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May I ask why? He would be useful for the obligatory close, zoomed shot of the manager's face when our defense is breached for the third time in thirty minutes.

Pardew is lucky to be paid at all. He should have to pay admission fees before every match.

Today is the first time, I really think sacking him is the only option, or at least the only justifiable and sensible one. Two seasons ago, we struggled mightily, but he had led us to a very high finish the year before and did well enough in the Europa League. The second half of last season was very poor and some of his actions unprofessional, but our league position was acceptable. There were concrete reasons for him to stay. That is not the case now. The team has been in a tailspin for seven months, he has fallen out with several players, the supporters will now be firmly against him (and not just online, but at SJP), and worst of all, imo, the team yesterday played as one that blatantly wanted the manager to be sacked. They have completely given up on him. What is more embarrassing, is that these same players who won't fight for him, are the ones that he preferred to popular ones that have been discarded.

It is a sign of the poisonous atmosphere around the club are throwing Molotov cocktails of hatred towards the new signings, when the problems are the same ones that have persisted for seven months.

There is still enough quality here for there to be a big boost and turnaround with the appointment of a new manager. Wasting another winnable home match with the current idiot at the helm would be extremely inadvisable, though. 4 matches will turn to ten and fifteen quicker than anyone realises and we need to have a significant number of points on the board by these milestones. Action should occur now. Tonight, in fact.

I haven't seen the match, but for the first three goals, it seemed as though Colo and Williamson are colluding to have Pardew sacked. It genuinely looked as though they were not trying. Coloccini especially.

To be fair, it has been 5 total matches in a team that is actually collapsing upon itself. I know from watching his career, that he is nothing more than average, but it is hard to criticise the new boys when they've debuted less than a month ago and are already in the midst of a crisis.

This is incorrect.

HAHAHAHAHAHA 4-1.

Cameroon leading Cote d'Ivoire 3-1 with about 70 minutes gone. A surprising result given Cameroon's awful WC, but CIV's defense continues to let them down (even with legend Herve Renard as manager). Fantastic match thus far and "NUFC target" Aboubakar with a brace. A few big name clashes around the continent tonight in general with a desperate Nigeria playing South Africa in Cape Town and Egypt taking on Tunisia. edit: Also, Bamba is atrocious. I don't understand how he continues to make money as a footballer.

Hull were a newly promoted side with far less resources than NUFC had in 2010, yet survived fairly comfortably while also doing well in cups. That is a fantastic season, however you want to spin it. This season they have been more ambitious in their transfers, and should look to be more expansive and finish higher. We will see what happens. Bruce is perfectly competent, IMO, anyway.

They have Kameni, N'dy Assembe, and Itandje all playing in big leagues. They must simply prefer him or look to start anew after disastrous World Cup. I don't know the specifics. Speaking oh which, do you have an opinion on Dongou? Meanwhile, the African champions started their defenestration with a home defeat to Congo-Brazzaville in Calabar. Words escape me.

Really ? Sorry. You must have blindness. It is always remarkable to me how little the area between the the eyebrow and the chin changes as we age, even though every thing else changes drastically.

Everyone thinks Matuidi is now a good player just because he plays for that rampant PSG side. The guy is average, and he should have received a red card in the second round of the World Cup for trying to break Onazi's leg.

Eh? He was nowhere near the team because Pardew was choosing to freeze him out! Yeah, he's saying that Pardew would still be a c*** even if he was here. He would, too. He has shot himself in the foot though, he now has 2 less options than he did before the transfer window closed. Our bench is going to be lifting. Clearly his opinion is that both Ben Arfa and Yanga-Mbiwa are actually detrimental to the side, hence his obvious desire to make them disappear. It should be addition via subtraction.

France will probably win the next fucking World Cup with an XI made up entirely of past, present, or future NUFC players while we sit in our homes wondering why we are fighting for 14th every season.

Like Coloccini added it, you mean? I am not sure how the inability of one player to improve a particular attribute means that no other player can do so. Especially one that is physically inferior to Yanga-Mbiwa in just about every attribute and arrived at a more advanced age.

Argentina's attacking options outside of Messi were desperately poor at the WC. Everyone was either, off-form, injured, or Rodrigo Palacio. It is a shame because the defence (Once they reached the knockouts and escaped the attackinig fret of Bosnia and Nigeria) and the likes of Mascherano, Biglia, and Perez shone in ways I did not really expect.

It would make absolutely no sense to get rid of the man just days after dismissing two of the clubs biggest investments on his advice. I highly doubt there is any firm plans to do so. The only way he will be sacked during this season, is if the situation in the table becomes untenable in terms of potential relegation. I have a suspicion the man will be gone at the end of this season, though.

I'm being honest, never thought he was great. He had moments where he shined. Just to be sure I'm not crazy I had to find player ratings only found goal.com which is probably a s*** site but they're with me with for most parts. Game1: http://www.goal.com/en/match/argentina-vs-bosnia-herzegovina/1220100/ratings Game 2: http://www.goal.com/en-india/match/argentina-vs-iran/1220102/ratings Game 3 (didn't see this game) http://www.goal.com/en/match/nigeria-vs-argentina/1220104/ratings Game 4: http://www.goal.com/en/match/argentina-vs-switzerland/1220127/ratings Game 5: http://www.goal.com/en-tz/match/argentina-vs-belgium/1220136/ratings Saw some other player ratings that were giving him 5s or 6s for most parts. Which is exactly what I felt he performed at, never really got going imo. (did miss the Nigeria game though, as I was at the other group game being played at the same time) so maybe he was great in that game. The person that mentions goal.com in a football argument is immediately banned from winning that argument.

1 win and 4 losses out of seven matches since he was banished. There is not even a justifiable football reason for this idiocy to be sanctioned.

Welbeck is the antithesis of the player Arsenal need upfront.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/18/article-1313201-0B3ED77F000005DC-329_634x396.jpg

I'm not convinced Ramirez is anything more than average. Ben Arfa will bench him.

It is incredibly bizarre for a team that has played as poorly as this one in the first four matches to actively weaken itself on the last day of the window.