Theregulars

Like that weakling Ashley Williams?

I would reckon the other players probably have some sympathy for his situation; I think if you are a normal person you probably can simultaneously think he's a knob for cocking up his marriage but still feel bad at the fact he's evidently unhappy about it. It sucks that this is what's happening; ideally he just carries on being the Titan he has been for us. But life doesn't work that way. I also reckon the stuff in the argentine media is totally overblown. I don't think the way he's handled it has been that bad - put yourself in that exact situation, what would you do? Especially where other people leak something you want kept private.

His relationships outside of the club don't impact what kind of leader he is on the field; at least in my opinion. What did you make of Shearer as club captain, having booted Lennon in the head, or elbowed Materazzi and received a suspension in a crucial group game? Did you say anything when Tiote was stand-in captain after he was done for driving without a licence and whatnot? (Genuine question, I don't know if you did). The point is, he's been a really solid captain for us for a while. I agree with you to some extent that he's fading a bit with age/injury; and it's annoying that he wants to go home, but i am only annoyed because I love the guy and he's an NUFC hero in my opinion. You've got to admit, he's played pretty well through what is obviously a pretty rough patch in his personal life. If your argument is we should ship him because his personal life is in the way, I can see the merits of that opinion. As a comparison, I love my job, but if my girlfriend (not even my wife) moved back home to Germany, I'd have to seriously consider going with her.

Where are 5 minutes from

Looked on

Infuriatingly unambitious and predictable football.

No. The team the manager selected is winning 2-0, and fairly comfortably, so why make a change?

Wrong attitude for me; don't assume that at 2-0 the game is target practice for our out of form striker. At 3 or 4 nil maybe.

Disappointing result a la Hull at home, don't think we have 3 wins on the bounce in us.

It's just so unnecessary.

Red

Stupid sub, given Gouffran's defensive work

Urgh

Machine

Unlucky

Pardew told them to defend and sit on the lead, like he always does when we score

Defoe always scores against us

Classic Moussa

Hi Spurs, have some pressure

Mapou man

Didn't need to do that at all

Santon, behave

I moaned at this against City and they put in a canny performance, i had half a moan at the line up before Chelsea and they won. Can see why he's done it, options are limited, Cisse out of form, Ben Arfa struggled up top, Shola has give us something to aim at. Agree with the person a couple of posts up about the 4-4-2, Norwich played it and hardly seen the ball, hope we can do better than that. Feel sorry for Anita like, he should be starting. Dont' think Ben Arfa/Cisse/Colo can have too many complaints as they have either not took their chance or others deserve to be playing ahead of them. Shola f***ing Ameobi is starting instead of Hatem Ben Arfa, there's no excuse for that man. "he works hard" "he's a jawdee and the jawdees wanna watch jawdees play" "presence" "Nigerian international"

Gonna keep doing it until it doesn't work. In a nutshell. He just moves between the 2/3 formations each time we lose/are losing, whichever one makes us "keep it tight" against the opposition of that day.