Maybe, just maybe, the whole 'luck' thing is finally evening itself out. I'll happily take another 10 dire performances & sneak a win in our remaining home games this season.

As an aside, did anyone else notice Silva seek out Luka & have a chat with him all the way back to the tunnel? I'd be intrigued to know what that was about & hope there was no tapping up going on.

Obviously a superb result even if the performance was actually a bit poor bar the last 10mins. Why is it, bar Chelsea, we tend to win the games we play poorly in and draw the ones we play well in?

Anyway, I have a question: I had a peek at the Watford forums and, pre-match, they really seem to hate us and, particularly, Zaha. Why is that? Because we beat them in the Playoff final and the FA Cup semi-final? Sure, Zaha won a penalty in the first of these but it clearly WAS a pen and I forget the latter. I detect a team that, like Charlton, are desperate for a rival... we don’t really give a s*** about them though so they should look elsewhere.

As for this match: we got lucky with PVA’s non sending off potentially but Cleverley clearly deserved to go. Our goals were two excellent bits of play by that man they hate so much and they dominated large parts of the game so they really only have themselves to blame.

Sakho or Luka should wear the armband, no-one else.

Sell PVA in Jan and use the money to buy a right back, release Fosu-Mensa and use the loan spot to bring in Giroud if possible. Buy a goalkeeper and a decent midfielder and Bobs your uncle, Fannys your aunt, we will finish 12th to 15th. There's a prediction for you!

Things can change of course but I can only divulge what I know thus far.

PVA was lucky - should have gone - and he looked awful on the right as well - I hope that isn't a sign of things to come!
Schlupp is having a bad time and I am not a Benteke fan anyway regardless of Saturday.
RLC is growing in stature and needs to play every game.
Fosu-Mensa is young with mistakes in him but let him play instead of Ward in my opinion - way more athletic.
Townsend is awful - how did he ever get to play for England.
Play Jimmy Mac and let Wilf roam.
We won though - if we could get a point on Saturday we can dare to dream!