Wullie

Total Sport tonight will be like a meeting of the Alan Pardew Official Fan Club.

He still garners an extraordinary amount of support.

I really really dislike him.

There'll be lots of rabble rousing from players and manager this week. They want their bonus and will attempt to emotionally blackmail the fans into getting behind the team to get it. Scummy cunts.

Our cup final. Let's hope we go in with the same half-arsed attitude last time we played them in the cup in that case.

The press were the same with Steve Kean, I remember being on the way to an away game listening to furious Blackburn fans ringing the BBC demanding to know why they were staunchly defending him. It comes down to two things imo. They want to be seen to provide balance (this is true of something like Total Sport). Except it's not balance, because if you have two pro callers and two anti callers, that's not doing anything other than providing idiots with far more coverage than they deserve. And none of them want to be seen to be saying "this person should lose their job" because they know that at some point, they'll probably end up sat next to them for some TV coverage or other. Very commendable, unfortunately it makes them not fit for purpose.

They've already got the Liverpool score right.

We'll do them and it'll be like nothing ever happened.

He's headbutted a player, and nearly gotten us relegated. In the eyes of the world's press, he has come out of both looking extremely good because a) his absence damaged us and b) look how well we've done this season, 'tis a marvellous miracle!

I find that astonishing tbh. He's always been a cunt.

The press won't ever turn on him, he could lose every single match in a season and he's "got his hands tied" The minute he gets the bullet, they'll say it was the right decision. Always the same, for every club. Old boys club.

Gary Neville's your classic pundit. Talks a good game until he gets onto a subject that you actually know something about, then you realise it's utter bullshit. I suspect every fan thinks "aye he's really good, knows nowt about my club though" Knows nowt about any of them.

Like printing money. Pardew in!

Absolutely nowt on the telly that I can hear like, but I'm glad to hear they're going. Have the banners been confiscated?

Absolute fucking garbage. I love how the commentators sound so shocked. "They've just looked awful in everything they do, Newcastle?!?" Er yeah. It's always like this lads.

"Without their manager, without their manager" Only this slippery cunt could stick the nut on someone and somehow end up looking better for it.

If 2011-12 has taught me anything, it's that the correct response to seeing Obertan over Ben Arfa is "he's played a blinder with Hatem there".

Never mind that shit, what's the Arsenal team? There's money on this.

26 Krul 02 Coloccini 06 Williamson 12 Simpson 14 Perch 04 Nolan 07 Barton 10 Routledge 17 Smith 11 Lovenkrands 20 Best Poor bairns.

FGS or anytime?

Done pretty much this as well but with a quid on 5-0 and 6-0 to boot.

Aye, loads of injuries too. [/pards]

Neil, what's the preference amongst your average Toffee? Assuming we get creamed tomorrow night (which we will), try and beat Man City as normal or lie the fuck down?

You should do one with him coming through the door like Jack Nicholson.