Hughesy

You can watch highlights on Yahoo goals, don't know about a picture though. Might just have to pause it Cheers - will take a look tonight!

Is there a screenshot from the first goal from Sky's coverage knocking around anywhere? I am reliably informed that I am pictured somewhere in the crowd.

Chelsea had no ideas other than long diagonal balls from Terry up to Torres/Drogba. I was amazed that they didn't try and get the ball down more and pass it around.

Don't know how he thought it was right to give Tiote the yellow after one challenge (from where I was it didn't even look like a foul, more a coming together), but didn't book Chelsea players for similar, if not worse, challenges.

Surely he going to ping one in soon from those runs he makes? He's almost Ben Arfa like in the way he beats people. Don't know if anyone else at the match saw but at the end when the players came over, he did a little dance - seemed to be enjoying the chanting.

His timing for his tackling is exceptional.

Has there even been a bigger improvement from one player?

There are no words. Simply amazing. I love this team.

Ferguson did KK up like a kipper. The mind games were Keegan's downfall and he just ended up looking very naivet. I can see why people say it was passionate, but Ferguson had set out to wind him up and KK just looked daft in biting. never agreed with this. it wasn't mind games it was whining "why do teams play harder against us than them wwhah whah whah" if it was a manager at the bottom doing it no-one would call it mind games and it the same sort of crap the fans come out with every week to make excuses for their teams. after it was called mind games ferguson did try it deliberatly the season after with wenger, arsene kicked his arse. What Dave and Madras said. Ferguson's 'mind games' is one of the greatest myths surrounding English football. People love to make out as if he is a genius when it comes to the psychological aspect of the game - when if you look at the facts, his team has imploded quite a few times under pressure.

Poor guy is a turnip before a ball has been kicked. That article came straight out of Page 1 of journalistic cliches - successful maverick is passed over in favour of establishment man. Martin Samuel writes in a very catchy and fluent style, but the content doesn't always match up. I don't know how he has the nerve to say at the end 'The pity for Hodgson is that, as at Liverpool, he may be rejected in the minds of many before the job has even begun'. If you think it's a pity, Martin, I don't think you're helping. Martin Samuel is a very strange journalist in relation to the quality of his articles. Sometimes capable of writing some intelligent, thought-provoking stuff that is far more interesting than your run of the mill football journalists, but other times he just writes utter nonsense. This being one of the utter nonsense articles.

Good article by David Conn on this - http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/19/champions-league-uefa-europa-league?INTCMP=SRCH

I wish I had known that - would have hunted him down. Would love a Pards sighting. Would give me a Pard-on I think.

To a certain extent, I think it's just being a football fan. Spurs fan at work is convinced they won't win another match this season.

to put a positive spin on the Waffa Cup, games in that competition are more likely to mean trips to proper weird and wonderful places. Also less days off work if you are going to make a short break of it...

Not surprised.

Thought he looked more up for a physical battle on Saturday which was good to see.

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play... don't know about patronising but the extent we were supposed to have played hoofball was massivly over exaggerated. I think the general theme that somehow only the anti-Pardew brigade were enlightened enough to see what was really happening was a fairly common, patronising and, as it turned out, incorrect theme. But anyway - going to leave it there. We're 4th so I don't care who is right or wrong. You could try and leave it without saying "I won". I'm happy to do so. It was thinly veiled.. But in all seriousness - it's done now. Hopefully we will get 4th and won't need to look back on it anymore.

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play... don't know about patronising but the extent we were supposed to have played hoofball was massivly over exaggerated. I think the general theme that somehow only the anti-Pardew brigade were enlightened enough to see what was really happening was a fairly common, patronising and, as it turned out, incorrect theme. But anyway - going to leave it there. We're 4th so I don't care who is right or wrong.

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play...

I've decided it's best to keep quiet on this as I do agree that point-scoring in the main is futile. But, and it is a pretty big 'but', I have no doubt whatsoever that if the anti-Pardew people had been proved right, there would have been a lot of pretty smug people on here (even though it would have ultimately meant NUFC had failed). So I think the people who actually backed Pardew in the face of some pretty unwarranted and harsh criticism might be somewhat keen to point this out.

Off topic but.. early start for the cricket season? Think we start down here a week later in May.

This right here, gentlemen. I did not see it coming at all, I can't think of any logical reason that suggested it would come, nor was one suggested by any poster on this board. Negative tactics were accompanied by cries of "you idiot, how can you pass it from the back with simpson, willo and Krul in the team/ Cabaye is in terrible form" ect. Pardew's change of mentality also exactly coincides with Ben Arfa forcing himself into the team. Now try to remember objectively, Ben Arfa was not eased into the team or anything like that, he was thrown on as a wildcard, an "oh-s***!" button. And he preformed so well in those cameos that he simple could not be dropped from the team (fan pressure being a factor too). I'm not taking anything away from Pardew he's done unbelievably well. And I almost regret typing this already as this can of worms is in the past. But people gloating ' i woz right bout somethin' , 'will you admit you was wrong' is really irritating. But you're wrong. There were people that took in past form and what Pardew had said through his time here, his general interviews, his use of players, his explanations when we played badly and his admittances when things didn't go to plan and came to a different conclusion. Buy into what we felt he was aiming for, and the way he ideally would have us play. Sometime that faith looked shaky at best, but I thought that there was very little to suggest he was a negative manager, or married to the concept of 'hoofball' that some here kept banging on about. There will be many many more games where we f*** up, set up wrongly, or end up lumping it forward. I just hope the current form makes the likes of HTT hesitate from jumping off the deep end again when we hit a bad patch. I fear it wont. /Christ, it wasn't that many weeks ago he was still calling for Pardew to be replaced sooner rather than later. /But then, it wasn't many moons ago, he was fighting Allardyces corner, or siding with Souness over Bellamy and Robert iirc... Revisionist to the extreme, did you watch ANY of the games where he was accused of this? There was open conflict on the pitch as Demba Ba was arguing with Coloccini for Krul to stop punting it up the pitch every time he got it in at least 1 game that I saw. Krul, and Colo, to their credit, kept on doing what they were told to do by their manager. When did these arguments happen???

That was just laughable shite though really. Tried to just ignore anyone who came out with that.

Just brilliant. Done an amazing amazing job.

That's an utterly ridiculous thing to say.