AyeDubbleYoo

What he clearly meant was "when we peddle Simpson in the summer and replace him with someone half decent then I'll play HBA" I'd take that at this point TBH.

We've definitely got Pieters lined up.

He doesn't say much wrong at all in that Telegraph article. I'm not sure if it's normal for a manager's every word to be pulled apart and ridiculed, especially when he's got us so high in the league, but it seems a bit much to me.

It sounds a lot worse than it looks when you see the actual tweets. Nobody should be using the word faggot/gay/homo or whatever to insult someone, but it doesn't seem like much reading those. Obviously twitter is a global broadcast medium though, not a private messaging service for friends.

I'm not so sure, you can't always be planning for the future. If Scott Parker helps us progress in Euro 2012, which he might do, I'm all for it. As well as involving younger players obviously.

Also, Pardew loves a good chin-wag and answers pretty much any question.

I just hope what he's saying to HBA in private is much more sensible than what he's telling the press.

I still think Parker is overrated, but he does a good job for the team and he works his socks off. Pleased for him to get this recognition.

Pretty sure the entire population of Sunderland shops at SD on a daily basis anyway.

The scene is set for HBA to obliterate the mackems and make himself undroppable.

They got humped by West Brom FFS.

He probably didn't single him out TBF, that is just one answer out of probably about 25 questions he was asked. The journo decides which ones to print, and HBA is news at the moment.

Crouchy must feel hard done by at the moment, he's scoring for Stoke and he's generally done well for England. Pick the Crouch!

Fantasy football's not what it was when every team in the league used to pick the same 11 players every week.

The one where Abeid and Ben Arfa are watching Perch hit a cultured strike with the outside of his foot is classic. Learning from the master.

Didn't realise Rogers was so young. Fair play to the little scamp.

We must be one of the least threatening teams from set pieces, have been for ages. Seems like that anyway.

Taylor is infinitely more aggressive, which is the main factor in winning a header really.

Alan Pardew

High-brow humour that, nice.

One of the worst sports journalism sentences ever written, and that's saying something.

I'm the other way around!

Well done.