John P

People are forgetting that Ray Wilkins is batshit mental.

Has anyone actually checked if our medical team have the relevant qualifications?

Let's face it, he's nowhere near as bad as Iron Mike was on the ball. He seems fine to me, can't say I've noticed him do anything particularly badly with the ball at his feet.

Where's Tiote these days? Seems to have disappeared without mention again.

Take them to the fucking cleaners Jonas.

No, his whole 'philosophy' is entirely dependent on individuals creating something from nothing. He had it here with Ben Arfa, Cisse in his first season who would score outrageous goals from barely half chances, then Ba and Remy who would score goals with practically no service at all. As soon as he lost that there was no structure or gameplan whereby the team could be better than the sum of its parts. Essentially, he's a shit manager with zero tactical nous. But then we all know that anyway, so not sure why I've just spent a few minutes repeating it for myself

Admittedly I haven't seen very much of them at all this season, but when I have this seems to be their entire approach. Give it wide and hope they go on a mazy run and create something out of nothing, failing that lob it into the box.

Some fans complaining that his 'cavalier football' is the problem. Too much fret.

Clattermole applauding the decision as well, the odious cretin.

The change from 'I'm going to fucking kill you' to just walking as if nothing has happened is brilliant.

This was how I felt about him on Saturday, I'd only just calmed down before my post earlier. He is a cunt though.

The one where he missed by miles? He generally doesn't pull on to the FB like he did fro the goal. I think Ian probably means the one in the second half when he had a near post header from a Sissoko cross that Mannone saved.

I posted something along these lines in the football pet hates thread. It's like this most weeks. Sometimes, a ref takes about 2 minutes to lecture a player and card them. Plus subs, goals, injuries, time wasting. Added time. 3 minutes. I've noticed in a few of our games that if we're chasing a goal it's 3-4 minutes max. If we're a goal ahead, look forward to a nice juicy 7 minutes of added time.

Bellerin on the bench Last time I left him out he got two assists and bonus points as well, the cheeky scamp.

How the frig was there only 4 minutes added time yesterday? I thought the general rule was 30secs for each sub and goal plus anything else that needs adding on? So there should have been 3 and a half minutes for the subs and goal alone, before taking into account Mitrovic's head injury, whoever it was who went down with cramp when Atkinson kindly decided to stop the game when we were on the break, plus the incessant time wasting from the mackems from the 5th minute onwards?

I'm still angry about that shoulder barge 'foul.' It was a ridiculous decision, he was in down the left as well if I remember it rightly. I had a massive rant about it for a good few minutes after it happened before realising that I was in the house alone, and the cat wasn't listening.

It was never a foul like

Brilliant goal and brilliant assist. God I miss this guy.

Just catching up with various threads so I'm sure this has been said multiple times already, but my god he was fucking atrocious today. Gave away countless needless free kicks in dangerous positions, got absolutely destroyed by Fabio fucking Borini on numerous occasions and was just generally a brain-dead fucktard until he got taken off. Horrible.

Who was the coach celebrating like a mad cunt? Been here two minutes and celebrated more than most fans, loved that.

Don't do this to us. Get that bald speccy twat down to Liverpool and get him signed up. What else is Lee busy with today??

Fuck off and die Lee. Ta.

He deserves the sack but the way it appears he's been treated since Saturday has been pretty shocking, especially if he hasn't been told face to face about being sacked.

He's above the standard of manager we should be capable of right now to be honest, I'm shocked he's even considering us.

Just read every word of Benitez's Wiki article, I'm getting myself far too excited. One thing in particular which stands out at the end is his career totals as a manager: P961 W490 D234 L237 Win Percentage 50.99% Goal Difference +635 His record in the cups and Europe is even better, win % of 52-58%. Must have been a while since we had a manager with anything like as a good a record as that. Bobby's was probably worse. Wonder what The King's and McClaren's would be like in comparison?