Skeletor

"You've got to make those kind of tackles" - Lee Dixon

Also I request that Nicky Butt is never a pundit for one of our matches again. The guy is like an unlucky charm.

Gung ho to me is like Keegan's entertainers team. All out attack whether it was home or away.

Tiote and Jonas at full back isnt gung ho? Nope.

It seems to be the way though. Cunty players often cripple (or try to RE: Henry) our players and it gets brushed under the carpet and we're told "So and so isn't like that. He's a good lad." Then eventually after they damage other players people start to open their fucking eyes.

There's nothing gung ho about the way we play. We play nice possession football, whilst rarely creating chances.

It's this kind of attitude from the media that will allow these things to keep happening on a more regular basis.

The topic of the increasing number of broken legs/damaged ligaments from wreckless tackles seems to be being discussed on a few fan forums today. It's not just us.

If someone stabbed him in the back repeatedly with a pair of scissors to the point of paralysis that would also be acceptable.

As long as it was permanent and he never recovered from it and could never play again then yes.

It always surprises me how often centre-backs get into goalscoring positions but head them over. I guess they concentrate so much on heading the ball up and away that they simply can't help themselves when required to head it down. Considering the number of set pieces in matches I wonder why more emphasis isn't put on them scoring. Probably wasn't anticipating Barton putting in a good corner tbf.

Definitely, was one of the reasons we did well today. No more hoofing nonsense, please. In the last two games when we've had Ameobi and Carroll on at the same time the team seem to stop playing and just lump balls at them.

And if you can shoe horn Atkinson and Attwell onto that plane the better.

Maybe it was just because I was younger but back in the 90s I don't remember the refs all being so consistently shit. Not on this scale anyway.

That's what makes me nervous. We don't seem to do well when the expectation is on us to win. If they sit behind the ball we won't break them down.

I wanted him to dish out a Mortal Kombat fatality.

Tried to do it to Tiote at the end as well and then Tiote squared up to him and De Jong cowered like a little bitch.

Shane Ferguson looks to have a good cross. Doubt he'll get any league games this season barring an injury catastrophe.

How long is he out for?

Going too far. Although I would happily watch someone else stab Martin Atkinson and then wave play on instead of calling the police. And have the people in the street congratulate them on their knife technique.

Home game against a relegation rival. Nailed on loss. Trying to stay optimistic but well it's hard at the moment.

I worry because we seem to have very little attacking threat. We play the ball around nicely, can dominate possession but then we just have no way to make any use of it all.

That's kinda like saying Nolan CAN be a threat to teams by scoring goals. It doesn't really mean a hell of a lot if they're rarely doing it.

Seriousl? I thought he was alright last week, was caught out of position time and time again today, also missed a couple of simple challanges. He was far from alright last week.

Martin Atkinson: "Get up Alonso, you poof"