Rich

AMEOBI! WILL HE!? CAN HE!? ...CAN HE FUCK!!! That would have won me some good money, the utter cunt.

Nicky Butt's just taken the best free-kick I've seen by one of our players this season.

If that happens I'll shit in your bed Have you followed through with this re: Wise yet?

Fulham are still 12 points behind us with 14 games left, Derby are gone, do you really think that all of Sunderland, Wigan, Birmingham, Bolton, Reading and 'Boro are going to make 6-8 points on us before the end of the season in order to push us into that last relegation spot? I bet they all have some fairly tough games too, and they'll all be playing each other plenty as well. No chance.

I love you in Match Threads, you're great!

We're gonna win man, don't give up yet! This half-time team talk/triple substitution (Barton on for Rozehnal/Lua Lua on for Milner/Ameobi on for Smith) will blow your socks off! Ah there's always hope i suppose. But Arsenal have just been brilliant tonight and one or two of our regular performers are not on their game. They are a class apart like, but we were close to getting into HT scoreless again until an individual error or two or three left us in big, big trouble. We do look like doing something at times, Milner was clean in just before the break as well. We have players on the bench who could potentially make a difference, we might get lucky. If we lose, it's no great loss as everyone expected it anyway, but here's hoping we at least worry them a bit in this next 45.

We're gonna win man, don't give up yet! This half-time team talk/triple substitution (Barton on for Rozehnal/Lua Lua on for Milner/Ameobi on for Smith) will blow your socks off!

He gave the ball away 3 times in successive posessions, which piled pressure on us, but apart from that he's been okay. Still infuriating though, along with Nicky Butt, because lads on their wages should be able to pass a ball 10-yards every time, unless under severe pressure (which they rarely are.)

Taylor's been rubbish so far like. What the fuck was he playing at when he gave it back to Given? Left foot, row Z, regroup. We never learn. I left out Rozehnal's pathetic attempt at winning the ball, which isn't the first time we've seen that this season in the build-up to an opposition goal. He has to be going in with more conviction than he did, even when he's stretching.

Their goal was toss like, Nicky Butt should never have lost posession in the midfield and Alan Smith's attempt at holding the ball up was pathetic, not that he should have ever been getting the ball with 2 men on him like. Really disappointing after it looked like we'd hold out until half time again. Great cross and the header was quality, though, but surely one of the centre-halves has to be dealing with Adebayor there, not Carr? If you stop Adebayor, you stop Arsenal, especially at the moment. He shouldn't be allowed a one-on-one with the right-back, because there's only one winner there.

He went off injured on Saturday.

Enrique went off injured on Saturday.

That's the in-game thread, this is the pre-match thread.

He went off injured on Saturday.

Boo, get em out! Couldn't agree more Boss.

THERE'S A FUCKING SOUTHERNER COMMENTATING IN HIS PLACE! ARGH!

Went off injured on Saturday.

Rozehnal or Carr at LB, I wonder.

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BBC Sport: Newcastle striker Mark Viduka returns after a calf problem and midfielder Emre is back from suspension.

Interesting quotes on the BBC, he suggests that we've made a good offer but they're holding out for a bit more. I wouldn't call £2 million a reasonable offer so that figure sounds bollocks. Aye, it would seem so.

Not as yet, but I think it'd be a fair assumption to say that West Ham and maybe even our good friends from Spurs might return for him if we get to the stage where an offer is accepted. I wouldn't fancy our chances if that turned out to be so. I think Derby would hope for that too, hence why they made our offer public knowledge.

I'm taking the old "expect a spanking" approach in the hope that I'll be pleasantly surprised! Think I'd only be disappointed otherwise. Some more good football and a goal or two would probably do me.

Suppose we could hope he'd do a Jenas here in his early days. I think he could have a part to play this season.