Sifu

Ireland did have that one shot against Man U tbf. Yep...

Another failed project for Villas-Boas then. But having said that I honestly believe that given the time, Villas-Boas will get it right in the PL...with every mistake comes a lesson (you'd think so anyway, he seems to be an intelligent enough guy...).

The thought of Aiden McGeady playing for us... *shudders*. Do not rate him whatsoever.

Aye, sounds like it but find it strange that it's only the French press reporting it.

Word by word, it's translated as: "Andre Villas-Boas would no longer be the coach of Tottenham" which makes no sense so it'll be translated as "will no longer be the coach".

Basically means he's been sacked.

Willie McKay needs to fuck right off like. Fucking cunt.

Even more than Beckham? That'll be some feat.

For me, it was a classic case of a game of two halves. Thought we were great in the first half with some great football here and there and we deserved to go into the break in the lead. Having said that, we really should have been at least 2-0 up at the half time whistle imho - we certainly had the chances to do so. The way the second half went was typical of us really - as ever, we just could not take the initiative and that allowed Southampton to get back into it (and once again, it happened at St. James'). Southampton's changes at half time gave them that extra bit of life and rejuvenated them I thought (it freed up Rodriguez to attack at us anyway) and Pardew's response to that was a bit lacking. As time went on, we did bring back our first half form but too little too late imo. All in all and on the balance of play, I'd say a draw is a fair result but I just can't help but feel that we dropped 2 points here - it was on us to take the game to Southampton after going ahead but we simply failed to do so (though Remy should have really scored when their keeper made that mistake, that would have probably been enough for us to see the game out...).

My eyes!

I work with a couple. My reaction has been "we beat a team below us in the league, so f***." I think it's having a worse effect than being smug. I work in Manchester so it makes the feeling all the better for me.

Couldn't help but feel very smug at work today. Was great dishing it out at my Man U supporting workmates, might continue to do so all week actually

Oldham did beat them last year tbf.

Professional as ever.

Reasonably satisfied with that I think.

Home tie.

Here we go!

Typical.

Massive, massive credit to Pardew for yesterday. He set us up in a way that we would dominate the midfield and got us to play as an organised and cohesive unit. 41 and a half years without a win at Old Trafford and Pardew achieved a moment of history with the win yesterday (pretty much in the same vein as the Chelsea win at Stamford Bridge 2 seasons ago).

*Fistpump*

(Didn't see that youtube video above when I posted; now I feel like a dick).

What a perfect day yesterday turned out to be. Our performance was absolutely top notch and it was the very definition of the "perfect" away performance imho - that is, we battled until the very end; we looked organised and cohesive as a unit and we defended rather strongly against their attacks (silly fouls outside the box aside). Pardew deserves credit for the way he set us up yesterday - the key was always winning the midfield battle and to essentially play 5 in midfield worked a treat - Tiote, in particular, was beastly and was a main contributor to us dominating Man U's midfield. Defensively, we were really sound with the back 5 performing their roles admirably especially Williamson (all credit to him as well btw for stepping up to the level he's playing now, from a lowly 4th choice CB to basically first choice is no mean feat). Can't really find many faults with any of our players yesterday though admittedly, I was pretty much nervous as f*** after we scored but I suppose that is a reflex reaction. All in all though, no complaints whatsoever. Another thing I'd like to add from yesterday was watching the game in a Geordie friendly pub in Manchester - I narrowly missed out on tickets for the game but the pub was more than an adequate alternative - it did have Man U fans watching too but that didn't stop me celebrating like a madman when we scored and mocking the Mancs when they had their goal disallowed (in fact, think there were more NUFC fans than Man U fans there!). There's literally nowhere else in Manchester where I could get away with that. Lovely stuff. Also won £430 in the weekly poker tournament I go to on Saturdays (the first time I've cashed out on a Saturday too!) so aye it was the perfect day yesterday :indi:

Why am I not surprised that Taylor's decided to dress up as the Joker. Those eyes...

Forever embedded into history

Credit where credit is due. A much deserved award for Pardew, no-one would have expected us to go through the whole of November on a winning streak so he deserves praise for that like.