Pilko

He's playing Pard ball.

Alan Pardew: "No way you big spastic you're a Metalist"

If QPR go 1-0 up we aren't winning the game, 2-0 we'll likely not even get a point. FWIW if we go 2-0 down I think the crowd will turn on him.

Talk about the England squad please.

I'm looking forwards to this but in the same way I was looking forwards to it the last time I came up, for Swansea: for the company, the pub, the Greggs, the anticipation, Local Hero etc etc - then the fucking match - then the post-match pints and my mam's bait.

Going to this now, first game since Swansea.

Andy Impey

We'll win fairly comfortably imo. 2-0 win, Ba and Anita.

Whey, I was gonna wait til 10 past to go for a shower but I may as well go now

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As if you're all surprised.

If we'd not been peddling this long ball shite throughout that 'winnable' run of fixtures we managed to lose so emphatically, I don't think we'd be getting "OH FFS HOOF" every time the players dare to play a long ball. It's part of the game ffs, sometimes you just have to go long.

Said the Man City dressing room.

City don't have very much on the bench to change the game. Other than Dzeko there's nowt really there. That's the one positive I can see. Williamson vs Aguero/Tevez, man

Ugh. As if we have a fucking match tomorrow. I've hardly even bothered looking at the forum or any NUFC sites since the Fulham game. I come in from an excellent staff night out and see we've got a bastard fixture. Thanks a lot, fixture computer/Sky. I start work tomorrow at 2 and I'm in till we fucking close, which will likely be about 12.30am. The positive of that is that (nearly as many 'that's as that that that that famous neesy post) we'll probably be 3 or 4 nil down by the time I have to drag myself away from my half price staff postmix and actually start my shift. Was going to do a stupid "if we win I will" pledge but what's the fucking point? We'll get battered and it will be grim.

Yep, I would agree with that. How many one-on-ones have we had going forward this season? I can recall about three from the top of my head.

He has different limitations though, for a start he doesn't get outpaced by pretty much every single player in the division which is a massive advantage. Perch also manages to pass the ball with a bit of confidence. He's stronger in the tackle and his positioning is no worse than Williamson's either. The only thing Williamson has on him is height and winning bread and butter headers (and he's not even too good at that tbh). Williamson was once outjumped by Charles N'Zogbia ffs. He's an absolute embarrassment.

One of our better players tonight. I love his energy.

Perch is capable of pulling out the occasional immense performance (see vs L. Suarez at home last season) whereas Williamson is a complete liability and a complete waste of space. No contest, I'd play Perch pretty much every single time.

My work Christmas do is the next before also and I start work at 2pm the next day. We'll be 0-3 by that point probably.

Pardew must be a fucking rubbish coach if we spend all week defending, that was an absolute fucking horror show. The attacking football and link play from midfield was for a change much much better, makes no difference if we can't defend a simple set piece though. His subs were once again stupid and ill-timed, and I really fear for us now. We are in danger and Pardew needs to fucking sort this out.

Williamson > Perch aside, got to be pleased with that. Hopefully we can attack well enough to give Iron Mike a bit less to deal with.

Ben Arfa 2-1 @ 90/1 Ba FGS @ 8/1 2-2 @ 12/1 And a little bit on us to win.

I wonder if you were to start hovering around the training ground in a helicopter, whether Pards would get a giant gazebo and stick it over the training pitch?

Pardew used to be a glazier so that makes sense should have went for some nice stained glass windows.