themanupstairs

My commentator on Al Jazeera +6: Steve Harter Cheik Tiota He's English.

Floodlit St James' Park Nothing more beautiful in the world

Walking out to anything other than Local Hero at home is just s***

Steven Taylor captain

Krul Anita Simpson Taylor Ferguson Tiote Bigirimana Ben Arfa Obertan Sammy Shola We'll blow them away.

I'm yet to see a weakness in his game when he plays in midfield. Was brilliant yesterday and made some incredible defensive tackles and clearances. Very intelligent and efficient with his use of the ball. Quietly a star in the making, and I highly doubt we will miss Tiote at all, if Pardew does the right thing and plays Perch in his place. If he does well in those 3 games, it should be his shirt to lose, and Tiote shouldn't be guaranteed a return back into the side. The main difference between the two imo is in intensity levels. Tiote gives us a certain urgency whereas Perch is the very definition of cool. These are two very important resources we are able to utilize to deal with different games and different opposition.

Angel of the North should have his curls on it. Stunning performance Best captain we've had in eons.

think this is a valid point- fletcher came in so fast from out of tiotes view- theres every chance of a poor mis-timed attempt at the ball catching him. Well, it looked to me like Tiote deliberately kicked him. He gets these rushes of the blood to the head most games, and refs may now be looking out for it. Not a chance. Watch the replays.

Definitely not. They bossed the game completely. Possession means f**k all if you don't know what to do with it. Until Colo went off, we created the second half's best chance. I guess Swansea and West Brom "bossed" us away from home last season? Aye, just pick two games that we won. They've got possibly the worst team in the league and we let them do whatever they wanted. That's not acceptable at all. I do hope you've been on the ale. I think one of the commentators said they'd created less chances than any team the top 5 leagues or something. So we play for a draw. You must have also missed that we led 1-0 80 minutes. Defending a lead with 10 men isn't playing for a draw. Wake up. Defending a lead for the majority of those 80 minutes is playing for a draw. Our attacking output in the second half was embarrassing. We were terrified of going forward. Seriously? I understand where you're coming from, but your point would have been valid had we been trailing, or at home! Losing both Tiote and Shola completely nullified our game plan and we had to improvise. Ba and Ben Arfa couldn't do much with 3 players around them at all times.

How is it a red "by the letter of the law"? Raised his hands? Absolutely. It isn't red by the letter of the law. That post show no knowledge of the rules. Howay then, enlighten me. He raised his hands and made contact with the player, above the chest, in an aggressive manner. I haven't read the referee's comprehensive rulebook but as far as I can remember that results in a red card, no matter how petty or pathetic the contact is. I'm not taking the piss, but I really think you should watch it again.

Come on Steven Taylor son!!! Your time has come

Colo must have indicated it to the bench. No chance it was a tactical change. He probably felt his cramp would hinder the team. If so, nothing Pardew can do about it.

About as much chance as the last one IMO. There was no intent, there was no tackle, there was barely a challenge. Tiote well within his right to go for that ball and Fletcher came out of nowhere to clear it. Absolutely nothing in it imo.

Red card will be rescinded. I'm confident as it really was a nothing challenge.

Ref is blatantly trying to help the ugly cunts

YOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

GET INTO THEM FUCK THEM UP

Get into them Fuck them up

Yes. Edit. You have to go back March 1967 to make it 3. re micks edit, i had to work out how many years it's been since 1967........ MY YEAR OF BIRTH!!!

It makes sense for Pardew to keep his cards close to his chest as far as the injuries go. If this was a home game, and all 3 were back, he would have said they were. Seeing as it's away and won't affect ticket sales, he's keeping quiet. Fingers crossed.

Can't wait for this now. Not only it's the derby, but at last some proper football!! The fact that it's the spackems at the scrotum of shite makes me a little nervous (cacking it more like), but I'm confident we'll give a good account of ourselves. Satellite has gone out of whack all of a sudden, so will pay a million pounds to anyone who can fix it in time

BR was in Dubai on a "shopping holiday" during the Int'l break.

Tell me the 10 then. Buffon, Zoff, Banks, Schmeichel, Southall, Yashin, Casillas, Van der Sar, Shilton, Maier in no particular order. No Kahn, Dassayev and Pfaff on that list is a shambles tbh. Casillas, Southall and VdS shouldn't be there.

Lothar Matthaus next

Just realized Twatts is suspended for this. Shame