Benwell Lad

Anyone that ugly is bound to have a chip on their shoulder. He's bigging it up about "being there" and "being in the tunnel", if the charvers are out of bed early enough on Sunday I'm sure he'll get the welcome to SJP treatment, after his mouthing off

Agree, but the Damage is done for the Haters, they are not for turning. If he does that on thursday no one in their right mind will be complaining. Despite the different scores, Thursday night is not a lot different to the Anji game, i.e. if the opposition score we're probably fucked. In fairness to Pardew he did very well that night when up against one of European football's grand masters.

See the bookies have them at 11/8 third favourites to go down after Reading and QPR. Not surprising but must be very worrying for them nonetheless.

That's exactly what it was, just handbags really. Happened about 20 yards from me, just 2 blokes who'd had some words with each other after 30 minutes, pointing at each other about something then one of them obviously sees the other one in the crowd and wanders over to him right at the start of the second half and starts some pushing and shoving. Nearest steward couldn't deal with it and it went on for 20 seconds until they both got thrown out I think. Nowt to it really. So not really up there with Leazes End battles of days gone by, such as BLAB versus DBAB etc etc

We lost 2-0 away at Anderlecht in the early 70s, got to 3-0 in the second leg at SJP only to concede a last minute goal and go out, iirc. Painful.

Some good points in there.

Loads of Dutch fellas at the match yesterday, some in Ajax Shirts with flags etc, seems to be becoming quite a regular thing.

Have we really played more European matches at the Stadium of Light than they have ? Amazing.

For Hillsborough? Thatcher's dead They surely wouldn't be so daft... Would they?... Wouldn't think so. Paying our "respects" to one right wing loony should be enough for Sunday.

Yep, definitely. Really like the Gouff he has a great attitude.

Mags at work all over the country, along with mags on buses, horses and trains bricking it already marra.

Pards, Ginola and Cabaye. We'd need to replace the family sections with female sections.

I hope we go for the jugular right from the off next Sunday.

Have to give huge credit to all the players, who having only returned from Lisbon on Friday and had a short preperation time for yesterday, were running on empty at the end but managed to give every last ounce of energy for the cause.

"I've been forced to renounce it temporarlly John, but I hope we can still be mates"

He's a very clever footballer who seems to thrive in tight situations.

Hope you were getting married, or at very least best man, otherwise that is no excuse at all

I know what you mean but I think he's just got a bit carried away in the atmosphere himself, which is kind of nice to see. The goal was a truly amazing moment and was celebrated more robustly than any in a long time. His report paints an excellent picture of that moment.

Fortunately for us the initials PDC fit in quite nicely to the Day Dream Believer ditty and "fascist" can be used as an alternative to "mackem".

Didn't take him long to make the "six cup finals" rallying call Hasn't been in the job a week yet and he's already reduced to using lame cliches.

That Di canio / John Terry embrace. Kindred spirits. True love.

Lovely little footballer.

Been out all day celebrating a win with 51,000+ others at SJP, and then enjoyed a few celebratory beers in a big city so missed the other results. Anybody know how the fascists got on ?

See "Ryan Mania" went over the wall (sorry I mean over the fences) to win the National. Mag on a horse, obsessed marra. FTM 9-1 STHT.

ewww Was! Will be again when he takes them down! Well, we're about to see whether being a total f*cking loon as a manager has a place in the Premier. Been trying to remember if anyone anywhere near as crackers has managed in the top flight before, but I'm struggling. I guess Holloway and Mourinho were unique in their own way, but Di Canio's on a whole different level. It's certainly going to be interesting. If I were a betting man, my money would be on it all imploding in spectacular fashion, but I've just got this tiny worry that the gamble might pay off short term. Hopefully they'll be on the end of a proper humping today and the feel good factor will evaporate quickly. Aye, but they weren't self proclaimed fascists who had been photographed doing lots of fascist stuff, caused the resignation of a very prominent board member, and then come up with a meaningless, half hearted, orchestrated statement when it all became a little inconvenient to be a fascist.