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I'm actually slightly surprised that the post wasn't entirely blank and was just bumped every so often to make sure it didn't fall off the 1st page.

Utter shite

Nice win but fuck me, Hull are awful

Or to put it another way - Since taking the job my family have stopped talking to me

Fuck this club

How fucking bad do you have to be to make us look good?

Sissoko & Perez were alright when they actually got the ball, zero support from people around them though. I'm sure that Gouffran was actually trying to give the ball away at times.

How the fuck did both of them manage to fuck that up?

Hoofball, awful set pieces & terrible over-reliance on Gouffran who is having an absolute shitter

Can't believe people are arguing that by virtue of playing a computer game a "huge proportion" of people would be far better at managing a football team than people who have been managing premiership clubs for many years. The only thing stopping them would be the footabllers who for some reason wouldn't respect their in-game coaching badges and their 5 successive Champions League titles - what a bunch of thickies. I'll remind you again of the original assertion which people are defending: There are of course no managers without footballing experience who have failed at football management, they are all Mourinhos, Wengers and Rodgers* *j/k Did you notice any irony in my use of "top" in reference to managers? I mean "top" managers like Pardew, Allardyce, etc. cretinous fools for the most part who latch on to a single method of playing because it worked for a short period yet make it into some core footballing philosophy. It isn't rocket science to play players in their most natural positions, yet Pardew is getting plaudits for doing just that, despite being the man responsible for playing people out of position in the first place. It's not a great stretch of the imagination to suggest that people who are adept at a football tactics simulator might have a better tactical knowledge than the fuckwit who keeps shoehorning players into unfamiliar positions because it once seemed to work in completely different circumstances, with completely different players.

Loads of people simply parrot what they've read in the press & heard from professional pundits on TV and radio. They can recognise when something is going wrong but get a lot of conflicting messages about the cause, you get former players giving interviews to say that it's the player's fault, too many foreigners unused to the style of football, etc. They'll say that Pardew is doing as well as he can with the resources he has been given (partially true, it is possibly the best he can do with the players), that it's all Ashley's fault for not spending more money (again, partially true, he could spend more money). You have to remember that Pardew, Bruce, Pulis, Allardyce, etc. are considered top English managers, yet loads of people consider them to be blithering idiots. The vast majority of managers aren't exactly intellectual elites, most of them will have largely dropped out of mainstream education age 14-16 to devote themselves to football and yet we're amazed that managers who didn't play professionally (Mourinho) or who later went into further & higher education (van Gaal, Wenger) turn out to be the best managers around. I suspect that a huge proportion of Football Manager players would run rings around most "top" managers if it weren't for the fact that the players wouldn't take notice of them since they had no background in football. People will believe the "experts" despite a lot of the pundits being coaches who aren't going to slag off a potential employer, or managers who aren't willing to have a go at a friend & colleague so that when they get their own chance again they'll hope to be given the same ludicrous leeway that Pardew gets, or former players who completely out of touch with the modern game. A lot of the press are just as bad, they won't be truly critical of the club in case their access is removed (look at the difference in reporting before & after media outlets have been banned by the club) or, like the local press, the writing is so incompetent that school kids would get in trouble for submitting such badly written rubbish. We're supposed to listen to experts like Andy Cole and respect his opinion, the same Andy Cole who was banned from talking to the press by us and Man Utd for years because everyone recognised that he could barely string a sentence together. Nicky Butt tells us that Pardew needs to win a cup as if that's some amazing revelation, why did no one else ever consider winning a cup as a way to please fans? Absolute fuckwits the whole lot of them.

Superb result

Garbage. Set piece delivery was utterly abject, nearly as appalling as the passing in the first half.

Complete wank from start to finish. Don't think any player particularly comes out of that with any credit, Perez wasn't great but offered more than the rest of them. Woeful passing throughout the game and desperate throw on more forwards subs without any other plan towards the end.

West Ham hopefully

That link was the reasoning behind his appeal being rejected not his original conviction. The original trial would have considered a lot more evidence than just what was appealed against.

What a goal. Bit of a nothing 1st half but what a beautifully taken goal.

Great result

He got the starting line up wrong. Yet again. He fixed a problem that he created.

That was unexpected.

Absolute wank, no surprise that Spurs have had nearly 70% possession.

I guess Obertan is going to be this seasons Gosling. A nothing player with an expiring contract who will get games at the expense of potentially superior players with little benefit to the club.

Another utterly mediocre performance against shocking opposition. Irritatingly Pardew will now be crowing about his tactical masterstroke of playing Squidward, proving that he is capable of being a game changing player. We barely beat a newly-promoted team in front of our home crowd, we just about accomplished the absolute minimum that should be expected of games like this. This was the footballing equivalent of showing up to work on time and yet the cunt in charge will be hailing it as a brilliant victory against superior opponents.

If pensions are depending on Alan Pardew steering the team to a top 10 spot then I'm surprised that the tea lady hasn't poisoned him yet.