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I remember running through a hedge in my blue mcewans asics away shirt, maybe 2 days after I bought it. Wasn't happy when I made it through to the other side.

Hopefully Van Persie will get a red card for being offside again. That'd be handy.

Happy for him. Decent squad player. Shouldn't be in the first team mind. Especially in our world class XI.

Will break every record he physically can. World Cups: 0

This isn't going to change. Ever.

+ getting sent off at SJP. It's written in the stars.

And then he went straight to Nottingham to face Forest? That doesn't seem like sensible prep.

You fucking love that kid.

They just played in Philadelphia, against Ghana. A fixture that was made with 12 days notice. Cheapest tickets were $40 too. Morons.

He/his agent obviously don't believe it to be that much of a risk.

Why should they? They can walk now, get a club that'll pay them and continue on their career. I'd be desperate to get shot too if I were them. One of them joined in January, he can't be registered to a 3rd club within a year. He can probably still sign for a team that'll pay him though, no? Nah, he would still have to be registered. I don't believe that a) an exception wouldn't be made, or b) he can't sign for a team somewhere, even if he can't play.

Why should they? They can walk now, get a club that'll pay them and continue on their career. I'd be desperate to get shot too if I were them. One of them joined in January, he can't be registered to a 3rd club within a year. He can probably still sign for a team that'll pay him though, no? + is it not highly likely they'll make an exception in this kind of scenario?

Death Row paperwork takes time. Gotta make sure it's air tight.

Why should they? They can walk now, get a club that'll pay them and continue on their career. I'd be desperate to get shot too if I were them.

They any good?

People can think whatever they want, most the negative Pardew comments are not without merit (sans HTT), but my fear is that this kind of shit can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The media picks up on murmurs from fans, however few, and it just snowballs. I'm absolutely fucking fed up of everything changing every 2 years, I just want a prolonged period of sensible. As far as I'm concerned, we're doing a pretty fucking good job of sensible, with better results than expected. Recent form isn't hopeful, but I have no reason to believe we won't return to the form of earlier in the year, where we were putting away teams that we would've drawn with (or lost to) in years gone by. This will probably need Pards to re-evaluate a few things in his tactics/lineups, but I'm willing to put faith in him that he will steer us in the right direction. I'm only ready to freak out if we start next season playing poorly and find ourselves in the bottom half at Christmas. So in conclusion, shush (for now). I'm scared

Take it easy, man The fact of the matter is that Pardew has implemented a dire style of football into our team when it is blatantly obvious that it brings little or no success. People have the right to be frustrated that we have, for no logical reason, abandoned the style of play- decent ball- that got us to our current lofty height. Especially considering the players Pardew has at his disposal. And the fact that Pardew refuses to play our most creative and naturally gifted player instead of a mediocre one-trick pony in Ryan Taylor. Pardew has done very well for himself, but he's starting to undo it all and in the last couple of months has, imo, signalled that he will only be able to take us so far. Don't really disagree with much of that.. but "Agree with HTT" is not equal to your post. "Agree with HTT" is a sentence that no sane man should utter. Edit: Seriously, the man thinks we'd be better off with him in charge. He think he's got more ability to manage a football team than Alan Pardew. I just don't know. It's just wrong.

So all you stupid wankers think that we've only played 'turgid' football and we've no hope at all under Pardew and Krul can't kick because Pardew puts him off and Pardew has nothing to do with us getting 6th place, in fact it's in spite of him, and it's okay to screw HMRC out of thousands of pounds, and of course, we'd be better off with HTT at the helm than Pardew? Edit: Shit. Forgot to put a smiley somewhere: http://www.bitvertiser.com/emos/finger/finger-up-animated.gif

Because people don't like Danny Simpson.

I don't hate him as much as I hate his bull s*** and his football. I called him first and I'll be proved right. This isn't me trying to be some kind of sage shamen or something and I wont be happy when I'm proved right but f*** me its staring everyone in the face but our position seems to be blinding many. No side or manager will ever be successful playing the way we do and top players will never shine with such tactics. Pardew from day one has not changed the way we play and its actually getting progressively worse despite our players getting better. I'm looking forward to the day you're proved right, and Pards is fired. I just want to see our world class XI reaching their Champions League potential. It'll warm my heart to see Danny Simpson roving down the right wing in the San Siro. The Rossoneri will be having flashbacks to the glory days of Cafu.

For 30 or so minutes yesterday where it went like this I'd beg to disagree: Krul - hoof - mackem header wins ball, they attack we clear our lines - hoof. Repeat repeat repeat. We were fucking awful yesterday and its more depressing given the quality of our players, players with the attributes to play really good football. Your ludicrous OTT criticism, really undermines a lot of your points, many of which are valid. We were poor first half and constantly threatening in the second. Though he's definitely not the only one to do this. And this trait is most certainly not restricted to football alone.

Kicking off 'cause he lives in Spain. Outstanding edit: It seems that they think that by being on holiday, all respect and manners go out the window. I'm disappointed no-one replied with "Thinly veiled 'I live in Spain' post"

At the end of the day, what the hell are you smoking? You are quite daft if you do not think players like Cabaye, Tiote, Ben Arfa, Cisse, Ba, Coloccini and Krul wouldn't be pushing for starting births for most of the top 4-5 clubs in the country, bar City. To argue that every player has to be of this class, is pedantic. You could pick apart any of those sides for weaknesses in certain positions. The point I was making, is with players of this ilk, a better manager than Pardew would be achieving more, because it's not for want of a better starting XI. All of the players you've listed would be fringe players in Manchester. Questionnable with Tottenham/Arsenal/Chelsea, especially with Chelsea in their current state. Whilst these players could prove to be good enough for the top 4 in the long run, they're not there yet, or at least they haven't proven they're good enough for a period longer than 6 months. The Geordie stereotype is a lot more real than I had previously imagined. It's upsetting.

Goal Inter 2-1

Catania 2-0 up at the San Siro vs Inter.