Belfast Boy

Keep them out till half time and I fancy us to win this in the second half, can't play as bad as the first 35mins anyway

Cabella losing the ball when Janmaat has overlapped ahead of him. He needs to learn to play a simple ball sometimes

Williamson is there, what did you expect?

Those "1st team" patches on the coaching staffs coats, look like plastic stickers

I rate Sammy, fancy him for an assist or two today

Playing in grey

santon, gouffran, obertan, riviere, cisse, abeid

Worrying what the thinking may be if either of the CBs have to go off today, its not like Anita or Colback could drop back in and I dont see either fullback playing there either. I suppose Janmaat is the only option with Anita to RB and Abeid into midfield?

Anita Colback Sissoko Cabella Ameobi Perez Is that the sort of formation?

Other than Abeid starting thats as good as we had available, only on defender on the bench (Santon) shows how limited the options are at the moment. Its like they dont expect any of the back four to get injured or suspended as soon as the window closes.

Google maps puts it as 418.6km

Bloke who works for Sky is hardly random. Is it not a fake account?

This is just still on one random twitter account right? its surely not actually happening?

1968 - http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=1968/matches/round=175/match=3938/postmatch/report/index.html I had thought I remembered a story that the first time the coin was tossed it landed on it's side in the mud but apparently not

So what happens to the seat for the suspended game? Do they sell them as a one off?

Obertan back playing too

It shows how bad our coaches are that there hasn't even been a hint of any of them being sought after by Palace

Completely unsurprising news but the worst part of it all is that he will clearly get the job in the summer providing he does "OK". That means more months of not being able to just watch the game and want us to win. Before Pardew left I would imagine we already had the smallest background staff out of the whole league. I doubt there has been any consideration of bringing another coach in now. Even worse, should he upset Ashley in any way and leave before the summer, then I have no doubt Beardsley would then step up and we would be yet another body down on the coaching staff.

Awful strips but they also make a mockery of our whole patch on the back for numbers, they have strips just for the number!

I did this last year and to be honest I just felt bad, knowing what I am putting them through for the rest of their life.

I take it BT internet customers will be losing our free BT Sports once this starts then

Unfortunately it seems De Jong is another player best played behind a "hold it up" front man. If we aren't going to buy one of them, I can't see what formation he, or Perez, would be best suited in.

Assuming we make no signings I'd take a fit Jonas over Gouffran for the rest of the season (as a sub that is)

When the big clubs like Swansea come calling you can't expect us to keep hold of our better players. I for one will be proud to watch him in Wales.....

Jesus, Ryder literally gets everything from here doesn't he