tmonkey

That counter attack came from Ribery being shit, as per usual.

Robben is carrying Bayern here to an extent.

That Christmas tree formation he used at AC Milan :fwap:

Indeed All out attack vs genuine counter attacking.

Ouch. Nowhere near the target from Bale.

The pace of this game

“Cabaye’s sale was huge. They have to replace him, he was our best and most creative player.” Yeah, our best and most creative player after Pardew decided to bin Ben Arfa.

Tiote plays like a dickhead and I hope, nay pray, he's our big summer sale in a couple of months. Sick of seeing him trot around like he's big bad Bluto from the Popeye cartoons whilst the reality is that he's providing zero real protection for the defense - his positioning, fitness and tackling are all laughably pathetic when he's having to chase back or play catch up - but that won't stop him strolling about chest pumped after winning a useless 50-50 body strength challenge when there was no "fret" in the first place. Sick of seeing him frequently completely ignore a teammate in a better position because the pass would be too obvious for his royal highness to play and he'd much rather try a s*** pass to e.g. someone on his blind side. Sick of his twists and turns which he often does just for the sake of it, going so far as to stop forward momentum just to turn back and "beat" his man who didn't realise a player would be so thick as to stop running forward with the ball when the space is there. Sick of his f***ing idiotic s*** egotistical blasts from 30-40 yards out, every other player in the league consistently spreads the play when they receive the ball in these positions so that the team can continue to attack (especially if there are numbers forward) but this w***** will consistently blast the ball into row Z because his ego warrants it. Even Scholes and Lampard at their absolute peaks would pass the ball 9 times out of 10 in these positions, and here we have Cheik thinking he has a divine right to have a pop at goal. Have absolutely no doubt in my mind that most of this is down to Pardew filling Tiote's big, empty head with utter s*** about him being a warrior, a playmaker, a goalscoring Essien, etc etc, and more importantly the blame lies entirely with Pardew for not clamping down on this. But we're at a stage now where I doubt it can be reversed, and to be quite frank I no longer care if it can be.

http://www.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/949.jpg

Piss off Tiote!

"We wos doing well until we wos undone by science."

Gerrard

Piss poor touch from Ba.

You can though, because he'll end up on the pitch ahead of better players. I've sort of convinced myself that Pardew will be sacked at the end of the season, which I'm finding in turn puts a slightly positive spin on most things associated with football and NUFC.

Decent player imo, would be a better squad option than the likes of Gosling. Free transfer so can't really complain.

Along with blindly lumping it into the box and hoping something happens, it's pretty blatant that Pardew has implemented a "shoot from anywhere" policy in an attempt to continue masking the horrendous lack of creativity in his teams. It's sheer desperation to hope that shooting wildly from range will lead to goals, either directly or via rebounds/deflections/etc. It'll be alot worse next season too without Remy, as he's the only one remaining after Cabaye's sale who is actually a serious threat from range. A couple of injuries to whoever we'll bring in (if anyone) and it'll be Shola slicing and scuffing it from 30 yards out and Tiote skying it from 40 next season whilst Pardew bemoans the sale of Ben Arfa.

Pardew stated a few weeks ago that Shola has spent time in the manager's office discussing many things (probably moaning about Hatem so that Sammy gets a few more starts), and not only does Shola play regularly, but we're now onto the unthinkable - a contract extension request. It's pretty clear that those squad members sucking on Pardew's shaft and licking his balls are the ones being rewarded.

All Pardew has to do to get Cisse back on track is this.

Stick Keith Gillespie, David Ginola and Les Ferdinand in this Atletico side and they'd have won 10-0 tonight. http://nedbatchelder.com/pix/pilkingtoncartoon.jpg

Diego Costa trying to play his way out of a big summer move.

Torres is such a diving wanker

Needed Rivaldo there.

Everton were one of the dirtiest sides I've seen in Premiership football in the initial years under Moyes, beaten only by Mark Hughes' Blackburn who were very clearly instructed to kick lumps out of the opposition. That's something that shouldn't be overlooked, especially since, truth be told, Goodison Park can be a much more intimidating ground for referees than St James' (which meant over the years refs being quick to overlook many of the nasty late tackles from the likes of Phil Neville, Cahill, Carsley, etc etc). The relevance being here that whilst beggars can't be choosers, and whilst he undoubtedly did a great job overall for Everton over his entire time there, I think it's fair to question and analyse Moyes rather than simply saying "finished top 6 for X years with Everton, we can't turn nose up at him ffs". There's an obvious risk with him because he's shown at Manchester United that he's not a manager who implements a vision on the training ground that equates to a slick, creative side on match days, which is what many ambitious fans desire in a manager these days (given the comparative success of the likes of Pochettino, Martinez, Rodgers, etc, with Wenger and Guardiola being the extreme examples) - instead I'd argue he's someone who has proven that he can motivate a team of cloggers into bullying the opposition, and then slowly and gradually supersede that reliance on cloggers by buying the right players who fit into his vision/mould and who compliment or replace the cloggers, adding a bit of quality on top of the work rate. The risk referred to is that we don't have decent cloggers here, so he'd have to buy them (telling the likes of Tiote, Anita, MBwia, Saylor, Williamson, Debuchy, etc etc, to get stuck in will just result in red cards and penalties conceded galore). We are also likely to (a) not sign the players he'd want who suit his vision, because we have Graham Carr scouting some excellent talent for bargain prices but who don't necessarily fit any kind of profile, and (b) would probably sell a key player that Moyes' system would be based around for profit (e.g. Fellaini, who if you removed from last year's Everton and failed to replace with e.g. a Lukaku, would probably result in them being mid table at best). In terms of "if not Moyes then who?", again, we are beggars under Ashley, and if Pardew does get sacked we're likely to end up with someone nearly as bad and just as obscure (Venables, Pulis, Hoddle, Curbishley, whoever), in which case Moyes would obviously be miles better. But we need a very specific type of manager otherwise we're likely to be back in the same position because the manager is struggling as he can't get the squad he has to play anything resembling decent football, can't get the players he wants, the players he needs and does have get sold from under him and so his exceptionally limited "gameplan" falls apart very easily, etc etc. The aforementioned sought after type who do their work on the training ground and get the team passing and moving as a unit, are what we need because they're the type who'll fare better with our "policy" of signing and selling players, and would make better use of the current squad. Whilst we obviously can't attract a Martinez or Rodgers or possibly even a Laudrup (he'll have offers), I'm sure if Ashley just wanted it he'd be able to land the ones who share that type of footballing philosophy, albeit someone who would be desperate enough for a Premiership job. Martinez, Rodgers, Pochettino, Wenger, Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, whoever, they all came from somewhere small, they were all plucked out of obscurity from somewhere by a top flight club, so logically there's got to be more of these types out there who aren't in a top level job but would take one if the chance came their way. It's just that our owner unfortunately is an utter arrogant plank. I realise this is all hypothetical pipe dream stuff, but the point here was just to justify why doubts about Moyes, even in our ridiculous position under Ashley, are at the very least reasonable.