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If our defence is fully restored I'd back us to bounce back. Should start Shola and then introduce Ameobi 2.0 in the second half for maximum slaying.

It normally takes him about 5 or 6 games to get back to beast standard after an injury.

I wasn't. come off it, if we had scored 4 he would have disallowed all of them. Well we did score one which he didn't give.

There'll be no media fuss about it either and no further punishment.

And that's the bottom line cos Stone Cold ET said so.

He was ok today in spells.

Shows how corrupt the FA are that he keeps getting Man Utd games.

Thought he was a positive today. No way Pardew will stick with him though.

Absolutely awful today. Jermaine Jenas (circa 2004) like. Still think he will come good but that was a hell of a stinker.

I miss last season

After a ludicrous decision from Webb to be fair. Not that I condone his petulance.

Really wish someone would knock all of Van Persie's teeth out. Nothing worse than his evil grin.

I hope Pardew noted their set pieces. Maybe we can use one in future.

Woah. A positive team selection

Wonga! 4 Minute Loop

Will they put up a huge picture of that fat cunt next to the stadium name? We know how Ashley likes to 'decorate' our beautiful stadium with tat.

I guess in situations like this you can only laugh...

No matter how shit they are they'll raise their game against us as it's one of the only 2 fixtures that matter to them.

Enrique used to make up for a lot of his short comings but without someone who can whip balls in overlapping him he's a bit useless as a winger. We will need him against Man Utd though.

It was their full strength team.

Be mad not to play Jonas in this one.

He's not dumb and ugly though.

Best game for us so far.

Knew when I saw him against Chelsea in the 4-3 that he was a good player. Hopefully we will start to see a lot more of him.