Ronaldo

If he'd been brought in two months ago we'd be safe. He might have Parkinson's Disease but he's still got more coaching credentials than Carver. The players would instantly respect him. He played 400 fucking games for the best team in the world and was manager of the year 3 times.

People calling the Mackems lucky might do well to remember how many 1-0 wins we've undeservedly managed this season.

Doesn't help when our best known/respected 'fan' and former player defends him on MotD.

This is exactly it. You make your own luck.

Our first choice CB pairing was Coloccini and Williamson, or Coloccini and MYM. Either way, not nearly good enough. Anyway, I'm talking about the moment it became abundantly clear beyond any doubt what we were in for.

Problem with that being the fact we've kept 2 clean sheets (from 17) under Carver and in one of those fixtures (Villa) we'd have been 0-2 down early on but for extremely wasteful finishing.

Whether we did or didn't have a top 8 squad (we didn't), we looked certain to go down with 2 games left at HT during Wigan - Swansea. The club demonstrated in that summer window - and the following one - just how low ambitions and standards actually are. Finish 16th, job done. No need to invest.

Because we let it, in a nutshell. I, and plenty others, stopped going around April 2013, but the time everyone should've refrained was the subsequent summer when our attempt to remedy finishing 16th amounted to buying no players whatsoever. Should've been blatantly obvious then, to even the thickest of the thick, where we were headed.

The fact his career has amounted to nothing is karma for every shit quote I've had to read from him since 2004.

Darren Gough was still saying Owen should be starting for England when he'd gone over 3 years without starting and scoring in a Premier League game. He's a retard that used to play cricket.

Adrian Durham and Colin Murray are the only broadcasters who've talked sense about our situation with Ashley, Pardew and Carver.

Former team mates of John Carver tell Scholes he's a great coach?

As if anyone gets them two mixed up.

"Maybe she cries herself to sleep every night." Great song.

This is barely an exaggeration. Scary.

A massive part of me does. I'll probably be able to answer the question with more sincerity after WBA.

He's thinks everyone he speaks to is a manager of a Sports Direct branch, man.

I hope a drunken Nile Ranger runs him over repeatedly in his Range Rover.

Aye, that and his favourite leisure activity. Bloke's basically Garth Crooks without the imagination.

The problem is, so much of the self-esteem of such mongs is tied to whoever puts the shirt on, regardless of ability, effort or desire to play in it.

It's 'circus upstairs' that gets me. A manager talking about his employer (Barry Hearn?) like that on camera in the dressing room.

They beat you at the Anoeta didn't they? Harsh to describe it as Pardew-esque. He lost 6 in a row, too.

4 were draws.

Of course it's working, man. Most of our fans have little self-respect and couldn't spell independent thought if you gave them a colour dictionary.

On the other hand, the alternatives to Aarons reads like a list of the worst players in the Premier League.