Away Toon

Is it true that they are planning on a minutes silence before the game for Thatcher? I would have thought that would go down very badly.

It's true this is a very low standard Premier League, illustrated by results in the Champions League.

City the better team, how they are so far behind only Mancini knows

City have been the better team and then your goalkeeper goes and does that.

Awful from Hart.

It's a good positive approach by City, more teams should go to Utd and have a go at them, rather than just roll over.

There is absolutely no consensus at all on this thread, as the voting illustrates. Can't we have a simple Pardew Yes or No, if not close it.

Anita's been good especially at right back.

It bit of luck and then a moment of class from Cisse who could have and should have had a hat trick.

Marveaux by far the best player we have on the pitch.

Cabaye thinks he's Stevie fucking Gerrard, hollywood passes and shooting wildly from anywhere.

pretty decent display from Simpson, not the worst player we have by far.

Shola that's an awful miss you pillock

if the mackems lose a point might be a good result here, mind you Cisse should have had this game finished a long time ago.

Better start, we need a big dose of luck from somewhere, anything, a penalty, deflected goal, own goal just anything.

Ask Kenwright, I've no fucking idea. Why do people want to argue about the indefensible? Even if you can find an excuse for the results this season, surely nobody can defend the negative aimless horrible football we play.

Mick's post pretty much sums it up for me. I don't believe that he's a good manager particularly, and don't think he will improve. We have some good players, playing the least entertaining football in the Premier League. Not only is it horrible to watch, we are in serious danger of being relegated. With any other owner (one who hadn't given his manager a 8 year contract) he'd have been sacked, as have lots of other managers down at the bottom with us.

Pardew saying he thinks Taylor was really unlucky with the penalty decision. The deluded twat should be sacked for that alone.

Pardew saying he thinks Taylor was really unlucky with the penalty decision. The deluded twat should be sacked for that alone.

Cisse was very good, Sissoko and Krul good and Jonas and Simpson OK. But the rest either anonymous like Marveaux and Anita or terrible like Santon, Taylor, MYM, Cabaye, Perch, and Shola. Am I the only one that thinks that Cabaye is pretty useless as a DM? He runs around a lot, but tackles poorly and he's a dirty bastard. He'd be much better further up the pitch. Berbatov must be licking his lips if he watched that. If we lose to Fulham the second leg is immaterial and we will have to rest players, as if we were then to lose to the mackems we would almost certainly be down.

This could have been the same result as the Arsenal game, 7-3 would be a reasonable reflection on the game. Krul has kept us in the match, but overall they are way better than we are.

We have to get a second they will definitely score at SJP.

Game and tie over.

Santon's play was a classic illustration of a lot of our negative play.

Defensively we are frighteningly bad. What is it Pardew is meant to be good at?