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I gave Nolan a 1. It's the first time I've seen a performance that justifies such a rating.

Harper 7 - Pretty solid, very little he could do about the goal Simpson 5 - Half hearted in the challenge, let Cotteril run at him time and time again, but still managed to be one of our better players. Coloccini 7 - Won nearly everything thrown at him, probably a better passer of a ball than anybody else we have in midfield. Hall 6 - Unspectacular, but again fairly solid. Van Aanholt 4 - Looks defensively naive, didn't show for the ball enough when he's the only left sided player out there. Routledge 6 - The only midfielder to actively try to create anything, starved of the ball but looked more dangerous than anybody else we had. Nolan 1 - No fucking hyperbole at all - worst performance in a Newcastle shirt, can't pass, no brain whatsoever. His wild punting of the ball into the air the highlight of his shitness. Smith 2 - Fucking rank aswell, gets a slightly better rating than Nolan due to being moderately less frustrating. Guthrie 3 - Left wing? Fuck off Hughton, he's a right footed central midfielder. Anyway, ponderous on the ball, poor passing but looked slightly better when he got fed up and came central. Lovenkrands 4 - Didn't see him all game, but how's a player of his kind gonna cope with that midfield behind him? Carroll 4 - Good header, shame he was positively disgraceful the rest of the time. Would have been a 2 if he hadn't of scored. Best 6 - Set up the goal with a delicious cross. Overall though, what an absolute fucking mess of a performance that was. Our midfield is the absolute worst. Yet we're still top the league, unbelievable.

What a pile of utter, utter wank. Why can't they pass a ball?

This game: 1. Swansea have possession - Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. 2. We get it, fuck it up. Repeat.

Lovenkrands on the wing then. Urgh.

Surely they'd only be able to have 1 star name nest season - the designated player slot rule thing?

Since they brought in a new, young manager who's made wholesale changes to their squad and tactics. They're no longer just shameless cheating bastards, they're shameless cheating bastards with loads of pace and skill. That plus us lacking our foreign-based players, not having trained together almost at all, not taking this tournament seriously, and a f***ing blind ref. (Is it just me or is it a terrible idea to assign a ref from Hong Kong to a China match?) Still an absolutely shameful performance though. That sounds increbibly fucked up

Welcome aboard, you silly fool

Well my Dad was never that hugely into football so I was only a passive football fan for most of my life - watching the odd big game, never really that interested at all though. Strange that I ended up liking football really, started about 03/04ish when I really got into it. Can't remember really why I suddenly got hooked with it. This is my fourth season with a season ticket Funnilly enough my Dad got a season ticket for the backend of last season and now he's turning into a proper fan, so it's kinda worked the other way round to what it should have!

Muntari and Stankovic are dm's? Stankovic has always been naturally an attacking midfielder, but in Mourinho's system I think he's played more often as one of 3 defensive minded midfielders. Muntari plays the same role at Inter aswell, but he's proving more and more that he just not Inter quality whatsoever anyway. Anyway, neither of them are technically astute enough to take Inter to the next level. Without Sneijder they often look toothless in midfield. Look at their team. In goal they have the arguably the best keeper on the planet, in defence they have Maicon, Lucio, Samuel, Zanetti..all top class players, and upfront they now have Eto'o, Pandev and Milito - who have all been superb this season. From what I can see the midfield is their 'lacking' area - it's just not dynamic enough. Then again Mourinho won the Champions League playing with this system, so who am I to argue!

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/722186/TERRY-BEDS-BB-STAR-ORLIATH.html

Beyond Sneijder Inter's midfielders all seem a little samey. Muntari, Motta, Stankovic, Cambiasso, Zanetti and now Mariga all competent defensive mids but you only have Wesley to play the AM role. Don't you think Inter are going to need another top class technical midfielder if they want to have enough to challenge for the CL?

Defintely think Celtic have seriously upgraded their overrall squad. Will take time to bed the new players into a team though.

England Swiss Bulgaria Wales Montenegro

We played Wales in qulifying for the World Cup in 2006 I think. Pretty sure N. Ireland were in that group too (and beat us). Aye I remember the Northern Ireland defeat - just can't for the life of me even remember playing Wales.

Nice draw. Don't think we've played any of them in qualifying for a while. We'll finish comfortably ahead of the rest, with Switzerland edging out Bulgaria for second.

Ketsbaia is Georgia manager now? Nice to hear he got straight back into a job after that joke of a sacking from Olympiakos.

If Lovenkrands had played as many games upfront as he should have, he'd be well clear. Now I think Hughton is beginning to realise his value to the team more he'll finish as our top scorer.

Shit, Football League Show. Telly off.

Great wrasping volley for the 5th though.

Okocha is just about the most ridiculously skillful player I've ever seen. Some of the stuff he could do with a football were incredible, often unneccesary, but still incredible. Beyond the tricks there wasn't enough of the important stuff to make him a great player though.

Big numbers are funny. I have a Cassano shirt with 99 on the back.

Will he be eligible for the U18s? And if so, would he be involved?

Sorry lads I'm going to this one, we wont win.

Sky announced the KO as 8:00 according to my mate, so a canny few people stayed in the pubs a bit longer and missed 2/3 goals.