Wullie

I'm going to paint his fucking tombstone black and white when he pops it, the disgusting obese cunt.

I suspect if you took a ten minute television snippet of any game, you could pick out dozens of potential passes that weren't made. That's the difference between watching a game with the benefit of freeze frame from an elevated position and actually having the ball at your feet in the last minute of a Premier League game.

Cannot believe Christmas Tree has just told someone to grow up.

When you're 2-1 up with a minute left and struggling to hang onto possession, the obvious thing to do is to play a speculative attacking pass to an offside striker.

Why give these two idiots the bites they're after?

Example: have a listen to the first ten minutes of the Times podcast this week. Basically a character assassination of Pardew and the general tone is "well I suppose he must be doing something good on the training pitch because the players are shit".

I think it's been a rather fascinating media reaction to how we've performed up to this point. I'm not interested in hearing people fawn over us, it's too early in the day and we all know we'll hit the skids (i.e. lose a match) at some point, almost certainly in two weeks' time, the biggest test will be how we pick ourselves up after a defeat, but the amount of people absolutely falling over themselves to denigrate our modest but still highly impressive achievement is quite sad and certainly a damning indictment of the football media's investment in the status quo - I suspect it's because they like to know exactly what's going to happen so that they can sound like they know what they're talking about. All I've heard about all weekend - on 5Live, on Look North, in print, is how lucky we were to beat Everton yet little mention of Man Utd and Chelsea making bloody hard work of two inferior teams to Everton, no mention of luck coming into play after Spurs took an hour long raping off Fulham, just good old Brad Friedel earning his corn but when Tim Krul does it, it's jammy old Newcastle for the 11th time on the spin. The Guardian podcast last week discussed Liverpool's display at West Brom and how it "showed their title credentials" then in the next sentence said we hadn't played anybody yet! You could go on and on and it probably sounds a bit like the old "media hates us" that every fanbase feels at times but really, some of the coverage has been downright pathetic, much of it toned like we've done something wrong for turning up and winning games. No matter, we'll probably take a kicking at City and the hacks can breathe a sigh of relief that next week they can wax lyrical about David Silva being a great player, as if they're saying something interesting, original or insightful, instead of having to watch or learn about Cabaye or Coloccini, since that might be too much like doing some fucking work. N.B. the most ridiculous snippet I've heard re: maintaining the status quo was in a discussion about the SPL, although I can't remember exactly where I heard it - "When someone other than Celtic or Rangers is in the top two in Scotland, that shows there's serious problems within the Scottish game" - no wonder the game in general is going to hell in a handcart with retarded attitudes like that kicking around.

Cahill's one of the league's most overrated players imo. I can appreciate maybe he's a good footballer but can he defend? No better than any average top flight centre half and worse than a fair number.

Walker's a much better footballer but defensively he's all over the shop just as much as Simpson is. Not including Richards is mind boggling tbh.

Aye could be. Cunt.

I'd actually forgotten about Ferguson.

If memory serves, Ameobi has given away two penalties, one against Arsenal and one against West Ham (someone feel free to correct me) by sticking his arm high in the air when a cross came in and the ball hitting it. Neither were penalties by law, both were blatant in reality. The law should reflect absolute stupidity instead of the ridiculous suggestion of intent.

I've thought for a long time that the handball rule needs looking at, or at least re-wording. Who the fuck, other than Luis Suarez, handles the ball deliberately in their own area? The intent law is ridiculous. Someone on the Guardian podcast last week said that the Norwich penalty when Nzonzi stuck his arm out appealing was the worst decision of the season because of the lack of intent. If you put your arm out in the area and the ball hits it, of course it's a fucking penalty ffs. Personally I reckon Krul would have saved it but I think it was a penalty, not according to the law, however the law as it stands is a farce. I thought we should have had one against Spurs too though when it hit Livermore's arm.

I'm no enormous fan of Simpson but defensively there's little between him and the competition other than Richards. Kyle Walker was absolutely piss poor up here and Glen Johnson is piss poor full stop.

A fourth?!?

Right surely?

I've only seen it once but at first viewing at full speed, I thought he was going to walk for it. Players have been getting sent off for less aggressive tackles on a weekly basis.

Watched it about four times, he's mint.

Staggeringly retarded logic. Maybe we should give Demba Ba away on a free transfer in that case, clever lad.

Going out on loan ffs.

They really don't like Woodgate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Premier_League_hat-tricks