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Un-fucking-believable.

His face looks like someone's set about a scrotum with a scalpel.

Be funny as fuck if someone reported it.

Think the stickers are Paul Bracewell, Peytar Reid, Derek Mountfield and I think it's Pat van den Hauwe with the jaw.

I expect to lose. I hope I'm wrong.

I'd be absolutely fine with him sitting in front of the CBs and not contributing anything in the final third. If that's his role then the onus is on someone else to create and score, it's the fact that's his role and he does it poorly imo. He provides no protection to the defence and can't help out at the sharp end either. It's the worst of both worlds with him.

We gave this bloke away. We did't sell him on, we gave him away for nothing.

Prefer Gouffran. Works harder.

The players looked like they enjoyed it today. First time in ages they were all smiling and happy, seemingly enjoying playing football and scoring goals. Far too often they look like they've just finished a shift in the salt-mines.

Still offers absolutely nothing in any area of the field. In a game is which we score 6 the only memorable thing this fucker does is to block a shot. It's embarrassing.

Still got no faith in us to have a go at them like we attacked Norwich today. Like Mick said, if we actually summon the bollocks up to have a real go at them then we've got a chance of outscoring them. We go behind early and I think we'll fold again. We're not resilient enough to come from behind and get something.

Nice to see the inter-play and link-up's between the front 5 or 6. Also nice to see the players still wanting to score that 7th goal even though we'd already notched 6 they still wanted to flood forward and attack. Still look far too brittle at the back and Colcack*/Tiote give no protection to the CBs. * this was a genuine typo but I'm leaving it in.

They're just trying to make it the best programme, pound for pound, in the premier league.

I really believe there’s a win around the corner. We don’t quite know where, but once it happens and we get the monkey off our backs and the shackles are released, this team will really move forward. #wait

40 points would allow us to board the roller-coaster for another year in "the quest for 40". Let's just get 40 points every year, it'll be fucking mint.

“If somebody said: ‘You’ll have 40 points by mid-April’, I’d take it,” said McClaren as he prepared for Sunday’s vital home against Norwich. “I think people would think I’d gone absolutely crazy if I turned that down. The most important thing for us is to get to 40 points. Especially with the new television deal, that has to be the absolute priority. It’s the same for 10 or 11 other clubs. It’s always the same; at Middlesbrough we used to have massive parties when we got to 40 points.” “I’m here to help this football club go forward and my opinions on that have been voiced from day one,” said McClaren, who will be without his injured goalkeeper Tim Krul for the remainder of the campaign. “Everybody knows. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes, a lot of discussions and forward planning. I’m sitting there and saying: ‘You know what – we need to do this, and we need to do that.’ The next window is very important for this club.” “We’re getting little setbacks that are causing us to disintegrate,” he said. “They’re shattering the confidence and belief. We need to address that, but I really believe there’s a win around the corner. We don’t quite know where, but once it happens and we get the monkey off our backs and the shackles are released, this team will really move forward.” He's done. It's over. These are the ramblings of a man who knows he's not up to it, he's bitten off far more than he's able to chew. 16th October and 8 games in and that's just about that folks.

That's not real. That can't be real. Please tell me he's not actually said that...

Not sure if he's lost the plot entirely yet but he's certainly mis-placed it.

Just think of all of those miserable wives who are going to have to get used to spending time with their disenchanted husbands.

He's not suing them for breach of contract though, it's disability discrimination so they could well have adhered to the contract. Reading between the lines, always dangerous, it's the fact they binned him almost as soon as he had the op. As in, "we've kept it quiet, quick, find yourself another club before it returns and/or you die mate. Cheers bro." We're run by despicable people. Remember Derek 'you guys don't know how fucking horrible we can be' Llambias?

If anyone needs their memories jogging as to how this all started with his interviews/tweets etc go back to p289.

Hope he sings like a bird. Tell it as it happened please.

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Van Persie!!! Took it well actually.