The Palace Fan

The comments about Southgate keeping his job regardless of what happens this summer is somewhat concerning.

Dermot Drummys passed away. He was only 56! Condolences with his family. That's no age for anybody to go. For those that don't know, Dermot did a lot of work with the Chelsea academy. He very nearly got the Crystal Palace Managers job on two separate occasions because of how he impressed in interviews and his reputation around young players. He recently had a managerial stint at freefalling Crawley Town.

Justin Kluivert scored a hat trick over the weekend. Is he going to be real deal or the second coming of Roland Bergkamp?

Berizzo said he's going to decide his future next week. Seems like he really doesn't want to be portrayed as a victim. Really sad stuff.

Anybody watch it this weekend? With some of the recent title changes they look like they're getting it together again. NXT Takeover was brilliant. The War Games lived up to its hype and the Velveteen Dream literally put himself on everybodys radar. Im not sure about the new champion mind as it creates a big imbalance between heels and faces. Survivor Series was a good show I thought with matches the right length and enough action to stay entertained. Then they turned the main event in to a Triple H and friends reunion and completely buried the new talent which hurt the overall quality of the show. Away from WWE: Ring of Honor is still going great with Global Wars being a success and Lucha Underground has finally got another series sanctioned. Impact Wrestling on the other hand the less said the better.

I was going to go off on one about how special he was once as a footballer, how he gave me the same buzz as Messi did the first time I saw them play, how he was destined for greatness and what a waste of a talent he became but I didn't realise it was in relation to gang rape. The only person I can't stop thinking about now is the victim. What a horrid human being he has become.

If you'd never watched Soccer AM before youd like it this season.

Nearly as annoying as our media people calling him a 'Cheeky Signing.

It was more after getting player of the tournament in the summer. Most people were saying at the time it wasn't the correct move for him.

Why has Gareth Southgate suddenly become a man in his interviews? I love it.

Steve Davis sacked from Orient. It wasn't that long ago he was being linked with Championship jobs.

How does it get to a point where anybody owes someone three hundred and twenty three million pounds? Natwest would frown at me if I owe twenty three pounds.

To think he's lost four years of development because of the competitive nature of the premier league is quite frankly embarrassing. If only The FA had control over all English Domestic Leagues so there were no conflict of interests.

Nothing to do with them monitoring both players from a very young age and coming to the conclusion that Solanke is a better footballer.

As i previously said they could all be injured for all I know. I just find it unbelievable that we've got so many English players that are conveniently not fit to play on the weekend when they're club side are not playing. It's not like we haven't got a history of the same thing happening previously. Id like to believe you seriously don't think Gareth Southgate has the cojones to question his better players mentality public when our talent pool is so limited. The only chance that parsnip has of being a success is keeping the whole dressing room on side.

They may all be injured for all we know but quoting Gareth Southgate is hardly going to increase your point. He's not exactly going to criticise his one world class player and all the other likely starters that pulled out is he?

Are transfers like that happening more frequent? Used to annoy me when an average side would sign between 0-1 players a window.

My first was the one with Jason MacAteer on the front. So addictive even back then. The version with the Chumbawumba song? or the version where you could play domestic fixtures and international games at the same time?

Legend has it he paid off the linesman last week to increase his viewing figures.

I don't think there's much in it between either player. In comparison over the last couple of seasons Cork would win on consistency whilst Livermore would win on 'flashes of quality'. I think Wilshire would have a right to feel aggrieved to lose out to both of them mind you but then again it may keep him more focused long term to prove a point.

These friendlies aren't exactly pointless. There's not many fixtures left until next summer's tournament and given how uninspiring and disjointed we've looked as a team youd think these players would appreciate every opportunity to play with each other. Even more so given we are going up against two very good footballing nations and one of them being from South America who take friendlies more seriously than European countries.

So you would have Dale Stephens ahead of both of them too?

Fingers crossed they make a heroic return in time for the fixture against Arsenal.

Whilst I was happy with the original team selection I'm not sure why Cork and Livermore have been called ahead of Wilshire and Ox. Southgate wouldnt lose any face by picking Wilshire and having a future private chat with him about future game time.

Just setting up my Christmas list. Has the transfer window improved on this game? The fact youd play Man United in five years time and they still had the same starting lienup used to really annoy me.