pedro111

To all Benfica fans worrying about lineups and the fact you may have 3/4 first team players on the bench. We will play our strongest available lineup but this however will be far from our strongest team. We will be without Ben Arfa, Colocinni, Debuchy, Gouffran and maybe Krul and god knows who else that will most likely get injured before we play you.

They had a full block with stewards around them, I guess it was team friends/family? ESPN said it was their owner, his family friends bodyguards and hangers on.

In the riding a bike whilst eating an apple race?

Did you miss him absolutely tear Cole apart on his home debut? Nah I saw it mate, but he had a head of steam up while Cole had near enough a dead start iirc. This one today made me rock back in my chair!

Was class second half. Did anyone see that burst of pace from him second half when he chested it down and ran into the space towards their box? Fuck me I didnt realise he was that quick!

Really, really good second half. Neat, tidy, some belta balls out wide for Gouffran and Sissoko and a thunderous shot.

Lets fucking hammer the cunts!

I thought Sissoko could have played Cisse in a couple of times in that second half but he decided to go on himself. The lack of game time for Marveaux is really annoying as this guy has the class to play a killer ball. He should have been on about the 65 minute mark at least.

Yeah good point. Imagine how West Brom fans felt when that ball went in off Cisse's backside. Yeah but what has any of that got to do with todays result? We all know we fluked those games.

4 for Jonas is very harsh. Won't argue about the rest. Debuchy 5? Bit harsh like. Was very good going forward.

Thing is, we did hit the barn door a few times but their keeper made a couple of decent saves. Thinking Cabaye and more specifically Sissoko. But yes, Cisse and Gouffran should have hit the target.

And yet his sub & the subsequent moving of Michu back in to midfield changed ended up changing the game in their favour and allowed them to see out the win. Not that I think Pardew did owt wrong today, maybe could have made changes but we were in the ascendency so that would be reactionary/hindsight loaded guff from me. Nah, good points mate. I take what your saying about Michu but it all happened in minutes. The goal knocked the stuffing out of us tbf. Any way anyone wants to look at it, they got lucky.

Bollocks. We deserved at least a point. We deserved 3 in truth considering we were the away side. Read the fucking post Woah, calm down man ffs. I read your post. Just disagreeing with you. Considering we were the away team and on the balance of play we did not deserve to lose.

As far as I could see, Laudrup had ran out of ideas and just sat there stony faced. His team were going to scrape a draw then they fluke a winner. Pardew if anything won the battle of the managers.

Like most games, he was isolated for large parts. Was decent in possesion.

Bollocks. We deserved at least a point. We deserved 3 in truth considering we were the away side.

That spell midway through the second half where we bossed them was the best we have played this season.

We were robbed. Should have won. Sissoko, Debuchy and Taylor all class.

I think it was his back chat more than anything that got Tiote booked. Ref looked like he was just going to give him a ticking off until the lip service.

Is it Gary Birtles? Brian Little I think, i think he is a Newcastle fan doing his best to be unbiased Always seems to dislike us I have often thought.

Definetely,

Silly, silly fucking bookings.

Just got the letter about the renewal for next year on the 9 year scheme. It doesn't tell me how much it costs overall and I can't remember how much I paid last year. So does anyone know the exact amount for a seat in the Gallowgate and how many monthly payments there will be? Cheers

Serious? Worst atmosphere in a long long time today. Did you go to the Reading game? Yep, both were terrible.

It's brilliant having a proper right back like. Love it when he controls it on his chest on the edge of our box and dribbles it forward.