Vacamion

Seemed a bit less blatant than other hair pulls you've seen reds for. If Leeds score again it will be fun watching the ground empty. Extra pressure on Spurs and Forest, which you love to see.

Oddly specific, and it's not a bet if it's your hobby anyway.

Rosenior will be reassured that the Chelsea, hierarchy, famously, never make knee jerk decisions about their manager . I wonder whether he will sleep soundly, cuddling his clipboard, tonight.

I'd hoped he would come in, lay down the law a bit, snarl at a few slackers, demand that players run until they are spewing, tackle til they ache and say loud and clear that he would drop anyone who doesn't follow instructions. That he would: Menacingly tell Fatawu that he's got the tricks, but if he doesn't reign it in and play a team game, he'll remove his baws. Tell Ayew that if he carries on flouncing about slowly with his sad man grimace, as if he's shat himself, rather than running til it hurts and scoring regularly, he's out. Tell Mavididi that if he won't actually take on a man and keeps passing it backwards, we'll pick a progressive player instead, who might. Tell Winks - sorry mate, but we've been losing games with you on the pitch, you're benched. Instead, we get an unchanged formation, failures being selected every week regardless of performance and now the manager coming out and moaning to the press that the players won't listen. How far we have fallen.

I had been, I suppose, "cautiously pessimistic" up to today, generally appalled at what we were seeing, but maybe we could somehow scrape survival. (To be fair I was away and missed the Easter games) But I'm convinced, now - we are absolutely donald ducked. Even if we pull a plum out away at Pompey, we are still going down.

Swansea City's co-owner - Snoop Doggy Dogg. Leicester City's stewardship over recent years - Snoop Doggy Dogshit. That free kick was symptomatic and I fear we have shat our pants too often to stay in this league.

We are going to need snookers if we can't get something miraculous out of this and then beat Pompey. So it feels like we are done. Sad.

We've hardly hammered at Swansea's door since we conceded, have we? It's all a bit familiar.

I think Luke T actually tried to hack him down and missed.

Well that was horrendous.

Swansea lad should have buried that.

We could have scored a couple but we don't look particularly hungry or deperate to win, and there is a lot of passing it backwards. We've wasted a couple of chances. The ref's been kind to us, generally. Hope we improve 2nd half.

The Welsh commentator needs some amphetamines in his tea at half time. Or maybe to be turned from 33rpm to 45rpm. (One for the kids, there )

For a side a) At Home b) Fighting for our lives c) With the best paid players in the division We don't look all that arsed about winning this.

Ricardo being bypassed there. Or, as he's better known these days, "practice cone".

It's like he's commentating on the snooker

This ref could have given a fair few decisions in Norwich 's favour and hasn't done so. That tackle Nuñez did before he was hooked was very yellow adjacent.

Given my user name in here, I had to drop a few quid on Mr Vango

Raises eyebrows at the "as it stands" table

It's all just so depressing. It could have been stopped after dozens and dozens of previous transgressions, all of which would have been disqualifying for anyone else. I hate waking up and the first thing I do is checking what fresh madness has occurred. May it end soon. No, not that way...

I missed this game because I was on a flight. I gasped when I turn my phone off airplane mode and looked up the result. How on earth could we contrive to drop points in a game against **that**opponent? Then I remembered, it was us, of course we did. It looks like we are proper fooked, now.

In April 2008 we lost at home to Sheffield Wednesday, in a game that many thought - if we win this, we'll be safe. Don't know why that has come to mind...

They might speak the same language (well, kind of ) but whatever shared history, culture and values we had with the USA shrivel up and die slightly, every time we are confronted with what they say and do, and how they treat us. They've made it very clear that what was an advantageous alliance in the 1940s counts for nothing much, now. If the big beast in the 'Anglosphere' is dominated by corrupt brutes, oligarchs, religious zealots, gun nuts, science-deniers and zero sum Capitalists, who threaten allies, support dictators and start wars for which they demand our support, then I'll plump instead to get closer to the civilisation at our doorstep, to which I feel culturally much closer, thank you very much. (Hint, I don't just mean the Irish ) The 51st Staters really bet on the wrong horse.

Wayne Rooney slept on the couch at the training ground. Famously, his total commitment paid off, every managerial job he did was a resounding success, Birmingham City got promoted and are now in Europe with Rooney still at the helm...

The Welsh will have to support the other Home Nations, then