The College Dropout

If they don't win the league match at the Camp Nou, there title win will be hollow. No doubt about it. Essentially Barca will be defeating themselves if they beat Madrid yet don't win the league. Barca's own incompetence away from home will have lost them the title. Madrid fans know this. But when it comes to Barca vs. Madrid everyone will know the result. They can't compete toe-to-toe with Barca no matter what the league table says. They want to legitimately be better than Barcelona. Not just win the league. They would've taken 2 league draws.

I don't know about defensive. They scored 102 league goals in 2010-11 and are on pace for 134 (67 halfway) 2011-2012. Defensive against Barca. And well beaten anyway.

Mourinho went to Madrid as the "Barca Killer", the man to overthrough the Catalan dynasty. That was his job description. He's not. Barca have resoundingly defeated Madrid at the Bernabeau multiple times with Mourinho as the coach now. It's got to burn. They still largely support him though as he's their only option for turning it around.

Still can't believe these counts completely outclassed us (Holland) in the 2008 European Championship, after we'd spanked Italy and France in the first round and looked s*** hot favourites to win it. Talented bunch though no doubt, with the right coach and tactics at the time. Let's not forget Zhirkov who wasn't given much of a chance tbf.

People have been saying that their defence is a joke for 5 years now and he's done very little to stop it. Has himself only to blame when he has over 100m waiting to be spent in the bank. The money talk is false imo. They seem to have a strict wage budget.

They've gone too far to sack him now. Look at the team, it's really not all that good. If Wenger leaves, so does RVP in the same window. Whoever's brought in would needs heavy investment to get them into the CL. Of the lads that started against Man U, who would get in the Spurs XI? RVP & Vermaelen.

they need to do some backroom work or change something in training. Way too many injuries. Despite there lack of defensive cohesiveness. Get Sagna-Vermaelen-Koscielny playing together week-in week-out and that will improve ten fold. Going forward, they probably need another striker but with RVP fit they should be fine.

Always amazed that Shola never gets subbed. Santon was the first to break and the rest followed.

6-1 tbh.

We've been well cooked. Roasted. It's over. Players are lamb to the Wolves.

At a guess, complacency. Riding high, feeling like we just have to show up. Nerves. Santon looked nervy after the yellow. Giveaway the pen and he just melted. The rest followed as we went long. Krul, Willo, Colo.

Lookinjg to Pardew here. He needs tell them to relax and play again.

The yellow card rocked his confidence. In hindsight he should've been brought off to save him. And us obviously.

The yellow card rocked his confidence. In hindsight he should've been brought off to save him.

Wow.

As predicted by myself (because I'm f***ing class) he has improved markedly with Ben Arfa in the team as he doesn't have to be sole runner with the ball and can use his intelligence which is massively underrated by many to get involved and help dictate the game. HBA's been pretty quiet on the whole himself. He's not as hungry as Jonas in his general play.

Midfield domination from front to back. Jol made things worse for his side tbf. No legs at all in the middle.

Jonas has been excellent like. He uses his work rate to be so involved. His short passing is very smooth.

Yep. Fulham have been terrible though. We where outmuscling and out numbering them in midfield, then Jol goes and puts Ruiz at CM in a 4-4-2. Zamora can only get better in the 2nd half. Something's not right with them atm.

DANNY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He predicted a comfortable victory for us against QPR. He's no Lawro like.

As a Newcastle fan I don't see us seriously finishing in the top 4 and i'm guessing non-fans aren't either. Today's a big game. We win and a lot of people look at us differently. Including myself.

Build em up, tear them down. He's an excellent keeper but hasn't done much to deserve such an accolade. Same man would tell you John Terry is one of the couple best in his position too...

Let's be honest with ourselves, we'll do very well to stay 6th. As long as we're sitting at 6th though, we at least deserved to be mentioned in the same group as the other teams around us. Even if the odds are against us. Why? The talent of our squad doesn't really deserve it. If we win today I think a lot of people might genuinely believe we can sneak in there but at the moment we shouldn't pretend just to make us feel better.

Let's be honest with ourselves, we'll do very well to stay 6th.