Pilko

Fortunately for us, shit player syndrome also applies.

He's the 3rd-5th favourite for every fucking PL/CL job going outside of the teams in Europe for Christ's sake

Not too sure what the departure of Mad Mick will do. Depends who they appoint, obviously - hopefully still a caretaker manager.

We've not been out of the top seven all season. We were a Championship side two years ago. Kindly go and boil your head.

Cheese-eating surrender Squidward.

You don't lose extra points in the table for conceding more than 4, unless they introduced that rule and I missed it. No, but our GD is lots worse than the other teams we're currently competing with. Come the end of the season, the matches where we've not just been beaten but capitulated may cost us. And as Wullie pointed out, every team other than Man City has been royally fucked once this season. We've not lost any other games by a margin like this. It's only cause for concern if it happens frequently imo. The Fulham game, alright. The Chelsea (h) game was incredibly unfortunate (hit woodwork, 2 key injuries, shit refereeing decision) and I'm choosing not to count that. Today. I can't really recall anymore 'tonkings'. Conceding seven goals to Norwich and West Brom (the latter being at home) didn't help. We just seem to collapse at times, our confidence seems brittle. The Norwich game was the morning after the night before re: the Chelsea game. Four full-backs in defence, hands were tied somewhat. Agree about the WBA game though.

The defence as a whole was all over the place today, Simpson and Colo being particularly bad. You pick him out even when he's played alright like, agenda-tastic. The defence as a whole was shit, yes. I deem Simpson to be (marginally) the worst of a bad bunch today.

Can anyone remember that Only An Excuse? sketch when Gordon Strachan brings a drunken tramp off the bench before Derek Riordan? That's the stage we're now getting to with Ben Arfa and Pardew.

You don't lose extra points in the table for conceding more than 4, unless they introduced that rule and I missed it. No, but our GD is lots worse than the other teams we're currently competing with. Come the end of the season, the matches where we've not just been beaten but capitulated may cost us. And as Wullie pointed out, every team other than Man City has been royally fucked once this season. We've not lost any other games by a margin like this. It's only cause for concern if it happens frequently imo. The Fulham game, alright. The Chelsea (h) game was incredibly unfortunate (hit woodwork, 2 key injuries, shit refereeing decision) and I'm choosing not to count that. Today. I can't really recall anymore 'tonkings'.

You don't lose extra points in the table for conceding more than 4, unless they introduced that rule and I missed it.

What, over Obertan? Shit post.

I think that's fair. The most important thing for me is how we react in the Wolves game, though. If we're consistently winning games that we 'should' win, then we can afford to lose to the likes of Spurs. I'm not saying for one minute that the performance or result was remotely acceptable today, btw. We should also remember that every side in the top seven other than Man City has also taken a considerable kicking at some point this season from another around them. yep, I think this is something that gets overlooked. Spurs themselves got fucked at home by City.

I think that's fair. The most important thing for me is how we react in the Wolves game, though. If we're consistently winning games that we 'should' win, then we can afford to lose to the likes of Spurs. I'm not saying for one minute that the performance or result was remotely acceptable today, btw.

You probably haven't noticed but he gets sucked inside when Coloccini gets sucked out wide, it's called covering and Pardew has just been on ESPN with the biggest grin on his face I've seen today. you are such an idiot if you're STILL trying to defend this prick. If I could be arsed I'd do what you normally do and find screenshots, of the times when Simpson was standing more or less on Coloccini's toes in the centre of defence whilst the two players on the Spurs left were totally unattended. That's not covering, it's an absolute lack of positional awareness.

I'm glad he found it funny when he nonchalantly gave away a needless corner in the last ten minutes. Every time the opposition play the ball down our left, he gets sucked in as basically a third centre-back, leaving fucking yards of space for the two players on the opposition's left to run into ready for a shot or free cross into the danger area. Every time the opposition play the ball down our right, he gets absolutely raped by virtue of being a horrendous footballer with no positional awareness, a heart the size of a drawing pin and an inability to use his left foot. His pass completion today, fucking hell, I'd be surprised if it exceeded 10%. Shockingly bad. I think only probably Perch misplaced more passes.

He didn't do much but then again, he put a lot more graft in than Obertan and Gutierrez who both looked as if they couldn't be arsed.

Utterly pathetic. The only crumb was that Obertan got hooked at half-time.

Aye, he's been outstanding all season. Silly knee-jerkers proclaiming Simpson as shit.

How I love my pub which advertises this game and proceeds to show the FUCKING RUGBY on all 8 TVs.

As wank as Obertan is as a footballer, we look a lot more balanced with him on the right.

Sick mackems = Our chances of Europe =

Fifty pees on Perch, Williamson and Santon as anytime goalscorers.

Keenan? What's Kel's response? I already did that joke

Next he'll be telling us that Kel fucking hates orange soda.

I thought he had an excellent game against Man City, like. All-round play was dead tidy, worked his socks off.