sweet waffle

Rafa doesn't care about facts like that when he's in full excuse mode.

Great that Liverpool lost, looking forward to hearing Rafa's excuses. Gotta say I thought the forum chat had jinxed it when they equalised.

I thought you were making reference to something that had happened in todays match.

What did he do?

Don't want to be too negative but Anelka's performance today was an example of why we need Aguero.

Thank f*ck for that. Far too frustrating.

Similar to the first 45mins from last week today, the players look as though they're still getting used to the new system. Looks like Ballack will be coming on soon, I'm guessing for Mikel who again looks a little bit shakey for me again today.

Sorry to be pedantic but Robinson now plays for Blackburn.

Good for him that he'll get regular Premier League football, just a shame it's for a team that will more than likely get a tonking more often than not. Mancienne loaned to Wolves (SSN)

Hunt deal confirmed. Tigers seal Hunt capture (SSN)

I never played Forza 2, I went with PGR4 instead but Forza 3 looks ace so I think I'll certainly be giving this a test drive.

The RRP is £54.99, here's an article about it: What does the Modern Warfare 2 price point mean for the industry? (Guardian)

Looks like we'll be welcoming back an "old friend" on Saturday. I hope we give him the reception he deserves. Hull agree Hunt fee (SSN)

I think so, you're actually allowed to use 6 subs.

Sky are doing there best to make out that Ballack elbowed Evra in the face when he clearly didn't.

Of course now that Man Utd have lost today they'll be plenty of talk about this being a meaningless trophy. Certainly looked like it meant something to Fergie the way he was ranting at the ref at full time.

Whoohooo. Love it. And the fact that there was controversy makes it all the more sweeter.

Aaaaghhh penalties. Fingers crossed everybody.

It's only little things that need to click into place and then the diamond could work, too many times we got caught dwelling on the ball and we're ignoring the overlap by Cole, he was in acres of space a couple of times and we chose to go narrow instead of finding him. Also Cech should have done much better on the Nani goal, that should have been a regulation save, still he made up for it with his two saves from Berbatov and Fletcher which should boost his confidence. For me Mikel is looking a bit redundant in his current role, I'd sub him for Kalou then drop Lampard back in alongside Essien and go with a flat 4-4-2, of course this won't happen though.

If it's the only way we'll get him, I think it's worth it. He could very well have a fantastic season in Milan and a brilliant World Cup for Brazil, then his value would rise even further and we'd no doubt have to contend with Man City and Madrid if we were wanting to sign him next summer.

Yeah I saw him on there too, he talked a lot of sense today (not always the case with him).

A5 please.

Zhirkov is a doubt for tomorrow. :D

Also nice to see that he didn't drink, does his public image no harm.

Well it looks like they're definitely going to get Aquilani. Liverpool agree fee for Aquilani