Says it all when I feel such surprise and relief for a correct call being given against us. About bloody time!

The next 20 mins of my life feel like they have a certain inevitability about them. Where's Bill Murray?

Those subs just ensured this messageboard will explode should Bolton equalise, or God forbid win. If we see it out though, I'm gonna spend all night telling everyone what a tactical genius TM is. ?

Because he's frustrated with it all. He's gonna be gone January I reckon if a decent club comes in. Wouldn't blame him, must be murder for him being part of this turgid stuff.

We can't even trap simple balls here. It's embarrassing.

The plot thickens. Have the Village People reformed? Is Tom dusting off the leather chaps!

You don't have to be ashamed of being a Level 42 fanboy. I've always figured zimmer frames in the mosh pit is quite endearing. ?

You gotta wonder what promises have been made to Chelsea about match time in order to get him here. As he seems to be getting way more crack of the whip then some other midfielders that have performed far better.

Nice one, that's the cheeriest thing I've read on this board in over 24hrs. I'll put the razor away now.

Just had a peek at our best odds with the bookies , haven't really checked them out since start of season. We're exactly same odds at moment for promotion and relegation. 16 to 1. Not many teams like that, with mirrored odds, just us and Millwall really. Two teams recently brought up from League 1, and the professionals don't hav a clue which end of the table we'll head towards. Hope it's a surprise push towards the top 8.

Unbeaten teams in the Championship: Aston Villa, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Nottingham Forest..........Blackburn Rovers. So, with the bookies at beginning of season, basically 4 of the favourites for the top 6, and a relegation candidate. Can't argue with that start.

Wow, that's a pretty passionate response. Your deep rooted feelings towards the bloke ooze off the page. Fair play to you, I've been there with players before. Consider me officially worried then. The only solace I will take though, is that a couple of times you've mentioned attitude, cowardice, application etc. And u don't doubt there's some talent there right? He can play a bit. So, IF, our manager could wave a magic wand and change the attitude and heart, that's a decent player at a bargain price right?! Yes, that's probably just me, your cliche football fan, trying to think the best all the time. (It's the hope that kills you) But it does happen on occasion, a player just not being right at a club, but thriving at another. Here's hoping. Tell you what, would be a major feather in the cap for ToMo if he did somehow revive the lads career.

Do you think your negative view of him has been exaggerated because of the high wages?! Just you wrote an essay breaking down the attributes of the player, and mention the 70k twice. Which, to be frank, is totally irrelevant to his skill set or performance levels. Not knocking you, it's human nature, and we've done exactly the same as fans. When the disaster of Murphy and Etuhu were disgracing our midfield, it was doubly galling as we'd spanked most of our summer budget on them, and they were 2 of the highest paid at the club. So when Danny sauntered around the centre circle for 90 mins, it made our opinion of him twice as scathing. (Christ I still loathe that man.) So hypothetically, judging a 70k a week player in the Premier League, might be different from say, a player on 15k a week in a mid table or bottom half Championship club. P.S. I know I'm maybe interpreting wrong, but "4 years of HIM not winning a game". C'mon, there's 10 other players on the pitch each week, and you were going through a horrendous spell of results (i.e. double drop). Surely you can't be laying the blame for all of that at his door.

Yeah, I take past teams fans opinions with a huge pinch of salt. Aberdeen fans flooded this board to tell us we'd just bagged the best Scottish striker since Kenny Dalglish. (Goodwillie). And Cardiff fans told us Gestede couldn't hit a barn door. Look how those two turned out.

Hasn't he just taken the closest and easiest option due to him living in the North West? Burnley is basically just the next nearest club geographically that would have him. Don't blame him for it, he's in twilight of his career so why not. But don't see it as some bold move myself. More like a no brainer comfort option.

No I'm not upset with what Modric said, I just have no respect for WHEN he said it. Do you struggle reading? Lol

Modric mouthing off after they'd won a match - why not grow a pair and say something the days before - their manager popping off for no reason, and Lovren self proclaiming himself the best defender in the World. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Cracking result, congrats to France.

Who said I was upset? What a strange comment.

Particularly when he spent so much time in this country. And their manager waffling on about how we play long ball. Yeah, there was about 8 mins left and we were behind, what does he expect, plank.

Will it?! After Modric and their manager gobbing off about us - showing all the class of Paul Cook after a victory - I certainly won't be losing any sleep over it.

We no doubt will lose our 3rd match today. Great is maybe wrong word, but out of 32 teams there are only 4 left playing this weekend, and no-one would have predicted us being one of them. "Fortunate draw" - maybe, but you take what you're given. Strange how I never hear any of us Rover's fans mention our "fortunate draw" in 2001/2002. We never speak of how we only really played one Prem team on route to final in Middlesbrough. None of us can stop banging on about how Wenger made 9 changes to his team leaving out the likes of: Henry, Ljungberg, Ashley Cole, Bergkamp, Pires, Vieira etc. We're like a bunch of broken record players right?! Oh no, that's right, we never mention it, because it's irrelevant. They made a choice, we beat them, and went on to win the cup. We ain't winning a cup this time, but we're here on final weekend. That's a plus for me. Don't care how we got here, so I'll leave it to other people to have selective memories when it comes to fortunate runs in cups.

Of course it's a relevant stat. A football match is 90 mins. You try to win the game in that time. Extra time is a bonus section that you tackle when you've failed at your first objective. Here you go, in comparison in that time Germany have beaten in 90 mins knockout: Brazil , Netherlands, France, Argentina, Czech Republic, Belgium, Mexico, England etc,etc (I haven't even bothered with the likes of USA, South Korea, Sweden) Can you spot the difference there?!

Why?! England and Croatia have both been 10th to 20th in the World Rankings the last 3 years. So, in comparison, you're basically a West Ham fan having kittens because Southampton knocked you out the FA Cup. Moaning that it wasn't Man City or Chelsea. Very strange. It's stuff like that makes the other home countries hate us. Some deluded visions of grandeur. Some people have the memories of goldfish. In the last 50 years the only countries we've beaten in 90 mins at knockout phases are Paraguay, Denmark, and Ecuador. Hardly footballing giants. But we're supposed to breeze through a very good Croatian team. It's been a great World Cup, but I think a reality check is needed to bring people back down to earth. We've done "better" than usual. But we're a long way from realistically competing for trophies, World or Euro.

I'm fairly confident I won't.

Everyone?! This ain't a 7 year olds sports day. It's the World's biggest event for it's most popular sport, which only happens once every 4 years. 3 out of 32 teams. 9%. Get a prize. There's a winner, a runner up, and a 3rd place winner. That's why this game does actually mean something to me. Because 4th place really is a losers spot.