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Better than Joe Kinnear. Probably.

It's shocking to think that a footballer could be greedy.

Nothing to do with the fact that we pushed up higher to try and get the equalizer due to our numerical advantage and got caught on the break. Sure! You would prefer the Hughton way of just standing there looking smug and bringing on Ranger in the 85th minute, at least we won't lose our shape ya! I'm not quite sure how either of your points are meant to negate the notion that Pardew cocked things up after Spurs went down to 10 men. They're not even mutually exclusive, because it's possible that: 1) Spurs scored on the break after we pushed up looking for an equalizer AND Pardew's subsitutions made the team play worse (e.g. sticking Joey Barton, our only likely source of creativity, on the left wing for a while), and 2) Pardew's willingness to make early, active changes may be better than Hughton's inactivity in similar situations, but Pardew still got things badly wrong in the decisions he did make.

To state the obvious: we've been alot worse since Spurs went down to 10 men. And that's entirely because Pardew has unbalanced the entire side with his substitutions.

Pardew out!

'Arry has just increased our chances of winning.

Banks/Schmeical type of save from a bullet header by Pavshevchenko going down low to his left with the ball being palmed onto the inside of the post (and back across goal before being cleared). Last ditch, fast reaction, inches from being a goal stuff.

Harper there = that would have been a goal.

Routledge has been piss poor. Has the right idea, just no ability to execute them.

Terrible from Taylor that.

Won't be making too many Lay bets in that case, only winning what is put in isn't much of a reward for the risk of having to pay out several times over.

I'm pretty thick when it comes to betting, but would appreciate any help here. Does anyone understand how BetFair's system works? Odds for backing Man City to win the Premiership are 12 (decimal), but the Lay is at 12.5. So if I put £10 on Man City to not win the Premiership I'd see a return of 12.5 x £10? That can't be right. Also the other night I put £4 on a Lay bet for Villa not to win vs Spurs. The bet was matched at odds of 3.55, so I should have seen 3.55 x £4 put in my account after Spurs won. Instead I only won £4 on top of my stake. Wtf? I don't understand this Lay payout system at all.

Yeah, people shouldn't be surprised or alarmed. If Mourinho wants a tall striker to complement Higuaín/Benzema, Madrid's technical staff are going to look at all the good tall strikers in Europe. They were linked with Hugo Almeida and Mario Gómez, who are s*** compared to Carroll. Can't they get Llorente? Just as big, and at present he's a better player too from the little I've seen.

Sell and bring back N'Zogbia.

In all fairness to him, he took Ameobi off when it was clear he was doing f*** all, and took Nolan off after he had gassed out (and the game had passed him by for 40 minutes at least). Two things Hughton didn't seem very keen to do much of the time.

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Shades of Rivaldo there.

Hodgson trying to remember where he stashed that fucking bag of weed.

Sol's birthday present to Chris Howton.

Wouldn't be suprised if the logic was that Gosling = new signing therefore Barton won't need replacing. Would fit this Ashley "business model" too, i.e. Gosling = young and cheap, Barton = older and costly.

This. Still pisses me off thinking about how they treated Keegan, and how quite a few on here decided it was Keegan who was the bad guy in all of this. No self-respecting manager is going to work for these clowns, let alone a talented one with an ego. For the record, although it'll never happen, I'd love to have Keegan back. Screw all this "bottler" rubbish and worrying about how other sets of fans think we're pathetic for our "obsession" with him (the same sets of fans who would all be delighted to see us relegated again fwiw). He showed in his brief second spell here that he's still a very good manager, and that's all that matters.

I bet he can't believe his luck, these f***ing idiots are prepared to pay him well in the premier league. He's laughing all the way to the bank! Given that he invested time and money in Operation WormYourWayIntoAFootballJobBySuckingTheOwnerAndChairman'sDicksAtYourLocalCasino, I am doubtful of this statement.

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It's a terrible approach. It means the manager has absolutely no security in place - if players pick up injuries, or the squad just sees a temporary drop in form, as is normal in football, the board can get rid of that manager without having to think twice about it. Wenger, Ferguson, Mourinho, the very best managers in the sport all see their teams suffer lengthy dips in form at some point or another, and that's with some of the best teams/squads in the country, so it's not like this "get paid for results" malarky is reasonable or realistic. It also means the board have complete control over the manager. Any disagreement would mean the manager gets the sack, which means they just want someone who is a puppet on a string, as opposed to an actual manager who will want to build the club according to his vision. And why isn't there the same "incentive" for the chairman/board/senior management? Llambias should have been sacked by now after the relegation. I guess it's OK for them to live by different rules. Rotten to the core.

Holy shit. Was going to post about how Pardew is probably another drinking buddie of Ashley based on the same story we had with Dennis Wise... But fucking hell. So beyond disgraceful I'm lost for words, even if it's not a suprise (and of course assuming that line is true). Not only is it the sheer ignorance and stupidity of Ashley in appointing clueless dickheads to vastly important jobs because they're his mates, but as others have said, there's this nagging feeling of Pardew being a slimy, snake-like cunt who has wormed his way into a job by "befriending" Ashley (in other words, sucking his cock and stabbing a good man in the back to get his own shot at the limelight). Fuck's sake.