It's not really about being greedy and thinking we should have picked up more points before Christmas, it's about remembering how incredulous I was when watching games where we were clearly struggling and that cretin in the dugout refusing to bring him on whatsoever. Or when he did first give him a chance from the start (Man City and Man Utd away in November) he was our best player. One dodgy first half against Chelsea and he was dragged off at half time and back on 20 minute cameo duty (if he got on at all) for the next month and a half. I remember the period vividly and I thought he was wrong then and I think he was wrong now.
what IP said, HBA forced pardew to play him with the mackems game basically
That half was a turning point. We played shit for quite a few games until Hatem forced his way in. Can hardly remember any player making a better cameo for us than he did in that half.
How many times did Richardson watch the ball travel between his own legs?
And didn't Ben Arfa pull-off the final megs from about 10 yards away?