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Can't blame the lad for so desperately wanting to take the penalty, he's been left out a lot this season and he's desperate to prove himself, he's full of passion and clearly has a lot of love for us. He's just not had the skill to live up to that passion but now seems to be turning a corner, I think he'll come good. Fantastic centre forward display today, harassed, bullied and terrorised their back 4 all game, I had to rub my eyes when I saw him running at defenders. Whatever Rafa is doing with him is working, starting to repay some of the faith our supporters have had in him and I hope for everyone's sake it continues. Got a lot of time for Mitro, how can you not love the guy?

Or he can continue his role as backup, playing in games like this, scoring 2 goals and assisting 1, on our way to a 4-0 win. how you can moan about a performance like this I don't know.

If this was Pardew we'd have 7 kids and 4 left backs on the pitch, halcyon days! I'm going for a tight 1-0 win tonight, won't even hazard a guess at the line up but think he'll start with Mitro and Perez.

Fucking hate that website, so shit

Do you think Swansea, Hull and Boro will get that far ahead of them? It only needs one of them to get that far ahead and they're in the shit, it's already looking like a return of 1.4 ppg to reach the magical 40 mark by the end of the season that's nearly 54pts over a full season and an 8-10th finishing position. Good luck with that!

Johnson's been good for them for a while now, been chipping in with a few decent goals too. Beckford should be back in time to face us too. They're in good form right now but so are we, it will be a tough test but trust Rafa to get it right.

What I like most about the original picture is clearly the intense hatred of the man has caused the channel to be muted before taking the picture

Do you actually have 2 sheds? Just one with a f***ed lock Change your name then. Billy 1fuckedlock. Hate liars me, like. Messing, mate, I'll build you a second shed, no prob. Don't believe him, he'll charge you for it and the tarmac for your driveway!

I loved his interview last night "how were you feeling when they scored?" "Yeah good....they? Not good!"

What is it now 23 shots on target all season, 3 of which have fallen in the last 2 games combined? Really going at it to get some points on the board aren't they?

They have to get the ball to him for that to happen, he can't do it from kick off

26 in the last 3 seasons 35 in the last 4 before this season.

I wouldn't really disagree, but I guess what I'm saying is they have nowt going for them, fuck all. We have our fan base and always will it seems even with pricks like Ashley, Pardew et al mugging us off. As much as it drove everyone mad that we still filled the stadium in those dark days could you see many others doing the same? I don't blame them for having free tickets and pink seats given what they watch every week and to say they still get over 30k crowds to watch that is some achievement, free tickets or not. But if they get relegated it'll be the death of them.

despite giving away around 10k free tickets each game? And still having swathes of pink seats?

Can't hate them too much for their dislike of Palace and utter disdain of Pardew though. Clearly don't know much about Benitez if they think he'll run to a relegation threatened team in the Premiership though when "managerial merry-go-round is in full swing".

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The FA need to give him some form of ban from football. They are basically condoning his actions if not. Here's been proven to be at best a little bit dodgy, they've given him a handsome pay off, they compensated Sunderland for taking him in the first place, now he gets the chance to get another signing on free plus I'm sure an improved contract to what he was on before. From a financial viewpoint he's laughing. Should be banned from all forms of football in England for this season and possibly next imo, although I'm extremely biased They need to make an example of him of else it's just saying that what he's done is acceptable.

Brilliant

Pinocchio Pardew. Couldn't lie straight in bed. To name but two contradicting quotes.

I see TCD has saved the day again! What would we do without him?

Thing is with Clark, he was in a very poor team devoid of confidence, he's taken a step down under an world class manager and looks a lot better albeit at a lower level. It's unfair to judge him as not able to take that step up until we see what he's capable of under the right management and training. Clearly he was poor last year but how much is contributed to the player and how much to other external factors is yet to be seen.

Nil points. I can see them pushing their 15 point season if something drastic doesn't change.

Done dirt cheap?

Looking like Rafa has helped him get his alleged off field problems in check and got him concentrating on his football and working on his fitness. This Shelvey is a quality addition to any side outside the top 6 PL teams, however there's always the fear that the Shelvey we witnessed in the latter Swansea days and our relegation run in could rear his ugly head again. I trust Rafa to keep him on track and I think Shelvey does too.

Isn't it about time we made glue out of this cunt?