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Fair comment. At several points in the match I thought he was going to actually go pitchside to orally pleasure Mark Hughes' backroom staff.

Sky said it was an ankle, will need a scan, not thought to be too serious, but still no firm idea.

Tactics for QPR Match: 1. Bench HBA 2. Lump it aimlessly over the midfield 3. ???? 4. Profit!

This is absolute shite. No wonder Ben Arfa doesn't fit into these "tactics".

If only someone had made a higher-quality video of the highlights and uploaded it instead of videotaping their TV screen and uploading it to YouTube... Perhaps Maybe MErciful FORces will LINK up to make that happen.

Pardew: "Those of our loyal fans who couldn't afford to come - cause probably that was the reason - missed, in my opinion, one of the greatest...well, certainly the greatest goal I've ever seen from Hatem. Technically, from a professional point of view, it was unbelievable."

Actual Journalism Challenge: FIND OUT IF THERE ACTUALLY IS A RELEASE CLAUSE. If you are a legitimate journalist, with legitimate sources, that shouldn't be hard. If Demba wanted to leave, or was hoping for offers, his agent or someone near him would reveal crucial information. How is it that no one actually can report with clarity whether this alleged clause exists? Do your fucking job.

The man has no shame. And the sad thing is all the journos tripping all over themselves to repeat what he's said. He's got so many media sycophants it's embarrassing. Fuck right off. "They say there's a release clause in his contract, that's what we all hear." What a load of shit.

That is a fucking class finish. What a player.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Radio is wrong.

This is just unwatchable. Turgid. Atrocious. Surely Pardew must see how easily we've been figured out and how toothless this attack is without anything approaching midfield play or wing effectiveness.

From Zonal Marking's Twitter: Not that he's a striker mind. Just another stellar accolade for Wor Gabby.

The entire team looks tired and jaded. No energy, urgency or communication. The only bright spots (Ba excluded), not coincidentally, happened to be Vuckic and HBA. Players who haven't played much and have much more energy. Changes are needed quickly. Cannot continue in the same way and expect anything less than more defeats and insipid play.

Colo must not be even close to fit. He was awful. Tiote also was awful. Vuckic very very promising and unlucky not to have at least one, if not 2 wondergoals. HBA needs to be playing, end of. Santon off at the half was disgraceful, especially seeing as how it did precisely fuck all for our defensive prowess. Without Ba, we'd be in deep trouble.

Shola apparently about to come on. WTF

THey're killing us down the right in particular because Jonas doesn't have the energy to play LB/LW like he did for two months and Raylor is shit.

Obertan is playing all over the place - again, if he's going to do that, replace him with the much better option in HBA.

Colo's having a diabolical game. Doesn't look at the races.

High line is killing us. We do not have the pace and organization to do it against WBA.

Santon off? That's the change? Goodness me.

Lots of long ball, really not playing it like we did a few weeks ago. I still contend we don't have the energy as a side we did back then. Mentally we're making far more mistakes than ever before - another sign of fatigue. Need HBA if for no other reason than just to freshen up the ideas and give us a different look.

Colo's been as much at fault tonight for the goals as Perch, I'm afraid. Tiote has been really poor, Jonas too. Wing play has been so so appalling. Obertan's now cutting inside far more than hugging the touchline; might as well bring HBA on.

That was incredible from Vuckic - you cannot get closer than that from 25 yards out... Still so unlucky...

Poor, poor, poor - everyone just switched off. Another 3-3 on the way?