Bad Mongo

But that's pretty much what managers do. Cruise from job to job, I mean.

His agent will have been looking for vacant positions, most likely. Or maybe he watched Lange flate ballær and became convinced that the soul of football can only be found in Fredrikstad. My bet is on his agent.

Not really. Barely surviving in the Premier League will send the same message to MA as a relegation would. The club won't stay up next year without a proper manager and several new players.

He's got a point. We all wanted rid of Pardew, but didn't expect to end up with Carver. The way Ashley works, he'd probably sell to one of his mates, just transfer the ownership of the club in return for a private loan.

Six tweets, all in the last couple of days? It's you.

'Look at that fool, doesn't know how to set his white balance.'

No mention of Chris Graham yet?

If this were true, no one ever would have appointed Souness or Pardew. They look at some extremely vaguely defined qualities of 'leadership' (a white man), 'tactical nous' (a white man) and Englishness (a white man), not anything genuine (difficult to define). It's extremely difficult to hire the right person, even more the right leader, so they go with their gut feeling, which is based on prejudice and usually wrong.

We're not going to be able to attract an ambitious manager.

I agree. What more can we expect from a Sontaran?

We still haven't properly replaced Shola.

It'll just be a big PR campaign created by them. Some guy off Twitter: Chris Murphy ‏@ChrisMurphSport 44 min44 minutter siden Ginola asked about third party ownership and what he'd do with laws of football - @paddypower PR man intervenes as he stumbles.

Poor defending, good goal.

You don't give up on Ameobi, man.

Just think about it. In the 90th minute of the FA Cup final, as it's heading towards extra time and penalties, Newcastle manager Shola Ameobi substitutes himself on for Jack Colback, and scores the winning goal with his first touch, the final touch of the game. Alan Shearer declares that even though it usually seemed ludicrous, he never gave up faith in the lad. The mackems are devastated.

That's awfully nice of him, but he needs to take into consideration that we're a club with no ambition.

You're not getting ahead of yourself, man. Of course he'll score against Palace.

Just a small glass of whisky, and then I'm going to bed.

All I've got is a bottle of Bowmore 15.

To be fair, only a nutter would want to work with Ashley.

Yes, the team sit a respectable 9th, won yesterday, 2 pts behind media darlings Swansea and and will in all likelihood beat Burnley at St James's the next day "end game", indeed. "end game" my hole I agree. This is more like Waiting for Godot than Endgame.

I consider him more of a replacement for Joey Barton and Lee Bowyer. He tends to lose his head now and then.

Scouts watching Stéphane Badji playing SK Brann's relegation play-off against Mjøndalen. His agent is Willie McKay. http://www.bt.no/100Sport/fotball/eliteserien/Newcastle-sa-Badji-mot-Mjondalen-476248_1.snd

A fascinating read: https://twitter.com/hashtag/RodgersOut?src=hash

Time to defend the lead. We'll lose.