Greg

Because they wanted to? Same colour shorts and socks been allowed since last season.

Ben Arfa has two.

A win away from being 3rd and only one defeat in 6 without playing any decent football and without yet being able to put out our strongest XI, beat Man United on Sunday and we go above them. Solid enough start, if we can get our core back and settled and don't suffer too many injuries we will be fine and the football on show will improve.

That's a shot from McClean like.

Some of the worst defending I've ever seen in the Premier League.

He's still a racist prick.

Useless Mackem.

I'd like to see Fergie given a start, he has been refreshing to watch last two games and picked up two assists.

Doesn't really mean much though if he keeps on saying this and isn't fixing what's wrong. I'm not sure it's that easily done with injuries, we need Colo, Cabaye, and Tiote to get fully fit and stay fit. Think we might have sneaked all 3 if Taylor hadn't gone off injured today.

At least Pardew admits we were shite today.

Negative - We were shite. Positive - Ba scored a blinder and then knocked one in with his hand.

Danny Guthrie dropped?

He's on a very, very good wage for a fringe player due to how we signed him from Everton.

Taken from theMag Very little will be knocked off. They are replacing where the old family enclosure was at the very back of the Leazes lower before it moved to L7 Milburn, it's been empty for most games for the last two years.

Adkins has obviously clocked onto how about Kelvin Davis is. Dropped today for someone I've never heard of.

Pure speculation, you don't name squads for Premier League games until you submit the team an hour or so before kick off.

i maybe wrong but i am sure our corparate matchday as dropped significantly under Ashley. Of course it did, in line with the global financial crisis. If you look around the boxes etc this season they are at a much higher occupancy rate than in the last few years.

Tiote on Barrack Road about hour after the game today.

Yep, once again we switched to 4-3-3 for the second half and once again it paid off. I thought Pardew had learned from the Spurs game where he also switched at half time and it paid off then too. We've got a limited squad and very little option to change it. Go with 4-3-3 and pray we don't get injuries. Was more of a 4 1 2 1 2 for long periods today, with Bigi sitting deeper and then Jonas left central and Cabaye right central midfield with Ben Arfa playing more central off Cisse and Ba.

We were shite, saved by a Ben Arfa screamer.

We only played 442 today until Simpson went off injured.

Has there been more news regarding his condition or do they do this every game?

Why is this a 4pm kick off?

I'm getting annoyed with the situation rather than nervous, such a great opportunity to push on.

Surely most the country hate Liverpool after they made an embarrassment out of the whole PL last season with their racism siege. It's not a city thing though, I like the city, scousers in general and Everton. They hate Liverpool on the Spurs board.