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Bassong giving Enrique another earful.

Sounds like Duff's having his best game in a long time, nice to have him actually running at people.

That's a terrible goal

COME ON!!!

Should have stopped that.

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Fucking come on

Bellamy scores.

That's 3 now for Given. Alves is crap by the way (no doubt he'll score after I say this)

First time that's ever been said in an 'other games today' thread

Any hope of any points goes out of the window with Hughton in charge I fear. Joe may be incompetent but he's still a step up from Hughton. Get well soon Joe.

It was when Alonso had been chasing down Schumacher and got within about a second of him with 2 laps to go, then they cut to a break. Unbelievable! Thank fuck its back on the BBC! Aye, they did it that time deliberately which was ridiculous. They also did it one time by accident on the last lap of a race (France 2003) and came back as the drivers were on their slowing down lap!

Apparently you can count cup-tied games towards suspensions, and that's just the way it is. Which is stupid.

Would Whelan entertain an approach from Ashley for Bruce?

Don't know anything about this issue I'm afraid. I'll do a bit of digging.

Must remember to nominate this for thread of the year. At a pretty miserable time to be a Newcastle fan this has made me properly laugh numerous times

Means Robinson won't be suspended against us.

Put it this way, the big game on Sunday is not at Anfield, despite what the media may think.

He is due a 1 match ban for 5 yellows, some think that it takes 7 days for that ban to come into effect some think it comes into effect straight away. Right, so who's right and who is wrong? I thought it was the next game that you were banned for. Unless it's changed recently (and if it has nobody's told me), it's 7 days. We had the same situation with Babayaro a few years ago. EDIT: Just checked on The FA site and his suspension starts on Feb 4.

Shame he's not suspended then.

I disagree, but he's up there. I'm biased, naturally

Damn shame this, I think he's better than Howard Webb. Hope he wins the appeal but if he does he'll probably get frozen out anyway.

Good point. After losing what should have been the easiest win of the season tonight, what can we hope for now. With so many players out and 2 key players having to go off during the game as well. How we didn't win it I'll never know. We've got such a great record at Man City as well.

Krul is more ready than Forster, and Harper is better than both of them at the moment.