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I have to say, their list of "10 great matches" at the side is a bit uninspiring. Chris Kamara's going to be sent to cover most of them.

Saw a pic of Gerrard leaving his house in one of the tabloids today and he looked like Ian Huntley.

And Redknapp would have struck me as another McClaren appointment

Certainly a favourite amongst my mates. We entertain ourselves on the way to matches by inventing chuck norris style facts about his greatness.

Looks like he's in the middle of a mid-air haka.

Be interested to see the Sun back page tomorrow after what utter fucking shitcunts they were about us today, wont hold my breath though! Great performance, we were the better team overall for 90 minutes, although it could have gone either way. Smith was great and I was disappointed when he was dropped into midfield because it gave the impression Sam was wanting to slow the game down and go for the point when we'd looked perfectly comfortable attacking and going forward - although taking of Geremi was probably the right choice. After the match I bumped into an Arsenal mate of mine who was very complimentary about us. Even after going 1-0 down the crowd got behind the lads because we were looking hungry and playing well, which should be noted by people who think we just boo and sit in silence unless we're 2-0 up in the first 20 minutes. At full time everyone looked fucking knackered and I think that's the first time I've seen that all season - long may it continue! Bring on the fucking brum, reckon we're going to stuff those little cunts, howay!

For some reason I think a win or a loss is more likely than a draw.

If we lose this Sam becomes the first Newcastle manager to lose three straight home matches in the Premier League.

Can't overstate what an unusually high contingent of knuckle dragging arseholes Stoke have got. When I was living there you'd sometimes go into town on a Saturday afternoon and find the shutters down on all the shops and their version of Eldon Square in lockdown because Stoke had lost an away match and the dickheads who'd been watching it in the pubs had gone on the rampage.

Just got back, watched it on dodgy satellite in a pub then went out drinking all night. I have to say, even though we lost we showed something that's been missing recently, fucking bite. Even after we'd conceded, we looked like we might get something, which is a change. I fully expected us to fold after they went ahead. But we went down to two Bentley goals that were unstoppable and one soft goal that was understandable cos we were trying to get back into the match. Even though it was another nil point, I feel much more positive than I did after the last match.

If Arsenal go out there and are greeted by those sort of tactics they'll put 7 or 8 past us.

Fabregas is doubtful for today, but he's got two games this gameweek. Seeing as the second one is against us, I'm going to leave him in. If he's out for both games it doesn't matter, my reading defender will come in with his Boro clean sheet points.

Or we might be the backlash For years now when a team has been having a tough time of things and need a boost we seem to be the ones to come along and give it to them.

Redknapp reckons the events of the past week have damaged his chances of getting the Eng;and job. I think events of the last decade have probably had more of an impact...

£5m. Wait, are we talking transfer funds or payoff?

Well you're shit out of luck, you should have gone somewhere else.

The booing at the substitutions was fucking loud by SJP standards like. Completely audible chants of "Big Sam for England", and a "Wheeeeey!" and applause when we heard what the scousers were singing about him. Had to laugh at "One shot, we've only had one shot" then about 10minutes later when Martins sent a wayward effort over the bar "Two shots, we've only had two shots". Had to laugh or you'd cry at that point... Did seem like people were streaming out after the goal but it must have just been a small amount of people leaving in a very short time cos you couldn't see any gaps after that, still full of unfortunate punters till pretty much the death.

I can't wait to see what bizarre tactic or selection we're in for. I'm going to plump for two of my favourites recently, "hoof the ball up to a midget" for tactics and "Milner on the left/Zog on the right." for selection.

Fine by me, let him get his feet wet with England to see if he's good enough for the top job

Just got back. That has worn my patience very fucking thin with Sam like. Not read the thread but I'm going to say what I imagine everyone else has already said. Started without Milner and so got royally bumraped down the right. Took off Emre, the only player we had on the park who had the slightest hint of looking like doing anything. Finally brought on Milner, but obviously Sam had got bored of being raped down the right and thought we'd like the refreshing change of being raped down the left and took off Zog. The Guests of Collingwood Insurance had obviously had too much free beer and were taking the piss, as usual. Smith and Geremi must have something on Sam, maybe pictures of him snorting coke off a ladyboy or something. A cynical team like Arsenal or Man U would have put 7 or 8 past us today and we're lucky to escape with just a 3-Nowt hiding. Not looking forward to facing the Gooners like. EDIT: Oh, and Carr at left back.

native american shurely ? please excuse my total political incorrectness Think he was more of a Cherokee I think that more than anything is my abiding memory of my formative years in the benches and paddocks. The sheer randomness to suddenly hear the hollering. We called him Tonto. Didn't hear him for a few years then he suddenly reappeared at an away match about 10 years ago if I recall.

Pulled out at the last minute, snapped his vocal chords ordering a taxi.

Dunno if they showed it on telly but there was a bit of a pitch invasion in the corner when they scored. Ten or so mackems got various distances onto the pitch, hugging the players etc.

Very much like when you've got a dashboard camera in a rally car and it flips over. GROUNDSKYGROUNDSKYGROUNDSKYTOONSHIRTSKYSCREAMINGFACEGROUNDSKY and then seeing my mate who was sitting one row in front and about ten seats down coming bounding over people to grab me. I somehow lost some skin off one of my knuckles and I've got a sore forearm still, possibly from wacking the yorkshire lass with bright red hair who was sitting next to me in the face.

Could of bricks lobbed at our coach, but they hit the side and not the windows. That just reminded me of the "Fuck off the Pennywell" chant at the end