Mick

He did that in August and has since probably turned in his best run of performances for the club.

It's the 27th January 2014, we haven't won a trophy worth winning since 1969 which is 45 years ago. We've gone out of both cups with a whimper, we're lying 8th in the league and we're possibly going to lose the most influential player of the season and some look to defend the club. Give your heads a shake.

Aye, that one instance is loads more than Pardew.

The point I'm making is that we had an opportunity to push on and failed to do anything about it. Our failure to capitalise on our position years ago doesn't mean we can't try to progress now and fail we did.

2 seasons ago we went into our last game 1 point off a CL place.

David Young warned United "If the club is to maintain its position, it's very important it returns to the European Champions League as soon as possible." "The financial rewards of the Champions League have become so great there is a danger that those clubs who are participating in it now will become so rich that clubs will be unable to challenge them." How right he was. Sadly we missed the boat long before Ashley turned up Bimpy. And ever since.

Amongst how many Chronicle readers?

Gosling has been out on loan and still made more appearances than Bigiramana when he replaced Anita v Leeds.

If they do they're thick enough to vote for Pardew or are mackems taking the piss.

That can go both ways, the World Cup should have had us running from Guivarc'h when he played shite.

Didn't Shola once come high in a poll for player of the year or something on the Chronicle website, what does that tell you?

I don't know a single person who rates him, not a single person at work or anybody I go to games with.

I wasn't interested at all in going out to Cardiff.

The last round was far worse.

We're good enough to and I'm not going to go into a derby against a lesser team thinking we'll not win. I think we're better and I think we're better by 2 or 3 goals.

I am, we'll win by 2 or 3 goals.

Aye, we were rusty.

I see you left the small matter of the derby out of that little scenario for the rest of the season. Not too confident then? Sunderland are only two points from safety btw, I wouldn't write them off just yet. They've got a decent haul of points since Poyet took over, not to mention some great cup results as compared to your managerial hero. Poyet is having a canny honeymoon, it goes back over 3 years as a manager against us and in that time he's guided his lesser teams to beat us 3 times. As for what he's rumoured to have done on a dressing room floor, isn't Pardew rumoured to have done things that he shouldn't have done? Having said that, I think we'll get one over him next week as we have a far superior team.

Of course he is, he's having a go at your idol.

So true, sovereign states can't be beaten.

Probably the same idiots who support Pardew.

Unfortunately not.

I received an e-mail from the FA yesterday, it read "Why not your club this year?" and "Every fan, player and manager dreams of lifiting The FA Cup..."

Send it by pm, I'll not tell anybody who you are.