Ronaldo

Why does Neymar have to be such a cheat? What an absolute cunt.

I see Moyes has taken Sociedad from 16th to 9th. Such a brilliant manager.

As if that knobhead was England captain last summer. Embarrassing.

The fact Moussa Sissoko spend time being our marker of the opposition's mean aerial threat tells you how good the rest of them were at attacking the ball in the air.

He's right that we had no attackers of the ball from set pieces, mind. That, for me, was worse than the delivery issues.

Nah, I understand why anyone would be ranting after that. Arsenal were absolutely shambolic for most of that game. Knackered, unorganised and completely there for the taking, yet there's 'positives' to be taken from going 2-0 down before HT at home and getting a goal back 2nd half. The smiling faces in the crowd with 10 minutes left said it all for me. Too fickle to see beyond mind-numbingly diabolical 1-0 home wins over QPR/Leicester/Aston Villa but not quite fickle enough to comprehend the concept of actually losing a game, scoring less than the opposition. The SJP support is absolutely fucking embarrassing.

God. I wonder where this one's from. 40 points from his final 38 games. Blamed the fans moreso than himself. High expectations indeed to want better than that.

You can bet your house that at least one of Taylor, Coloccini and Williamson will be a nailed-on starter next season and another will (at worst) get a good amount of games. There's just no money to be made from any of them, therefore they'll stay until they retire or show some bollocks and question those above.

It never does, though. All of the results that'll keep us up this season have occurred with our midfielders (and some 'attackers') holding the hands of the defence. I don't think it sinks in with some on here just how fucking useless our defence is. In the last 3 seasons I bet we've conceded more goals than any other PL side, or come pretty close.

Problem is. We simply cannot stretch the game from the start like that because: a) We don't have the goalscorers in the side to take advantage of it, especially with Cisse out. b) Our defence cannot cope with being exposed. Ever. During their prime as a partnership, Williamson and Coloccini oversaw 5 goals against Spurs, 4 against Wigan, 5 against Fulham in the space of about 3 months when we were trying to take the game to the opposition. Obviously Pardew and Carver are incredibly negative bastards, but until the issues at the back are sorted there isn't a manager out there who'd be comfortable with us going gung ho.

Wasn't worth showing tbh.

Perez is the type of player who ultimately helps with build-up and getting the best out of a goalscorer. Putting him alongside a workhorse would result in zero cutting edge.

They're both just quite retarded.

Introduce?

You know fine well, though, that the game will be spun as a big positive by Carver, some of the players, some of the media, and probably a section of the fans, who thankfully I'm nowhere near.

Burnley are a point behind, no? Then again, I guess Sunlun are almost guaranteed 3 points from their next fixture.

Discuss what you want by all means. I don't want it regulated as I wouldn't want your mouth glued shut in real life. It is, however, pretty pathetic people still want to make Alan Pardew a topic of conversation on an NUFC forum 3 months after his being appointed at another club.

It is pretty pathetic that this thread is so active, mind. He's capable of winning games in bunches, he's a better manager than Charver, and he probably has a better squad to work with at Palace. None of it's new, none of it's really worth much discussion.

You can't turn anyone over without goals in the team. That's before you even consider how useless we are in defence.

Arsenal's performance in that second half was one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen on a football pitch. They were second to absolutely everything, running around like they had lead weights taped to each limb. If that was a League Two game or lower I'd be utterly convinced it'd been fixed.

Aye. Another 500k player we've ruined.

That was the least plucky performance I've ever seen.

Wenger's a joke, like. Crying out for a sub and he sits there shaking his head like an incontinent old bastard realising he's forgotten to wear his nappy.

He's become completely shit at everything.

Who cares, man? The more teams above us the better. Ideally 16, obviously.