wizardous

I'm not even English but I love this. And the 'gin in teacups' reference to Orwell's 1984...marvelous.

We're holding our own against the holders on their patch. We have opened them up on numerous occasions. It's a proper contest and I'm confident we will get more chances.
Looking forward to the second half.

If BlueCo also end up in exile on the island of Elba then it will all have been worth it !

No idea what Maresca was playing at. When you have a player sent off early you don’t want your manager to go into full on panic mode. How did it help to haul off Estevao and Neto? What message does that send? That we’re going to try and defend 0-0 for an hour and a half?
Then when they have a player sent off, why doesn’t he change things at half time, bring on Garnacho and Gittens, and have a go at them? Why waste the first 20 mins of the second half, fail to trouble them, then decide the answer is to bring on George and Gusto?
What a disaster class in managing a game. Sanchez is a bloody idiot but what does that make Maresca?

We can get rid of Maresca but the disease will remain. Need to riot and get rid of Clearlake.

Nobody deserves a goal more than him.

Certain people said he was finished, he always comes back just as good. Reece and Cole our only truly world class players. 

Not sure what's more pathetic
 
That 90 minutes from Sancho or people turning on Maresca already.  
We are way ahead of any rational person's expectations after the mess the club has been in for seasons and that was our first defeat in a long time relatively speaking.
No doubt we were poor from 50th minute onwards and I'm surprised we didn't hook Sancho but, then again, a similar change was made against Everton and delivered nothing.
Anyone who seriously thinks Maresca is f**king things up really needs to focus more on playing Championship Manager than watching actual football.

Please excuse the shameless bump! Just popped in to say I told you so. Pep letting this lad go (and not giving him any kind of run, resulting in him wanting to leave in the first place) is a WHOPPER of a blunder.

Enzo's goal was Lampardesque

I don't think it's even worth of a comparison. As a team we look 5x better than at any single point last season. We still rely on Palmer perhaps a bit too much, but he's no longer the only one that can win us a game...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

I don't think it's even worth of a comparison. As a team we look 5x better than at any single point last season. We still rely on Palmer perhaps a bit too much, but he's no longer the only one that can win us a game...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

Exactly. If it wasn't for Palmer, Poch would have probably got sacked at some point in the season. We're still a work in progress but Maresca knows what his best team is, has a clear plan and it has worked so far. No reason to complain really...

This for me is the biggest difference, it was nearly impossible trying to figure out what Poch was trying to do at times, especially defensively.  There was no pattern of play at all, just mostly off the cuff stuff. 

Im surprised to see so many think hes not doing much, considering the amount of people who though he had no chance at the start of the season due to the "shambolic squad" he had.

Your glass isn't even half empty ... it's smashed to bits on the concrete floor LOL

I get it. People are frustrated that we keep drawing in our big games, but people need to remember we've been being thrashed by them for the last three seasons. Rome wasn't built in a day. There is a lot of progress.

The moaning is crazy, we are rough but we are heading in the right direction, general defending was much better it’s the brain farts that cost us but as a team much better smothering the ball. 
 
We are the youngest team in the league coming through that fixture list in 3rd, we look organised our recycling is good, if we can and we will work on being clinical and the concentration lapses we are a title challenging team next season. 
 
We are beating the teams we should and competing well with the big teams being gloomy after the past 3 years we have had is madness 

GET THE f**k IN!!!
11 vs 14 the past 30 minutes and we fought them off until the end. 
 
AND UNITED AND SPURS BOTH LOSE. 
 
BUZZING!!