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Rumour has it that the victim was all shook up I heard it all broke out just cuz he stepped on his blue suede shoes

Tightening the angle to make a difficult shot for your opponent so that they hit the woodwork, keepers tipping a shot with their fingers onto the woodwork, but two of the examples proving it's not luck but good play. Some may be luck, aye, but I wouldn't say every shot that hits the woodwork is immediately deemed lucky.

I can't believe our ordacity to allow a player free roam offside, unbelievable!

Innocent til proven guilty marra! All seriousness, I hope it's a misunderstanding and Shelvey wouldn't be so daft as to racially abuse someone, but if he has he needs to be made an example of as should anyone else who does it.

Is this the Adam Johnson appreciation thread??

They're still in that period of denial where some of the supporters want him gone and the other half are still defending him, spouting the "who would do better in these conditions" line. Not long now until the worm turns. I've never known a manager turn supporters to wanting their own team to get stuffed so they can get out of purgatory like this guy does.

They got in a cup final last season, what more do they expect, I think he's doing a cracking job, deluded Palace supporters, careful what you wish for, who would replace him??

Exactly, he wasn't just a shit manager we had to persevere with for a fleeting moment in our history, he changed people's perception of the game and ruined a deep grained love for our club as a whole. That doesn't come back over night, Rafa is not just rebuilding our club he's fixing a broken relationship.

Nah, fuck that, Ashley was the instigator but Pardew was the facilitator, it takes a special kind of twat to play that role. Pardew single handedly made me hate football, actively want us to lose and thousands of supporters jack their tickets in. Pardew deserves to be vilified, I hate the cunt and with plenty of reason. Ashley gets a stay of execution because of the Rafa effect, he's keeping his nose clean and will probably be left alone while things stay as they are. Pardew however keeps spouting his bullshit and making up stories of his time here and until he's engulfed in the burning pits of hell he'll continue to get dogs abuse. I want him relegated because I want no way back for the slimy fucker, no excuse for Ian Wright and his other cronies to crawl out of the woodwork when he gets sacked and declare he's one of the best, would have turned it round, didn't get a chance. If he's to go it has to be ignominiously.

If I have to choose one can it be on the proviso that we smash the other one 5-1 in our first season back?

Both, can I say both? Yeah, both.

Careful what you wish for

Yep, we remember that feeling too. We're not 'stupid deluded geordies' now are we, you clueless Southern spunkrags. I still hope Palace go down, even if Pardew gets sacked. ....and so the circle of life is complete

No reason to rush him back when Mitro is banging them in, they'll both get plenty of chances to get a run of games.

An enticing headline, followed by something not worth its own article, I'd say it's pretty accurate

NUFCBlog levels of titling there, good work

I for one am outraged we didn't just take £5m to get him off the books!

I think their stupidity level just got higher, that's why they're getting more posts about them in here. It finally feels like their year and they're out swinging about our squad and "Prem" football like it's the be all and end all, we're in a tin pot league (that ironically they'll be stinking up next year and the foreseeable). For once they're the media circus and we're not and for all the mickey taking we've endured they deserve some back. But aye attendance patter is a bit yawn, pink seat jibes accepted.

Great second half from City, they look so dangerous going forward. They weren't really in it at all until that first goal went in, then there was only one team going to win it. Enjoyable watch that.

It's been taken down!

After 35 minutes of City getting stink faced it's turned into a really good game, that counter attack goal had opened the game up, Barca started looking a little shaky there. They play a dangerously high line too.

Welsh Mackems??

What on Earth is this nonsense? I feel a little thicker having read that...

Townsend wanted to play for England and he knew he had to be in the Premiership because it's not 1974 anymore, in his desperation he jumped at the first offer without thinking it through, it's his own fault and he deserved all he gets for that decision. What I'm saying is, it's not that much of a stretch to understand his thought process, it's just difficult to comprehend his final decision, one year in the Championship with Rafa when there's no WC or Euros isn't going to kill him. He went for the quick fix when he should have stayed with us, come back up with us and really shown what he can do under a proper manager in time for 2018. Ah well no loss, I'm not exactly cut up about it and I don't think we'll miss him half as much as he'll miss us.

Lascelles is going nowhere, bar a stupid bid that I don't think anyone is willing to make, these are Rafa's decisions now and he's not going to sell his talisman for anything other than stupid money, guaranteed, in his own words "we are no longer a selling club". As for Mbemba, his time will come, it's a long season and the current two are immense at the moment, why change a winning formula? Mbemba's style of play will be essential back in the Premiership and I have no doubt he'll stay.