True, the entire raison d'etre for most PL clubs plus Pardew did bring Palace to a cup final where they were arguably unfortunate to not win.
Your leaping forward with your hand in the air to defend the honour of Messers Hughes/Pardew/Allardyce/Pulis has been noted.
I have my eye on you pal.
France minus their best player as well Could be fun - and still with Beauxis starting at 10 and Trinh-Duc on the bench.
We need to start strongly against the Scots - if we can put them on the back foot they may be fragile, particularly Russell (three pens missing touch in two games is more than most fly-halves in a couple of seasons). Like Lawes's press conference - seems like Eddie is grooming him to be captain
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."