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Barton Emre in the middle, Milner down the wing. But most people on this board wanted Milner dropped. Butts inclusion just highlights the thinness of our squad

Been a long time since I have seen team with 2 pig-ugly, ogre-ish looking centre-halves. Fucking monsters they look

Butt was poor today. Distribution was just dreadful and way poorer than I would expect a bloke of his experience to be. Am trying to think though... if he hadnt of started, who else could have taken his place ?

Knew it was going to be bad from early on when Emre I think it was, got clipped from behind and the ref did nothing about it. Emre went chasing after him, screaming at him.. had visions of more Stoke style retribution Think they went out early on to thump our midfield and sadly the ref let them get away with it

Speak for yourself mate

Boro have been on a bit of an improved recently - they absolutely battered Blackburn at their place when when they should have won about 6-0. Unbeaten in their last 6 (7 now). Their confidence is growing, ours is still very much at Zero. We had no reason to assume we would win this easily (if at all) and came very very close to doing so. We finally got the "No goals under Keegan" thing out of the way. Lets get Beye and Faye back in the team and move on to Villa.

I quite likes Redknapp saying "there is a distinct lack of quality in the newcastle side"... Bet Allardyce loved that

Heard nothing on Sky

Boro came into the game with the fairly easy tactic of closing us down fast whenever we had the ball. When they had the ball, we just stood off and allowed them to pass it around. If we have employed the same tactic, we could have forced them into the same mistakes they forced us into. Sometimes I wonder why players on the pitch cant work this out for themselves. We did do that very soon after we scored and you could see they were rattled a little bit. Sadly we didnt carry it on., Lost out on the physical side as well. Why Butt and Barton didnt put themselves about I just cant work out. Barton will twat anyone in a flash outside McDonalds yet on the pitch didnt seem to want to get stuck in.

the post saved him this time and the ref giving offside I was fucking screwaming at the telly. how did he not even make an effort to dive for that free kick. Poor. Choice of kicking yet again wasnt good either

Don't even know why it was disallowed. Aliadiere just offside. mainly given because linesman couldnt see Carr. Gave some poor decisions against Boro as well. was just very poor all round. Owen's disallowed goal was beyond astonishing. Set the mood for the game. Am convinced it gave is a "nothing is going to go our way" mentailty and therefore chipped at the confidence even more.

Well, he hasn't played most games this season and our midfield has looked more shite than ever before. If he's bad it doesn't say much for those in posession of the shirt right now. I would have him straight in on Sunday

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Who is this prick on SSN ?

Fucking Sky. Is this Jermaine Defoe interview the only thing they have to show. Edit... Interviewer "What do you want to achieve for the rest of the season?" JF - "3 Points". 2nd half of the season looking bleak for Portsmouth then

I'll translate what he said for you. "Keep watching! Keep watching! Keep watching!" Which is exactly what that lizard-esque front man is doing every time he refers breathlessly to "things hotting up" (Holy fuck! Birmingham have signed Tainio! It's like the storming of the Winter Palace, the Germans crossing into Poland and the Kennedy Assassination all rolled into one!!!!) and refers AGAIN to that bookish looking bell end "frantically texting people". Fuck you Sky, you fucking cunts. What a knob he is

Wikipedia got this now on Giles Barne Barnes signed for Havant & Waterlooville on 31st January 2008 for a fee of £25 million. This is a shock to the football world because Havant struggled to pay their tea lady Barbra, who is on £35 a week.

Nice to see that old attitude of "I dont mind where I play - I just desperately want to play first team football" is alive and well in Rozenhals'. What an utter fuckwit

Lawrenson was quick enough to take our money when it was offered to him

yeah that was fucking ridiculous to be fair, used to have a bit of respect for hansen, lawrenson always has and always will be a preposterous human being though I missed MOTD... what were they saying ?

haha brilliant

Is it me or is Rafa Benitez looking more and more like Max (& Paddy)

No way. Was breaking news on Setanta Sports News about 15 minutes ago. Sky had it running across their banner at about 6.30 tonight too. Had a comdey double take moment to see that I was reading the name correctly.

If they give KK 5 minutes respite I will be amazed.

I saw the "Unwise" shit. What a complete piece of wank. How he dare show his face to his family and friends is beyond me.