Kanji

even if it isn't, just say it is.

I, for one, love seeing a great like Peter Beardsley talk about how great of a job Pardew has done or that Mike Ashley is a fantastic owner, man. Give over. Brilliant footballer, who I wish never got back into football the way he carries on about the owner of this club. Tarnishes for me, rather him just be some pundit in the media who just says whatever the producers tell him to. Toon's Taylor, you hate Pardew & Ashley too, we're all in this together dude.

Supporting NE man, Jr Jones for me.

God I love that club, and their fans.

Go defend Stevie Bantz in the other thread man, jesus. I saw a compilation of his and got a warm & fuzzy and then some uneasy feeling over a player who's career absolutley derailed in quite a ridiculous fashion

Final time

fireworks

Vardy would have scored

Inability to get anything at West Ham and fucking draw Burnley was very frustrating

Kasper man, wow

Great play, great move, and great take by Hutton.

Why? Just curious...all based on that Man Utd goal? He was playing non-league not so long ago Cheers, thanks man. Pardew type player then

I feels for Benteke, can't believe he has to play with this. No offense Brummie.

Why? Just curious...all based on that Man Utd goal?

Just thinking about it - Janmaat has adapted to the demand of the league far quicker. He's equally paced, if not 1/2 a step or so better. He's better positioned and less prone to getting caught out. His work rate is quite brilliant, he's tracked some runs down centrally and made some great tacklers. Debuchy is probably better in the air. Debuchy probably is a better slide tackler, Janmaat seems better reading of the game. Janmaat looks better at intercepting and breaking. I'd say he's a better dribbler, better crosser, and more intelligent attacker.

Wrong thread for this - but we desperately need a match where a shit team or 2 falls down to 10 men and we get a Stoke (h) performance where we turn them over by 2-3 goals. Our goal differential is classically awful.

I was thinking about Ben Arfa this morning after reading those Bruce comments... Damn shame thinking about the player we signed on loan - From that Everton performance, to the leg break against City, the returns, the injury breakdowns, the returns, the fall-outs with Pardew, the goals, the individual brilliance, the way he talked about the Newcastle supporters, St James Park, life in the NE, and all that. Have we ever taken to a player since Sir Bobby's time and Keegan's before that that? He represented so much that we loved and maybe embodied as a club. In a way he sort of personified what we thought of our club Sleeping Giant Club = Untapped Potential of a Player; Could be one of the Greatest Clubs (vision of Bobby & Keegan) = Hatem being considered the best of his Generation. It all just bothers me. Blame the man himself, blame Pardew, etc. I just wish he'd sort himself out, i wish he'd get a move to Germany or France and play for a manger who cares about him; one that will let him do his thing - it's a shame that such a talent that I'll be talking about for the rest of my life wasted the prime of his career through bad luck, injuries, lack of self discipline, and poor management. It's a story repeated over and over in sport, but it hits closer to home b/c he was OUR player, and we we madly love him, and he mutually did for us.

"I'm happy" I know i make fun of him for sometimes being so infuriating with his offsides, and his inability to do simple footballing things - but then this crazy bastard scores, and he smiles his face off, and he runs over to a little bairn on the side of the pitch and hugs the kid, makes that kid's day. And there he goes smiling away, scoring another goal, wheeling away happy as all hell. Interviews after and just smiles, and says how happy he is. I love his attitude, man.

Ronaldo overtaken shearer tonight. What fills me with pride is Shearer basically hasn't been surpassed by anyone in the modern era bar Ronaldo tonight and Messi eventually. Shearer did it at a time when football was probably a tad harder and had 2 horrific injuries that slowed down his career - where's Ronaldo and Messi have essentially played so much damn football (I know they've been dealing with injuries recently). But my word, Shearer truly is one of the greatest scorers in league-play of all time - fucking amazing to see him on that list.

What did Drogba do? Ivanovic getting in Colo's face was quite stupid too after Colo tried helping him up.

Takes a big leader to just kick off with a player bc he didn't believe in his brilliant football philosophy. No more goals. Keep it tight. Hopefully get some magic and nick it. Get stuck in lads. Keep the dressing room banter up. We owe it Mike who stuck by us, this one is for him bull shit.

I called it in Match thread when he made that great track back tackle, he's won right wing for eternity.

We probably pay him enough to just pay for his brother too

This fucker always gets hurt man, god damn

I'll be clear in that some Sunderland supporters at legends in NYC called him that and I loved it / laughed at it and it's stuck.