Wullie

Still no Ashley Young but Jenas is still getting in?

What nonsense. You weren't sitting next to me against Bolton were you? Some clown described Warnock as "a fucking amazing player" Did you see him for West Ham's fourth goal yesterday? Some people just think the grass is always greener when it isn't.

What nonsense.

Duff heard me calling him shit at Hartlepool and scored a hat trick so that's bollocks Indi.

Indeed. We need, at the very least, two players by Monday night who will walk into the first team and immediately improve it. That doesn't necessarily mean spending money (Jonas) but it's generally a pretty good indicator. The time for scouting and picking up cheap quality is gone and if we have to break the bank on Monday, so be it. No excuses.

It wasn't even the fact that he got in the way of Owen's shot, that happens to the best players (seem to remember Keane blocking a Torres tap in at the SOS a fortnight ago), it was the way he went about the game. He's always had a lackadaisical style but he genuinely looked totally disinterested today. Loads of times he lost the ball, jogged two paces after the player then stopped, compared to Jonas who was easily robbed down by the corner flag then sprinted back to the half-way line and won the ball back. I can live with that sort of thing if he did anything with the ball when he had it but he looks a much worse player than he did two or three years ago, alarmingly so. Frightening that him and Smith together are draining nearly £100k a week out of the coffers and neither can kick a ball properly.

I fail to see how saying that Ameobi was shite (which he was) is "not supporting the club." I'm not as much of a soopafan as Kev though so I might have missed the point.

Indeed. Someone must take the blame if we don't get what we need but I'm not so sure it's Ashley.

Owen's shot clearly deflects off Shola, indi. Not a lot but enough to take it away from the bottom corner Owen was aiming for.

At the end of the day, if the team were doing well and we'd spent £100m, no-one would care. It's just a stick to beat him with. I wouldn't enjoy sitting in the box alongside a bunch of boring corporate fuckers with no passion or interest in the game either. Good luck to him.

The one cameraman who was told to sit and watch Ashley for 90 minutes must have been pretty fucking bored.

He'd have had an assist if Ameobi hadn't been doing some last ditch Arsenal defending.

mate. honestly i'm pissed, but i'm so pissed off at the two lads who started on me at the match (supposed to be toon fans) for singing there's only one joey barton. so pissed off Oh were you at the match?

Wullie. Fuck the fuck off See? Not so difficult to post without including boasting that you attended a football match is it? prick. Gan to bed man.

Wullie. Fuck the fuck off See? Not so difficult to post without including boasting that you attended a football match is it?

Yes, Nobby. We get it. You were at the game. We get it. Give it a rest. Jesus wept.

The real question is why he had a pint - do they typically let you drink in the stands at the Emirates?

What the fuck was Warnock doing for that fourth goal? Grass is always greener I don't think.

Other than his failure to track Eboue for the second goal, which I hope he got a bollocking for, I felt quite sorry for Guthrie. Picked up the ball loads and had to keep skipping past players and playing one twos just to try and find someone in a bit of space. Butt desperately needs replacing before the window shuts.

Says who?

Not sold, he was released months ago.

All tomorrow.

I'd rather get hammered off Arsenal at the Emirates than at West Ham or at home to Pompey - I know which club will be in CRISIS in tomorrow's chip wrappers though.

Joey Barton: Dirty challenge was his only contribution.