Mick

Ben Arfa is better than all the players named on the last page, he's the only one mad enough to come here and that put's him head and shoulders above the rest.

If the team was that good then don't you think it would take something of a prick to start changing it? Oh we've got a good team, let's move Cisse and bring Ba back into the middle and see what happens.

Carry on, life would be much duller without you.

Christ, I didn't even see any contact and thought he'd just twisted his knee.

That after beating one of the two teams we beat away from home last season.

Some of the Pardew sympathisers are clueless.

The negativity has nothing to do with this weekend, I'm sure everybody is happy for a change. The hype following that performance is far too early and that shouldn't need pointing out but it clearly does. Yeah i can certainly see why the doubters don't want to get excited just yet, i'm pretty sure they will stand up soon though and start to take notice of what we actually have here. Laughing at yourself, I guess you now know how we feel.

We will, we'll just not buy one.

He did Enrique at home last season and had him on his arse at least once.

The negativity has nothing to do with this weekend, I'm sure everybody is happy for a change. The hype following that performance is far too early and that shouldn't need pointing out but it clearly does.

Come back and comment after you've played at a decent level.

You can tell a manager is shit when he gets high praise for picking an obvious starting 11.

You wouldn't need a lieu day on a weekend if you had a proper job.

Also we couldn't play M'biwa centrally because of not having Ba, we couldn't play Anita and Sissoko centrally because we didn't have Ba.

I wasn't bothered when we didn't get him in January because of his injury record, I'm surprised that he's played so many games.

I was trying to do the same until some went too far OTT about what he did or didn't do today.

"We have a real attacking mode at the club and that's the type of offensive side I want to put out, but I have been unable to do so really since Demba Ba left. Lying bastard had Ba last season but didn't go 4-3-3.

It wouldn't have been easy at all, he knows what people thinks about certain players as he hears the reaction to his substitutions. I think we'll learn more in the coming weeks, especially if we lose a game.

I can't think of a game this season when we've had more in the box than today, repeat that and we'll do OK as I don't think we lacked numbers. If we have the same bottle at home as we had today we'll get the bodies in the box, we'll get goals.

We've just had a shit transfer window but it would be a massive signing if we get Ben Arfa on a longer contract and I can't think of a realistic signing we could have made that I would have liked more.

Krul, get forward.

The say go go go He loves it.

His interview.

I don't know how, he was involved loads.

Dean is always going to book him, it didn't look too bad to me but ref's give them.