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Contact with the ball doesn't mean it wasn't a foul. That's the crucial issue. He just nicked the ball but caught Sammy on the follow through. That's what caused Sammy to lose balance and tread on the ball. Otherwise he'd have kept possession, and usually refs call that a foul. Either way, we can't blame Sammy. Exactly how I saw it. Would have been a foul anywhere else on the pitch.

Contact with the ball doesn't mean it wasn't a foul.

I dare say we would have done the same to them if we were at home and the dominant team. Like last season.

wtf do you want HBA to do, when your team is defending and under the cosh from the opposition, just let HBA run around trying to look busy making no attempt and having no desire to win the ball back? all because " im suppose to be an attacking player" what kind of excuse is that? so players that get played outwide aerent suppose to help out and track back? when the team is under pressure? and dont forget, when he did have the ball today he did jack s*** with it apart losing it from hogging the ball to long, he had team mates beside him waiting, begging for him to make that simple pass to them. What did Laurent Robert do "when your team is defending and under the cosh from the opposition"... f*** all. Even Bobby Robson said it was a bit annoying but what he gave us going forward more than made up for it. Now I'm not for a second suggesting that Ben Arfa should be as lax defending as Robert was, but surely Pardew can find a happy medium in there somewhere? At the moment he is being completely wasted. laurent Robert you use him as an example? Happy medium how? ok you're Alan Pardew, and Danny Simpson is getting smashed, pillaged, over-run by 2 lfc players their left wing leftback. "Hey dont worry Hatem you just let your 9 outfield teamates run their socks off and get their shorts dirty. but you boy you just stay up there and wait for the ball to come to you because you're so special, like Laurent Robert under Sir bobby" do me a favour. Wasn't he meant to be playing as a wide forward? He shouldn't have to be doing any defending at all from that position. A 4-3-3 should turn into a 4-5-1 when defending. So yes - he should be defending. No winger should let the opposition full back and winger double up on your own full back. He was not playing as a winger, that's what I just said. I can't say I've noticed Hazard, Podolski, Gervinho, Silva, Tevez, Oscar, Walcott or any of the other wide forwards in the Premier League spending most of the game on the edge of their own box doubling up on another team's wide forward, you've obviously been paying more attention than me. He looked like he was playing as a winger to me? We weren't playing a system that had 3 forwards and allowed them to do no defending. I can't think of many teams that do.

wtf do you want HBA to do, when your team is defending and under the cosh from the opposition, just let HBA run around trying to look busy making no attempt and having no desire to win the ball back? all because " im suppose to be an attacking player" what kind of excuse is that? so players that get played outwide aerent suppose to help out and track back? when the team is under pressure? and dont forget, when he did have the ball today he did jack s*** with it apart losing it from hogging the ball to long, he had team mates beside him waiting, begging for him to make that simple pass to them. What did Laurent Robert do "when your team is defending and under the cosh from the opposition"... f*** all. Even Bobby Robson said it was a bit annoying but what he gave us going forward more than made up for it. Now I'm not for a second suggesting that Ben Arfa should be as lax defending as Robert was, but surely Pardew can find a happy medium in there somewhere? At the moment he is being completely wasted. laurent Robert you use him as an example? Happy medium how? ok you're Alan Pardew, and Danny Simpson is getting smashed, pillaged, over-run by 2 lfc players their left wing leftback. "Hey dont worry Hatem you just let your 9 outfield teamates run their socks off and get their shorts dirty. but you boy you just stay up there and wait for the ball to come to you because you're so special, like Laurent Robert under Sir bobby" do me a favour. Wasn't he meant to be playing as a wide forward? He shouldn't have to be doing any defending at all from that position. A 4-3-3 should turn into a 4-5-1 when defending. So yes - he should be defending. No winger should let the opposition full back and winger double up on your own full back.

Horseshit. Not really.

Have we had a good performance this season? We've been good in patches - but we haven't hit top gear yet. We did last season and it will happen this season.

You missed out: Good performances: nothing to do with Pardew. Good signings: nothing to do with Pardew.

Are those match stats meant to be embarrassing?

Not absolving Jonas of blame - but no idea what Cisse was doing playing it back to him in the first place when he had time and space to turn on it.

We were man. Are you f***ing blind or something or just plaid stupid?! We could barely sting 4 passes together and were outplayed by an extremely average Liverpool side. We scored just before the break but rather than come out after the break full of spunk, we came out all meek and sat back. We played so deep the likes of Cisse were operating well inside the half-way line. We weren't awful. Fact.

Assume we all had our heads in the sand all of last season when you kept banging the same old drum?

Pipe down. No one is interested. Seconded.

Nope, plays centrally, on paper furthest forward but drops deep, hence 'false no 9' description Am I right in thinking that that hasn't always been the case though? For example, when Etoo and Zlatan were there.

Not a Barca expert, but I thought Messi played nominally on the wing.

I'm not convinced that you get the best out of HBA by playing him in a central role. I personally think he would get a bit lost there.

Yeah - I wouldn't have a problem with that...

I don't think anyone is saying swearing should not be allowed, so it might be easier to realise that before people start banging on about protecting their right to swear, whilst trotting out all the old cliches about it being a man's game, traditionally working class, don't come if it offends etc etc. Yawn. All that is being suggested is that: a) being at a football match doesn't necessarily give you free reign to swear as much as you like and say whatever you like; and b) having a little bit of consideration to those around you may not go amiss. Please note - no-one is banning you from getting your fix of swearwords in.

Wasn't so long ago you could have added violence and racism to that. Perhaps we should just tolerate it because it's a football match. MASSIVE difference between someone shouting racist abuse or being violent, compared to someone standing up and shouting "close him the f*** down" MASSIVE, If you want to sit in a crowd with no personality, you may as well watch it at home mate, with the lights off by yourself. Surely it depends on the context and what is being said? Or does anything go because it's football and we must preserve the right for people to swear at football...?

He's got a point to be honest. I don't think anyone objects to some swearing, but if someone was swearing constantly during a match (not suggesting this is what KI was doing - we don't know the context), I'd think they were behaving pretty unreasonably.

Wasn't disputing the offside call - just thought it was an un-Krul like mistake to make. So I wasn't sure if he had stopped playing.

When Lukaku flicked that one in from an offside position, had Krul stopped playing or did he actually let the ball through his legs?

I don't object to the principle of Simpson backing off as it can be the right decision in certain circumstances. What annoys me is that he is never tight enough to the attacker to make it an effective tactic. You can't just back off to the edge of the penalty area and defend from there. Would love to know what they say to Simpson during their video analysis sessions.

I really don't think he played that badly yesterday. Or indeed this season. I am trying to work whether he runs with the ball less due to a decline in his physical abilities or under instruction. Yesterday when he was in the middle he looked like he had been told to hold. And for all his faults at full back - I am beginning to think I would rather have him there than Simpson.

That was my interpretation. We played well in the first half and were the better team. 2nd half was not good.