Interpolic

Benfica. I'd like to see us win a trophy and winning cup matches can be quite helpful on that score.

This is my hope, we could really salvage something from this pig's ear of a season in the next 7 days. I thought today we showed glimpses of decent stuff in the first half and had the better of it but it was pretty uninspiring on the whole, 45-70 minutes we absolutely blitzed them and could have scored 3 or 4 in that period alone. When Shola came on I wasn't that impressed tbh, we reverted to long/medium high diagonal balls into the box in the hope something would bounce our way and it was a bit desperate. Thankfully we had another surge towards the end which led to the goal. I'm happy with our attitude today and therefore can't argue with Pardew's performance on the whole. Did pretty well but I'd admittedly have been fuming if we'd drawn it because it would have been another hard luck story that left us in the shit. I'd back us to stay up now but we're not out of the woods yet of course.

worth saying again Yeah, it was really your belief that did that for us. Nice one. Understandably irritated by our "Support" on here They can't hear us on here you mental pleb.

I've just noticed a load of saliva on my T-Shirt, nee idea how I managed that.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Heart's racing here.

Don't moan until we're relegated.

Putting the ball high and hopefully into the box is ALL we're doing now. That's been deployed as our only tactic since Shola came on. Our plan for the last 20-odd minutes basically, you can understand doing it for 5 or 10.

And we're in long diagonal ball land.

It's hardly a shock, he comes on every game.

Here wer gan.

Fuck me, what a save.

Taylor with his party trick.

Christ alive, man.

Keeper's nowhere near that.

Get in. Depending on yet another unlikeable club to save us. I know, I hate Chelsea more than anyone except the mackems.

So sick of watching Sissoko run aimlessly with the ball now.

Get in.

Anyway, at least we sometimes sort of turn up for half of the game - hopefully that wasn't it.

Not even close. The same match last season was mind-numbing. Most, if not all, of our games are absolutely awful. We play with italian pace and championship quality. Utterly minging. Yeah, this is no worse than normal tbh. Pretty much what I've came to expect, blind optimism aside.

I could have went shopping with my girlfriend and her mam this afternoon. Sort of regretting my decision.

Come on, let's make this spell count.

Not good, Papiss.

I'm considering a bacon sandwich.

The co-commentator. (On Duff): I don't understand it (the booing), I think fans should sometimes appreciate the performances a player puts in and Duff was an impressive performer.