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This season just continually find it way towards new crises. If we lose Coloccini, I will be very scared for the future of this team. The first half of this season, we've lost no one of note from a team that finished fifth and now sit barely above relegation. Can we take losing our best forward and best defender within the same month. This would be devastating.

I know Roman is essentially the one that built success at Chelsea, his decisions and actions since the first two title seasons under Mourinho have been consistently negative and harmful to the competitive chances of his teams. Idiotic and scatterbrained.

First Burundian to play in the Premier League. Now we want to be trailblazers for the Gabonese and the Central African Republic. #investinafrica Daniel Cousin has already taken the Gabonese virginity of the Premier League. I'm not sure she'll want more after what he did to her.

That might be true but he's been playing on right wing ffs. He didn't even play down the middle against Everton. Give him a run down the middle and he'll get goals as it's his natural position as proved last season. I don't understand all the excuse making for Cisse. He has been extremely poor 99 percent of the time this season at whatever position he has played. He hasn't been finishing and has managed to contribute almost nothing else to the team. Outside of Man U and Bordeaux in the cups and two decent finishes recently, when has he actually played well this season? I genuinely cannot remember any other quality performances, which is alarming given he has played in every meaningful match this season. Even his "positive contributions against Stoke, Wigan, and West Brom are a result of Ba. You can blame Pardew ad nauseum if you would like, but unless he is poisoning his drinking water, the manager is not the only problem. Frankly, I think the effects of managers can be overstated. At some level, players simply have to perform, and Cisse has the ability to do better, regardless of the boss instructing him.

It is a basketball rule. If you have a clear path to the basket, meaning usually a dunk and two points, and someone fouls you from behind, you are given two free throws (one point each) and then one free possession (in a sport where good teams score 1 point per possession. He wants to apply this to football, where teams score on 1 percent of possessions rather than 50 percent. He also wants to replace free throws with penalties, which are inherently much more difficult.

This is one of the most ridiculous and nonsensical posts in the entire history of my duration on this forum.

To be brutally honest, he hasn't been the same player since the Keegan left. Since then he's always been a player than can retain the ball, and that's pretty much it. Just to clarify, he played four matches under Keegan.

Norwich are a bottom half Premiership team who have lost four consecutive matches in the league. Definitely this is a match we have no opportunity of winning. We should rest our players.

He was sold for 8 million euro (I think) less than one year ago and is inferior to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Loic Remy.

To be fair, we were in the Championship at the time with what was by far the most expensive team in that division and he probably wouldn't have contributed right away given how his career at Wigan went (didn't really come into himself until late 2011). That wage does seem high given the circumstances.

It's tough to point it out as a failure on our part given the players we later signed (HBA, Ba, Cisse), but signing Moses in January 2010, when Wigan were the only Premiersip side interested, for 2-3 million would have been fantastic business. I've watched him many times since the change in nationality and he's a genuine star. We are a big enough team that he might have stayed as well. He has been horrendous in France and has high wages, but I wanted NUFC to sign Kalou in the summer for that exact role.

We are not going to spend for a top forward and a top defender in the same window along with Debuchy. Not unless we are selling another. I wonder how negatively the club views Williamson and even Perch in terms of playing centreback. If Taylor is really meant to come back at an effective level, than all we really need is experienced and capable Premiership quality cover. Surely we can get this on loan or at a low price.

Martins, 28 "21 or 28" was seven years ago. My God, life goes so quickly and football makes it worse. The age of 16 seems a lifetime ago, but Glenn Roeder and 2006/2007 Premiership seems like last week.

It is a negative sum game for me. I don't want him representing my country at Nations Cup (Keshi would like to leave Oba who is playing well and Odemwingie who is talented home for Ameobi?!), especially since he rejected us when he was a mildly desirable commodity, and I do not want him in the team at NUFC or giving an excuse to the powers at the club. He just isn't useful at this point Very well. I have a broken leg and decided to visit my women's people for the holidays. I am not which of these is more regrettable.

Yes. To begin on a markedly combative note, Nations Cup has been held on a two to three year interval ever since its inception in the late 1950's. This is the way we do things. We should change because Europe has the money in football? I hope that when China has brought the world to its knees and owns the best football league and the players, that Europe is willing to move the "more prestigious" European tournament and even the World Cup to fit with the Chinese season, which runs from March to November, and hold it at an interval set by the Chinese. It angers me when these people complain of our tournament. Holding it in two consecutive years is remarkably naive and foolish by CAF, though. Groups A and D should be quite entertaining. You would figure that Morocco should stop underachieving at some point and it will be a scrap for second place in D. I would favour us to take our group, but Zambia and BF are good sides. Cape Verde are my dark horse. They play good football and beat the hell out of Cameroon in the qualifier. In my life time, Nigeria have finished second in this three times. We have finished third five times. Also, we have withdrawn once as favourites and been banned once as favourites. We have more "medals" than any other team in history, but have won only twice. Surely whatever curse this tourney has on my country must soon end.

http://www.nigerianwatch.com/sport/1078-martins-impregnates-balotellis-sister

What is obvious is that these issues should be handled internally by the FA/UEFA/FIFA. If players think they have been treated in any sort of way that is unacceptable, they should report it to the authorities and not be criticised for this. It is their right. At the same time, this sort of thing should not publicly released until an investigation is complete. Once again, we will have a long saga with players and officials being called liars and racists for months. Why are these issues tried and handled by media? Why do the supporters know the details of the incidents before the authorities have even had a chance to sort through everything? Very unfair to everyone and amateur.

Suarez is the most overrated diver I can remember. Every time the guy falls over the world media vilifies him to an incredible degree. A few weeks ago, he fell in over once in a match where a massive man decided to impale his chest with his boot, and Tony Pulis/the media has used this an opportunity to further the campaign against him. He's been singled out to a crazy degree (Everton's best player is the dirtiest in the league for example), and that is why I find it funny when does something like that. It reminds me of Balotelli, his reputation is such that it will be talked about for 10 minutes on MOTD if he stares at someone.

He never learned how to use it to full effect playing on the shoulder, but to claim the guy isn't fast, is a completely mental thing to say in public.

We've papered over the cracks for one more week. My eyes are not lying to me. We may have good footballers, but we rarely play anything resembling good football.

To dismiss or accept the claim outright because of circumstance is reckless and foolish. Let the facts emerge or there is somewhere between 25-75 percent chance you will look like an idiot in a week. It is hard to believe that the referee would do this, but it is also hard to believe that a sane footballer (It's not Diouf or something, both players [and Clattenburg tbf] seem to have stable personalities) would accuse another professional of something like this. That sort of criminalistic passion is reserved for supporters spending their whole week's wage on the match, not millionaire footballers. By the accounts Obi was trying to force himself into the referee's room after the match. Something unsavoury definitely occurred between the ref and the players, of this I am certain. It will have undoubtedly been instigated by abuse from the Chelsea players after the red card/offside goal. I just hope Clattenburg is more sensible than to respond with the sort of language, but I would have thought Terry, Suarez, and Emre were more sensible than that. You cannnot know. How incredible is it, btw, that three months into an England Premier League season with 8-10 legitimately talented sides and what looks to be a tight title and European race upcoming, the main talking point is racism. What a disgusting waste.

Ben Arfa got a freekick for trying to pull Colback's arm off

This match is really poor.

Never a red, although his temperament this season might have played a big part in him being given a red there. It isn't always called as a red, but it is a red card. A reckless, high, studs up challenge after the whistle should be a red card every single time. Fwiw, Tiote is actively harming the team with his recklessness lack of mental stability. It really needs to stop. Maybe we should just drop him for a match or two, so he understands the urgency of the situation. There's no reason for him to be an automatic name on the team sheet.

Stop this formation nonsense. We are starting Krul, Coloccini, Santon, Cabaye, Tiote, HATEM BEN ARFA, Demba Ba, and Foluwashola Ameobi (professional Nigerian-Geordie Mackem Murdered/Sunderland Slayer). Do not be worried, we are better regardless of formation, and should be confident.