Pilko

Hope Elliot has a good game, if only to shut all the haters up.

Man Utd 0-2 - £1 Man Utd -1, Leeds (who are an excellent 8/13), Gateshead, Blackpool, Ipswich - £1.50 Napoli DNB, Villareal DNB, Lyon DNB - 50p

I think 0-2 to Man U is a good one.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/terry-butcher/Terry-Butcher-on-Newcastle-vs-Tottenham-Why-I-m-predicting-a-Kevin-Keegan-style-high-scoring-win-for-the-Toon-article812951.html Certainly changed his tune pretty fucking quick.

You're right actually, Parker did get 8. They gave Ba man of the match in the paper though. Other players who got a 6 include Gareth Bale, Gutierrez, Cabaye and Kaboul. Fucking joke.

Laughably given 6/10 in the Sun today - the same mark as Danny Simpson. Parker and VdV got 7/10.

Two out of five 'experts' in the People said we'd be going down too. Wankers.

Shola's earned another cameo if we're chasing the game tbf to him, but I'd be fucking livid if we started him. We play our strongest eleven here and we could absolutely bum Wigan in the face.

there were one or two niggly freekicks that he gave against us, but on the whole aye he was perfectly fine.

You'd hope that the Pardy Man has learned about this kind of thing after the Routledge debacle last year.

Eh? He scored, and played well. It was absolutely the right thing to do.

2-0, and then I think Martinez might get the boot. Hopefully then I can go back to 100% hating Wigan, as opposed to the 50% hatred that Martinez' presence offsets. Team needs to be changed - Sad Taylor at right-back, Santon at left-back, Simpson dropped, Marveaux replacing Obertan and maybe Ben Arfa for Best. The first two of those are pretty vital though imo, the Ben Arfa/Best situation I can take or leave at the moment.

Because he's a fucking wanker who thinks he's much better than he actually is.

Agree with every word except for me, Tiote just barely edged MOTM from Coloccini by a whisker. Good post though.

first thing I said once I'd calmed down from celebrating the goal.

Hot and cold first half, absolutely shit hot second half. In great form.

That backheel to Jonas in the final 15 minutes (think it wasn't long before he scored) was fucking amazing.

Is he down as a defender? Yeah, I think so. That's part of the appeal - other fans probably still think of him as a midfielder and have seen those free kicks he's scored this season. It's the same reason I have Jon Walters in my fantasy team, because he's classed as a midfielder but he plays up front for Stoke.

Parker was decent without being amazing, like.

It's because everyone is desperate to convince themselves that Santon has to replace Simpson. /sweeping generalisation

He's just a speed merchant. His ball retention is embarrassing and he's weak in the tackle. Should be an impact sub at best.

He was bordering on adequate today, but it's still the fourth or fifth game this season that he's looked worse than the right midfielder playing left-back on our other flank. Bench time, Danny.

His belief in Shola won us a point today. I was raging about that decision but he proved me completely wrong.

I told you all that he was better than Simpson months ago and you all laughed. He could have done better on the Defoe goal, but other than that I was very impressed with Ryan Taylor today - his passing was good and his set pieces were quite a bit better than Cabaye's. Simpson on the other hand posted another patchy performance littered with poor positioning. I really hope Santon comes into the side to replace Simpson and not Taylor, certainly at this stage.

Routledge was shit in the Premier League, but his ball retention was nowhere near as bad as Obertan's.