Ketsbaia

If we don't get at least one Orwell quote, I'll be angry.

Clean sheets for Huth and Cole. Hopefully Vidic can do the same - its been a good week!

Must admit, the Cissokho story makes this a lot less appealing. I guess its a body though.

So you prefer that Tinie Tempah shite or whatever it is? Yeh, but the other one was around for far too long. They used to change it up every year.

Fair play to Pardew, he said the right things in those interviews. He uses his charm to convince us he isn't a puppet, but unfortunately we know the truth. I do sort of like him though, even if his substitutions yesterday were shocking.

Got rid, thankfully.

He wasn't horrible and actually showed a lot of promise. But it has to be seen as a 'work in progress' at the minute considering our pre-season from hell. When he gets a bit fitter and becomes comfortable with all these new teammates we'll have quite a player on our hands. It won't take him long, we've got a cracker here.

We're not selling Tiote, we're not selling Smith and there'll be a special offer on new matchday pies.

Wonder if the club will offer him a new deal on the condition that he quits twitter. Its fun to read as fans but it must be giving our hierarchy nightmares.

Safe to say they wont ask for £14m. They want rid and know nobody will go near that. £8-9m is fair.

25 points, with 5 to play. Steven Fletcher

Can't believe MotD read his tweets too Look at the institution trying to be hip by going on that-thing-that-the-cool-kids-like

Wilshere couldn't even spell his own teammates name right #helmet

Sorry GM, although today didn't change a thing for me.

We'll lose. Well.....I certainly don't think we'll win. Would love a draw but it'll be 2-1 to them. Krul Simpson---Taylor---Colo---Pieters/Cissokho Barton---Cabaye---Tiote Obertan Gutierrez Ameobi

I think the whole table will look pretty similar to last season. We'll be 9th.

He'll get loads of grief from this, which is harsh, but he shouldnt have picked him up like that. That stamp really riled him up and i was panicking he'd be out for the derby. Been well behaved for a while now, but one silly thing could undo all that. Still love the guy though!

Phenomenal today. Just an excellent, superb player and we're so lucky to have him.

Been burnt so many times by false ITKs, but i really hope this is true.

Cant believe pardew did that substitution. Was impressed with him.

The right decision

The source is the only thing keeping this a goer. He's a bit unrealistic, but RMC are good. Imagine if we did get him though!

So, we calm now?

To be honest, I don't think either of our teams have changed much over the summer (quality-wise) and we'll both probably finish 9th-12th. Can't see the derby going well for us though.

Could we insert a Spanish style buy-back clause with Forster? Also, wouldn't be surprised if our striking shortlist looked like this: PLAN A: Sign nobody PLAN B: Still sign nobody PLAN C: Oh ok then, Erdinc PLAN D: Oh shiiiit, Derdiyok?