themanupstairs

Well I remember the song during his reign was "we're s*** and we're sick of it". You'd be hard pushed to find any Newcastle fan who wasn't happy to this day that Allardyce was sacked by NUFC. Looks like it will be another miracle job when he keeps Crystal Palace up even though nobody thinks they should be down where they are with their current squad anyway. I note that the awful BBC fail to mention that when KK took over from Allardyce, he not only improved the football but saved the club from the relegation fate it would have endured that season, had Allardyce remained as manager...only the engineered departure of KK the following September, was the reason for the club being relegated. Still, the BBC acting true to form and only putting their own slant on events...as usual. It is quite shocking to me how fast the BBC has gone from being probably the best news source in the world, to being a vile and petty spin-doctoring pile of s***.

I wonder how much notice Rafa took of SP at the time? Obviously he's a footballing encyclopaedia and will have heard of the campaign. I wonder what he thought about it privately. I wonder if the campaign added to his realisation that this isn't a docile fanbase, and that if you could get the fans on-side, then miracles can happen. I wouldn't be surprised if the first thing Rafa told Charnley when being interviewed is that they absolutely must treat the fans better than that they had done previously. Re: Figures 1-0 argument: The SP campaign was not just a bunch of people screaming abuse at Pardew. The campaign aimed to show that fans will no longer sit on their hands, ignoring facts and evidence that the club was an empty shell and heading nowhere. It was a message to Ashley and the media, more than it was anti-Pardew per se. It was a campaign to protest the campaign by ex-players and pundits to continuously belittle this club and pull the wool over the consumer's eyes when it came to one of their darling own: a British ex-player doing an awful job managing in the top division. SackPardew.com was a middle finger to all of that, and not just some shouty gig to make a manager slightly uncomfortable.

Merry Christmas you bad motherfuckers. Peace on Earth and Up the Villa hoop.

It was one guy's dream, not "people". Also, we have the Rafa factor here to take into consideration. The prospect of a player of Barkley's undoubted talent under Rafa is not the same as Barkley coming to play SMC for example.

What the fuck is that? What the fuck is this thick cunt smoking?

I'll take a deluded Mackem over al pards any day

Don't think he'll be too fussed. He'll have got a big pay-out. He's got off very lightly IMO, knowing full well he had no clue how to turn things around at "his club".

I love making pointless posts to simply agree with something a poster has said. Spot on, and thanks for giving me the opportunity How's your day Ian mate?

Completely different player playing on the right then left, at Palace he can't play where he wants because of Zaha I actually don't blame him for leaving to stay in the prem, but in hindsight he should have stayed. I'd take him back if an offer came up 100% Did anyone really need hindsight to know how this move would turn out? It was one of the most predictable scenarios in football. Well aye, Andros did Fair enough

Completely different player playing on the right then left, at Palace he can't play where he wants because of Zaha I actually don't blame him for leaving to stay in the prem, but in hindsight he should have stayed. I'd take him back if an offer came up 100% Did anyone really need hindsight to know how this move would turn out? It was one of the most predictable scenarios in football.

This He could easily have been sitting on about 8 goals and 10 assists in the Championship by now. Confidence sky high, improving both individually and tactically under a brilliant manager, and somewhat taking more control of his own England credentials. Thick as mince.

Dat win ratio is f***ing staggering like! If karma is a real thing, then we will have suffered for so long only so that this fella can come in and bring us the success we have been craving. It's going to be some sight to behold!

Theirs is the early game today. A solid 3-0 away win would certainly be a great start to the weekend!

Mitrovic getting borderline abuse, when we have had f***ers like Cisse and Sissoko recently who couldn't give a f***ing damn about playing for NUFC. Also, if we get promoted this season, Mitro will hardly find a "better" opportunity than playing for a Newcastle United in the PL managed by Rafa f***ing Benitez! Totally agree with Ronaldo that if Mitro can learn to play to his strengths only, and Rafa finds a way to mask his weaknesses, we would have a unique option to vary our game as there aren't many of his type around.

This! The only silver lining is that he held the reigns long enough for Rafa to become available, and if he hadn't been so fucking shit, maybe we would have never gone for the best thing to happen to NUFC since SBR.

Lame handbags from a bunch of no-personality half-wits, and a young goalkeeper new to the country and the league. Despite the wonderful Klopp being there now, there is still something sickly and nauseating about LFC past, present and future.

I'd take Hart every day of the week over Bravo It;s not even about that. It's the hoopla that was generated by Guardiola's comments and sensationalized by the media that has turned this issue into a circus. No one would have questioned Guardiola buying Bravo as a second choice GK, and putting him in from the start as soon Hart made his first howler. There really isn't very much between them in terms of who is clearly the better GK.

Pissing it

GTFI hahahaha

Fuck the haters and the pessimists

This. I trust Rafa to make the call.

Who is this, and what have you done with HTT?

What in the actual fuck are some people on these days? Periods? Booze? Industrial grade ammonia? N-O is like the twilight zone at the moment. I really don't get it.

Beaten by the better ref tonight lads, unlucky.