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My Lord ... what an insult to Sven-Göran Eriksson. Lesser, and Sven was a manager of this exact same type. Sven-Göran Eriksson is one of the most overrated managers of all time. Just like Pardew he had his fair share of scouts who found players for him. A manager should be judged on the ability to win games and change games whenever they are down. Sven lacked that.

I thought we looked better when Bigi came on. Our midfield was shambles yesterday until the point he came on and Obe wasn't really having a great game. Right before he was subbed off he had the only really good run of the game. It's just to easy to defend him, lacks intelligence and Jagielka was showing him inside and then outside all the time as he knew Obe would try to make a terribly slow dribble on him. It's just too easy, and doesn't really deserve to be starting. A 10-15minute sub apperance is where it's at. His speed can be great for counter attacking and when there is more space on the field to attack. In tight areas he just lacks the natural talent to succeed.

Oh and I called Pardew a lesser version of Sven-Göran Eriksson last season but got loads of stick. The man is a replica, when everything is going well he's very good but he can't change a match. He doesn't have that ability, just like Sven.

Doesn't matter does it? Cisse hasn't worked on the right for half a season why play him there again then? Might as well ahve benched him for Everton if we had been practicing the 4-3-3. Pardew lost the plot last night and we lost yet another game because of his mistakes.

Marvs best football for us has come in a 3 man midfield, so not sure what you guys are on about.

Reminding me so much of Glenn Roeder it's not even funny. Doesn't realize his mistakes one bit. Shola up top and Cisse on the right? Are you fucking kidding me?

I agree with Ikon. Anitas problem sometimes is he gets caught out on the ball but that's due to the difference in speed of the game. Will take him time to adapt and he is still playing decently moving around a lot. During all this crap we have at least seen 3 players grow into better players in midfield, Marv, Bigi and Anita have all proven they are players who can play at this level to a certain extent. Tiote has been the biggest disappointment this season this far. Can't wait for him to go to the ACON and get his head back on track.

All Hail Mathieu! Thank god we finally have a fullback which hopefully won't be run over constantly. (Santon does compensate with his offensive qualities although he was pretty shit today tbf)

I hope the team lineup is wrong and just to confuse Everton. Hope it's Shola out wide if anything or a 4-4-2.

Monsieur Alan dePardieu starts Shola...

He's played for Marseille in the Europa League so he would be ineligible for us right?

Think we will win. Will be one of those games where we don't play particularly well but we will be lucky. We seem to have a decent record against Everton of late.

Debuchy, Remy and a central defender in and we are in a much much better position. I like Ba, but he is taking Cisses spot and for all his goal he is scoring, we aint winning games. I'm confident we would win more with Cisse up top as the formation would be more balanced.

Lost one of the best strikers in the world? I don't agree there. Ba is a very good player but he is nowhere near being top 10 in the world. man.

Strange one because had he just shut the fuck up about the wee club and most famous club in the world many would probably agree with him since Pardew does have a tendency to hang around the 4th officials neck quite often and people forget all about Sir Alex. But calling us a wee club and his club the most famous in the world is out of order. Deserves a beating the old cunt tbh. Real Madrid is the most famous club

It's time Cisse starts uptop in a 4-3-3. Play Ba on the wing now, preferably on the left where he can take as many shots as he wants from 200yards. But please let Papiss start as a striker, or don't play him.

Douglas, Debuchy, Remy/Ince would be great. As long as it means at a maximum Ba out. Hope everyone stays though.

It's €15m for 50% with another 50% being paid by sponsor I think. It's not done yet though and Flamengo has said no to Robinho as they find him to expensive.

Finally made every right decision there was to be made. Hopefully we don't see Jonas running into the team anytime soon. With Ben Arfa and Cabaye and Tiote this team can only get much better. Very good performance. Rightback and central defender needs to be bought fastly though even if Danny and Willo weren't bad today.

If Anita is fucked I consider our season over and relegation battle a fact if we dont invest heavily...

Did you have a pleasant christmas?

Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you've hade some great time with family and/or friends!

Tiote kicking a goalkick so QPR gets a goalkick basically. That was terrible.

WTF is Ba up too?