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Not as bad as I thought he'd go at Abeid tbh. He's still pointed the finger squarely at him and not mentioned that Krul could also have cleared the danger rather than setting Man Utd up for a goal. They were both at fault, not necessarily equally like, but he's chosen to point the finger at one of them and it's not surprising which one.

The perception that a manager playing 442 means they're going all-out-attack compared to if they'd played another formation.

I don't understand why this is important when everyone else in the league (i.e. our rivals) will see the same increases in TV revenue. Yes we might start spending a bit more money but other teams in the league will do the same and then some. I understand what you're saying about TV money becoming a bigger proportion of all revenue but the same goes for all clubs and we've seen before it usually leads to another increase in wages across the board and not much else.

Erm, he doesn't have that much money?

Carver and Pardew both seem to take great pride in saying stuff along these lines, like management's a bit of a laugh that comes naturally to them.

We have a great record against Villa over the Premier League years, better than against any other club I think but that's partly a by-product of them being one of the mainstays without having pulled up many trees.

Oh how we laughed when we finished above Liverpool once later on. I know his career's been fucked since then but he was absolutely correct in what he was saying.

I'm brave Mike, are you brave? I don't even reckon I am brave tbh, but then again I don't gan around telling journalists that I am. This thick little ape has learnt self-publicism from the best of the best.

Unfortunately Federer's away really fucking soon, suspect it'll be this summer but not sure if the top clubs need a new right-back. If not we'll have him another 6-12 months. Yay.

2nd win in 9 for a midtable side with better players than most of the teams around us when we've only had 2 hard games, well done John. Brave little cunt.

Lush goal by Zach Clough versus Brighton. Based on that and the limited footage on YouTube he looks a classy young forward who we should sign and sell for a decent profit, i.e. as good as it gets now.

It's fucking depressing how we all knew this guy wasn't good enough when he signed, he went on to quickly prove us right then 3 and a half years later he's still here.

He's a baller, Mick.

Watching Shearer and Shola up front was always painful like, should always have been Lua Lua in for Bellamy when it was him who wasn't fit.

Whoever it is they make zero noise and don't appear to enjoy it a great deal. Baffling as you say.

Can't remember him having one good game for us in central midfield other than a few games under Keegan as part of a midfield 3, when he wasn't that central.

This surely needs to be the thing that causes some top nations to tell FIFA to fuck off? Absolutely cannot be allowed to happen.

We were sitting 10th when Pardew left with 7 points from our last 7 matches. We're now 11th with 6 points from our last 7 matches, yeah went right to hell when Pardew left like The minute anyone implies we played anything but God-awful functional football I switch off, they clearly didn't watch us play and it's not worth arguing.

The style of football thing gets on my wick as well, quite often sit down and think "Ah nice one, it's Chelsea vs some other top side" and it's not often long before

The thing is though that Man City could have had as many as they wanted yesterday, they just chose to relax after 50-odd minutes after not having been out of 2nd gear.