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Can't believe this team humped us!

Thought Sherwood was doing ok when he first took over. Out of his depth? He resembles a paraplegic in the deep end of a wave pool.

Sherwood's gonna lose his shit

Lovely goal!!

Every manager does that though. Pardew lover!

Totally lost faith in this now, with Anita pushing forward again though and LDJ supplying the link up play to midfield I think we'll create chances, just not sure who's going to put them away. 4-4-2 with LDJ and Cisse and I think we might struggle. 4-3-3 with LDJ leading the line and Gouf and Sissoko cutting in and one of those two could supply us with a goal. If HBA isn't still "injured" he could do some damage off LDJ. Hard to call until we see a team sheet but revoted loss as we never seem to cope with one or two key players out.

Just a mysterious, non-discript "knock" with no come back date, dubious! Also If he's as bad as some of our supporters and Pardew make out, maybe Pardew should play him in his absence to make himself look better?

So we're missing our best players for the duration of Pardews ban? Well played Pardew, well played...

I don't think it's the main reason he keeps him, but it's not beyond comprehension that it's also a factor, easier to get manager to spin your bullshit for you if you have something over them no? He's doing a sterling job as a bang average manager that's never goin to tear up any trees and dampen expectations to keep supporters in line, that's a main reason to keep him but I believe the debts have some credence too.

Which explains why we're not interested in the cups, heaven forbid we get into Europe Fair point

It's outlandish to suggest it was anything to do with race that he wasn't captain, I'm sure he was to some extent, capable of being a captain but there were others MORE capable of doing so. Why should he be captain over the likes of Shearer? Give me a break, just wants to not be forgotten. Cry me a fucking river.

Success breeds success and a winning run in a cup has every chance of bringing greater success in the league, confidence boosting, IF managed correctly. Don't seem to recall SBR suffering in the league when we were giving it a good go in Europe and both domestic cups?!

Tbf as a game taken out of context, 1-1 at Bayern is a fantastic result. You just know they've not moved up the gears tonight though with that 2 goal cushion.

Arsenal looked dangerous for all of about 10 minutes, they're fucked now, all but finished here.

Ox should definitely be an automatic for the WC squad, he's getting better all the time.

Won't be long until Armstrong gets a shot in the first team, seems like a neat little player, fast on the shoulder of the last defender and took his goal well.

What is he supposed to do like? There is very few keeping the ball for Arsenal and when he gets it he keeps it. Switch cazorla with ozil and arsenal might stand a chance. Exactly, playing him on the wing is borderline Pardew

Gutted for them but they played well. Chelsea are the holders no?

"That wasn't that bad he clearly tried to get to the ball" fuck off he went right through the back of him!!

Balls, it's all gone to shit now

Glad to see at least one Newcastle team is showing passion and determination in a cup! Good game so far.

2-1 Armstrong, awesome back pass there

Only problem with it being Chelsea TV the commentary is obviously insanely biased. Armstrong has looked dangerous though.

7:05PM

Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to hope we'll perform differently without him there ultimately he still picks the team, tactics and formations, coaches the team all week and you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe he won't have anything to do with half time team talks.