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right down to us and the mackems then. At least it'll be interesting.

A bit of an overreaction, but his play since coming back from injury has certainly been Ali Dia-esque

You're not the only one. Can't for the life of me understand the resistance to it. The next time some caveman starts bleating at me about how "bad calls are part of the game," I'm going to beat them over the head with a 20-pound tuna.

Because he's knackered and not playing well.

And you know the rule, when it's hard to call always give it in favour of the big teams........ They're also inherently biased to play it safe and not give it. 90% of the time it's not actually over the line and you don't want to be caught giving a "phantom goal"

that's fine, it's impossible to call those goal-line clearances properly.

ah why the fuck are Blackburn and Stoke both winning

This statement never goes well on these forums, but Oba's been fucking shocking since coming back from the hernia op.

Guthrie on, that's the first time I've seen us make a good sub in yonks.

Chelsea putting the kids on now I see

No, the excuse for the defending is missing our best centreback.

I realize this makes me a bad fan, but I'm turning it off. Colo AGAIN btw

Jonas in shot on goal shocker

jesus calm down man. we're playing chelsea ffs, plus we're a bottom 3 club atm Understandable if it were a one off but he's consistantly s*** Wouldn't go as far as "should never play for the club again," but he should have been dropped after Arsenal. Probably would have been if Seb was fit.

it's fine, anything we got from this game was a bonus anyway. I'm not going to lose my mind like I did the last couple of matchdays.

oh well. Same old at home v. top 4 story I guess.

not bad. Good pressure, good effort, you can obviously see the confidence. Great to see Owen trying again, and Butt a bit reinvigorated. Still getting owned because they're just so much better than we are, particularly in the final third because our strikeforce has nothing whatsoever against the quality of their backline, but we could still nick 0-0 if we don't drop a shit. And I'd just like to know what the fuck is wrong with Ryan Taylor and his set pieces.

also note that we have something like 30 billion threads discussing various aspects of the Shearer appointment. Including this one.

Must not get hopes up... Must not get hopes up... Shearer effect or no, Essien alone could probably tear up our starting eleven by himself. Just hope we come out with something to cheer about so the honeymoon period can kick in.

do you think I'm suddenly going to say everythings alright then ? Optimistic bit of me says its a stroke of genius and he's seen the light, 2 years too late. Pessimistic bit of me says its a last desperate hopefull step that he hopes will save him at least 100m quid until he finds a buyer. I'm surprised you didn't remind us that Fat Freddie Shepherd originally signed Shearer so now deserves the credit that Shearer's around to save us! Are you saying that a board that signed Kevin Nolan and Ryan Taylor is better than one who signed Alan Shearer and David Ginola?

Wouldn't it be funny if the board brought in a manager under false pretenses yet again? Shearer thinks all of this is just a smokescreen he's going to get the job at the end of season, the board actually intends to brings back Kinnear. Shearer finds out and breaks Llambias' nose and walks out. ...Fans everywhere go rabid.

Can somebody call in and tell him he's a fucking idiot for me?

See this is exactly what we went through when they said they'd be offering him a three year contract. "Oh it's too stupid to be true, they're just giving the media sound bytes." Nothing is too stupid for the current regime. I have a feeling that Shearer will keep us up and then we'll go through Keegangate all over again next season when they force Kinnear back in.

They'd probably put his corpse in a tracksuit, string it up on the bench, and pay it 10k a week. Jesus, I'm not even joking.

Asking myself "what could get Joe Kinnear sacked" scares me. If he ran on the pitch in the nude on Saturday, pulled a jigsaw out of his pocket, hacked Michael Owen's head off, and then proceeded to w*** off in the center circle with Xisco, Llambias would probably say that they'd wait out his prison sentence and give him a pay raise.