ChrisMcQuillan

You had to laugh on the commentary today when they were talking about Puncheon. "He was working in a factory a few years ago, but my, doesn't he look like quality now?" Yep. Says everything.

Perch to defend the 2-0 defeat.

Should be 6-0, definitely.

Should be 6-0 Southampton.

I'm sorry, but this is all just so abject. He's got to go.

I feel sick. Please, just end this Pardew nightmare.

Needs to go.

I'd say, in all honesty, we're about 50/50 to go down again at this rate.

Needs to go.

Pardew needs to go.

Pretty sure it's gross.

I'm with littlelunchbox on this.

Quite a lot of people from Derry consider themselves to be from the Republic of Ireland, rather than Northern Ireland anyway. That said, the stuff he's said on Twitter is utterly ridiculous. It's such a tedious, outdated and utterly pathetic worldview at the end of the day. On a side note, a tarantula-esque spider just ran across my floor and scared the shit out of me.

If you're from Derry, you pretty much have the politics behind it engrained in you. He'll know of the politics behind it. But I do agree that the refusal to wear it falls pretty hollow when you're being paid by an English club, and living here. And if Argentinian players can bring themselves to wear it, as has been said, then let's be honest you should probably grow up and leave the sectarianism out of it. The actions of the British Army in Ireland were truly appalling, but they were faced with similar. It was a war, it's in the past. I'm Northern Irish as well, coincidentally, and don't have a "side".

Pretty sure Tiote was standing at Central with a friend chatting to some police at about 2.30.

Wolves away last season! So 13 months.

1-2 (Ba)

Where to start... That was relegation era stuff. Devoid of any ideas, movement, imagination or drive. We can't master the fundamentals of pass and move. We look like we're playing blindfolded. It's absolutely turgid, and has just been getting worse. I'm not spending another £50 for me and my girlfriend to go watch them if they can't even play fucking football. So utterly dire. Set plays. We've probably had about 500 corners since the last one we scored from. The floated ball to Williamson is the worst tactic ever created at the club. It hasn't worked since Nolan and Carroll, so either sign them again or stop using it. Cisse is utterly awful at present. What has happened to the man? It's abysmal stuff. Any word on whether Jonas has broken his leg yet?

Funnily enough this is the sort of game I was really confident in last season, Pardew got us to the point where we were picking up the points we 'should' be getting. What's changed? Alan Smith isn't around to provide that dressing room steel.

Yet the article states that in the given time period they bought Hazard, Mata and Cahill, among others, "without any major sales." Am I missing something here? Could be some account fiddling. Adding the value of the incoming transfer to the value of the squad overall, therefore negating the transfer fee and absorbing it into the "equity" of the club, so to speak.