Nobody

Fuck me, they are beyond rubbish.

"On Hatem, the news is not so good. Looking at him, I think he's going to need an operation on his hamstring and it'll probably leave him missing for the rest of the year. "So we've had to absorb that in all the good news that we've had." Pardew is now resigned to being without Ben Arfa until pre-season and admitted: "I think that's the priority for him now because he's been a huge miss for us. "He gives us that X factor. In a game like last night, where he could just open the door for us, we haven't got that luxury. "Unfortunately for Hatem, that's the news he didn't want to hear but as far as we're concerned the team has responded well in his absence and hopefully we do that until the end of the year."

There's no way we won't play our strongest side against you. The Sunderland game will be moved to the Sunday.

Fucking gutting that we won't get to see Cabaye Tiote Ben Arfa Sissoko Gouffran Cissé this season.

I think we should only listen to Incognito from now. When do you expect Cabaye to back, mate?

Piss off man, Pardew isn't a fucking doctor, he probably listened to the advice he was given.

Fuck

God I love Papiss

Loving the respect and friendly nature from both sets of fans

How many players do you think have actually improved under Pardew? The first one that springs to mind is Perch. After that i'm a little stumped tbh. Both Taylors, Coloccini last season, Krul. The rest of the team is pretty much Pardew's team anyway.

Welcome We love having fans of other teams on here, please stick around. As you can see, there's a lot of respect for Benfica from us, should be a great tie.

Brilliant

Hello Benfica fans

Someone on there linked to us

Benfica. Tough draw, but good for travelling fans I'd imagine.

Spurs - Basel

Get in!

They don't half like dragging this out like

Paddy

I would have brought him on ahead of Jonas tonight when Cabaye had to come off. Good thing I'm not the manager like.

IIRC, the goal came from a fairly quick counter attack, so what the hell is Taylor doing up there next to Cissé when he scores?

I thought he did his very, very well tonight. Had absolutely no service, so again had to be a bit of a target man, which isn't his game at all, but did it well enough. As I've said earlier tonight, his volleyed pass to Sissoko early in the second half was brilliant.

I was shitting myself at both that and when he took a set penis past the half way line. Memories of Xabi Alonso and Harper

I would be amazed if he captains us again tbh. Cabaye is now our captain, and somehow I thought it was telling that he gave it to Tiote and not Jonas when he came off.