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Debuchy really is very strong in the air. Much more than you would think.

We play much better football when we aren't terrified of the other team.

We are dominating. Ben Arfa is needed to break them down. Cardiff need to pay for being second best.

I hate when defenders smash the ball against the striker that way. So risky.

I'm just arriving. Pardew has really dropped Ben Arfa? Yanga-Mbiwa I don't like but understand. Ben Arfa not playing is madness.

What is the 4 million, wages? We didn't pay any amount of compensation for Gosling; I thought this was the only reason we signed in the first place. "Risk free".

I think he is a good player who might have made it to a higher level at some point. He's probably ruined it at this point, though.

This is Gosling's fourth season here and he has never contributed anything at any point.

They'll be tired at the weekend though. You just watch. It is a tired line of talk. We won our group in this thing last season, quite easily in fact. Move back the Wayne Routledge revisionist history talk. They are also winning/getting points in the league games after. Without making a ton of changes. I don't see how the two are correlated at all. Pardew made changes, but we won the European matches, so what exactly is the issue? Do people think Swansea are picking up more points because they are playing closer to the first team in Europe? I don't know, I just see this point about Pardew resting players in Europa League last season come up fairly often, and I don't understand the relevance or criticism. We didn't go out because of resting players and I doubt playing the full first team throughout would improve our result in either competition.

They'll be tired at the weekend though. You just watch. It is a tired line of talk. We won our group in this thing last season, quite easily in fact. Move back the Wayne Routledge revisionist history talk.

Don't forget, we played Tottenham in the first match of last season. We won the match after Ben Arfa embarrassed Lennon and Van Der Vaart to win a penalty and smashed it home with ridiculous ease. We were supposed to compete with them that season. We might have even been the better side, lack of transfers and all. Times change quickly.

Di Matteo has a very good record, I don't understand how people can say otherwise. He did a commendable job at West Brom. he brought them out of the Championship playing very good football, significantly better than we played with superior players in fact. He did good business in the market bringing in the likes of Tchoyi and Osaze and had West Brom well out of the relegation zone when he was sacked for a bad run. It wasn't very dissimilar to Hughton. At Chelsea he arrived at a team that was in disarray and open mutiny against its manager, had won one of six matches in the league and was 3-1 down in it's Champions League knockout tie. He completely changed the team's style of play to suit the personnel they had, and built an extremely organised and athletic side on the fly. From this point, he achieved six consecutive spectacular results in the Champions League, won the FA Cup and acceptable results in the Premiership until they beat Barcelona and essentially gave up on the CL through a top four place. The next year he won 7 of the first 8 league matches with a very different side before all hell broke loose in Manchester, they lost, Ramires "heard racial abuse" and John Obi Mikel tried to actually kill Mark Clattenburg. He was sacked within a month having lost two league matches out of twelve. Clearly, he was never wanted. The guy has been very unfortunate in his last two posts. I would definitely have him here and he would be a certain improvement.

Costa never played professionally in Brazil actually. Doing this kind of thing is not something I like, but ultimately if the player wishes to play for Spain and is a Spanish national I don't see it being that big of an issue. He was brought to Portugal and started his career there as an adult from what I can gather. This case isn't particularly egregious admittedly, but under the current rules there is nothing stopping some desperate country from creating lax nationalisation laws for athletes and and simple creating a national team that is really just an all-star foreign side from their local league.

What is Diego Costa's claim to being Spanish. Unless I am misunderstanding something, he is fully raised in Brazil and never even saw Spain until he was an adult. FIFA needs to ban this sort of thing. Unless someone has proven lineage in the new nation or moved there before attaining professional status, they should not be allowed to change football nationalities unless there are extenuating circumstances. "Being a talented footballer" is not a satisfactory reason. It is the same nonsense Holland tried to pull with Saloman Kalou all of those years ago. African legends such as Nwankwo Kanu, Yaya Toure, Obi Mikel, Drogba, and Adebayor stuck on the rubbish Overground line. Owen at Oxford Circus. Some women at my cousin's stop. This map disappoints me greatly.

I really don't believe Kinnear has come back to be our manager. To be frank, he actually nearly died last time and his friend has given him a high paying job that requires no actual work. It is much more likely he remains as a figurehead and continues taking our money regardless of performance.

Yeah he was brilliant in his last performance. I cannot wait until the guy returns so he run around consistently hurting the team, puffing his chest out, playing to the supporters, and suffering another "unfortunate injury". Who would you play at CB? I think you are overestimating the deficiencies of the two players on one ridiculously poor performance. These two are still our best option. I wish we had a quality player to challenge them but there isn't one. As I said, Taylor was terrible in our first match and has been terrible many times before at a fairly consistent rate. I would change things if there are more performances of this nature or to accommodate Yanga-Mbiwa moving to right back if Debuchy returns to form, but I would rather not.

We had a very different aide with an entirely different style of play that managed to win something 8 out of 11, six matches in a row, and beat Chelsea (away) and Liverpool in that same season. Stop referencing things from this time like they actually have any correlation to now. The vast majority of those players are still here as well.

Yeah he was brilliant in his last performance. I cannot wait until the guy returns so he run around consistently hurting the team, puffing his chest out, playing to the supporters, and suffering another "unfortunate injury".

He's been inconsistent every season of his career. Stop expecting Messi and find a plan B, Pardew.

That rubbish from Krul when he threw the ball to Tiote, who was under pressure and promptly lost the ball, leading to another glorious chance for their forwards angered me as much as anything else that happened last night. It was the keeper's fault for the most part, but the highlight of Tiote's game is meant to be his strength on the ball, and he was shrugged off with ease.

It is the aspect of his tenure that is most confounding. How often do we show flashes of improving, utilising the abilities of the players, and playing good football only to see this last for one match or even less than one match?

Why? He literally provided nothing at all. Maybe that is an improvement over the eight or nine players who were unquestionably negatives.

He was extremely poor tonight, definitely. It is a shame because I thought he was relatively well this season and had done the least of any of the defenders to be "dropped". As always with Santon, the main problems are positional. He had no business exposing himself like that for the first goal, and it felt like he always had a poor starting position against the opposing player. The signs with him are very worrying because he is young and very talented but has undoubtedly regressed since the year turned to 2013. His performances since this point have been unrecognisable. He is one of a number of players who have regressed significantly. How many teams have 7-8 players regress to this degree concurrently?

Give over. About what? Coloccini was the worst player on the pitch in the first half.

I don't understand what was the plan first half was meant to be. There was no cohesion between the three groups of players at all. The forward players were not pressing the ball with any alacrity, which would seem to indicate that we were going to sit back and absorb pressure, yet the defense seemed to be playing quite high, with both fullbacks bombing forward whenever the midfield held the ball for more than half a second. The midfield, especially Tiote, were far too separated from our defenders. Part of it was tactics, but the midfield players provided absolutely nothing offensively or defensively in the first half. I was expecting them to sit deep and break up play, but this never happen. They seemed to just be wandering around the half way line while Everton repeatedly assaulted the defence.