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Pompey have enquired about Amdy Faye according to Skysports.com

Rio??? or Anton? Rio was up here, a couple of my mates saw him out.

Aphrodite off here was just on telly next to the referees assessor

It looked a really bad one at the time. Hope he has a speedy recovery.

Which lads look like they could step up PL level? It was a scruffy affair spoilt by one of the worst refs i've ever seen, the usual ones really Kadar and Kazenga. Forster played well, made a couple of good saves. Nile only really had the one chance and thumped home a header from a corner. I thought James Taylor played well at right back and Henderson, the young centre half was good, best i've seen him play. Regarding the step up it would be the ones you already know of, Ranger, Kadar and Lualua. The right winger for them, think he's called Henderson looked a good player as well. Agree all round. The referee was really poor - cautioned for one absolute nothing tackle on about 3 minutes and made a rod for his own back which led to what seemed like about 8 yellow and a red in the end. Forster was back to his old kicking in the second half but made some great saves throughout. Was very impressed with Kadar and the defence as a whole in the second half. Godsmark once he got into the game was effective and I thought the winning goal was a superb move all round. Nice little ground at Eppleton, pitch looked excellent. Fucking freezing night though. Oh and Nile is a legend

Marwood.

Why is he doing our game today? I thought it was supposed to be Steve Bennet not that he's much better but Styles is wank! Riley's injured so Bennett switched to Riley's game and we ended up with Styles. Which was always going to be trouble. He's had a habit of making ludicrous decisions over the years. There was the Liverpool penalty for 'intent' a couple of years ago, and then the one to Chelsea at Liverpool last season. Then Dave mentioned the Ronaldo one.

After all the pressure on him in the build-up, how was the referee?

NE5? Keith with his banner.

Disclaimer - This is NEVER going into the Hall of Fame.

Jesus fucking wept.

Chelsea want shooting for conceding a goal like that...twice.

Taylor is a fucking idiot.

Let's go folks. Howay!

Use the match thread now please folks: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,59208.0.html

Newcastle United: Shay Given, Steven Taylor, Jose Enrique, Sebastien Bassong, Fabricio Coloccini, Danny Guthrie, Geremi, Damien Duff, Jonas Gutierrez, Michael Owen ©, Andy Carroll Subs: Steve Harper, Charles N'Zogbia, David Edgar, Tamas Kadar, Ryan Donaldson, Xisco, Kazenga LuaLua West Ham United: Robert Green, Lucas Neill ©, Herita Ilunga, Scott Parker, Craig Bellamy, Carlton Cole, Matthew Upson, Mark Noble, James Collins, Valon Behrami, Jack Collison Subs: Luis Boa Morte, Hayden Mullins, Julien Faubert, Diego Tristan, James Tomkins, David Di Michele, Marek Stech Referee: Alan Wiley Assistants: Shaun Procter-Green and Glenn Turner 4th Official: Trevor Kettle Post match reaction begins here: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,59208.msg1642345.html#msg1642345 PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES REQUEST OR PROVIDE LINKS TO ILLEGAL MATCH STREAMS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE BANNED* *See http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php?topic=19161.0 for more information

The one that won big brother, thick as f*** but he is all heart really. ? Haha I never knew Blessed was a Newcastle fan!!! get in what a Legend! Gejon is thinking of John McCririck, who was on BB ha ha. He never won it though! http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Jan/Week3/1635127.jpg I got the feeling Gejon was just trying to be funny and talking about the lad who won one of the early Big Brother series...

Dear oh dear. You really do need a defence.

Alan Wiley's reffing Newcastle v West Ham on Saturday, you could try and convince him to stop over an extra night or two?

I would but I don't want to.

Can't blame him at all.

Not a chance.

He's back for Hull folks. http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/Disciplinary/SuspensionLists/ Newcastle United FC Sebastian Bassong Nguena 26/12/2008 Suspended from all football until the Club have completed 1 first team match for a Sending Off in a match played on 26/12/2008. Oh and there's this from 2006 too: http://www.newcastle-online.org/2006/12/14/keeping-you-all-in-suspense/

Guthrie's set pieces are consistently about 100 times better than anyone else in the side can manage.

LuaLua lets fly from 40 yards.