Pilko

Guthrie is clearly playing for his future here. A few more performances like these last three and I think he'll get a new contract.

Man of the match award from Sky. I don't agree with it, but he had another steady game topped off by that howitzer of a strike. I assume he had a flashback and thought he was wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt when he hit it.

Marveaux FG, 2-0 @ 60/1 Newcastle -1 @ 10/3 Gonna look at some 3pm accys too.

Moved up from the Conference, that worked out areet for him.

Gonna head out and place my weekend accumulators tomorrow. Anyone got any good tips? I'm on a fairly poor run atm.

So Ba, so good.

You must have been licking the gravy off your dinner plate during a lot of key goal moments this season, then.

I want Man U to absolutely pulverise them.

Naples Red for me.

I meant training that would help him to be effective in a game for more than about 60 minutes, because that's when he quite clearly used to wane and need subbing. Conditioning might not even be the right word for that, actually. The Taylor thing was just an example of how Pardew has shown he tailors (no pun intended) training programmes to alter deficiencies in each player's game.

Pardew spoke about changing Steven Taylor's training to make him less top-heavy, perhaps he's also been giving Guthrie additional conditioning sessions or something? Wouldn't surprise me.

Manucho.

ITV's football coverage is shit but they were onto something with 'The Championship'. Matt Smith, one microphone and one camera, at one selected ground, merely filming the links in-between games and commercial breaks - the rest of it was sheer highlights and manager/player interviews.

Where's that description of Ryder's typical day, where he goes to Greggs and then watches the soaps with 4 cans or whatever? So fucking funny.

I don't think anyone I knew doubted the ability of Ba to score goals, it was more whether he'd stay fit or not.

http://images.sportinglife.com/09/08/330/David-Edgar_2341874.jpg

I can see the logic in keeping him on for another year as backup, but I'd rather we allowed him to leave and gave a long-term contract to Sammy, as well as factoring in the apparent signing of Maiga.

fkn window licker

Comparing it to the Torres tackle ffs Perch went in with one foot.

Obertan's made two in fairness, that lovely cross for Colo's winner in the cup at Forest.

http://www.cultzeros.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=New113 Everyone should just get one of these with "PARDS" or "PARDY TIME" underneath as the custom text.

That's pretty fucking funny that like

I genuinely think the fact he's a smooth talker and a pretty well-groomed fellow is an advantage. His visual image is of someone who is modern, stylish and professional. Wearing a suit on the touchline is also just generally so much better than the tracksuit look, that goes for anyone.

Involved in all three goals, pleasing that even when he's not scoring that he's playing well. He was strong on the ball last night and tenacious off it, I was greatly impressed.

He made one terrific and important tackle that hardly anyone has mentioned, deserves as much credit for that as he does panning for the shit one.