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It's just very heartwarming. Whatever happens in the summer is with my total blessing, but seeing him back where he belongs - in terms of both the pitch and esteem - is great.

If he can keep this up, getting Eddie's wages off the books will be a big help for our PSR balance.

My perception is that's happened with a few people on here. Genuinely wondered if it's just dementia as the forum population ages.

Let's try and do it better the next time we have one like this... We got him when he was judged as raw by a country that doesn't even much like football.

Just echoing other comments. Glad it looks like he'll get over it, but hope he'll take as long as necessary to sort himself. Fortunately, I'd say we're in about as good a position as possible to let him do that. Strong, well managed backroom staff that he's spent years training. Self governing squad thanks to excellent characters like Burn, Trippier, Bruno and Lascelles. And near the end of an already successful season where so much of the preparatory physical and tactical work has already been done. Hope you're feeling better soon Eddie.

I really think we should avoid serious speculation... There's every chance he'll be fine in a few days. We'll find out in due course if it really is something terrible, but I don't think winding ourselves up about sepsis and stuff is doing anyone any favours.

Hoping what I've heard tonight isn't true. Story goes he's not been handling the stress of the job well. Supposedly he's been taking some heavy meds to help deal with it, but he's had a reaction and it's blown out his Shatner's Bassoon. He thinks he's in 1933 now.

Best of luck Eddie. He's about as clean and fit as you get for his age so confident he'll be fine, hopefully it's not a shock to him.

Over three months on, and one cup victory later, where are we at? +9 The run quoted above was a gutter, but Nottingham Forest at home (+3), and away at West Ham (+2) and Leicester (+3, replacing Luton) have made a big difference. The next four fixtures are very much about maintaining standards though: Manchester United (h) Crystal Palace (h) Aston Villa (a) Ipswich Town (h), replacing Burnley We took the full 12 points from those fixtures last season... Personally, I'm confident.

I've never been convinced him having Australians around him is particularly good for him. Possibly even a negative.

I think Murphy won't let up in the slightest if and when we get a truly top class starter for RW. He'd keep doing his best on and off the field and be happy for the club, in fact. He's done magnificently this season. He's obviously got his limitations, but he's never played so productively for so long before. He's a starter on merit for us in our first trophy winning season in decades.

They wouldn't be doing their jobs right if they didn't.

More credit to Bunce? Can you imagine what it's like for Murphy to be spoken of in the same breath as Beardsley...

Something funny about "look, he's suddenly being good - stop doing whatever we're doing with him immediately".

Misread this as Bruce and got my head spun for a moment.

Yeah, agreed about Ginola, I don't think he's really legit, unlike many others.

It sounds like Yasir understands the boy is money and will help make the club what he wants it to be, so hopefully his underlings get it too. And hopefully promises of ludicrously overpriced post-retirement appearance fees are made so Isak doesn't feel like he's missing out on anything.

Supposedly Quansah was the one we wanted as a makeweight in the aborted Gordon deal last summer. But Liverpool rejected that idea at the time. So sounds plausible Howe thinks he can do something with him.

Proximity. Many people would rather be close for a few seconds than half a mile away from a hologram for several hours. Not sure what is hard to understand about this - a lot of people have been imagining this for half a century. Again, I'm optimistic it'll turn out alright, but when club things keep being run through a filtering process of season ticket holders and members, you can't blame people for being a bit paranoid.

In retrospect it was obvious they wanted rid of him sooner and briefs were going out to the media to that effect, but Hughton kept getting results which made sacking him unjustifiable. The first minor wobble in our premier league comeback season and they knifed him.

I'm hopeful everything will turn out great, they've generally been good about these things, but there's nothing wrong with people defending the city's interests if there's a sniff someone's trying to ration joy to only those who've bought corporate memberships.

Was the lawyer drawing up Pardew's contract, weeks before Hughton was fired. Fucking disgusted me. Was like watching a slow motion intentional car crash.

Made up to make Arsenal look silly if so.

I know, I was wondering how that worked out