Chris_R

s***, hopefully he doesn't get the full 90 and it's the last time we see him. We've said that every week for the last two years.

So his only faults are that he's too loyal to his players and he didn't sign enough left-backs. The man's impossible to parody because he jumps the shark himself every time he opens his rancid, lying mouth. Also, does loyalty to your players include fucking their wives? Just asking....

Yeah they're going to be spectacularly disappointed with some of those transfer fees. ?

No point flying a plane over that cesspit, half of them don't even know what one is and would likely just run away screaming.

Add in their old 30+ players their squad has (Larsson, Pienaar, O'Shea, Defoe and Lescott if they stay) who will be another year slower and shitter, and I can't see who is going to win them the title. They haven't got many players with great resale value, they'll be in a lot of trouble if they go down.

I'm not saying he's Messi or anything, just that he tries the important things rather than keeping it safe and simple. Every side needs that. Hell, FOOTBALL needs that. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn't, but if he does it in the correct areas of the pitch then that's fantastic and for me at least that's what I go to football matches to watch.

Flair players are hit and miss because they're trying things. When you try the difficult (and important) things, they don't always come off, but it's a risk you must take otherwise you're Jack Colback. I'll take the inevitable bad days with the good days, because we must. When it works, it unlocks teams. And it's the type of stuff we watch football for.

This is tragic stuff. No pace, no guile, no creativity. Just dreadful.

This, unfortunately. Then he'll be lauded in the press for how great he is and then he'll get the England job and be turboshit again.

If he goes to Rangers he could probably replicate his success here and finish 5th.

Whatever Shelvey's stats, they shouldn't be directly compared. Shelvey tries ambitious forward balls, Colback just tries to desperately get rid of the ball to whoever is nearest as if it's a grenade with the pin out. Still be interesting to see, but as a direct comparison it's meaningless.

Help, I have no idea how that'll line up.

Shouldn't the pocket square and cravat match ? Or at least be the same colour ? Christ , I've gone all Trinny and Susannah . When you're the king, you can do whatever you want.

Looks like an experiment in telling the fans "look, we tried 4-4-2 once against Birmingham and remember what happened? Is that what you want? You'll get 4-5-1 from now on and you'll fucking enjoy it."

Somewhere there's a plant working furiously hard to produce Oxygen that Jack Colback needs to go and apologise to.

Whilst a 6-0 thrashing would have been good, there's far more karma in it being 1-1 before they had a man being sent off turned the game against them. Suck on that.

Not 6'5" enough for Allardyce's liking.

The chairman doesn't believe it, no. They've just got Allardyce lined up to take over because he's a near-guarantee of PL survival, and they know the fans will hate his style so they're buttering them up by saying they're looking to move away from that because the attacking football has failed. It excuses Allardyce's appointment because it fits the narrative they've created for their new manager, even though that narrative has only been created after they've decided they want to appoint Allardyce.

I'm still struggling to believe they haven't yet figured out why airports aren't often in city centres. Utter window lickers.

Eurgh, goal music.

Yeah, let him ruin their transfer window first to utterly condemn them.

Ten seconds too late!

BBC website suggests 77/23 possession, with us having 10 shots and 5 on target to their 0.

Hull lead v palace too.

Delighted they won. They'll probably beat Hull too, then Man U and Chelsea will rinse them but that'll be OK because it's Man U and Chelsea, so nobody will notice that another free fall is starting and we'll be well into the January transfer window and he'll have spunked all their money away on shite. That shite will arrive at the club un-Pardewed, so they may actually pick up a bit for a while but then he'll work his usual magic on the training ground and they'll finish the season 17th but with a string of LLLLLLs Rinse and repeat over summer.