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Thought all the asterisks were for the n word. You know, that other n word. This one is almost as bad.

Please win for my wallet. Thanks.

Half the SJP crowd enjoys it when he does his shitty celebration and he laps it up. Half the forum in fact loved Barton for his antics in general. You either accept it from all or accept it from none. Half of SJP in being pleased a Newcastle player has scored shocker And who are you to make up the fucking rules like? "You either accept it from all or accept it from none"? Sorry like but ner I enjoyed Barton winding up the mackems or having a bit of carry on over a corner with opposition fans now and then (I expect the mackems didn't like the 5-1 gestures and they rightfully hated him because of it), Danny Simpson shining the ball at Stoke etc, but I think I'll take exception at a player twice goading our fans in 3-0 derby defeats and then posing for photos after the game with team mates rubbing it in. I don't want the daft cunt walking in like nothing has happened and rewarded with a fucking lucrative contract at the club. He's playing for us now and he hasn't done anything wrong. Ironically if he starts goading the mackems, many people would love it. I think he's a good player and he'll be fine if Pardew wasn't managing us.

Half the SJP crowd enjoys it when he does his shitty celebration and he laps it up. Half the forum in fact loved Barton for his antics in general. You either accept it from all or accept it from none.

I've said that I like him before. He's a decent player and better than a few of ours. I'll give him a chance to win me over like I give every other signing of ours. It's funny that people criticise him for responding to fans and then enjoy S Taylor also responding to fans. You can't have it both ways. They all want to play for their fans, it's natural. Colback might love this club but he loves himself and his career more, just like every other footballer out there, including the idiot Taylor who threatens to walk away anytime he's deservedly dropped from the first team.

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Wenger should be in for Lukaku.

I don't know what games you guys were watching but a static midfield and unimaginative passing were two of our biggest problems last year and Tiote contributes hugely to that. Pardew is the number one reason but Tiote being in there every match is too. I'd rather Sissoko try a crazy run and end up making a silly pass than see Tiote pass it back to the CBs twenty times a match. He averages 60-70 passes a game, the majority will be short and to the side or back. That's all right if you're contributing defensively. He doesn't. What's worse is the 20 other passes which rarely put us in a good position. He sucks. He was good when he was asked to do nothing but keep it easy, but that time has long ago passed, either by Pardew's fault or his own.

You do realise he consistently has the highest amount/successful passes for us right? How many of them are actually forward passes? Stick my grandma in there and she'd be able to pass the ball back to Colo when it's rolled to him under no pressure. How about turn around and actually make a forward pass that finds its target for once?

The days of the hard DM are over. We need to move on from that shit. Tiote is an anachronism. Even an ultra defensive team like Atletico didn't employ a midfielder that couldn't pass the ball like him.

I long for the day that I don't see Tiote launching cross field balls that don't find their target or give us momentum. It's always a shitty pass or a good pass that puts the player under pressure. Either way, it's stupid and he should have stopped doing it ages ago. When Tiote starts making forward passes, I'll view him differently. Until then, he's a Pirlo-wannabe who thinks he's hard but consistently commits stupid fouls. Colback is a different player but a better player.

He's better than Tiote. He's athletic, quick, good on the ball. He can dribble without it bouncing off his shin and he can play more than a little tippy tap pass back to whoever he got it from so he's better than Tiote for me. Tiote does nothing defensively so I'll judge him on his skills on the ball, which aren't good.

He's a good player, better than some of the players we have.

Motm Di Maria

This has been tense as fuck for thirty minutes.

Ffs VI

Fuck

Ref has been great, managed this perfectly.

Fucking hell, thought that was it

Tiago the Chelsea reject has been running the show, bad pass to Bale notwithstanding.

Even though Atleti are a defensive team, they keep the ball really well when they want to.

Di Maria has been Real's only spark.

Atleti have been doing this all year. The way they defend is amazing.

Atleti are first to everything.

Game set up perfectly for Atleti now. Keep it this way until half time then burn Real on the counter in the second.