John P

Actually can't believe this. Despite feeling shitty about what's happened today I just had some sort of maniacal laughing fit about this. Its just so utterly ridiculous.

Hold on, these bids actually happened? Jesus wept.

Fuck this, what a load of absolute bollocks. This has completely ruined my week, especially with my Mackem supporting mates at work, they're going to be fucking unbearable. The worst thing will be watching a no doubt toothless attacking performance at Fulham and knowing that this shit is all we've got until the end of the season. Tits.

Could we not just make a separate thread for all this 'Newcastle are better than Sunderland', 'No you're not, Sunderland are better than Newcastle' rubbish? It really does get tiring very quickly and is quite pathetic.

It makes me laugh whenever people put up formations that we could play if we signed this player and if we signed that player, and they often don't put Nolan in the side. Like it or not he's our captain FFS, he's not going to get dropped for a new signing!

Response from my Mackem mate on Facebook after I said they were lucky to get a draw: 'Aye any late goal has an element of luck but both teams were dogshit and it would have been harsh if Newcastle had won...especially after all the time wasting antics and kevin Nolan just being a bellend as usual. Horrible club.' I don't know where to start with this!

Anyone else think 5mins of added time was way too much? Up to that point there was 1 goal and Ferdinands injury (which happened at the time of the goal anyway). Where did the rest come from?

Barry Horne, Socrates, Ian Dowie John Mensah? Ill get my coat

Seriously, is this a joke or what? If the FA are being serious about this then I hope that they will be analysing video evidence of every single PL game this week when one player tells another to fuck off, and be dishing out bans to them as well. Absolute joke. I also hope they will be looking at the various dives performed by the Liverpool players (namely Torres and Maxi) and do something about that. You know, against an offence that is essentially cheating as opposed to telling someone to suck you off.

Can't stand Spackermole - pretty much every time iv seen him play he's lost his head and put in a dangerous tackle that could have, or has, injured an opposing player. Tiote showed how you should play defensive midfield, and it doesn't involve recklessly flying into tackles.

Can you imagine if this was the other way round with Sunderland being 5th, and discussing being 5th in Feb and 'pushing on' on SMB? Everyone on here would piss themselves. Couple of injuries to us (any of Colo, Enrique, Tiote, Carroll) and we would really struggle to produce the form we're currently enjoying.

Love how he celebrates all of our goals, looks like he absolutely loves it. He always seems to be in the box when we've scored recently as well and is the first one to celebrate with the scorer! There's been some great pics of our goalscorers with a beaming Coloccini in the background this season.

Ok iv been convinced. Photographic evidence may follow in the next couple of days.

I live in the same block of flats as Anton Ferdinand (who drove around the place like a complete dick by the way until his ban) and it has taken all of my strength to resist putting a little '5-1' note next to his car.

Banana man surely?

I agree with Collymore's point, but it is a bit rich coming from someone who described a John Arne Riise goal, which deflected off his brother and in, as 'the ultimate irony.'

Ha, that was me. It's the same kid who was on 'The Sun' start of the football season ad that was on during every frigging break on sky sports recently. Absolute spit of Nolan. Thankfully they seemed to have stopped showing it now! Especially seeing as it featured Kevin Nolan and Mick Hucknall's love child wearing a Mackem scarf.

My mate went and bought tickets for us yesterday and he was told that level7 is going to be 'turnstiles only' on Saturday. He didn't elaborate but I guess that means it's empty and people will be able to go and pay at cash turnstiles to sit up there?

Was thinking of watching this in 3D in town. The sky website says Union Rooms has 3D, anyone ever been there for it? If so, do you have to pay extra to get in and watch it in 3D?

Is he speaking English in the interview on .co.uk?

I sometimes forget that we have a billionaire owner. Even teams like Wigan have spent £10million this summer and that isn't exactly going to be coming from their shirt sales and ticket revenue is it? And is it right that Wolves spent £16million last summer and the same again this? Whereas here we are with our billionaire owner and 50,000 ticket sales every other week and we've spent 1.5million on Perch and seemingly refuse to pay around £5million for a player who is young, would no doubt improve our team and chances of survival and who could very possibly be sold on in the future for a profit. Brilliant. If Ben Arfa isn't the sort of player that fits into the 'Ashley model' then who the hell is?

I think so, which proves the ridiculous nature of the rule imo. More and more players are gonna be dragged across the world before they're out their teens. Not Mikel Obi right? Isn't the rule that a player has to be part of an English set-up for three years or three full seasons before their 21st birthday to be counted as homegrown. Mikel Obi signed for Chelsea when he was 19 which would make this impossible since he would've been 22 at the end of the third season. Probably not then. But the point still stands, the likes of Kakuta and Borini at Chelsea will be classed as homegrown at a point. I don't see the point in the rule if that's the case, rather than enforcing clubs to develop talent it just means they stockpile players at an even younger age. Can't be good for them. I agree, I think all this rule is going to do is make teams 'buy' or sign even more young European players. At the end of the day, we have quite a few foreign managers in the Prem now and they aren't going to care about where the player comes from, as long as they fit into the homegrown rule. Am I right in thinking that in Germany the rule is that you must have 12 'homegrown' players in the squad, 8 of whom must be eligible for the national team? Think I read it on the BBC website somewhere last week? If so, that is a much better system and one which I think will actually help their youth development and national team, whereas I think we will just be getting left behind after a few years of our 'homegrown' rule.

I was behind Chris Hughton at the self service checkouts in Jesmond Tesco earlier. Managed to see one thing he was buying - the latest issue of Zoo

Assou-Ekotto and Snoop Dogg

I walked past Ryan Taylor on Northumberland Street yesterday. He wasn't smiling.