thought Shelveys verbal attack on Fergie was unwarranted - hopefully BR will have had a quiet word in his ear

You are sounding like a cracked record....do you think you could go a week without commenting on Liverpool or their supporters?
(and no i aren't a fan of theirs either)

POP goes the Everton bubble.

We'll see.....To be honest, I'd rather we play badly in a meaningless cup competition than the league.

Tonight was poor, but to say that will end our season is being a bit silly.

Poor is a big understatement. Moyes has gone on about how he really wants to win a trophy. In the one competition where we have any chance, as the big clubs rest players, he goes and pulls that lineup out of the hat. I realise he is trying to rest some players to keep the League form going, but the centre of midfield was wide open. Fellaini clearly didn't fancy it as much as Moyes and him and Junior, who will never ever be a central midfielder in a million years, we were up against it.

Pienaar and Neville brought a sense of normality to the game, but it was always going to be Leeds who got the second.

In games like this we should have gone full strength, Baines included, from the start and brought players off for a rest if we were winning. Leeds are a shocking team but played better football than Everton managed throughout. I don't think we put two passes together at all in the first half. Oviedo was a rare bright point, looking very good, particularly going forward. Put Jelavic on the end of those cutbacks and it would have been different.

I agree with most of what you say (except the Oviedo bit, because he looked pretty poor to me), but if I'm honest I fail to get excited about this competition.

Yes, it'd be nice to actually win it, but the fact is, that if you don't, its a huge waste of time and energy....I'd sooner go out early than go through 4 or 5 games and end up not winning it.

Personally, I'd end this competition immediately - I've never got why in England and Scotland, in an era where cup comps are so undervalued by those taking part, we actually have to have TWO of them??

Do any other countries in Europe have 2 cup competitions?

Tad harsh that I feel. For his first real game in this country, I thought he was promising. Bags of pace and some clever balls and always willing to get forward. The run and ball to Anichebe towards the end of the first half was killer, had that been Jelavic, we'd have been level.

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Didn't hold too much hope for us at West Ham tonight but a superb win. Love sticking it to them w@nkers

Based on what, out of interest?