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Did I just see Ranger Vidic or was that just Smalling?

Ireland in kicks a football shocker

Is Ferguson allowed to be in the changing room at halftime?

Have to say, Shola's been fantastic aside from his usual Shola-isms

Lovenkrands :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

what's the point of a touchline ban if he's allowed to use a radio anyway?

Korean commentator's taking the piss about the whole "best midfielder" thing whenever Barton is near the ball.

This what I always notice with him. It's not good enough. Can't take it anymore and looking to come off apparently

Man U have to be the most annoying team to play ever. No matter how well we're playing you just wonder when they're going to bring down the hammer.

Get up Nani, you fucking, diving, four-lettered cunt.

No doubt they'll score from their first substantial attack

Sometimes my brain still doesn't acknowledge that he exists. When I think of who runs our squad Kevin Nolan's face just pops into my head

Fully expect us to play admirably well with spells of very good position but ultimately suffer a narrow loss because our strike force couldn't shoot through a wet paper bag.

Good to know we'll have company in the "selling club with no ambition" category then

What, instead of the lethal Ameobi and Leon Best partnership? Might as well be Pele and Garrincha given the alternatives.

Well, I mean, he's only human.

Parker was underrated when he was here and we've continued to underrate him after he left imo.

I have to admit that I couldn't have foresaw the ridiculously awful luck with injuries that has left us with an old heap of shit and a young heap of shit up front as our only strike options. But still, we've been safe for a while now. Just unfortunate that we're probably going out with a whimper instead of with a roar.

Injustice? They've battled their way to the final and deserve a shot. Clearly I deserve a seven-day ban for daring to be the slightest bit irrational on an internet football forum.

If they stop City winning something then Tony Pulis should be knighted The real Stoke City v. the expensive Stoke City. Should be the most entertaining FA Cup Final ever.

It's a fun book. A lot of the analysis is overly simple but the fundamental point that the book is putting forth (why do we just assume that some things are true about football without questioning them? And why are you damn Englishmen so damned scared of statistics? ) are very relevant.

Stoke are going to win the FA Cup, aren't they? Just to make me slit my writs at the injustice.

It's unclear whether Liverpool's uptick is down to Dalglish or down to replacing Fernandon't Scorres with Suarez and Carroll. Probably some combination of the latter with a bit of honeymoon factor and "anyone-but-Woy" syndrome mixed in. It's far too early to be making long-term predictions. We don't even know whether he's staying on for next season.

What happened here?

That's not something to lie down and accept though imo. A season ticket at £500 a year is still affordable to a great deal of 'working class' people. I'm hardly flash and going to an away game represents a small fortune to me tbh. Stoke away was £30 ticket (not that bad), £60 to get there from London, plus all the other cash you end up spending. I'm f***ed off about paying £50 for Chelsea but will pay it because I live in London. If I was back in Newcastle it would put me off. It's only an extra 10-15 quid above what you've came to expect, but it's creeping up all the time man. There's very little you can do to not "lie down and accept" it though. It's not as if you can protest being forced out of matches by not going to matches. It sucks that ticket prices are going up, but as long as the club is filling the stadium (or at least getting as many in as they can), it makes sense for them to have the tickets priced as highly as possible. If they don't, they're just letting the profit margin go to the touts instead. Economic realities exist and can't be ignored. There are certainly measures that can be taken to not alienate low-income fans, and I wish they'd try a bit harder in that respect, but the fundamental reality of rising ticket prices is just something we'll have to accept until an equilibrium point is reached. The only way to solve this problem would be to figure out a way to make rich people not like football. Unsure how that would be accomplished.