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On the other hand, after 5 years in British climate surely Adebayor would've acclimatised somewhat?

Well, he started his career at the Sunday Sun didn't he? During the KK years. Would've been hard for him not to have fallen for NUFC. He speaks very well of the club and about his time with the players during the 90's. He even had one of the players as his best man. I'd say he's a Newcastle fan first and foremost, but as a North East correspondent on a national paper he's bound to at least pretend he loves all the teams.

Can't really see how tackling someone can be compared to punching them. Would you rather HBA had been punched in the chest instead of tackled? Tackling is clearly more reckless and dangerous. What the fuck has Ben Arfa got to do with it? If you punch someone you get banned, if you tackle someone you may or may not. Tackling is part of the game (which is sometimes carried out badly/recklessly), throwing fists definitely isn't. Seems fairly straight forward. Surely you must have seen the ? Apologies, I was confusing you for one of the people who actually believe what you were saying in jest. No worries mate.

Can't really see how tackling someone can be compared to punching them. Would you rather HBA had been punched in the chest instead of tackled? Tackling is clearly more reckless and dangerous. What the fuck has Ben Arfa got to do with it? If you punch someone you get banned, if you tackle someone you may or may not. Tackling is part of the game (which is sometimes carried out badly/recklessly), throwing fists definitely isn't. Seems fairly straight forward. Surely you must have seen the ?

Can't really see how tackling someone can be compared to punching them. Would you rather HBA had been punched in the chest instead of tackled? Tackling is clearly more reckless and dangerous.

But, but. Joey's the antichrist!

And Trevor Benjamin represented 27 different clubs at senior level.

It is. But he's only been at two clubs permanent. It's not like it's unusual for the big clubs to loan out their players is it? Someone like Richie De Laet has been at 5 different clubs at 21 for example.

fucking hell, is there anyone he hasn't played for? Only about 87 league clubs. He's still got plenty of time to cross them of his list though.

That's crap right there. According to the BBC stats from each of our league games the average possession stats is 53-47. In our favour. We do play possession football quite good these days.

Someone raised this in the Sunderland match thread, is it not down to the new 'style' of defending? Make the opposition beat you through skill rather than allowing them to run/pass behind our defence. Seems to minimising opposition chances. Not when he is allowing people into the box area when anything can happen. I'm not saying he should be diving in everytime as that'd be worse, just not allowing so much space. Hasn't been so bad for it this season (so far) though. I've thought about this aswell. His positional sense seems to have improved a lot this year. Where last year he let attacking players into the box at almost all times before trying to make a challenge, he seems to have the confidence to take them on further out towards the sidelines this year.

I honestly think that Hughton is more the kind of manager to buy 2-3 players for £15m rather than splashing it all on one player. And that's the way it should be for us right now. It's more important to strengthen the squad at this point rather than strengthening the first 11 with one player. That's the way I see it anyways.

Told yas.

From the often enjoyable @zonalmarking : Not really sure what Clattenburg is meant to do. No point giving the handball, since Gomes had the ball in his arms, advantage Tottenham. I tend to agree. Tough shit.

On the other hand it's the pitch manager's job to give the footballers the best conditions possible. The pitch has not looked quite as good this season compared to the last 3-4 years IMO. Lots of tearing.

He wasn't alone in doing that. I thought players from both teams were slipping all the time. Seems to me that the pitch wasn't in its best shape yesterday.

He's got a great leap, but he didn't win that many headers yesterday. Very strange. A couple of times he was a fair bit over the defenders but couldn't win the duels. Great leap, poor timing, I'd say. And that's kind of important too. Otherwise we could just play a high jumper.

Guthrie has been abysmal today. He's so fucking slow he makes Nolan look like Usain Bolt.

I suppose it's not his fault that he fucked up the first cross, let a piss weak header drop between his legs either?

Krul FFS!

I think we've done OK after the first couple of minutes tbh.

And Marriner's falling for it every single time.

Nah, but we should've had.

Somehow that feels a bit better than Perch at full back.

That Szczesny bloke won't know what hit him when Goal Machine Raylor gets a sight at goal. Bad start by the way.