Elephant

It is, the video is on the BBC sport website. The horrendous narcissistic c*nt says it without a hint of shame. Stop the goal like this?: http://www.marca.com/2013/09/09/futbol/futbol_internacional/resto_de_america/1378727467.html

Just sucks for World Cup, if both Costa and Falcao are injured. Not to forget other good players who will miss the tournament. It starts to look like it's just too easy for Real Madrid this year.

I am a bit hungover so that probably has something to do with but I actually had to look it up in a dictionary to see if it was actually a word Was it?

Graeme Souness, Glenn Roeder, Sam Allardyce, Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Alan Shearer, Chris Hughton, Alan Pardew. Steve Bruce would fit in this list too easily. Maybe it's time to try something else?

He is just like Harry Redknapp, Mark Hughes or even Alan Pardew. He can get the job done for a while, but he is very limited manager and would bring absolutely nothing new to this club.

I'm not sure if it's a word, yep. Well, at least now I learned that it's (probably) not And yes, English is not my native language. Funny though that from all the mistakes on this site, now you start focusing on my grammar

People are really so desperate at these days that even Steve Bruce is OK? We have really sinked low since Sir Bobby's departure.

That was the point, yes.

I will never forgive and forget Mike Riley (the worst referee ever) that Sir Bobby was sacked. It was after the Aston Villa game that he was sacked. The worst refereeing ever on that game saw their goalkeeper getting away with handballing outside the area and other very tragical decisions. Though it wasn't that one match that got him sacked, but if the referee had any sense in his mind in that game, we would've won it and Bobby would've got more time. Who knows what would've happened. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/aug/30/match.sport3 "Thomas Sorensen then produced the handball that even he admitted altered the game. "Ball to hand," said Sorensen unconvincingly. The dismal referee Mike Riley showed a yellow card. The Premiership should show Riley a red one. "

The thing is, though I really want to see Pardew sacked, that it's just going to be another huge disappointment, when we end up appointing someone like Steve Bruce or Peter Reid.

How the hell was it defence which let them down, when the opposition scored only one (1) goal and the attackers couldn't do anything despite controlling the game for 90 minutes. And I agree, that their defence is a poor joke at the moment, but that wasn't what let them down today. And I agree that the whole team is off-form at the moment. Cesc, Iniesta and others are not at their best, but seriously their strikers are completely useless at the moment. The movement is poor, decisions are weak and finishing is nowhere to be seen. When they rely so much on individuals to perform, they need their strikers to do their magic. And the problem with players like Iniesta and Cesc that they don't really have any options to pass the ball, because the strikers are not making the runs they should. The worst player of the season is hands down Mascherano, but it would be better to play him as a defensive midfielder and move Busquets up one notch (yes, it wasn't possible today, but they haven't really done it while Bartra, Pique and Puyol have been all available). Mascherano, Busquets and Iniesta would do the trick for midfield and the focus should be trying to break the defences with Alba, Alves, Neymar and Alexis/Pedro. But it would need a different kind of approach.

Harsh on Tata, not his fault that the squad has been on a decline for two years now and nothing has been done. If they had bought Thiago Silva and kept Thiago Alcantara they'd probably be winning this league by quite a margin. But the problem was today (and with so many games lately) that they are completely clueless on the pitch. In the beginning of the season they started playing more direct and slowed down the tempo as the season progressed, but now they just don't seem to know what they are suppose to do there. There was so many situations today, when the players just were not filling the empty spaces on the pitch and also moving on the same direction, it was very easy to defend for Granada. Yes, the problem is that they haven't signed the right players, but today it wouldn't have changed anything if Thiagos were there, because they just don't have a game plan to follow, they completely rely on individual players to perform. Just like with Rijkaard. And with Messi, Neymar, Alexis and Pedro completely off-form, who else to blame than manager? And with the transfer ban, they need to get rid of him, because he is clearly not the right manager for this side.

Worst Barcelona I've seen in long time. Tata Martino was miserable appointment and they pay a very big price for it now.

Would love to be Newcastle manager one day. Can't really think of any other job where I could make up such a comical excuses for doing my job poorly and still get away with it every time.

Well played by Ashley. He hired Kinnear to take the heat off him and now he sacked Kinnear to take the heat off him.

That would just be £18,235m / season. They haven't really had anyone to sell (they haven't really bought anyone with market value for the future, like us) and they only got promoted 2008. They have done enough to stay in the league for five seasons and that is pretty much the cost of it.

So Debuchy to PSG next summer?

I was just thinking yesterday, that with Joe Kinnear in charge, if we sack Pardew, it's probably going to be Glenn Hoddle or Kenny Dalglish. Basically there is no hope of better manager, when (or if?) Joe Kinnear is the one making the decisions.

I'm stil convinced that likes of Crystal Palace, Hull and Cardiff have so awful sides, that with these players, we are destined not to be relegated - not because we're good, but because we are just not that bad. Premiership should be 18 teams.

Yes, but not exactly a long way to Nice and other places and the whole coast is one of the most beautiful areas in Europe, so I don't think he will be bored.

Get rid. Now. Please. I don't want to lose my faith in football.

The referee was absolutely joke, yet again in Spain. But honestly Barcelona are very poor at the moment. They made the mistake of not appointing proper temporary manager for the rest of the season, Vilanova's gone and the team is in absolute mess.

Laurent Blanc would fit very well into this team right about now.

Obertan has been absolutely useless so far, I really don't know what role he is supposed to play, but he just seems lazy and unmotivated. But there is absolutely no idea in our game, hoping for better second half.

Barcelona are set to unveil big signing(s) tomorrow, so we'll see.