Pilko

Despite all Pardew's bravado about needing to change the team, I bet Alsoran, Colback, Tiote, Sissoko and Riviere still start. Have a feeling he might "protect" Cabella in favour of Obertan or Sammy.

Sherwood is as much of a cock as Pardew is but he sets his teams up to attack and he'd therefore be an improvement IMO. That said, I'd still feel a bit mugged off with him coming in once the initial euphoria of The Leaving Pardy wore off.

Aye, and they beat his Chelsea side in 2005/6(?) 1-0 at the CoM, I'm sure David James saved a penalty. So one of the defeats was before the Man City money arrived.

"Just polishing my manager of the year trophy" http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfnqqsA0Md1qd4ijdo1_500.jpg "No, Alan. That's your Shithead of the Year award."

GW7 Hull 1-1 Palace, Leicester 2-2 Burnley, Liverpool 2-0 West Brom, Sunderland 1-2 Stoke, Swansea 3-0 Newcastle, Aston Villa 1-3 Man City Man Utd 2-2 Everton, Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal, Spurs 1-1 Southampton, West Ham 3-1 QPR

Anyone unaware of John Sitton needs to watch the "Orient: Club For A Fiver" documentary which I believe is available on youtube. The bit when he sacks one of his central defenders at half time is incredible

"Come on boys! Win the game"

Gerrard is like Shearer in his final season (not as bad, but a similar effect on the team). Good for pens and the odd set-piece, good for leadership, but little else. I think they'd have been better off going for a stop-gap striker in the mould of an Eto'o or a Klose for one season, than going for Balotelli. Rodgers seemed to think that losing one controversial player meant he had to sign another one, except Balo has looked pap so far.

The woman here is like Pardew, Robert Webb plays the part of this forum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaq8MEOYq8o

I think ineffective is generous, tbh. I wouldn't massively disagree with that analysis though. He's quite detrimental to our play most of the time. Again, this is Pardew's stupid infatuation with Tiote and having him on the team sheet every week, no matter who the opposition are, home and away. His debut at Everton showed he was a player who could retain possession, play short passes, win tackles, and generally spoil when we're under the cosh. He doesn't really fulfil any of those four functions properly on even a semi-regular basis anymore.

Anita has performed well when he's been given a run in the team. Tiote is always put straight back in as soon as he's fit again, and is supposedly our midfield warrior who helps to shield the back four; except he's much better at gifting the opposition possession and being woefully out of position most of the time. Just because Tiote has cut back on the yellow cards a tad, quite a few people believe Pardew's guff that he's suddenly a disciplined and reliable player. He isn't.

Hope we sell him ASAP. He's crap 9 times out of 10 and also blocking Anita's place in the team, though that is thanks to our dickhead of a manager. I was 'done' with Tiote after the 7-3 at the Emirates and I haven't changed my stance on that since.

Boxing Day MoTD with the last of the cold cuts is as imperative to the festive season as Quality Street and arguments.

Tonight's cunt list: Sporting - had BTTS in all the 7.45 CL games, 13/14 teams scored. Was 70/1 Millwall - had four draws in the Championship. Brighton/Cardiff, Wigan/Forest, Sheff Wed/Ipswich... and these cunts got beat at home off Birmingham (105/1) Andre Schurrle - had an Aguero and Schurrle FGS double and the cunt missed a fucking sitter at 0-0 (32/1) Agonisingly close but fuck all winners.

(assuming he's still here) Pardew after Stoke: "we need to be better in the final third, I might need to change the formation or the players" Pardew 2pm Saturday: "Here's the team sheet: ...Colback, Tiote; Gouffran, Sissoko, Cabella; Riviere"

He's a very clunky sort of player. I think being changed into an orthodox right winger hasn't really helped him, but that's not to blame for his dogshit first touch.

Two bald men fighting over a comb.

Everyone hoping for a defeat has just had their prayers answered: Kamikaze Shithead Steven is playing and is bound to contribute to shipping a few goals.

I'm a little bit less confident in win to nil than I have been lately, but I'll be on these again I think. Maybe Stoke to win both halves or Stoke BTTS too.

His bruvver apparently. Name sweepstake? Micky Pardew

Hibbo has kept Sterling reasonably quiet so far like.

I don't believe Kinnear will ever get a job in football again, without Ashley employing him. As a coach - he's too old hat and out of touch with modern methods As a scout - Wenger apparently employed him as a scout, but there's no doubt he'd be too concerned with looking for plodders (e.g. signed Nolan, Lov, R.Taylor) As a manager - awful record since Wimbledon which was like 15 years ago now, and heart problems means he's a risk to himself and employers As a DoF - not modern enough, comes across as a crusty old man spouting gibberish and just won't do As a pundit - too sweary and unpredictable as well as not knowing fuck all and making constant mistakes like mispronunciations, incorrect facts etc Ashley is his only ticket back into a footballing gig.

Aye. Souness used to harp on about injuries (and he did have some fairly bad ones at times) but he always rushed players back and made it worse. Roeder did have a fucking ton, like. Steve Harper used to joke in the Chronicle that when he was sat on the bench he was like a childminder.

I believe that he said it but I totally don't believe it's genuine. No way someone as clever as Ashley would spout off to someone who just introduced himself as a journalist. Pardew is probably in on it and when we get beaten at Stoke there'll be an awful realisation that he's here until we're too far down the table to recover.

Would love to, but can't afford the air ticket to fly into the States for their internet. :lol: