YankeeToon

Shame he was utter shite last season eh? Who wasn't? He'd started to look better towards the end, like everyone else.

Loved the "Don't like it? Do something about it!" smile. Goaded Nasri into a petty revenge for a yellow card as well. Barton seems the type to feed off that negative energy and boost his game just to spite them. Not to compare them in ability, but Cronaldo did the same thing when he was getting booed after the World Cup.

Buy of the season, so far... just never stops trying

Porn?

Nobody is beating Arsenal when they play like this. It's not the end of the world. It'd be nice to keep it under 4, though...

You may well be right, but all I can think of when I see/hear Allardyce is being the ONLY fucking team last season to lose to Derby... hard to not spew vitriol at him for that.

It's like KK says, he wants a team "as good as the fans". I just want a good team that we can be proud of, one that everyone sits back and thinks "Wow, Newcastle really are a decent side", and I want it so much more than a piece of silverware. It's material, I'd rather have a hard-working, right-minded team and manager, rather than a crappy, lucky team that won trophies. Spurs or Portsmouth? Why pick just one?

Ok, so it's already been said by everyone on here, but MY GOD, he looks like one hell of a player! Fantastic debut, keep it coming!

Called it!

Italy and France will get a draw, and Romania will pick up a point against an under-strength Netherlands to knock them both out.

Harsh! Can't really say... I never saw Hitler play. He was a pacy diminutive mass murderer. So... good finisher, then?

Ok, I want that outcome now, just to see what happens!

Harsh! Can't really say... I never saw Hitler play.

I really think Romania's going to make it out of the group. I can see a France-Italy draw, which leaves Romania only needing a point to advance. If Holland fields an under-strength team to rest their starters, I think they can grab one.

Ha! 4-1!

HA!!! It will make my fucking YEAR if Italy don't make it out of the group stages...

What? Nobody's backing the defending champions? Greece all the way!

Top ten will be good enough to convince me that progress is being made, but I hope and expect we'll do better than that.

Fuck.

Fuck me, getting nervy now. We really need to keep possession better. Giving it away nearly every pass at the moment.

Viduka's off. Barton still on.

Good first half. Who'd have thought, back in Jan/Feb, that we'd be holding our own and, indeed, looking the more dangerous side against Chelsea. That said, we're still far too wasteful in possession. Giving it away too cheaply in midfield, and we're a bit fortunate that we haven't been punished for it. Looking very good at the back, though, and good positioning by Terry is the only reason we're not ahead right now. On a side note, is that Setanta puppet-show thing always that painfully unfunny?

Stop that.

Actually, when I was doing up the 2nd one, I thought to myself "This looks almost exactly like our shirt right now." Different logo placement, a little different on the sides, and that's about it. It's the back where I really don't like our current one, I'm fine with the front.

And the reverse... http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5025/nufcblkmg4.jpg