Benwell Lad

:lol: Now reaching new levels of straw clutching with "our gigs are better than their gigs anyway". NETG marra, FTM.

"A small number of supporters also ran on to the pitch at the Riverside, apparently approaching Boro player Justin Hoyte" - seems almost endemic with them, wanting to run on the pitch and confront players in derby matches.

"Alarm cords were pulled and some fans urinated on the floors" - just as well Gus wasn't with them !

That is absurd, there is a strange sort of primitive obsession with skin colour with some people in the north east, like it is some form of novelty. north east ? No more so, and probably even less, than some other parts of the country/world at large.

It just has to be Anita doing Cabaye's stuff, HBA in a free no. 10 roll and the rest the same. Please.

I'd take that if offered right now, though I hope for something slightly better. The two sides are very well matched and it could go either way. Potentially a very good game indeed.

Dunno, but we may find out shortly. Anyway from what I read above (the Journal stuff) it says that it's the "nationals" and applies to player interviews. That would imply that normal match reports, press conferences, releases etc are not included. As you say we may not be world beaters, but the media interest in NUFC remains very high indeed, we sell papers and people like hearing about us, so the club probably view this interest as some kind of saleable asset. I guess it's the way entertainment and media works in the 21st century.

So the Murdochs, Viscount Rothermere, Richard Desmond, the Barclay brothers and other assorted billionaires running media empires will now be expected to cough up for some of their juiciest and most popular material. They gladly pay X-Factor wanabees and all types of scallywags for "exclusives" but expect free access to footballers' lives and views? Surprised it's taken until now for clubs to cotton on to this and I doubt we'll be the only big club thinking this way.

I think the 5-1 fried a circuit in his brain. Think he'd made some post the day before the match which was extremely quotable with hindsight and after having that nonchalantly waved in his face a few times he snapped. Also worth pointing out that this resignation to their miserable plight and realisation that they are indeed "like a bad smell" may just be a blip. They are only ever a couple of wins away from unbridled optimism and the latest managerial messiah. The zenith of their cyclical optimism and delusion normally occurs around June/July as they set another transfer window alight making their rivals green with envy. There have been many occasions during that 7 year period that they have been only too willing to give it large and strut around like a dog with two dicks and it will be around again sometime.

Don't they ALL shit on floors ?

You fucking what? Are we talking about the same flare throwing, bus bricking, pitch invading, coin chucking, keeper punching rabid apes? The sanctimonious piety of macums is matched only by their blind defiance and persecution complex. Strange people.

High praise indeed from Tom Davidson's very credible tactical analysis blog. STAR PLAYER Tiote misses out by a whisker but Debuchy deserves all the plaudits for a truly sensational 83 minutes. Scarcely caught out of position despite going forward so much, this was a performance a la Dani Alves for Barcelona.

Gouff for me like.

Aye, days like that make it all worthwhile

To think they signed about 14 players in the summer and we got Remy on loan Thing is they're demanding another influx in January. No doubt more ridiculously overpriced dross - will they ever learn? From the outside it looks like they could be in serious financial bother if they are relegated.

og is their top scorer. Bardsley is second.

Some debate over Krul then? Nah, you know what I really mean - first names on the team sheet every time for me.

Yup. Have to go a long way back to remember us having a RB this good.

With a fully fit squad it's still Colo, Cabaye and nine others for me. Different class still.

As the ball went behind for that final corner thinking yesss that's it we've done it!

14 games. With only 14 games to go (8 at home and 9 away) minus the parachute payment co-efficient (2.6 games in lieu) and bearing in mind they've already played 17 games which deducted from 38 makes 24....that makes an average of 5.434343 recurring points per game required. I think West Ham managed it in 1998 marra. No way marra we're not going down. We only need 1.5666 recurring points per game and all our remaining games are really easy and everyrone else's are really difficult. All the players are right behind Poyet and he's got us playing brilliant stuff. If we keep Brown fit he can keep us up single handed and Altidore's on a roll now as well. Ellis will buy us another 5 top quality players in January so we'll probably finish mid table. All aboard the Gus bus! Quinny's a legend. FTM.

Aye, we've suffered a bit at Old Trafford since then mate, made today all the more sweeter for us seniors. Pat Howard

May not be POTY but one of the funniest.

Crazy though that sounds no English CB is playing better right now.

It's already been said but he did a near perfect job today. His sub calls baffled me on Wednesday, although being robbed of Cisse and HBA probably contributed to that.