Matt

If anyone fancies a bit of comedy, Aves v Porto B is on Betfair video on the waterlogged pitch imagineable.

Backpass isn't handball and I don't think it is captured under denying a goalscoring opportunity. Where is Mosley when you need him?

£5 on Brentford at 14/1, couldn't say no to that.

I haven't got a clue but you could see it happen without knowing why, it was as if something just snapped in him. The decision was a shocker and the ref was a disgrace that night as Ginola had chunks kicked out of him every time he was on the ball until he lashed out. Ginola had already been booked for being fouled, yes, he was fouled and yes, he was booked. It wasn't the FA cup, it was the quater final of the league cup and we should have won that game but for the bastard ref as they should have had at least one player sent off. On the day of the game, the Chronicle ran a story of Ginola praising Lee Dixon for something sporting he did during a game between Arsenal and PSG. Talk about tempting fate.

Was it the 6-1 Cup replay against Spurs where he went into such a strop with the ref at half time that the ref gave up and just walked off ahead of him, leaving Ginola to slowly trudge off the pitch on his own? Pretty sure he got subbed at HT.

Aye, no game to spoil it either.

I didn't even know there was more than one bar in Cramlington. Place must have moved on since I left.

Excellent, I can go home from work now!

I still can't forget Wayne Quinn.

Nandos is cracking when you're working late. Not really a proper sit-down place though.

Ray Winstone offering odds on 8-0 there. Surreal. The Copa del Rey game in midweek was pretty close.

One of the worst things about the state of our squad is that this scrote is actually on the bench in the first place.

Bassong?

I don't think the club really appreciate the situation we're in and that we're more beggars than choosers, just like when we were a division down and used loans to pretty good effect.

And in pretty much every other way he is hopeless. A slightly more advanced Obertan, quick in a straight line but with without brain.

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We were set on this slippery path as soon as the 10-year season ticket scheme was announced. Why else would you voluntarily forego a price rise? It's just a way of emotionally trapping fans- the only way you can get out without losing cash is to give notice with a good chunk of the current season still to run.

Probably because they actually do something about it most of the time whereas we tend to sit back and put up with it. He could probably run the club on the number of ST's hooked to the 10 year price freeze

Cisse might as well have been playing on another pitch he was so isolated. Nothing really on offer from Obertan, Marveaux or Jonas.

Berlusconi always manages to come out on top. Indovina chi vince ancora.

Are you seriously saying Newcastle fans were expecting more than CL qualification? You're way off.

Or that 'we can't compete with sovereign states' which is a favourite of Pardew, oblivious to the teams we are actually up against in the table.

According to Wiki he signed a four-year deal in summer 2009, so he'll be out of contract at the end of the season (of course he might have signed a new deal in the intervening period).

Well, Alan Oliver was there for decades and wrote with a crayon.

Give or take a few quid, yes. Good lord, we're actually strengthening the squad!