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Probably wrong to be too critical but i think he has got it wrong the last two games in preferring sammy to hatem. Unless Ben Arfa has done something behind the scenes but then he should'nt be on the bench if he has.

If Swansea continue to sit then it could defiantly be the sort of game for him to play the "No.10" and try to unlock the defence. Question is who would come off. Perhaps Best for fitness reasons but no one has played terribly

Hasn't been as awful as usual today. The few times he has beat his man and got the ball across he has done well just needs to have more confidence and composure

COME ON!!! one of the best half's of football from us this year and we have'nt even scored. Im worried about the sucker punch. It's got abit of the "blackpool at home from last season" about it. Early goal in the 2nd will calm the nerves but it's been a pleasure watching us pass it around and try and break them down. Demba Ba

This ref has had a shocker

Wasn't even gunna book him until he saw who it was. I hate that in refs. Realise someone has already been booked so sent them off when they werent going to book them anyway

Im sorry but that is a cast iron dive. The player never makes contact

The Parker bumming is beyond ridiculous to be honest even if he is a good player

man this isn't even close to being the full strength Blackburn team and they're winning!

Yep. Great slide tackle before in the box. Lovely shuffle to set up the goal as well Didn't see the goal. Care to explain it? Nice side step by samba skins the defender shot gets deflected then saved and then Zorro nicks in to head home

Yep. Great slide tackle before in the box. Lovely shuffle to set up the goal as well

Missed this. What's up with him?

"F.T.M."

Blackburn line up is tragic except the two centre backs

Not sure but he has only started after he got injured. I'd still like to see a cabaye tiote ben arfa triangle purely because on paper it looks awesome

The fact that he played alongside Shola today and scored two suggests otherwise. Shola is basically poor, but he's very capable of turning a lot of loose balls into solid possession. That's certainly something that Ba needs. He's also capable of turning solid possession into loose balls. That's certainly something that Ba doesn't need. Had a proper moment reading this

My confusion comes from Pardew's reluctance more than anything. Just don't see why he can't play the juan mata type role where he is still like a number 10 but starts from a wide position and drifts. Pretty much how he has played his whole career until he came here.

Im a massive Ben Arfa fan but Benarfanufc10 all your doing is pissing alot of people off with your anti newcastle talk. Yeah alot of us would rather he plays but that's football. We aren't the manager so we cannot make the decisions. So all this "he should hand in transfer request" etc, isnt helping anybody.

Stu I think your missing the point. By half time everybody was calling for obertan to be replaced by ben arfa or atleast sammy but it took till the 80th minute for him to do that. Yes we all know Pardew is stubborn in not putting ben arfa out wide but it wasnt like obertan was doing any defending and the game was very open at that point and many feel it was ideal for Ben Arfa to come on and run at people in space.

Yeah some of the comments are getting abit ridiculous. I think the "pardew y u no play ben arfa on wing" comments will go on all season but i really can't imagine Pards backing down on this one. Which will be crazy considering Marveaux is out for the season

Santon came from playing first team football for Inter Milan and was kept out of the side because Pardew didnt want ot disrupt a defence that had been playing so well. Kadar has barely played in the first team, not even sure he's played much in the reserves. He's clearly not good enough unless he would have at least been on the bench. The two situations are utterly incomparable. OK, but i was just coming at it from the angle that just because Pardew hasn't put his faith in him yet doesn't necessarily mean that he isn't up to standard as i believe Pardew is making some very questionable team selections of late as well as ofcourse the whole Tevez/Mascherano thing at West Ham

Man i hope so! The football gods have been well and truly against us since that penalty against man u. Maybe we would have been better off long term not offending the mighty man united.

he said about coming through the game unscathed, then mentions maybe a slight problem for santon which we need to be careful with, then says it will be a bonus as in a bonus if we havn't picked up anymore serious injuries

Impressive, given that he wasn't booked. Pathetic. Ease up, thats straight from the pardew video on nutv. Says "hopefully have cheik back ande we'll need him because i think yohann got booked today so he'll be missing" I think Pardew jsut got it wrong because i agree unless something happened in the tunnel then pardew must have got mixed up

Cabaye didn't get booked today, unless it was after the game. He's on four though, making Gosling's red even more annoying. to be fair in the interview pardew doesn't look like he has much clue so maybe were ok?