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He's still surprisingly good at playing as a central forward though, for having a slight posture and not being used to the English game. If this is not just a flash in the pan, this boy could really be something special. I hate to draw such a comparison and I'm not saying he's going to be quite at that level, but he reminds me a bit of a younger RvP, late Feyenoord/early Arsenal days. I pray to God our coaches don't make him bulk up and take the natural footballer out of him in the process. We both know that's exactly what they'll do

That fucking tournament seriously

Colback played a bit of right back for Sunderland didn't he? He's in the team 100% anyway so might as well.

A classic Pardew cockup.

Alaskan summers are actually pretty awesome. Perfect weather, beautiful.

Inevitably some "analytics people" are going to end up in managerial positions, as they have in American sports. It's going to be a pretty tough path getting there though. The reason most current managers were successful footballers are mostly because players won't respect anybody else.

The most realistic way of getting Pardew out at this point is probably us winning a cup, finishing 4th, and him getting poached by Liverpool

There's no reason he couldn't have been one of the top ten players in the world with the natural ability he has. Huge waste for him and for nufc as well. (although if he had lived up to his potential I guess we would have never been able to buy him)

The one time alnwick decides not to come out and punch

We're fucked

We just had to go and make it interesting

It's been a while since we've had a 5-0 spanking. I'll go for that.

Ben Arfa's fallen out with pretty much every manager he's ever worked with. They can't all be Pardew.

It's at least exciting getting to see some new faces

Guy's had a lot of bad luck with shit managers but at the end of the day it's his own fault that he's underachieved massively despite having as much natural talent as any footballer in the past fifteen years.

Srnicek in the one game he played during his second spell in the 06-07 season

Super-small sample size so it probably doesn't matter, but the trend seems to be that stability results not in higher league position but rather in more consistent league position.

Pardew seems to like him so everybody hates him, that's it really. He's a fine, average Premiership standard defender. The next Steven Taylor. (Hopefully sans injuries)

Might as well accept that he's here forever. We'll see the back of him when Ashley sells up.

We've had this conversation before, but if he does win us a cup I'd find it immensely difficult to carry on hating him.

No one's doing that, they're doing it based on a submitted appeal that includes witness and professional accounts. That's a lazy post, Oldtype. Okay, there is a decent summary of relevant facts in this appeal filing. Post amended to "trying to argue whether a goal was offside or not based off nothing but the match report."

None of us have access to the full slate of evidence. Twelve people (or whatever number juries have in England) who did thought he was guilty. It's inherently pointless to question the decision based on a bunch of rumors/hearsay/conjecture. It's like trying to argue whether a goal was offside or not based off nothing but BBC text updates.

I'm of two minds as to whether he should be allowed to play again. On the one hand I'd find it very hard to support my team if it had a convicted rapist on it. On the other, the whole point of jailing people is to have them rehabilitate and rejoin society. How do we achieve that if we decide that certain offenders should never be allowed to do anything of import even after serving their time?

The man is a convicted rapist and we certainly shouldn't be casting aspersions over the validity of that conviction based on facts we know very little about. Whether he should be allowed to return to his trade after serving his time is a separate question.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/07/north-koreans-working-state-sponsored-slaves-qatar How fucking low can these guys get