Pilko

To be fair, I can completely understand why rival fans, not just mackems, would fucking hate Taylor like.

This ain't a Boumsong this is Cabaye, surely?

Ashley must have spent the transfer funds on a bag of gobstoppers for Pardew. Good move.

It's mint when people say Ashley "must" and "has to" do something. He's shown before; he'll do what the fuck he wants.

How about a ridiculously simple "Demba Demba, Demba Ba!" to the tune of Byker Grove?

Phew, that's a lot better.

These line-ups are far too reasonable. We need a Skirgetastic one with Sammy Ameobi playing alongside Coloccini and Ryan fkn Taylor supporting Asprilla up front.

Perch, Lovenkrands and Smith clearly.

I read that as 'pitiful armpit' at first. Also works.

Andorra game is basically 3pts guaranteed. Only the other game is actually worth wondering about.

Carroll's beard is even worse than my pitiful attempt.

Some lovely silent Londoners in the crowd here.

Well, this is thoroughly riveting.

Stuart Pearce needs to teach Rooney the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRcZEgZkUI

Thanks for that incredibly insightful and useful piece of information. All I have to do now is find means to travel back in time.

Russian cunts Irish cunts annoyance disapproval disdain

11/10 for England -2. Disgusting.

I need Russia for my accumulator.

big long international accumulator at like 12 or 13s. Won't come off.

Someone said it on here not long after he moved, that Carroll and Liverpool were 'an uneasy fit' and he'd be back here one day. I completely agree, it's one of those transfers that completely knacks the momentum of a player. Similar to Benjani who banged in about 10 for Pompey by January and then made a pointless move to Man City where he got about 4 goals in 3 years. He was settled here, and should have dug his heels in and stayed.

The following statement doesn't apply to everything, but it certainly applies to football managers: You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Ashley will not be paying anything above peanuts.

I love how all the usual lot keep saying Pardew's a liar and that and yet completely refuse to provide an opinion on his ability to garner points from football matches. It's because they know they'll sound silly if they continue to stick the knife in on that front, and therefore go with what they know. Probably shouldn't have pointed that out mind, because I suspect I'll get to see Wullie's usual stat about him not beating a top-half team or some other boring drivel that puts Pardew in a needlessly bad light.

Dowd? I'm off to William Hill, putting my life savings on 'NUFC awarded pen'. Speaking of which... who will take them, presuming Shola isn't playing? Will it still be P-Lov?

French knickers!