Chris_R

Hope Ashley's there so that he can sack Pardew at full time. Fuck it, sack him at half time and give us a boost for the second half.

That penis floated so much it was a turd.

Stream running a tad slow?

We even hoof our penalties.

Hope you got 1,000,000,000-1 for them, otherwise the bookie will be laughing his tits off right now.

I'm not normally one for betting, but I'm *soooo* confident in us and Pards that I've just stuck £50 on via Coral at 11/1 on us going down. £550 might just get me enough alcohol to forget this horrid season for a day or 2, yet I'll gladly pay £50 for us to stop up somehow.

I'm just sat here staring at the clock, waiting for 2pm so I can see the lineup and wonder how he's going to fuck up whatever formation we're presented with. See, whatever the side he puts out, a half-decent manager could get a win today. But you just know that irrespective of the personnel, we'll play like absolute fucking puddings.

Even that wouldn't do it. The headline should be "Alan Pardew admits to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty, and commits Seppuku". Then we'd be about half way there.

Fucking hell, he actually says in that link "I can't say that this game is a game that we're confident of winning". You're the fucking manager. You should be inspiring these players. They should be confident of winning EVERY SODDING GAME THEY PLAY. If they're not, you're not doing your job. We're beaten before we even set foot on the pitch. Wigan were confident of winning today. And guess what? They bloody won! They had BELIEF. You snivelling scrotesack of a man. Prick.

There's no way we should be talking about Pardew getting sacked. It shouldn't even be being discussed. After this shambles of a season, if he had an ounce of dignity he'd resign.

Baffled at how getting relegated equates to playing safe.

On a similar level, I'd like to rule myself out.

Alan Pardew, you LUCKY BASTARD.

Sadly I think he's going nowhere. Otherwise he'd be gone by now.

What's that site that shows where on the pitch players were over 90 minutes?

Why not just rest Ben Arfa until the Arsenal game?

I hate football. Fuck you, Pardew.

This. I'm just having to distance myself from football entirely in order to cope. Have done to an extent for most of this season but it's getting more serious now. I'm at the point of trying to convince myself that I don't care anymore. To an extent it's working.

There's no way we're scoring here. We could play until Tuesday and we'd still not score.

Seems we're determined to defend for the next 30 minutes...

It's as good as we could have hoped. Colo back. Ben Arfa starting. Gouffran starting. It's all down to how they're set up now and whether we actually look to attack and break them down rather than defend for 90 minutes and try to nick one somehow.

Well we'll get the lineup soon enough. But infinitely more important than the lineup is how we're sent out to play. A decent manager could have any combination of players in any formation looking to attack and threaten. Pardew has made noises this week about us needing to attack more, let's see what he actually does about it.

We all know Ian has bought all 11. No point denying it.

What about all the players that used to give us 7,8 or 9 but have been Pardewed down to a 3?

I'd not worry. Everyone knows it's a horrible regime with ideals that you find deplorable, but on some level there's a grim fascination from a few individuals that somehow transcends that. Buying one doesn't mean you actually like him. It's just a bit like buying Nazi memorabilia.