Neil

I'm going to be the most gutted I've been in a long, long time if we don't win today. Fwiw, I think we'll trounce them.

Me for one. Why do YOU think he's any good ? You wouldn't want Hughes because he's no good? Jesus H Christ fucking wept.

If we update that to now... Aston Villa................P 676.................Pts 974 Tottenham...............P 677 ................Pts 919 Newcastle................P 616.................Pts 906 Everton....................P 676.................Pts 882 So 60 games in hand and we're still in touching distance, ahead of, or have a better points per game record than 3 of the clubs who've been there the whole time. Is that supposed to be a surprising statistic?

Probably. DID YOU NOT SEE HIS HATRICK IN EUROPE!?

He'll trot off the bench soon enough.

Owen to bumble one in 5 minutes from time?

This. The commentator isn't doing much better though, describing Ferguson as an "overlord".

Best bit of the match was the Hull pen appeal in the first half: Andy Tosspot Gray proclaimed it to be a definite no-pen - when replays showed Vidic didn't actually get the ball, he retreated saying "oh well, the refs have a hard job". Twat.

Seemingly it goes now that if you're slow, you're unresponsive and stupid not to act quicker, and if you're quick you're reckless, rash, disrespectful and so on.

Croquet, bowls and charades. Extreme Kerplunk.

I'd love it if Spain recognised the actual existence of Mikel Arteta.

And also, why the fuck is Jo not in the XI?

Would it be a fair assessment to say Valdes is improving year on year? During the early-mid Rijkaard era, he seemed to make a fair few errors, and was a keeper who didn't transmit confidence. I'd say he's come on leaps and bounds.

A Mackem friend tells me he's not at all unhappy: in his eyes, Turner's been dogshit.

Hope this goes better than my last attempt. But aye, sure.

In an AMAZING display of ARROGANCE from Newcastle fans, it was PROVEN that 92% of their ENTIRE fanbase were positive they would be promoted. Yet more UNBELIEVABLE nonchalance from this set of deluded people.

was brilliant when the whole of the leazes, not just level 7, was joining in after the 2nd goal. personally i'm a big fan of "you're not very good". as far as the match goes, colo was brilliant, jose was his usual good self. brilliant ball by guthrie for the 2nd goal. and finally, half my posts on here have been slagging off Nicky Butt, but i thought he had a pretty good game today when he came on. You know why that is.

I loved the "balance" bit, when he was just trotting around.

Stand forward, FTTW. I hope you're Michael anyway, otherwise I'm clueless.

Swiftly joined.

I'm fairly sure he mowed down a dozen black cats in August.

FUCK OFF ALL OF YOU! Mike: he's arriving in January, not sure when exactly. If we don't win either of our next 2 games, I'm jumping off the nearest cliff.

Just wait 8 days time.

It was the best moment of the match.