James

Great!

Anyone remember when we photoshopped Luque in?

To be fair to the FA, they tried doing Essien for a hard tackle the ref had incorrectly down in his report as a fair tackle, and FIFA threatened them with all sorts of sanctions. Sadly the FA are tied down by FIFA who have no sense. If Newcastle want some justice, they will have to take the legal route. That was almost 5 years ago that FIFA wouldn't allow the FA to take action, I think they might think again after what De Jong had done recently. It wouldn't hurt the FA if they referred this to FIFA to test the water. As has been mnetioned, FIFA didn't stop the FA when they charged Ben Thatcher after only originally being shown a yellow card. I'm sure that the Thatcher ban came after the Essien tackle. Just seen this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9071151.stm

Think he was injured when he would have had a chance to play. Seems quite an injury prone player unfortunately.

To be fair to the FA, they tried doing Essien for a hard tackle the ref had incorrectly down in his report as a fair tackle, and FIFA threatened them with all sorts of sanctions. Sadly the FA are tied down by FIFA who have no sense. If Newcastle want some justice, they will have to take the legal route.

The content is in a post you made I think. No it is the photo. You've just got B68 typed into your post.

The content is in a post you made I think.

I wouldn't mind playing for them, would you give your mate a call and see if they'd have me? Thanks.

That is my suspicion too.

To be honest if I was manager on Sunday, I would have performed a citizens arrest on de Jong and Atkinson during the match.

Speaks volumes that the Dutch manager will drop a first team player over this, yet the FA do Fuck All.

Roeder made Shola play despite him having a serious career threatening injury that needed an operation.

Pretty nasty injury he had though, probably won't see the best of him until Ben Arfa is back.

Anyone else hear that the ref told Ben Arfa to stop play acting?

Atrocious, no more, no less.

He's their asset. They might recall him so they can, in their opinion, give him the best care and rehab. I think that because we paid for the loan we have rights on this one.

He's still got it. Our rivals will be disappointed they didn't go for him come the end of the season. And I'll be bold and say he'll still be playing for us in the PL in 2012.

Krul - 7 - his best PL game so far Ali Fumaca Dia - 3 - What a plank Colo - 7 - Calm Williamson - 6 - Solid Campbell - 7 - Talent remains, physique still good enough Enrique - 6 - Poor by his high standards Ben Arfa - n/a - Sorry Routledge - 2 - Nothing Tiote - 9 - Beast Barton - 6 - Did nothing wrong Jonas - 9 - Best game for us Nolan - 3 - Defended him when in form, but now he isn't. Shola - 6 - Rightly given place in the team, but in place of wrong player Carroll - n/a

Doesn't mean we can't. Just means we don't have to. We'll be able to monitor his fitness, send a cheap bid to Marseille, and watch how no-one else is interested because of fitness question marks.

you'd rather he started shit ? Nah, just remember how some people loved Scott Parker for playing the exact same way then quickly became fed up for playing the same way and not trying forward passes. Tiote brings the ball forward really well. There was one instance when he just ran through the centre of the pitch over a distance of 30 yards, playing three or four one twos before setting Shola off.

If he continues his performances against everton, stoke and man city for another 25 games I'd say he'd be the most talented player we've had since Shearer retired.

Perch is such a plank.

Keep Shola, he is making Man City defenders work which is stopping them playing it out of defence easily. Carroll does need to come on though.

still think we can do better. There is good stomach in this team, but I think the manager does need more stomach.

Groin injury. He could have probably carried on but we were playing safe.