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Worst thing is that after Pardew's 'miraculous run' of picking up points whilst still playing fairly uninspiring stuff, we could not win or score until February and he'd still be unlikely to get the boot. Looking forward already to the post match press conference filled with "it's a tough place to come, struggling with injuries, two games in a few days". Absolute piss poor so far. Tiote & Gouff do nothing except run around like headless chickens. Haidara has been awful and Elliott isn't good enough to get a game for my Sunday team. And I play for Shit Fat Cunts United.

Someone re-injure Tiote quickly, he is fucking useless. And the less said about "I'll kick it really far" Elliott and "Let's play them at their own game" Pards the better. Utter shit.

I live and work in London and everyone I work with thinks he's a smug twat and an awful manager.

So why did all the players run to the bench to celebrate with Anita? Is it because they all love him and think Pardew is treating him crap picking a player who's been out for two years over him and then, to add insult to injury, bringing on Gouff instead of him?

Played quite well in the first 30 minutes to be fair to him. Bloody harsh that. Certainly wasn't as bad as Gouff when he came on.

Loans at this point are only 'emergency' loans anyway aren't they? He couldn't be loaned for any longer even if he wanted to until the window re-opens as far as my understanding goes (which may be totally wrong).

He is a fucking idiot.

Streete has always looked half decent when I've seen him. Think it's about time he had a crack at the first-team, especially if we've got so many injuries.

Watched him in an U21 fixture earlier this season. Clearly Pardew's instruction a while back to keep an eye on Tiote was taken a bit too close to heart, as all he did was run around, give the ball away and lunge into crazy challenges. Really liked the look of the kid and hope he turns it round, but think he may be struggling to make it as a top-level footballer now.

Isn't his contract up at the end of the season? Get him signed quick! Nope, just seen 2016 - finally one that's paid off having a massively long contract.

Just remember that last night he had a more important moment in football with his cock block than you will ever have with any part of your body.

Every time I see him play I'm impressed. Fully expect him not to play again this season.

Aarons just won me £40 as first goalscorer

Gone for an 8-1 City win. Do have money on Aarons or R Taylor (over the wall) as goalscorers. Nothing like a bit of faith, especially after being at WHL on Sunday.

A creative genius who can play a killer through-ball or curl a freekick in the top corner. Ala Peter Beardsley/Thomas Häßler mould.

Signed some players who suit his blueprint very well (strong and/or direct) and has let them off the leash. It's the latter bit he's been petrified of for years.

Given it'll be far easier for them to get into the Champions League than us, it wouldn't take a huge investment to get them to level where they can get into the Group Stages and he can sell his wonderful Sondico and Slazenger brands all over Europe. I think he'll be better for them than he has been for us. Especially considering the absurd wankers who have been running Rangers for the past however many years.

Sad but true.

Looking at that, he only played three times between November and the start of January of which he played one at right-back. In January he played RB twice and CB for 25 minutes when losing to WBA. In one of the games where we won and kept a clean sheet, our goalkeeper had to make a record amount of saves in a Premier League match. In the other our defence was playing against a completely out of sorts looking Torres, and we were lucky when a unmarked Terry header hit the bar and one where Santon cleared off the line. I'm not doubting he has quality, but I think he's a benefactor of the "he's not here but he's better than what we've got." In too many games I've watched he's played he's looked like a mistake waiting to happen and I just can't say a defender like that can be considered a quality defender. But it's just my opinion, I don't expect everyone to agree with me.

Not true. Go on then, I'll bite. Which of these games did he look like a 'quality defender' for us? - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mapou-yanga-mbiwa/leistungsdaten/spieler/57480/saison/2013

Problem with all this is Mbiwa, for whatever reason never looked like a quality defender for us. He had a decent run in a few games, but there are so many reasons for him looking good for Roma and not for us. For a start they're a better team that don't have a clown managing them. He has good players around him in defence and protecting him from midfield. And of course the fact that arguably the Premier League is a harder, more physical league. If he does come back, with things the way they are for the club currently, I have no doubt he'll perform badly when he gets the odd game here and there and then is forced into playing right-back. That'd be Pardew's way of saying "I told you so".

His celebration for the first is amazing.

A point! Soon we'll have almost 30. Then the season will be over and we'll be relegated. But clap away you silver-haired prick.

As crap as he is, at least when Obertan has played this season he's run at players and tried to make things happen by committing players. Shame every performance has also be punctuated by kicking the ball out needlessly and having no idea what to do when he gets anywhere remotely dangerous. Can imagine our play from the back is largely aimed at his 50p head.

Why on Earth anyone would threaten Pardew's family. Surely they're already being punished enough having that smug git walk through their door every day?