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This is absolutely horrible.

Fucking hell Disallowed goal. EDIT: Miles behind.

Some of the worst through balls ever on display today.

Krul's taking the fucking piss now.

I want Pep Guardiola or nobody else.

And then you read the comments:

Who wrote that? He's got it absolutely spot on like, fair play to him.

What the fuck's he talking about, 'for the honesty of the league'? They can still finish 3rd

Fuck off man

“We’ve been saying the only way Newcastle can get their team bus to Wembley is if Middlesbrough fans take it! “We’ve also raised concerns that the driver might get lost, because he’s never been there before.” FUCKING BRUTAL

Not in the fucking slightest

We'll still be told we want the moon and the stars when we express our disdain at his appointment like.

He seems to be modelling his coaching style on that of a 13th century King.

The email say you're getting it back though, aye? I roped my mate into doing this and I cannot be bothered with the jip I'll get if he doesn't get his refund.

I didn't have to, it just let me withdraw. I had to verify my BET365 account last week though which was annoying.

I cannot even believe I'm indulging in a conversation with someone who's trying to tell me what I can and cannot discuss like, what the fuck am I doing? In a bit.

In fact it still happens with Marveaux. A player who many recognise is not a world beater, and in an ideal world wouldn't have been in our starting XI every week, but the circumstances behind him not playing lead to people talking about the issue more than normal.

THIS is my argument with HBA! He does not play for us anymore! Why are we randomly gracing him with praise? Hit. Nail. Head. I've agreed he is class, I've agreed that we need him, but the same all applies to Albert. But he played for us like a year ago and the people who are involved with him leaving a still in charge of the club, the players who have took his place are still at the club etc. I imagine it'll down die a touch in 20 years time. It would be the same if Cabaye or Debuchy left us in dodgy circumstances.

It would be canny strange of us to all randomly start gracing a player who left us nearly 2 decades ago with plaudits like Albert was class, if you ask anyone they'll say he was class. He's hardly the hot topic at the moment like, neither's Hughie Gallacher.

That isn't the issue at all, MYM was just the first name to come to mind. My issue was with HBA's work-rate and half arsed appearances but being classed as a hero on here whilst others with a similar work-rate are absolutely battered. Being good at football doesn't make you immune to critics. He's a direct winger who plays in bursts. His work rate was completely fine It's like complaining about Tim Krul because he's not running up the pitch and diving into challenges. For crying out loud, work-rate is not just running around and challenging. He is a flair winger, who's role is to create and score goals... Sadly in my opinion, he did not do it enough. He'd frequently fade out of games if it was not going his way. He created and scored loads of goals, partly because his work rate was absolutely fine.

I don't know if they're still up but you could literally Google 80-90% of the games he started in and there was some 5 minute compilation video of him rinsing defenders

That isn't the issue at all, MYM was just the first name to come to mind. My issue was with HBA's work-rate and half arsed appearances but being classed as a hero on here whilst others with a similar work-rate are absolutely battered. Being good at football doesn't make you immune to critics. He's a direct winger who plays in bursts. His work rate was completely fine It's like complaining about Tim Krul because he's not running up the pitch and diving into challenges.

My point is that is wasn't just Pardew and Bruce who saw this. It was all of his managers in France too. The risk of it all going wrong was always high, even when you first signed him. Having someone like Pardew in charge made it even more likely. Fair enough, it goes further than just a bust up with Pardew like, he was managed horrendously from the start because of his fear of playing an offensive winger in a 4-3-3 (so much so that he tried to pretend he wasn't a winger at one point). He dropped his guard once and we were fantastic for 5-6 games on the trot, got battered off Wigan and it was back to regiment 4-4-2s and 'grafting' wingers. This went on for like 3 year.

There's seemingly an issue with his personality, or his work rate in training, or something else behind the scenes we're unaware of. I'm not really seeing how this translates to Shola Ameobi and Obertan starting games of football ahead of him though. We'll always live in the past as there's fuck all in the present to cheer about, the same as 90% of other football fans really.