Mick

He does a lot of kicking before the game when the other players are warming up and believe it or not, his kicking is first class before the game.

If his last goal was the one I'm thinking about, I think it was before last Christmas, sorry, Christmas before last.

Was that not a penalty, too? I think his last goal was against QPR at home, I don't think it was a penalty.

Jesus wept, who else does that?

He's scored 9 league goals in the last 4 seasons in which he's played 91 times.

Did I imagine Shola going down for a header in the Arsenal box and heading it away from goal?

Another brilliant game today, he didn't deserve to be on the losing side.

Why do we always have to build our game around the opposition rather than have a go at them?

You're right, we'd try to make glue and end up with Teflon.

I'm convinced he would make better glue than a footballer.

He's playing well and works his socks off but why is he "undroppable"? You never heard of squad rotation before? It's actually quite common so I'd be surprised if you haven't. I would "drop" Sissoko at home if we're going to play 4-3-3 like, not Gouffran. He's our best, most consistent player. Teams generally don't tend to drop those. What? He's our best, most consistent player.

Idiots having a go at Ben Arfa for making wrong decisions

He's a bottling bastard and I don't care how good Arsenal are, we're playing at home and trying to contain the opposition. His 2nd 2 sub's were shocking.

It looks like we're in containment mode, I hope it works but doubt it will.

It looks like we're in containment mode, I hope it works but doubt it will.

I can't see us winning this as they'll have far too much movement for us unless we get at them from the off, I hope we try to take the game to them.

He helped the bloke massively who you share your username with in the season we finished 5th, people may not like it but he was an important player for us and always gave 100%.

A similar record to Shola then over the last 4 or 5 years. Jonas is limited but he's usually worked his bollocks off for us, I'm glad he's no longer playing but I have nothing against him.

I would love to have standing back and I have been going long enough to have stood in the Popular and have never felt in any danger inside our ground. The only time I felt in any danger was standing for cup tickets on Barrack Road in the early 70's and being crushed against the gates at the corner of the West Stand/ Leazes because we had to go through the Leazes turnstiles to buy tickets.

Pardew played a blinder against Stoke, I have no idea how he planned to have 2 players sent off and a couple of penalties but he must have planned it if it wasn't down to luck. I also feel sorry for him as luck never goes for him, only against him.

I thought Haidara was excellent when he came on but I wouldn't start him on Sunday. He's learning his game and will learn more coming on when things are going for us than he will starting in a tough game at this stage in his career.

Some people can't or won't see past the result for some reason, it we don't get beat we've done enough.

Merson keeps mentioning the Spurs game. Fairly sure it was the last time he saw us All of our players are getting into a top 6 team.

I thought that Santon had lost the ball further back into our own half and admitted that I was wrong, I wasn't wrong that we'd come out for the 2nd half and sat back.