Beren

You just can't argue with that level of stupidity

If I had Twitter I'd respond with: 1. Geordies don't like him because he's from London. 2. Geordies have unrealistic expectations. 3. He took NUFC to fifth. Ungrateful fans. 4. SackPardew campaign way over the top, embarrassing. 5. He was hamstrung by Ashley, did a great job in the circumstances. Injuries and player sales under his nose too.

Cashed out earlier cheers Paully

Looking brilliant after 20 minutes! Ha ha! Based purely on your history I've put £10 on this with them both a goal down at 27/1

It's become more than Ashley and Pardew for me. Rafa's back and has brought a feel good factor of sorts (through even relegation!) to the club which I experience primarily through this forum, but I know I don't feel it. In part due to the Championship being less accessible, I don't follow it as closely or care. If I cared like I used to I don't think the accessibility of the Championship would stop me from gorging on NUFC. I survived on and spent whole days refreshing Ceefax pages and awful radio segments for the better part of my youth. I'm just pigsick of football now. I hate that football as an industry tolerated Ashley and Pardew, and will tolerate others and will not even acknowledge, let alone address, fairly basic iniquities in the game. Can't stand the absence of meritocracy in the game. Can't stand listening to Robbie Savage and his brethren rob a living. The majority of fans that I've met and seen are no better, a constant disappointment. Football is like a weird propagandist society and it's not like it has the redeeming feature of not serving up content that isn't largely unadulterated bollocks that genuinely isn't worth your time watching or your heartache caring over... as it is, rather organically, I don't really care now and count myself among the bystanders, so to speak.

For the eighth time.

Feel bad for him. Looked a great prospect when he came on the scene.

All the managers in recent have misused the resources available to them in so similar a fashion they may as well have kept the same guy throughout. I'd require payment to watch an England friendly or qualifier now.

There'd be an "I am Spartacus" scene on N-O

Messi is roughly one billion times the player Aguero is He can kick through steel HTT. He is immune to triple coverage. He doesn't even need to play with a team.

I don't get this line of thinking either, mind. Our league has had plenty of players banging them in for average to shit teams. Suarez, Tevez, Bent, Johnson, Defoe, Keane, Le Tissier, and dare I say it, Shearer. If they can do it, Ronaldo and Messi obviously can. It makes a difference though for sure. Messi has more or less a 1 in 1 record for Barca and 1 in 2 for Argentina (who aren't even shit either btw). It's not even a criticism of the guy but I get that some people see Messi like some kind of Scion and obscures all faculties No, I agree with that, obviously he wouldn't score as many as he has for Barca, but he'd still beat Shearer's record if he played for West Brom. What a sentence. For West Brom? I disagree. Even with defences being as shit as they are now.

I don't get this line of thinking either, mind. Our league has had plenty of players banging them in for average to shit teams. Suarez, Tevez, Bent, Johnson, Defoe, Keane, Le Tissier, and dare I say it, Shearer. If they can do it, Ronaldo and Messi obviously can. It makes a difference though for sure. Messi has more or less a 1 in 1 record for Barca and 1 in 2 for Argentina (who aren't even shit either btw). It's not even a criticism of the guy but I get that some people see Messi like some kind of Scion and obscures all faculties

Considering Suarez scored 30+ for Liverpool it really doesn't. Bit of a difference between that Liverpool team and the West Broms of the world mate

Depends who they played for IMO.

Ronaldo did? I think he got 40 odd goals in one season but it was in all competitions. Not sure. I was under the impression that your first post was just a joke. Erm, nah. What's Suarez's goalscoring ratio, btw? You don't think Ronaldo (who actually scored 23, 42, and 26 goals in England) or Messi (who regularly pisses all over the best English teams) wouldn't score as many goals in the Premier League? You can't be serious? If he played for Barcelona in the PL probably. If he played for Pardew/Carver/Allardyce team etc, maybe not.

I'm starting to wonder if the Garth Crooks we know is an act. I'd love to see some fly-on-the-wall secret footage of him.

Imagine being a bloke working in that factory and reading that You'd be pissed. Supercilious, smeagol resembling cunt. Yup bit cunty. Sure the people who gave them a tour around their workplace feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Bastard fans probably cheering them on too much

Moyes: "We went to a factory this week, showing the players it is much better to be a footballer than working in a factory."

Fuck off mag Low hanging fruit but

The hate is still so fucking deep. Love this place

Loss preferable but if it saves Moyes' job not all bad.

Danny Mills is a moron. I'm sure I mention it every time someone else mentions him, but Thierry Henry mugging the clogger off with ease, after he was all riled up trying to kick lumps out of Henry was one of the best and pure moments of sporting justice I can remember. Thoroughly humiliated in front of tens of thousands, and his professional career rightly defined by it. Twat.

There's actually a lot of good material here: paint poppies on their fingernails, dim the stadium lights and have glow in the dark UV poppies/semen stains on the shirts, poppy-stained teeth - everyone smiles when the anthem plays, GOB-style tearaway clothing, poppy-patterned never-nude underwear at full-time....

Could the poppies feasibly leave the atmosphere and be hologram'd onto the players from space using a satellite tracking system?