Ashley17

Guessing you'll be ready to run into the garden at full time on MOTD?

What a way to celebrate your first derby win at home in 28 years.... a night in front of the PC Threw all his money at Barton

Not even slightly. I hate the little bling cunt

Possibly, but how often do you see strikes these days change direction? Wind or no wind, it was hit at something like 73mph

Shit performance, first half we did well to come back into it, Shola looked decent at times winning the ball in the air for flick ons and did well for the goal, firstly winning the free kick and actually scoring a header, which for him is a miracle. Second half was poor, we looked edgy and Martins had one of his "what's a football" days, couldn't control it for love nor money and only a small part of that is down to the wind. Geremi was to blame for the goal IMO, lost out too easily to Diouf, Guthrie couldn't take him down because he'd been booked and Butt had to clip him or else he would have scored. The strike was impressive unfortunately. Gutierrez and Barton did more in the short time they were on that most, Surely N'Zogbia should have come on as an attacking option at left back, but maybe Diamond Joe thought Enrique was a better idea....for some reason. Anyway, 3 points on Tuesday please let's forget about this debacle and move on with our lives. Also, their fans invading the pitch at the end, that for me sums up how sad they are - the highlight of their season has been and gone and it's October. We better fuck them up in January

Huh? A player who does not currently play for us

1. Steve Taylor. He would die of happyness 2. Antoine Sibierski. No reason given. 3. Man Utd 4. Nicky Butt, because it's the most likely event.

Ok, who's responsible for this 1844: "Ramos has absolutely no character, I don't think his players know who is managing them, he has no identifiable management style. He needs to go and be replaced by Allardyce who knows how to deal with relegation scraps." Travelsick on 606

Just got in, great effort from the 10 men. Knew it wasn't a pen from the east stand just by Shay's reaction alone. I have no idea how the ball ended up at Shola's feet and I was sat in the front row of the East stand in line with him, lucky finish aswell. Duff played the best I've seen him in a long time, actually beat some players and put in some decent crosses. Also, one thing that was very evident was the team spirit. When Shola scored Colo ran the length of the field to join in, lots of hugs and high fives throughout (bar Guthrie and Colo having a brief argument) and it's clear to see Kinnear has given them a "Backs to the wall" mentality. Wish we could have held on but a point will do given the circumstances.

I'd say it's obvious from comments in the media that JFK prefers Shola to Xisco. I'd assume Martins will be on the bench at best, by the comments on NUFCTV I wouldn't expect Jonas to be involved and there's been no mention of Enrique. No idea where the goals are going to come from if we are to win.

Beye - yes Jonas - No Martins - Involved somehow probably

Andy Gray "Did he get a knock? Little bit" Yes Andy, he got a flying knee to the face, that's going to hurt

Glad Stoke are winning, I fully expect Spurs to pick up more points than Stoke over the course of the season so Spurs dropping points here will do just nicely.

Speaking of "tap in" men, did any see Merson today saying Arsenal should have signed Robbie Fowler to play against the non-top 4 teams in the league because they dominate and make so many chances all they need is someone to be able to finish.

Taylor might have attacked well enough last week but defensively he was poor IMO

It's on NUFC TV that Jonas is aiming to be back for the Derby next weekend

Aston Villa: Friedel, Cuellar, Davies, Laursen, Milner, Reo-Coker, Petrov, Barry, Ashley Young, Agbonlahor, Carew. Subs: Guzan, Luke Young, Sidwell, Harewood, Knight, Shorey, Gardner. Villa going for 3-5-2 to match Pompey? Seems a bit odd...

Who's booing Downing?

Boro's kids have all been fucking shit here

I know I was agreeing Yeah.... Just the way you said it made it sound like you were making a totally new point, nevermind

You know the bit where he said "just not as a pairing"? Yeah...

How depressing to have failed to qualify 18 months in advance

Walcott is really pointless in a home game out wide, away from home its not so bad as there's space to exploit but he can't cross for shit. Much rather have SWP out there now he actually plays club football. Beckham can just be trotted out to play 20 minutes if it's necessary. What happened to our abundance of centre halves? Upson or Lescott and Upson gets in.....right. It's about time someone got some balls and dropped Lampard or Gerrard, don't care if it's alongside Barry or Hargreaves but pick them on form for fuck sake. And on this form, it's Lampard.

Elano scored against us last season on a colder night... But Robinho? Jo's used to it, I dunno, we never got at City last time we just let them piss all over us. What!? We pissed on them for large chunks of this fixture last year, first half in particular we missed a hatful of chances.

Oh I forgot Joe Cole was injured, conundrum solved.