No we're missing a striker.

Awww no Radio Rovers back yet. Guess we're stuck with boro's commentary today...

Apparantly they are beating us at our own game. Parlour and Zenden out tackling Savage and Thompson. They've hardly even mentioned Mokoena.

Thommo was down when they scored...great..

Quedreu just scored....

The Scottish guy just keeps shouting over the top of the other one whenever he feels like it. I bet the other guy wants to belt him.

I want to belt him!

Christ how annoying that guy is

The albow on MGP should also be looked at by the FA.

Not to mention the elbow on Todd and the assault on Sav.

3 out if 4 defenders now booked :-/

Ball hits the crossbar and bounces off the back of Friedel in to the back of the net.

Radio Rovers calls is abysmal goalkeeping.

1-1

Yes! 3 points won

Reid just missed an open goal from 8 yrds...

Giving away far too many set pieces at the moment.

Not good

Gallagher - not enough time to impress but should the goal have stood. I couldnt really see if he was offside or not and the tv tonight will be interesting.

Unfortunatly he was definitely a yard or two offside as the shot came in. He was just a tad bit to eager to beat the defenders to the rebound.

Really disappointed with that result. I think it showed how even the Premier League can be when we were equal if not better than the team in second place. Turned out to be a scrappy game with two teams who were quick to close each other down so it was hard to retain possession and pass the ball around but Rovers did look the better side throughout, getting most of the ball in the second half and managing to string some passes around eventually. However, we seem to lack confidence and determination in the final third, as well as a lack of quality perhaps. WE really struggled to open up their very solid defence and when we finally did, luck was against us.

Gally's goal was well taken, rounding up a good move that opened up Everton but it was correctly called offside. It did seem to drive Rovers on though and we managed to put the pressure on them for the final few minutes but again, what looked a certain goal from Emerton's shot deflected wide off the post.

I though Mark Hughes was a bit conservative with his subs today. Bothroyd wasn't very impressive and could have come off earlier. I would have liked to see Stead start this game in all honesty. Nissa looked good when he came on and the defence on the whole looked pretty solid. Andy Todd showed bravery and commitment when he stopped Cahill from setting off a counter attack after Todd himself had been fouled. When he didn't get the free kick he promtley threw himself at Cahill's feet, without a though for his own well being and got booked for a cynical foul. But that's what we want to see, commited to the team he did what he had to do and he could have been knocked about quite severly with that dive.

The referee had a poor game, letting lots of questionable challanges go with no yellow cards. In all fairness this happened to be somewhat to our advantage as both Neill and Matteo repeatedly hacked down Everton players in what looked like clear cut yellow card offences. However, it also went against us when a fair penalty shout went against us as Hibbert tackled Dickov, never coming near the ball. It looked like a penalty to me. I don't think though that I've seen a game with so many poor set pieces taken, by both teams but specially by us. It's something that we really need to work on if we want to take points from games like these where we're struggling to make it happen from open play.

Wouldn't it be wise to give MGP a few sub appearances just to satiate his desperation to play?

Actually, I second that notion, if only to get cuidado to shut the hell up.

He's giving us all a bad name now...

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to mention that we brought on solid Matteo..

A proven Premiership defender to replace a defender who was injured.

Proven to be bloody rubbish though

Big win for us this one and a deserved one, even though the pushed our luck a bit by giving them several VERY good chances to get back in the game, specially after the sending off and our 2nd goal.

Tugay was excellent today.

Should be 3 up by now. Really worried that we'll throw away a win here as the game goes on. Totally in control of the game though, hope we don't fall asleep in the second half.

Dickov's missed another HUGE chance just as he did against Brum.

I'm so stuck on the cop bike jacking mission in Las Venturas! Aaaargh!

Done "Back to the hood" though. Top game this, some classic cut scenes in it

I've finished Toreno's missions. The Stowaway mission was a lot of fun, N.O.E less so. Took a few tries that one.

Also done the first Woozie mission in Las Venturas. The missions certainly have been getting harder and harder. Flying School was annoying.

So it's pronounced "Voalarenga"? How curious.

More like "Voalerenga", dont think you will come any closer than that. I will gladly record me saying Vålerenga 10 times, and send it to your e-mail address...

Vålerenga sucks, Vålerenga sucks, Vålerenga sucks....yeah I can do that too

As for the game, we were shocking for the most part. Coach made some tactial..err.."mistakes", specially after half time when he did a Souness and played players out of position. Sæternes on the right? What was he thinking

Iversen stayed on the pitch for far to long as well. He did sod all else than be where the rebound fell for the first game.

Emerton was fandamntastic though. More of the same for Rovers please Brett! Neill had a quiet game and the less said about MGP the better I think. Hardly impressive apart from a well taken set piece resulting in a goal.

Believe me, the second mission is far worse than the first one.

His last one is actually pretty straight forward. And when you're done you get money! yay!

At what point does the third island open up? After the Toreno missions?

I actually managed to complete Zero's missions. The RC plane one was the hardest one.

If he cannot organise us to beat a Souness side which will resemble a pickled chocolate fry up for all the tactical sense his team selection will make, Hughes will have been found seriously deficient as a manager.

Not so sure about that. Souness will still have enough quality in his side to bail him out. At least in the short term.

Carew and Sæternes please

Whatever you want but TT's mission will advance the story and get you into San Fierro.