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It amazes me how long we have gone without actually having a decent CM especially with our 'rivals' picking up players like Elano etc

In the Newcastle squad, nevermind the England one.

Is Smith trying to get sent off?

Just seen it, he was clearly offside by a mile how the hell did the linesman not see that?

Damnit what with it being boxing day I'm going to miss this one

We are too static going forward with barton n butt in the centre everything is so slow and gives the defence time to recover. Derby deserved the win so I'm glad we got the point to be fair, I'd hate known derby done the double over us this season.

What amazes me about a team such as Ac is they have a great first team although they are getting old which leads them to getting tired during matches, or needing rested so you look to milans bench and go 'who'? I've watched them a few times this season where they've needed to bring on some fresh legs to make an impact and they've had no-one of any real quality to bring on, it's hurting them especially with the overall age of the squad minus kaka.

Enjoyed the arsenal chelsea game, made up for what i thought was a rather subdued game at anfield.

I don't think anyone deserved to win that shower of shit today saying that I did fall asleep twice during that game today it was so dull, still 3 points is 3 points

Just hope Healy doesn't play to be fair, he has a thing for wonder goals.

Missed the first 16 minutes so I missed the arsenal goal, but great performance from us tonight, unbelieveable at the end there with those corners in a row for us, how close we came from winning the game. Can't wait for our next game now!

Adebayors all round play is shocking to say the least from what I've seen of him this season, very wasteful of the ball and his passing is shocking. Good goal today though

Odd that we didn't bring on either Emre for Butt or Enrique and moved Charlie further forward. Butt was ok first half (apart from giving daft possession away) but second half I thought he went missing in a big way and they bossed us around because of it. For me, Butt just doesn't do enough away from home. One thing that annoys me about Butt is he thinks he's fabregas at times trying to spray the ball around but he's not actually hitting anyone or even getting it close to them at times. Maybe he's seen an opening but especially away from home it's just giving the ball away and inviting pressure on us again.

Aye, back to his best

He battled like fuck today, even when he was lying on the ground he was still fighting for the ball and surprisingly still kept it. He should however of finished the second chance he had but I'd keep him in the team ahead of Owen.

It was a better performance than we've previously had but sometimes I get the feeling when we attack we don't know what we are going to do with it so it eventually comes to nothing or a long ball. There was some nice passing moves at times though. Blackburn won because they opened us up better than we opened them up and they wern't exactly rock solid either.

So should they tbf. It would of been harsh though, geremi was like 2ft away when it hit him were as emerton whacked the ball with his hand in his own box when he didn't need to.

Spurs 2-0 down now.

I'd love to get vDv here though he looks set to join Valencia in Jan or the summer but at the bottom of the article on sky it mentioned we had shown an interest, though no doubt they are just using our name again.

Carr oh jesus.. will he even make it on the pitch before FT? Why does he feel the need to take off our left winger/lb for a right winger/rb? :S

You can't really jump on Martins when he has had no support with him all game.

Thinking ahead a bit here, but are we going to have protests outside the ground again?

Aye, booing for taking Emre off.

Jesus fucking christ.. I thought milner would be the obvious choice?

Has our team even played football before? Doesn't matter who the manager is surely we should be able to pass the ball around? Instead of just whacking the ball aslong as we can.