A.C

Would anybody turn down Carlton Cole right now?

Doesn't mean he's a crap player. Wayne Rooney has a bad run occasionally, is he s****? Rooney doesn't run like he's just regained the use of his legs after 10 years.

Some of these passes man

I don't rate him as high as most do. But even I think this is ridiculous.

So off the pace he couldn't even manage a yellow card.

He went back, while play was still on, and grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and lifted him off the floor, then put his hands against the lads face before Gervinho started windmill slapping him.

This. He should have got a red. Can't believe people are defending it or justifying it down to the Song stamp.

That's kind of the key point really. No other team will do that to us this year at home without eventually resorting to more direct play. We desperately lacked width yesterday though but I'll put that down to a shocking preseason. We need to see Jonas running with the ball more, and hopefully Obertan turns into a more useful option.

Please tell me somebody just saw the interview with Steven Taylor. The funniest shit I've ever seen.

Genius. Absolute genius.

What a fucking helmet. #helmet

What the fuck did I just see? Immediate release.

Expecting big things from this Obertan cunt since I'm in a bad mood. He has 45 minutes for my opinion to form permanently.

Sunderland can lose every game after this, but I want Liverpool to lose today.

16th

I'm torn. RMC makes me want to believe it. What a replacement if they do pull it off.

Big fan of Dutch personalities and what they bring to squads.

Not a bad line up.

FUCK, they got to him.

I imagined most people found him the type of character you struggle to warm to, even when he was in a Newcastle shirt, but could anybody have utterly imagined how much of a detestable cretin he actually is when you read the stuff he writes on twitter?

Can tell you're Irish x

I apologise for bringing his s*** on this board, but thought I'd put it out there just in case there's even the slightest chance it turns out true. Has that guy ever got anything right?

I blame Alan Smith.

Obviously were going to do it though, they'll even double up on him. Hopefully will open up space for the others though.

If Pardew brings Ranger on at halftime or adds an extra midfielder then I'll have some faith in him in the future.