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Genuinely terrible. Really don't know what's wrong with us but oh well, three points this week.

Was contemplating starting a Pardew Out thread for about thirty seconds. Then OMG WTF happened.

That looks familiar

Santon

rushing home for this. with my luck we'll probably be two down before I get through the front door

Surely one of those energetic forward runs will actually come to something before the end of the season.

Love having two games of football a week. Love slightly less the fact that one of them is always on at 3~4am

A different ref wouldn't have given a red, but Tiote's got no business keeping his foot in taking a gigantic lunge after the whistle has gone. He knows he has a reputation, he needs to be more careful. It's as simple as that.

I'd like to take the positives from this. I've been thinking all season that the players seemed strangely lethargic, but we seemed to have that spring in our step back for this match. I think everyone's been suffering from a bit of a motivational crisis after coming down from the highs of last season, but this match showed that they're still capable of getting it together when they need to. Maybe it was just an isolated incident due to it being the derby, but hopefully this is something we'll be able to take into the next game. They were ridiculously poor and without the sending off I was feeling like we could score 3~4 goals. Sending off was a bit harsh but there was no reason whatsoever for Tiote to be lunging at the ball like that after the whistle had gone already. His aggressive tendencies are getting a bit irritating now and he needs to learn how to control himself.

We were linked to Son in the summer but hamburg wanted 15m or something.

Well, at least they know how to do PR.

Man United player falls over, Webb doesn't blow whistle. What is this sorcery.

Our team arrived 20 minutes late and they had already scored two by the time we got here. Ugh.

Their 20 minutes of dominance gifts them two easy goals, our 20 minutes of dominance results in fuck all.

Thanks Welbeck

I'm hearing that rabid booing whenever one of theirs has the ball that I heard when I was at SJP for Man City in the Spring.

If this fullback combo takes their chance and does well today we could be seeing it for the rest of the season. Very exciting. On the other hand we could lose 5-0 and Ferguson may not play for the first team ever again

Really pumped for this game. We generally raise ourselves against the bigger sides.

Somebody calm him down

Tiote Was obviously very eager to get back from his injury

Time for Shola to score

Jesus Christ

One of these days Santon is actually going to do something useful with one of those overlapping runs

YEAH

Amazing how space just seems to appear in front of Ben Arfa like magic.