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Football is going to be really, really shit until the new year. As if it will be any better after

Lose to City 5-0, then give QPR their first win. Perfect.

Sick and tired of being shit every week.

Greatest hit series of aggravating goals today. Stupid deflection. Check. Needless free kick leads to goal. Check.

Dear Lord. I came.

Apathy setting in. Why am I up at 5am to watch this shit.

Typical

He's gone mad. Well, that is unless we win today, in which case this becomes a brilliant ploy that I supported from the beginning.

I loved the little Turk when he was here, but you'd be hard pressed to find a more blatantly racist player in football

Handling home advantages could potentially be awkward.

We could use all the help we can get, but all indications are that he's a lost cause and I'm very disappointed in Pardew for going back on his commitment to not play him. One look at his twitter feed makes me want to puke.

The current holders would probably disagree vehemently with this. Who and what? Atleti aren't in the CL this year and they weren't the year after they won the last time either. They keep qualifying for the Uefa Cup through the league which means the prize/reward doesn't mean anything to them. It means more to a team who finish lower than them if anything. Oh, I see what the problem is. We were actually talking about the idea of getting the EL winners a CL place.

The current holders would probably disagree vehemently with this. Who and what? Atleti aren't in the CL this year and they weren't the year after they won the last time either.

The current holders would probably disagree vehemently with this.

Got to completely disagree on this, mental idea. What would be the downside? I genuinely don't see one. Besides, it would infinitesimaly increase the chance of us seeing NUFC in the Champions League again during our lifetime.

Always seemed silly to me how the Europa League/UEFA Cup winners aren't offered a Champions League place for the next season. They're actual "champions" and that would just about single-handedly make everyone take this competition much more seriously.

Roy Hodgson? Brendan Rodgers? Sam Allardyce?

I think my three least favorite words in this forum are "some on here"

That's... sensible. I feel my sanity returning after reading that.

You wouldn't know with the commentator constantly raving about the "magnificent Stoke fans"

Some of the most shameless backpedalling from you of late after the way you've spent the last eighteen months up the man's arse. No backpeddling whatsoever. He's done a good job and I like him and don't want him sacked. Doesn't mean I can't criticise because he's done a dreadful job of late. Thing is, neither of us wanted him appointed and only one of us was truly prepared to get behind him as NUFC manager. Why would anyone get behind someone who clearly wasn't good enough? It is to NUFC supporters' eternal shame that we didn't give this plum the reception that Benitez got at Chelsea. We clapped along and beat Liverpool and enough mugs convinced themselves that he was up to it. That's ridiculous. You'd rather we barracked him off the pitch and ruin the already low chance of any decent manager wanting to work with us for all eternity? Not to mention negating the entirety of last season.

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nejournal/mar2011/5/9/steve-bruce-image-3-49349881.jpg It's fate

Honestly, the fact that Pardew went back on his principles on this bothers me almost as much as the match result.

Come to think of it, I actually wouldn't mind Di Matteo at all.

this Depends. Maybe he has a 5 game loss automatic release clause as this board love zany clauses. I don't think he'll see out this season. On the other hand. If he's sacked, we're probably not going to appoint anyone other than Mark Hughes.