Vinny Green Balls

This one is going to drag on for at least another month.

I'm sure Mutu would settle for rolled up five pound notes as part of his wages. Could save a bit of cash, and our club would have a cool 1985 Miami Vice feel to it. Get Tino on the horn.

Can't say that I have warmed to him at all, but the philandering cunt has done a much better job than I expected so far.

Unbelievable that I feel so relieved about this. I feel like I am in some bizarro world where we started with 10 men, but we get two bizarro red cards, and finish the game with 12. Feel guilty that I feel so happy about the injury of a player, let alone one of ours.

to state the obvious, ready to go is full of fucking legendary idiots. I may not have the hatred of mackems that most of you have, but this site is not doing their reputation any favors. These are likely the same pricks that acted as if their 1 goal wins were a few degrees better than lifting the Champions League trophy. When I'm having a bad day, I should just go there and read a few posts to amuse myself.

Ashley's actions haven't really suggested that he is going to have a firesale on our better players. No matter how much I despise the undulating, gelatinous motherfucker, there have been no indications that he is going to strip down our assets as of yet. Some people approach this shit with Michael Moore tactics. Have a very good thesis, but fuck it up with ideas far removed from reality

The chance of regular football. Stephen Hawking would pull off more starts than this permacrock.

Sacking him after 6 games in charge would indeed be ridiculous, and would actually make his decision to jettison Hughton even that much more horrendous.

I agree with Nixon that we shouldn't let our dislike for Pardew magnify things, as everybody did after the loss at Tottenham and Stevenage. However, there is nothing wrong with being a little bit skeptical about how things are going to turn out. It just feels as if we've seen the movie before, and that we've been misled enough by the management in their short tenure here. If something happens, and we experience great success with Pardew, then we will all be thrilled. But some are so quick to defend the indefensible that it truly beggars belief. Pardew is nothing more to me than a pawn in this fucked up endgame that Ashley is playing. It's senseless to waste all of your energy on hating the pawn.

I do get it. It's on ethical grounds that you clearly don't get. If you are being frozen out, and you do what Ben Arfa did, then it is illegal. If you get somebody fired through duplicity, it isn't necessary illegal. But on ethical grounds, it is much more odious, because your actions are parasitically affecting somebody else. It is really that simple. And if you can't see it, then I suggest you start a business with Ben Ali.

in defense of ben arfa, he was being frozen out. If Pardew was indeed complicit in the sacking of Hughton, then Ben Arfa's actions then should not compare in any way. there is certainly an ethical difference between acting against the rules if you believe them to be unfair, and being a part of somebody being fired because you feel you deserve the job more. In Pardew's case, somebody else was on the other end of the axe.

his one really stupid decision so far was bringing on Tiote imo. His talking has not been at the Sourness level, but when things start to go tits up, I expect it to escalate.

from my view, ben arfa, although a spoiled tit at times, was a little hard done by at his old club. May be misinterpreting you on that one. Is there some question mark whether Ben Arfa was complicit in the firing of another professional? I know it's all hearsay, but something fishy was going on with the Pardew thing, well before Hughton got the axe. Certainly fishy enough to leave doubt about the part Pardew played in his sacking. There were some atrocious performances under Hughton, but we were still sitting in a somewhat comfortable position as a promoted team. And say what you will, but that performance at Stevenage was as bad as the worst under Hughton, and the sending on of Tiote was absolute madness. Pardew may well have cost us points in the next 3 games, with such a stupid decision. Not saying that Pardew's time here can be described as a disaster yet either, but when the water empties out of the bay, there is a more than good chance that it's coming back at some point with disastrous consequences

i suppose we will see a good litmus test on sunday with Cattermole and Maylor out. How good is this backline, although I am not too confident about the frontline we are putting out, even if the Scourge of Sunderland is in the lineup. And if Smith goes in, we are effectively playing with 9 men.

Not sure how Ben Arfa's situation is remotely like Pardew's without having to build a bit of a bridge. Yes, it is agreed that 11 clean sheets is down to a team effort. However, the 11 clean sheets and their goal difference suggests that the mackems' defense is organized better than the West Hams of the league, since teams have managed to penetrate through their midfield. As the last line of defense, they are doing as well as anyone, apart from a couple of blips.

In his mind he will certainly be reminiscing about Hull's glory days when he took them within 12 places of a Europa Cup berth.

I don't think EthiGeordie made one single mistake since 'by all the account'.

When you are comfortable payloading a teammate in front of 41,000 people, that's team spirit. Talk about a united dressing room.

It's like someone photoshopped a steamy bathhouse scene into St. James Park.

The thing about the Toon when I signed up was that I never knew that it was like being in the mafia. On pain of death, I can never leave. I find it absolutely impossible to switch allegiances. Even last season, I could not give a shit about the Premier League. All 20 teams could go and fuck themselves. Anyway, back to Bentley. I certainly would not mind one bit if he came. Somewhere in there is a very useful player, as we knew with Barton.

I have become accustomed to seeing ManUre shirts at any game here...and even Arsenal and Chelsea tops. But what has sent me into a homicidal rage is all of the Spurs tops that just suddenly appeared in the last 18 months. And you talk to a lot of these pricks and they will tell you that their favorite clubs are Tottenham, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Barcelona. I can hear the very fabric of the Universe being torn when these windbags pour shit from their mouths.

It's not getting carried away to praise him on a good performance. I don't care if it was West Ham. He did what he was hired to do last night, and on his first Premier League start. I don't think anybody is saying that he is the new van Basten, but the praise is completely justified. He at least has earned a chance.

Anybody who still wants him sold should be conventionally impaled via the rectum, or if we are feeling a bit more merciful, crucified with two bent nails through the scrotum. Brilliant player on his day.

Clearly we are going in the right direction...from a lemming's perspective. Living under this regime is like living at the foot of Mt. St. Helens.

As one of the resident posters of the painfully obvious, we cannot afford to drop these points. I'll go for 2-1 to us. Even without Carroll, we should be able to score against this roving pile of dogshit, even if they are playing a bit better.