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Back down to a 2. Having a 5 point cushion with only 18 points to play for AND having 4 teams between us, all of which need to pass us, means we only need one more result to confirm it. Beat the mackems and that's that.

I'd much prefer him to deal with an awkward ball like a proper defender rather than attempt the Hollywood shit. Just clear the cunt out.

If our full-backs play well then we'll win. Johnson and McClean will need to be kept quiet but other than that I don't think they've got too much to hurt us. Wickham's a big lad and will be a handfull, Sessegnon's got talent but flits in and out of games. Their CM is really poor and I'd fancy Cisse to ge tthe better of O'Shea and Kilgallon tbh. We should win but you never know.

Certainly was, just read the match report and we had 20 shots, 10 on target (I know, stats don't tell the whole story etc..) compared to their 5 and 3. Was one of those "we are never going to score!" games but sometimes I forget we have Papiss '90+' Cisse Nah, they kept on going for the full 90+. Even when the chances were hitting the woodwork or Schwarzer was tipping them round/over their head's never dropped. Hard work and solid graft can carry you a long way in games like today and we stuck at it. When the board went up and it was a nice big 5 minutes their players seemed to wilt a bit. They were hanging on but couldn't see it out. Fuck them.

Chopped and changed things around in order to break them down and it eventually paid off. I liked the fact he was switching wingers/wide-men a few times too. Santon going off didn't help but throwing 2 strikers on as well as keeping Cisse on proved that he knew they were happy to settle for a point and could take a few risks. More strikers doesn't automatically mean more goals but if you keep the pressure on them and keep getting that ball in the box then you usually get your rewards. The goal was late but it had been coming for half an hour. Fair play to Pardew.

Just for a change, eh?

Hammy's are normally a month. The lad's looked physically fucked at times this season and I'm not surprised he's pulled something. Put this season to bed, learn form it and get him fit and firing for August.

Huge win. Absolutely monumental goal which relieves much of the pressure now for the derby. That goal had been coming though, there was no luck involved in that at all. Fulham had basically packed in playing for the last half an hour and were happy just to cling on and thankfully they couldn't.

Christ we've only won 9 all season.

You sound bitter as fuck tbh. Eh? Bitter about what exactly? I'm merely stating my opinion. No bother. Sounds very much like you've got an axe to grind though.

You sound bitter as fuck tbh.

Ashley going out and paying compensation for a good manager would be the best signing of the summer. The impact a new, tactically-astute manager would have on this squad of players would be immense. We've got some cracking players at this club but Pardew simply can't get the best out of them.

Redknapp will find a way Not this time. They're proper fucked.

Chelsea can't really afford to drop any more home points going for the CL. Don't think they'll go mad and get 4 or 5 but they should win by 2.

He's already missed one red card tackle about 5 minutes ago. He's going to lose control of this if he's not careful. That the Deeney tackle ? He's just useless isn't he. Aye. Aye.

He's already missed one red card tackle about 5 minutes ago. He's going to lose control of this if he's not careful.

Wigan and QPR were both huge games at the time and this one's no different. We won the other 2 when the pressure was really on and we need another performance tomorrow. Don't care how it happens, don't care who scores, just fucking win.

Current scores definitely means the pressure's been cranked up another notch or two. Must must must take 4 points (minimum) from these 2 home games.

How shit is it to be wanting Stoke to win? Was bad enough wanting Liverpool to win last week. Bleurgh.

Summary plz.

Barton's just been brought on for Marseille (v Bordeaux) Crowd immediately started chanting his name.

It's wank like. Looks like a generic 5-a-side kit. Get rid of the badge and Parkside Mencap could play in that.

The away results and performances have been a joke though. Of the 160 teams that make up the top 7 divisions in English football 156 have picked up more points away from home than us. The only teams who've picked up fewer points than us (8) are Droylsden (3), Hinckley (4) and Reading (5). Whatever his gameplans have been away from SJP it's gone horribly, horribly wrong more often than not. It's happened too often to be written off as a coincidence or a fluke. It's an atrocious stat. Obviously I can't argue with the stats, just talking about last night. We were unfortunate last night, we didn't catch a break and were undone by individual errors. But being unable/unwilling to be more aggressive away from home is the reason why we're battling relegation. It's a massive issue.

The away results and performances have been a joke though. Of the 160 teams that make up the top 7 divisions in English football 156 have picked up more points away from home than us. The only teams who've picked up fewer points than us (8) are Droylsden (3), Hinckley (4) and Reading (5). Whatever his gameplans have been away from SJP it's gone horribly, horribly wrong more often than not. It's happened too often to be written off as a coincidence or a fluke. It's an atrocious stat.

Decent summary here: http://www.football365.com/f365-says/8617856/F365-Says