tmonkey

Bit of a poor header admittedly, but there's a major slice of bad luck too in that "mistake".

Why should he care? He's going, which is what people wanted. Why should he give a f*** about who offers him the most money? From Ashley's statement: "I am putting the club up for sale. I hope that the fans get what they want and that the next owner is someone who can lavish the amount of money on the club that the fans want. This will not be a fire sale. Newcastle is now in a much stronger position than it was in 2007. It is planning for the future and it is sustainable. ... ... ... But I have set out, clearly, my plan. If I can't sell the club to someone who will give the fans what they want then I shall continue to ensure that Newcastle is run on a business and football model that is sustainable. I care too much about the club merely to abandon it." Can only hope that he honours his own words. Otherwise, yes, he has absolutely no reason to care what anyone does with the club after he's sold it.

If we are bought by Americans, I hope Ashley is getting guarantees from them that they wont lumber us with the debts of some other overseas company.

No he didn't Aye he did, bar hitting the cross bar what else did he do? Bar the Maradona's and Zidane's, no player plays to a standout level every single game against every opposition they come across.

Owen needs to be brought back slowly, but it would be interesting to see how we'd fare if Owen was played behind Martins, and not alongside him. Gutierrez, Owen and Barton pulling the strings in midfield with Martins leading the line as he did against Villa...its worth a try at the very least.

Owen would make a great super sub.

He's gone from "rip your hair out" shit to being a half decent target man. He did have that "its difficult if your second touch is a tackle" moment once or twice, however its happening far, far less frequently compared to previous years. Kudos to Kinnear.

We are 14th now.

Milner, £12m. Jonas, Free. Carlsberg transfers really do happen sometimes.

Smashing play by Jonas.

Alan Shearer scouting the team he's about to take over as manager

Smashing free kick from Butt, off the post. If thats not a fluke, why the hell has he not been taking them more often?

Was expecting alot more from Villa after the mass O'Neill wankathon in the media.

Jonas looks tired, and its been only 5 minutes.

He had concocted a losing formula with us, and was far too proud, arrogant and conceited to have changed things aroud. The man would not even entertain the notion that his teams played long ball football, claiming it was just a misconception and that his teams play no more long balls than e.g. ManU (all we ever did under him was punt it long to our midget strike force). Alan Smith started a game or two short of every match under Big Sam, despite his shocking form all season long, and he'd have stayed up front breaking down all our moves and helping the opposition out with bad tackles had Keegan not come in and dropped him immediately, as Big Sam was far too proud to acknowledge a failed transfer. I'm pretty sure therefore that we would have been relegated under Big Sam, because we were losing or drawing against the shit teams during that awful first half of a season in our bid to achieve a draw at best in each game, and had a very hard fixture list for the remaining half of the season.

Quality goal from Duda. Malaga 1 Barca 1.

Fuck me, do Xisco and Ameobi not know how to make a basic run off the ball?

Stay onside for fuck's sake. Even then he handballed it.

Taylor with a rush of Butt there.

He sees himself as an awesome footballer too.

Come on lads, kick lumps out of West Brom, the good old Crazy Gang way.

Duff and Coloccini fuck up big time.

Hope that performance by Gutierrez puts to bed the "Owen is out best player, we'll not get someone as good as him for a long, long time" comments. Different positions, different players, but he looks at the very least to be in the same calibre.

It really was. it flew over everyone going in the wrong direction and went out for a throw. Was closer to the half way line than the goal line.

TBH Ameobi made that goal by jogging into the box at 0.000001 mph. Defenders cant handle such extreme slowness.