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On the off chance this isn't a wind up...you do know the game is tomorrow and not today?

According to some dodgy looking Twitter profile seemingly made just for that "news". Yeah, just noticed that. Saw someone else tweet about it and then Ogden from the Telegraph RT'd it so didn't bother looking at the profile initially.

Shinji Kagawa has agreed to sign for Man U according to Japanese TV.

Thought we did OK in second half. If Cisse or Ben Arfa had taken their chances then I think we might have made a bit of a game of it.

Fair play to Wigan, they've been great. Couple of individual mistakes on the first two games have cost us. Once we're chasing the game we're playing right into Wigan's tactics of fast counter-attacking.

Best football team I've ever seen. Shame it's ending like this.

Would love to us win some trophies. It's a shame the cup competitions (especially the League Cup) seem to be devalued. However, the League Cup does have the problem that the majority of it's matches take place early in the season when the big clubs are far more concerned with staying the Champions League or Europa League. That and the fact there is no reward for big teams to do well (Why would Man U want a Europa League spot when they'll get a CL one in league?) makes it pretty pointless. The FA Cup still seems to be doing OK. I'd say change it to give a CL place to the winner (CL place would go to league if winner already qualified). That would give a major incentive for all the big teams to go all out to win it.

Michel Vorm Bacary Sagna - Vincent Kompany - Jonny Evans - Benoît Assou-Ekotto Antonio Valencia - Mikel Arteta - David Silva - Gareth Bale Robin van Persie - Wayne Rooney

Interesting Pardew quote on Ben Arfa - "With Hatem, you've got to let him have his world. It's his world when he has the ball, my world is when he hasn't."

Stunning goal. He's scored two now that are up there with the best goals I've seen from a Newcastle player.

Sounds bizarre but I'd love to see him swap R.Taylor for Simpson at HT and then switch the full back. They're doubling up on Ben Arda which leaves a lot of room for the full back but Simpson just isn't doing enough to be a threat. Santon going forward on the right would have plenty of room to attack.

Only downside is no Alonso for them. Was looking forward to Ben Arfa ripping him apart!

Gone from thinking "I'll take a scrappy 1-0" to "Let's absolutely maul them" in about 30 seconds.

COLO!!!!

Two things I want tomorrow - a win and Ba to get a goal.

Think they could have had a really good season if it wasn't for all their injuries. Players who featured in the Liverpool and Man U defeats who wouldn't get in the team now - Frimpong, Jenkinson, Miquel, Lansbury, Bendtner, Arshavin, Coquelin and Troare. That's a pretty long list!

It's a little bit tragic watching Balotelli. Obviously has the talent to be a world class player but seems destined to throw it all away because of his attitude. Best thing he can do is get out of City if Mancini stays. I think their relationship is beyond repair.

Why is Douglas free? Why only 2-3m for Pieters? Why are we selling Best?

Can't believe the size of our injury list currently. Any news today on Cabaye, Colo and Tiote for Monday?

Yep would love to see us back in Europe and would hope to see us taking the competition seriously.

Frustrating to watch but we are defending really well. Just need to keep the ball a bit better when we do get it.

As expected we got hammered. 5-0.

Just realised that the combined age of our two starting CB's today is 34. Simon Davies who's starting for Fulhan is 32.

Indeed, I fear we could be on the recieving end of another one-sided scoreline. Good experience for the younger players though who are going to be playing against some players who are basically first-teamers.

Just seen that Inter are currently leading Genoa 5-4.