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But that would surely have killed him and everyone else in a 100 yard vicinity.

Please, please, fuck right of with that shit. Disgraceful behaviour today, but almost as disgraceful on the officials side that they let him. But then they have allowed him to get away with his 'mind games' (i.e. blatant cheating) for decades.

If we assume Tiote will be playing DM then that's our 3 in the middle, just remains to be seen whether HBA makes it. If not I would hope for Marveaux out on the left if Cisse is going to be on the right of the front 3. I think i'd prefer Cisse out on the left though (if we're not going to play Ba there) so him and Marv can cut in like we did playing the 4-3-3 last season. Jonas was on the left. Forgot to add that to the post. Left of the front three? He's GOT to be played (shoehorned in) somewhere...

Unfortunately, 4 is the bare minimum that you need to cover the centre back role with the likelyhood of suspensions and injury through the season. Williamson wouldn't be getting half the grief that he is now if he was the number 4 (as he is in reality) and was played sparingly. The fact that on 1st February we had just two recognised central defenders was laughable, but after seeing how stretched we were in that position last season, going into September with no reinforcments in that position was moronic.

1-6 to match our current run of form in the league.

Wonder if France will be excluded from this horseshit then? http://en.tengrinews.kz/userdata/000_Par7003058.jpg 'Non!'

He's spent the past month or so blaming injuries and extra competitive games to try and protect the players and himself from criticism from the media for the appalling perfomances that they have been putting in week in, week out. If he has actually come out and blamed the fringe players and youngsters in the public forum for yet another garbage perfomance, not unlike just about every match this season so far, the bell-end really deserves a kick up the arse.

Wouldn't get either for how much his value must have fallen this year and even if we got the magic £20 million I wouldn't bet on either of these, or indeed anyone coming in during the next transfer window. Would just be misrepresented as agent and signing on fees and wages for existing players for the next two windows.

A couple of years ago having Tiote taken off at half time would have been unthinkable - tonight it was a relief. He was going to be the ref's best option to 'even it up' and unless it was an injury was actually an astute move from Pardew.

Same here. Still, on paper it's the best we could put out there. Wanky shite football clichés.

Pretty much to be brutally honest. It's a few years ago but were the relegation team playing as shit as this? It's not even like it's been just this month in terms of the football being played, but we've been playing absolute bollocks from the first minute of the season up until the 94th minute here tonight.

The Ashley debate has got to the point where it has became pointless and there was nothing left to offer - we in the corner of disliking the man have mostly come to accept that he's currently here to stay, doesn't give a shit what the fans think and every transfer window will end in disappointment with a lopsided squad that's threadbare in talent.

To be honest Dave 25 points is normally what I'd be hoping for as a base by Christmas to be mid-table or higher. At the minute the way we're playing I can't see us moving off 14 (the likelyhood is that we'll end up nicking one or two wins somewhere down the line though).

Relentlessly. ... in the face. Two awful teams. Stoke may have been mostly scraping 1-0s but our defensive frailties are going to get badly exposed here. If Patrice Evra can score a headed goal against us then thier team of giants are going the enjoy themselves. Lots - Nil.

4 - 0. Couple more injuries and maybe a red card or two. Can't see where the next point in the league is coming from, never mind a win.

Injuries, short on the bench, injuries to blame, result only important thing and have apparently been excellent in the tournament (although in reality we've been average in a fairly weak group). Players coming back for this Sunday though (I think he means Jonas and Tiote) so everything's rosy. Same old wank on the field and out of his mouth.

Unfortunately for us that's where Pardew get's his tactical advice from and Ashley his player valuations.

Absolute dog shit. Utter utter fucking bollocks. Another game where we've fortuitously went ahead, stopped 'playing' and been hanging on at the end. Worrying.

Wonder how many of those corners have hit the first defender as well. Isn't it an average of around 1 goal per 90 corners for an average team?

It's hard to sort out when he's the root cause of a lot of the problems.

Unfortunately at the minute it's looking like he was on a good run of form last season. Sorry, but was just waiting for someone to post that fucking cliche'.

Excellent strike (from Anita). And Shola's just scored while I was typing. Hope it doesn't change anything about Pardew's half-time talk as they still need a kick up the arse from that first half though.

Needs to get the hook at half time.

Was a decent touch from the goofy cunt but the wank-fest is cringeworthy. May have been the best goal in this game IF we hadn't scored as well. Was just a typical bog standard goal that you'll see week in week out at any level of the game really.

What a crock of shit. Typically shit coverage from the BBC bell ends in the studio. Even Guy Mowbray in his commentary thought it was harsh. Missed the unpunished high-foot in their round up as well.