I'll probably be alone in this but I want us to put out the strongest team available.

Fuck the Premier League. If we go down it won't be because we put out a strong team at West Brom and we'll thoroughly deserve it if we do.

I've seen us relegated before and I've seen us promoted back up and I'm sure I'll see both again (the former maybe sooner than I'd like!). BUT-I've never seen us win a Cup. And yes, I know that if we beat the Baggies we'll get howked 20 nil by Man City or someone similar in the quarter finals but football, if nothing else, is about hope and we've had precious little of that this last decade and more.

I just want the chance to dream a little while longer because everything else about us is a bastard nightmare.

And yes, it is green.