Sifu

Suarez: cunt at your service.

Very much so.

Well that was definitely a foul on Torres. Still though, Torres hahaha

Colin Murray time

Guess it's best if I don't watch that video then.

Ouch, burn.

Yet Ben Arfa himself has said that Pardew's the first coach who's truly "understood" him. Hmmm.

Could be that his mind's not in it atm. Didn't his bairn have some health problems a couple of months back, perhaps there's still some complications?

Now that he's (finally) got his first PL goal, it should be the stepping stone for him to achieve some good goalscoring form. Today's goal (despite it being a rather fortunate one) should improve his confidence and that should help him now.

Think I prefer the Europa League Obertan to the PL Obertan. We just need to get Derren Brown to hypnotise him to think that every game is an Europa League game.

Being subbed off on the hour mark should act as an incentive for him to up his concentration levels. His defending today was well below par especially considering that his defending is meant to be his best attribute of his limited ability. Delivered one good ball into the box though.

Right, after digesting that, my thoughts are as follows: I honestly thought we were decent enough in the first half, we deserved to be in front at half time. We played some decent stuff, it was a good mix between direct and passing along the floor imo - our directness got us the goal and thought we sufficiently controlled the game (bar West Brom's counter attacks). We needed to build on that first half and go for it in the second but unfortunately, that didn't happen. No-one really knew what they were supposed to do and you could definitely put that down to Pardew's instructions (or lack of). The midfield looked confused, the players simply didn't know which position they were meant to be holding, there was no movement - it was quite frankly a mess. Thank fuck we got that (undeserved) winner eh? Got to say though, at least we got a PL win - it has been a while. But again, we've got a lot of issues to address. Something's got to give eventually - I don't for one second believe that Pardew is a mug of a manager, he has shown in the past that he can get something right. Let's hope that he gets it spot on (or thereabouts) sooner rather than later.

Another ground where we have a horrendous record at. Don't know what to say about this game really other than "I believe". Probably a silly thing to say mind. Pessimism ftw.

- wonder what odds I'd have got. :lol: Mystic Beren. You should do this more often

I can shave!

Fuck me, daylight robbery! Hahaha.

Decent enough.

Wow, startling...

Ever the diplomat I try

First that coffin business, now this? Bleurgh.

Ah the Sunday transfer chatter. It has been missed (not).

I'm going to stay calm and see what happens. I wouldn't have gone for that lineup personally and it does suggest a specific, perhaps ill-advised, gameplan but there's still 90 minutes ahead of us for us to properly judge. I can understand people's frustrations btw.

Here comes the pre-match meltdown...

Cue forum meltdown.

A disgruntled player? Little tactics involved? Yep, QPR are going down.