Yes a cracking time thanks. No not las Americas - we were in los Gigantes, all inclusive (but not a mad one) and adults only. Not a lot goinig on outside the hotel we could see, but the hotel itself (Barcelo Santiago) we liked very much.

We'll likely end the season with 28 wins. Amazing. Simply amazing. The scary thing is we can be better. We have a need for up to 3 positions (LB, number 6 and 9) most would agree on. I would suggest a number 6 is a priority to take us to the next level. Then a number 3 but Timber can play there and suspect Arteta will play him there so he can cut in on his stronger foot. Number 9 is a position we can wait on. Could we use one? Sure. But we have been scoring from all angles. I think freeing up Rice to get into the 18 yard box area a bit more and shoot from there or even runs into the box, we'll create so much havoc in the opposition 3rd, it may make a number 9 moot. A number 9 like Isaak or Toney will come in handy when we are playing balls long over the middle. And a tall one is an added threat for corners but we have won 27 games, going on probably 28 games without one.

With all the post mortem about the match, any word on Saka? We don't need him for Everton. Jesus is more than capable. But I hope Saka's injury isn't long term.

Pre City, it was pretty much a certain if you go 28-5-5 you win the league. Usually at a distance. Oh well

Will do so, thanks

Fortunately or unfortunately, both me and missus are tee totalers. Boring folks we are

Thanks mate

Thanks mate

Not at all. Very sensible life choice!
Excessive drinking will turn you into a pedant, if Kiwi is anything to go by.

Ha, Martinez has just chucked one in after 1 minute!!! Liverpool 1-0 Villa! Might be a cracking game from here

A reminder that any top gk can have an absolute howler like this. Gk at the bigger clubs will have their errors amplified in the media. But things like playing out from the back and claiming crosses are brushed under the carpet as their positive consequence is not immediately apparent to an armchair fan who pretty much works in goals, assists and errors as the primary metrics to judge every player on

Liverpool beating Villa tonight (currently winning 3-1) helps us in a small way. It keeps Spurs top 4 hopes genuinely realistic. If…big if Spurs beat City they’d be a point behind Villa with Villa going away to a bang in form Palace on the final day and Spurs going to Sheff Utd.

Likely all academic because the only team who can beat City is if they beat themselves, I don’t really give Spurs a prayer

Both Villa and Spurs have 2 wins from 7 right at the business end of the season to try to get Champions League. Stumbling over the line, whoever doesn’t get it will have bottled it for sure because their opponent gave them an open goal to go and get 4th. Very different to us chasing City, they’ve not given us a sniff so far

We won 2 out of 7 at the exact same time last season. I don't think we bottled it. We just weren't good enough. Villa went very deep in Europe and just don't have the squad to stretch that far. Tottenham had a very tough run of fixtures.

Ahhh haa ..but young Decaf ... you are pointing the finger at the reformed .

Few months back a test revealed the sh***ty diet I had adopted ; had raised my blood sugar to pre diabetic levels .
Since then I have cancelled all sugar intake and foods that convert to sugar .... no wheat products . ice cream , chocolate , rum and cokes , beers , wine , sugar , fruit juice

Completely rearranged my diet ; Chickpea flour , sprouted mung beans , fish , tons of steamed vegetables , soy beans .
Daily blended juice concoction of comfrey , dandelion , chickweed , oxalis , carrot , apple and feijoa

Nothing alcoholic has passed these lips in three months ; feel better for it .

Browns: Yes they are a real problem everywhere. More aggressive than some snakes and can kill. A bloke died here this year. Thankfully when my brother was bitten a few years ago the hospital had plenty of anti- venom.

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What a quandary for Tottenham tomorrow .
Go out and don't try shows the world how bereft of standards they are a tuppeny half penny football club

Go hard maybe get a win or a draw and hand the Woolwich scum the title ....... if we beat Everton .

Now that really is the ultimate of between a rock and a hard place .

Right now Gaz ... with temparature sitting a balmy 4 degrees Oz looks very very attractive .

I only saw two snakes in the maybe fifteen years I spent working there .

Once while working on Hayman Island ; was having a beer with an Aussie bloke at the staff bar , stinking hot , everyone left the doors of their cabins open , no air con .
I saw this snake slither into my room , thought better check out where it has gone ... don't want to run into it after a few more beers .

Found it under the built in bed .... I knew nothing about snakes ; so back I go to my Aussie drinking buddy ; described it's features

"Oh Christ " says he " deadly poisonous .... kill you in about thirty seconds " .

Couldn't leave it roaming wherever so back I go ; at the time I had a .22 rifle with me so I moved the matress and used the barrel to wedge the snake's head

against the wall then with the other hand I gripped it just behind the head so it couldn't rear around and bite me and took it out on the verandah and cut it's head off .

All these Pommie waitresses wandering passed cooing " Oh how brave "

Then along comes this yardman , a young kid from Central Queensland heading for the showers ; in a larconic outback drawl he says " What ya doin that for , that's only a tree snake , they wont hurt ya " .

Still have mild regrets when I think about it ; harmless or poisonous .... why not just carry it fifty yards and chuck it over the fence into the long grass , instead of taking that poor little snake's life with the Indiana Jones type theatrics .

From a Facebook site. Ange talking some sense

We have plenty around and my father was always of the view a good ones a dead one. But you don't chase them if they slither off : let them go. Its illegal to kill them but I have had a few suicidal ones near the house and pool area who continually threw themselves at the shovel. At my holiday house we get a few death adders but they are very mild and often you don't even notice them in the leaf litter. They are sneaky bastards, a bit like Spurs, Liverpool and Man Utd fans.

Tonight is pretty much our title hopes. The City are playing now they are a machine. I expect them to win but gladly I'm confident in that. I wouldn't put money on it. I have zero doubt Tottenham players will play to take points.

Spurs podcaster "Play the kids, the mascots, don't care...." lol
If Tottenham starts winning will you boo Spurs "I'll cheer the City players"

Interesting question I heard "If the roles were reversed, would you want Arsenal to win if it meant Spurs win the league?"

I always want Arsenal to win.

"16th May 1999: Arsenal fans hoping for a Tottenham Hotspur win,during the Arsenal Carling Premiership match v Aston Villa at Highbury"

Last five games City have scored 16 goals and conceded 1. Pep was quietly working on that goal differential. 3 of those games were 4-1, 4-0, 5-0. They kept going after goals. He's a sneaky one, that Pep