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Everyone should get down to Hollywood print with a plain white T-Shirt and get MandMdirect.com printed on it then wear them to every home game between now and the end of the season. Lovely bit of advertising for an online rival to Mikes Emporium of Tat and would love to see them try and stop 50,000 people wearing them

LDJ should be the no 9 Any 2 of Gouff, Remy, Benny, Sissoko wide forwards Any 3 of Tiote, Anita, Sissoko, Grenier(*) in the middle Santon, MYM, Willo, Debuch back 4 So so simple

Should be the muscle in the middle alongside tiote as an enforcer and Anita as the dictator. Would allow a front three to be a genuine front line rather than a midfield plus

Was the wages argument not used when we sold Carroll and it was claimed that part of the fee went towards Tiote's new contract?

Technically the Emporium of Tat sponsorship does show up in the accounts through the reduction in revenue - there's nothing in law to say that you need to charge for advertising although if we are classed as a related party to SPPlc then the markt value would need to be disclosed (at a very high level) in the SD accounts and there would be a profit adjustment for tax purposes.

Gouff and Cisse out tonight? Need to pull sissoko into the middle and give Ben Arfa a free role from the right. It's only Norwich and Hughton is more cautious than Pards

I wonder how much of the clubs cup/Europe ambition stems from Pardew putting forward a view that cup runs fuck up your league season? Its such a half baked approach to not caring anyway, I'd much rather having 11 changes for cup games and seeing where that takes us rather than putting out a relatively strong xi but telling them not to put in any effort. Gouff, Sissoko and Santon must have covered more ground than any player this year (well maybe Debuch but he was suspended anyway) so why not give them a bloody rest? I want to like him, his fist pumps are great after all, but at the moment Pardew is our limiting factor

So how many seasons of domestic and European competition will this bugger up? Certainly the season of the tournament and the seasons either side of it, but qualification for the world cup and potentially the 2024 Euros will be impacted. Its an absolute joke changing the timing after the award of the competition - they should have submitted a winter tournament proposal up front

Its on Radio Wales if anyone can get that on Freeview

BTW, its 13 points from 10 games to equal where we were before the winning streak in 11/12, you got to fancy a good 5 on top of that the way we're picking up results atm

Regardless of the Arsenal result we're above 11/12 at the halfway stage. In the words of Kammy. Unbelievable Jeff

To the battle for 4th thread

West Ham second bottom now?

Lets say the fucked foot theory is true ..... It would be fair to say that it was pre-existing when he signed for West Ham so would the insurance pay out? I certainly couldn't see a full payout coming their way. Shame

4 in 4 at home, its fair to say that the Gouff is most definitely on fire

We did also lose 6 times in the second half of the 11/12 season with 2 draws on top, so even without a 6 out of 6 run, there's potential to get close to the that points haul

Can't see it, he'll have enough options to not end up at a team on the decline He'll go abroad

They weren't cheap, but we spent good money on highly rated players, not wasted on average plodders. We also had Lee, Peacock, Beresford, Gillespie, Ginola, Beardsley and Albert who were bargains. Certainly weren't just an expensively put together bunch

Something to do with being fucked over with Weah and then Ginola being public enemy #1 in France for costing them world cup qualification (according to Houllier)

Bez, Howey and Les are 3/4 of the world's worst boyband. Albert is just a sexual predator

Have I missed something in the media war - how do the Chronicle have this information?

4-0 away to City doesn't seem so bad now

Would be interesting to see the inverse of that - are there only a handful of teams who turn games around etc?

This Man City performance just proves the point that we need more English players in our team

Was a weird day for me that one. Kicked in the head playing football (in goal), fractured eye socket and knocked out. Drugged up on painkillers, watched the game, went out on the beer and pulled an Irish lass who had more than a passing resemblance to Jackie Degg. University, good times