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Tbf he's exactly the type of player that has a career blighted by injuries. British, puts his body on the line in matches, drinks too much, always gets in bother. A bit like Duncan Ferguson, or Joey Barton, or Kieron Dyer.

I've mentioned the Emirates, but otherwise yeah - good 'uns. - Enrique joins Twitter / Facebook. - Ranger gets a stupid tattoo on his lip, and is then rightly regarded in a similar vein to a paedophile-killer-terrorist who is good friends with Jedward by many posters on here.

Well, you should vote then because the poll currently stands at 21-0 in favour of "yes". Admittedly I can't comment on anything before the early 90s because of my age.

I reckon that season rivalled this season in terms of off-the-pitch events. On the pitch this season has been more exciting, surprising and eventful, hands-down.

- Beating Villa 6 nowt in our first home match back in the Premier League, and the poetic justice associated with it. - The Ben Arfa saga, he scores a peach to win us the game at Everton and then breaks his leg at Man City. - The emergence of Cheick Tiote, an absolutely outstanding player that we've been crying out for for years. - The performances and goals of Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan - I remember seasons when our top scorer got about 6 goals. - Winning 4-3 at Stamford Bridge in the League Cup. - Beating the mackems 5-1 in a game where you couldn't be prouder of Chris Hughton and this "group of lads". - Thoroughly outplaying Arsenal at their own ground and winning the game 1-0. - Getting hammered 5-1 at the Reebok. - Hughton getting binned, Pardew coming in. - Stuffing West Ham, Leon Best scoring a fucking hatrick ffs. - On that note, 3 different players scoring hatricks in one season for us, a first in my lifetime as far as I know. - Drawing bloody Stevenage in the Cup, and actually getting beat off them this time ffs. - Listening to the foolish boasts and predictions of the mackems for weeks on end once again. Turning up at their ground and outplaying them, throwing it away at the end. - Selling Andy Carroll for 35 million pounds. Whatever your thoughts on this, this was unimaginable 12 months ago. - Andy Carroll living with Kevin Nolan. His car getting torched. "Ride iz, ride iz". "Like a meercat". Etc, etc. - Today. Entertainment-wise, "story"-wise, atmosphere-wise, etc, probably an even better game than the 4-3 at Anfield in 1996. Feel free to add your own, either now or as we go. It's only 5th February but my vote is a resounding "yes".

I can't believe how loud the roar was when Best made it 4-2. We fucking believed, man, brilliant.

Club Athletico Faustino Asprilla. :lol: Never knew that.

Shearer, Shearer, Shearer.

Loved your text. Wish I'd seen you and your brother sitting sobbing.

Did he resist the temptation to have a tab this time?

If we stay up then this lad will be instrumental in it. Absolutely phenomenal how quickly he's settled and is so often the best player on the pitch.

Hope his fucking stream went down as they headed Barton's free kick out, the cunt. Aye, that's basically what happened to me today.

It was just pure instinct. He felt like he had to do something in the heat of the moment and for some crazy reason he did that.

Quite happy to get the whingers out the door tbh, could only have helped us.

Anyway, we've got some decent results against the 'bigger' clubs at home this season. Just a defeat versus Man City, with only Man Utd still to play.

I'm creasing my tits off here. Rabbit in the headlights.

Pathetic comment tbh. neesy man, he's saying that the daft cow left after TEN minutes.

Wasn't it just.

Joey Barton said "Geordie nation"?

Can't believe how close Nolan was to making it 5-4. I think I'm going to just watch the 2nd half on loop until I go to bed.

Not many home crowds that would have stuck with the team to the degree that our lot did today. Watching this on Football First and it's goosebump city. Absolutely immense effort from all concerned. My dad texted me at HT saying "I'm going to watch the rest of this in the St James Park bar, gonna be a massacre". And he watched the whole 2nd half in the bar as he didn't want to go back to his seat in case it was unlucky. That's dedication to your superstition.

Absolute insanity.

Bloody hell.

4-2!

I'm seriously not joking here - my mate at work was trying to find a market for us scoring a penalty in the 68th minute but couldn't. I thought he was mental, but I think that's the 4th 68th minute pen this ref's given to a home team this season or something. Crazy.