Mattoon

He never would have got sacked anyway. Its funny, for years we only really had one LB. Now we have 3 and none of them really seem to be the answer. No but it's eased the pressure, like I say bittersweet.

Me neither, it's the constraints that we're put on him that took him out of the game. It's no surprise as soon as Tiote went off and he got forward he looked like one of the best players on the pitch.

Spurs would have murdered us again today

We deserved it for being slightly less shit than the other team. Can't help but be happy we finally fucking win but it's bitter sweet because Pardew keeps his job, for now. Like I said in the prematch thread, Remy will come back we'll get a scrappy win and Pardew over the cracks. Uncanny! Love that we won, hate that it keeps shit head in a job

Get the fuck in!

Ball watching in the penalty area, where were the fucking options when he had 3 on him??

I miss the Cisse grin

When did Tiote become Sissoko?

Shoooooot

Good effort from Dummet

Unlucky Goof

Villa must tire soon with all this high pressing, then we can bring on the big Sho

It seems the only thing Pardew knows how to coach is the football and confidence out of players. This is just so

that midfield now we've dropped that pesky Ben Arfa

Cisse

"Pardew give us a honk!"

Totally different type of player, but no, the real Ronaldo was a true legend on his day.

Everyone scoffing at the dross fringe players were going to lose is all well and good, they might be shite but who's going to cover for our annual injury crisis? You can bet your bottom dollar we'll hold back players like Campbell, Armstrong and Good that should be progressing on loan but will be warming our bench week in, week out. He's gambled two transfer windows straight on not strengthening a threadbare team, chances are he'll do it again, each time more dangerous than the last, this time will be a step too far!

Sir Bob told him not to track back at times so he was ready on the counter attack. Not...... Track........... Back.........

At himself, I hope. Of course not. He's never to blame. Silly. Well I hope he really laid into Benny and Marv, those lazy f***ers. Couldn't even be arsed to play a whole match! Tossers!

I quite enjoyed watching "psycho" play for us, the least worst of the knackers he employed.

Just. Few and far between my friend. Colo will take a huge amount of replacement imho. The best CB we've had in my lifetime (I'm 33). I think on his day Woodgate was my favourite defender in B&W but for consistency and length of service Colo will be a massive loss.

Looking at that, if Pardew is still here we can look to keep 3 of those at best, that doesn't make good reading!!

And so the exodus begins! I'm not surprised Debuchy is feeling disillusioned ATM after we've just sold our best player, publicly announced we have no interest in competing for ANYTHING and spent half of fuck all over two transfer windows. I should expect that not only are there a fair few players less than happy with that sentiment but it will affect our ability to entice players to the club except journeymen. I seriously fear for the amount of players we could potentially lose this summer under different circumstances and even if we refuse to sell some to prevent the potential damage to the club I imagine they would be so disillusioned with the club that they'll not be much use to us anyway. It's clear this train of thought is already rife throughout the squad. Ashley is not about to fund the kind of transfer kitty required to rebuild an already ravaged squad and he won't get the bargains he so richly desires as we'll be held to ransom knowing we need this signings. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic and the reality isn't that bad, but it's definitely not a healthy state of affairs we find ourselves in right now and it COULD potentially get much morse.

A. Bring in quality, skilful foreign players that he can't/won't use and finally sack him for his incompetence and inability to improve said players whilst doing nothing but devaluing Ashley's investments. Is that an option?