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As i said here at the start of the season, my shout to go down. Especially now they've done this.

These stats are illuminating. #SFC 2 #AVFC 3 FT Possession%: 77-23 | Passes: 715-209 | Accuracy%: 85-50 | Final 3rd: 227-54 | Accuracy%: 73-30 | Shots: 21(9)-6(3) 50% pass completion rate is abysmal. We were awful.

Genuinely, can't believe we won that. A Dortmundesque* victory from a match in which we had 23% possession. Two stonking goals from Delph and Gabby, though. Nuts. * except the fighting to win the ball back, using it wisely, and other signs of quality.

Our match is the most one-sided affair I've seen in a long time. Great goal, though.

37 year old goalkeeper given 5 year contract. No wonder Lerner got tired of burning money.

Shane Long had the best game, and scored the best goals, he's ever going to have on Monday. He's not going to be putting in a performance like that again for a very long time.

"To shrine" That so needs to be an actual verb.

Hang on, hang on. Someone is defending Altidore? He out-Heskeys Heskey.

This tweet just made me chuckle. Ha ha ha. Poor Albion, irrayfair! irrayfair!

We have a problem, where we are either really quite good or we're absolutely terrible, not much in between. Seen both of those this evening.

There's a growing amount of bollocks being spoken about us being bought out by Red Bull. Given that they'd almost certainly change the name and the kit, at the very least, it'd be the absolute last straw for me, and game over.

I tell you what, racism is the one thing I'd like to see kicked out of society more than almost anything, but if one thing runs it close, it is the use of the word "banter", closely followed by the idiots who use it all the time.

He's not supposed to. http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/10-11/comment/fan/16339.html Apparently he was a late replacement yesterday. I saw that incident and felt bad for Albion. Then I remembered how Kevin Friend utterly fucked us over at Chelsea in a match we deserved to draw at the very least. Then I remembered it was Albion, so i got over it pretty quickly. Even so, it was really poor.

Marriner is from Birmingham, and a Villa fan. Albion fans are putting two and two together. They'd have a long way to go to make up for Phil Cunting Dowd, though.

What? Clearly nonsense. He looks nothing like a burnt jacket potato.

That was remarkable today. Really impressive.

That's the referee saving Chelsea again, like he did against us a few weeks ago. That's a dreadful decision, blatant cheating, he couldn't wait to give it.

He used to do it a bit, but I don't recall him being anything like that bad with us. I think it's that he has realised he's a pretty insignificant member of their squad and has to try harder to get noticed. Which he has chosen to do through the medium of cheating.

MON working with Roy Keane? What could possibly go wrong there?

We won the NextGen European youth team competition last year, too. The kids are great, it's the grown up team that struggles ;-)

Controversially, I thought you were the better team and deserved to win it. Sunderland were all huff and puff and impressively closing the ball down, but once they started to get tired, I thought you looked significantly better than them. They might have looked stronger in some sense in that first half, but football is played over two halves, not one, and there was no way they were going to keep up that effort for 90 minutes. The fact that you managed to fashion no points out of that is a bit perplexing, to be honest. Although, in mitigation, you were beaten by a cracking shot. That sort of thing doesn't happen every week. I don't know about the throwing points away thing, mind, maybe that happens more often than you'd like.

while sacking Pardew does nothing to solve the other major issues. Best case scenario if he's sacked some uninspiring mate of JFK's sits in the dugout and same shit all over again same complaints. Worst case scenario its JFK himself which is a rather unbearable prospect. All the while no investment no change to transfer policy no change to ambition. Changing the manager is the only thing we can realistically hope for though, isn't it. Ashley's not going anywhere, Kinnear is his mate and we're clearly not going to be revamping the squad. People are quite obviously focussing on the most expendable part of the system. I get why but simply put its just not a POV I share, managing any premier league side is a hard job, managing this club in particular under Mike Ashley is considerably more difficult than any other job out there so I will always have a sympathetic view. As an outsider, i have to say, really? Is it really that difficult? I watched your game today, and even though you went a goal down early into the game, I thought that if you got an equaliser, there was no way on earth you wouldn't have gone on to win that game. Your squad isn't just slightly better than theirs, it is in a different fucking universe. It's in a different universe to ours, too. I can't think of a single player in that Sunderland side who would get a regular run out in your side. So how on earth did you manage to spunk that away today? They're a fucking awful side, they ran around and chased the ball down more than you did, but by half time, I thought they looked fucked. Once more, I am an outsider looking in, so I am probably ignorant of things that I should know, but from my point of view, whilst Ashley makes lots of dreadful errors - banning the press, that ridiculous Kinnear situation etc etc - it looks to me like almost the entirety of last season and chunks of this season so far, Pardew has managed to fashion a side which is far less than the sum of its parts. Today was a perfect example of this.

Its not impressive, really, seeing the petulance of the people in charge expressed like this. Never in a million years, for example, will they have given a nanosecond's thought about the fact that the press are there to report to *the supporters*.

I genuinely can't believe you're losing this. As soon as you equalised, I had no doubt you'd win. How you've managed to wind up losing, I just do not get.

They were both world class. Until you put them together. Like, oh, chicken dupiaza and custard.