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Just a sec Dave, I think I've got a few 4:3 monitors at work in the WEEE cage I can haul out to make use of that epic wallpaper

Aye, catches keepers off guard. Lloris should've saved it though but you can say that for a number of Perez's goals because he hits it so early. Messi is the king of the early shots imo, great to see goals like that.

I think benching them both for today is a sound strategy if he wants to ask them for more than they have been giving us. Place not guaranteed and all that, play well to keep the shirt etc. Now it's their shirts to lose. Pardew would have one of them benched for Villa to keep Cissé up top for sure, there was no logic at all in his selections. He got the reaction he was after from the two players and he got the result. There's only so much that can be done with a team containing Colback, Coloccini, Dummett as starters tbh. Still much happier with McClaren at the helm than Pardew, beggars can't be choosers and the next manager will probably be Alan Curbishly so I'm happy to get behind him for now.

4 years of Pardew hoofball requires more than just a rinse and squeeze to remove apparently.

Might be his insurance company.

Absolutely ecstatic Pardew won't be the first team coach when he returns to us.

The quickest players never actually run the fastest, it's always the ones who 'drop the ball' so to speak and have to leg it to make amends and get recorded. I'm sure there's at least 50 players in the PL faster than Dummett. This is why defenders and shit players are at the top of the list.

The ball?

Sorry I thought it was FOTM to blame Carr for any new signing not hitting the ground running like Michu.

He'll be here longer in some capacity than any of the current playing squad - director etc. Looking forward to when he goes behind the scenes because that seems to be where his skills lie.

Who would have thought the captain of the Eredivisie-winning Ajax team a couple of seasons ago could be of any use to us. Carr needs shooting.

I'd drive him to Newcastle myself in a heartbeat.

I don't pay for Sky because I don't agree with how the money is spent in football in general rather than just the NUFC share of it. For all of those billions, the PL could get an FA trained football coach into every primary and secondary school in the country just to run football clubs and training with oodles to spare. But it just goes in Phil Bardsley's pocket.

Funniest one in ages, loved the poster wall take on Usual Suspects

in that time look at the journey Southampton and Leicester have had.. I know which i would rather have had and it doesn't included sports direct tat Exactly. I don't subscribe to this belief that going down equals immediate doom. Although I'd rather we stayed with competent ownership. The lies and myths concocted to vindicate Ashley's actions by the press. Can you imagine if he owned Liverpool? There'd have been a media reckoning. You can tack Swansea on to that list too.

Steve McClarence Seedorf?

Never mind Danny Simpson, Dan Gosling rang rings around our World Cup Starring midfield.

We'd just appoint another shocking manager. As I say to everyone who wants him sacked, who is Charnley going to hire who's better?

On the basis that - Ashley will never sell the club if we're in the PL Ashley won't change his style of ownership ever I'd want us to be relegated, again and again and again until he sells the club for a penny to the fans and then we can start again. I really don't care what division we're in, supporting a club is more than that. There's no club to support right now.

Agreed, said this a couple of weeks ago.

Callous and immature. Hope he pulls through.

Comparing one of the top 5 coaches in world football to Steve McClaren, with the shit squad that we've got

I think Zlatan is quite underrated, he's the closest player to Zidane in terms of style since he retired imo, with a dash of Cantona thrown in. His attitude gets in the way of people's perceptions of him as a footballer. I've seen him play some games for Sweden where the opposition just don't know what to do with him, so they all just stand off while he literally walks with the ball from half way to near the box before they try to make themselves look like fools by trying to tackle or press.

It's the best way to get a club up the leagues in FM so why not for real?