Ronaldo

Is this real?

40 Premier League goals in 12 years, man.

He forgot to ask. Shame.

Bit late, but my dad was on the same flight back from London as Pardew on Thursday (or Friday). Chatted to him a bit, said he seemed to be really looking forward to the game. Only found out about this today.

Really inconsistent tbf. Have my doubts about him, but on a good day he can bring a lot to a more or less dead England team. Do one.

Yep. He reminds me of a 2003 Rooney in that respect.

A high line has worked for us pretty well on occasion, like.

I'm Batman.

Because he couldn't benefit from it.

Think that's the only thing that might work, tbh.

The Luque game.

Just seen Shola's goal for the first time since it happened , only to see Colo celebrating with some random fan. Beautiful.

I wasn't talking about Santon. I think he's a very good footballer.

Come on then Columbo, explain. to be fair i think Ronaldo's a knob but he's got a point here. Tempted to put this in my sig.

So likeable as a guy but by Christ he is a shocking footballer.

Which footballers? We have a keeper who doesn't distribute the ball well, a CB who can barely be idenitfied as a footballer, a full back who falls into the same category, a winger who seldom creates, and a CM that sit deep and don't penetrate - even when we do keep the ball down. These are all players (6 in total) who are absolutely guaranteed a start, btw, and through no fault of Pardew. Stop implying we have this wonderful footballing side who've been restricted to 3rd - 7th all season by negative tactics.

Relevant.

That and his white Bentley.

The difference in squad is unbelievable. Even last seaosn Pardew had a better squad, had more games, took over with the club higher in the table than Keegan did and managed to finish 12th... Hang on. Pardew took over when we were 12th; where were we when Keegan took over?

What teams did we beat with the much trumpeted formation? Fulham, Spurs, mackems and Reading. Good run of form yes but it's ludicrously over hyped with the benefit of the rosiest tinted glasses. Exactly. We beat 3 poor teams at home and an average one (Spurs finished 11th, I think) away.

Keegan and his 4-3-3 mentioned again? We finished 12th that season.

Nowt wrong with it.

COYS.

Park the bus.

Absolutely. Chelsea are finished as a top team and have been for a while.