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The things this guy can do with the ball is pure genius. Sure he may lose the ball occasionally and or run into blind alleys, but fucking hell everytime he gets the ball he's trying to make things happen. No one else in our squad has the creativity he does.

Pisses me right off that each game we effectively have to wait until at least 60 minutes before we attempt to win the game. Why the fuck we had to wait till 60 and 2 nil down to bring Ben Arfa on is beyond me

Need to see him sooner rather than later. As usual we are lacking creativity

Pardew would never start Ben Arfa against Everton in a million years on his preferred right hand side. He's too scared of their left side.

I swear the "Hatem is fat" thing gets overplayed massively on here. People are talking about him like he's the size of a house or something. He still burns past defenders with his acceleration. I'm also not sure how he's supposed to get properly match fit when he hasn't been given a start in ages.

how the fuck is this "game of the day" on sky

Holy shit. Didn't realise we hadn't scored a goal in the games he doesn't play. That's embarrassing.

This Shola performance

Surely Marv on is a must? We have absolutely nothing going forward.

The lack of creativity without Remy and/or Ben Arfa is frightening!

I think the Mapou & Colo partnership could work in certain situations. Obviously Everton(with Lukaku) was an example of when it absolutely didn't. However there have been a few other occasions where I remember it working perfectly. Fulham at home, anzhi away? Even Villa away but for the corner we conceded which may have been unrelated to the fact it was Colo and Mapou. I feel against small, quick teams or teams we are likely to dominate possession against, particularly at home. Would suit those two perfectly.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69627000/jpg/_69627639_pardew_reuters.jpg

I bet he is genuinely shocked at the reaction this has caused. Probably can't wrap his little brain around the whole thing.

Surely he's a bit old to be out in, what appears to be a club? Sorry to any of the old fella's on here who still go clubbing

It's really annoying me that only now are the press giving Pardew any kind of abuse, while for that last few years, some of the things that have come out of his mouth have been just as "shaming to Sir Bobby's memory"

Wasn't his contract up this summer?

So many good goals today

This is awful from City

Seems a bit biased to have Quinn and Phillips as the pundits. I know Quinn played for Man City but he's 100% Sunderland now.

Yeah, only way I'm ok with it is because I dislike Pardew and any pressure on him is good from my opinion but some of the reactions have been as if he's caused grievous bodily harm or something. I dislike people in the media saying things like somebody should be sacked. Seems wrong and should be left to the employers not pundits like Robbie fucking Savage. Also pretty disgusting from a company like the BBC not doing a single piece of analysis on the the actual football.

On paper this should be an absolute battering of Sunderland but I'm still not confident until Man City score first. Also incredibly obvious the different gameplans. City are playing lots of attackers and Sunderland look set up just to Chelsea the fuck out of this final.

Pellegrini is definitely a vampire.

The guy who presents it writes for the Daily Mail. Says it all about that programme.

There is a maximum amount you can fine players apparently. I remember when Tevez was refusing to play for man city and they could only fine him a certain percentage of his wages? Perhaps 100k was the max we could fine? Or like suggested it was just a token gesture to appease the public and he probably won't even pay it.

haha, just seen it. Think i've seen that same ref make terrible decisions before.