge and hugely unexpected drop in form of the team as a whole.

From someone (i.e. my ever good self) who has hated and despised those horrible mouthy bar stewards from N17 for over half a century for any number of reasons: Oh the famous Tottenham Hotspur went to Rome to see the Pope The famous Tottenham Hotspur went to Rome to see the Pope The famous Tottenham Hotspur went to Rome to see the Pope And this is what he said: FIUCK OFF Who the f**k are Tottenham Hotspur Who the f**k are Tottenham Hotspur Who the f**k are Tottenham Hotspur And the Blues GO MARCHING ON ON ON Thankyou and goodnight

I think most of us are aware, certainly those of us who either are or have been regular match goers, of Liverpool supporters habitually turning up at grounds without tickets, with out of date tickets, forged tickets, storming the gates and so forth. It happened at Heysel, it's happened at the Bridge. However, Hillsborough was something else. Hillsborough occurred as a direct result of the prevailing attitude of the Establishment of the day towards football supporters in general, that we were sub-human scum who deserved to be treated like animals. A disaster - no sorry, make that an ATROCITY, on the scale of Hillsborough could have happened to any of us,had we been unfortunate to have been herded into pend at the mercy of a corrupt and self-serving police force who held the exact same attitude, the attitude held and propagated from Thatcher on down, who hated football supporters every bit as much as she hated the minors. From the Independent: The prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] and her aide Sir Bernard Ingham visited the stadium the day after the FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield, and were told by South Yorkshire police that "drunken Liverpool fans" had caused the crush that killed 96 people. Thank you for your letter of June 13. I am sorry you are disgusted with the uncomfortable truth about the real cause of the Hillsborough disaster. It is my unhappy experience to find that most reasonable people outside Merseyside recognise the truth of what I say. All I get from Merseyside is abuse. I wonder why. You are at least right in believing that you will have to put up with my discomforting views. I cherish the hope that as time goes on you will come to recognise the truth of what I say. After all, who if not the tanked up yobs who turned up late determined to get into the ground caused the disaster? To blame the police, even though they may have made mistakes, is contemptible. Ingham was asked again about his comments in 2013. He told the Liverpool Echo he stood by his original remarks and also refused to apologise for saying Liverpool should "shut up" about Hillsborough. Had any of us fallen victim to a similar ATRCOCITY, the attitudes of Thatcher, Ingham, Rupert Murdoch and the top echelons of the South Yorkshire Police, to name but a few, would have been exactly the same.

Condescending, patronising, arrogant, massively insincere. I've got to hand it to you.I wouldn't have thought it possible for two short sentences to be so jam packed with bullsh*t. I could elaborate, but there really is no need.

It comes as no surprise that you're not sure why I or anyone else might be put out by the overall manner of your contribution to this forum. Let's just say that the level of condescending arrogance and patronising insincerity permeating so much of your contribution to this site is astounding. Before you ask, I'm not Bertie Smalls either. I don't know or much care if you're this Blue Daze character, but otherwise he's pretty much spot on, even down to the checking of profiles. And don't call me as your mate either. Ok?

Nineteen pages in, and the question of who the f**k is Michael Emenalo is as far from a definitive response as it ever were. Hence the appearance of the seemingly unrelated question of who the f**k is ShedEnder91. I can't provide a definitive answer to that one either. All I will say is that there are very,very strong indications here that ShedEnder91 is a bit of a Charlie. That would be Charlie's Uncle Norbert Tompkins.