Stottie

I suppose if Sunderland weren't going to suspend him in spite of being shown huge volume of text messages, the discovery of him having an illegal bestiality video wouldn't bother them either.

Don't Everton try to keep it a little tighter away from home? They've only lost once all season.

Does falling off once in 6 months work out as bad as being a constant alcoholic though? He is an alcoholic, regardless of how often he relapses. It's all of the other mental health issues that he has, which complicates things. It will always be this way for him sadly - there is no permanent fix. He is clearly someone with mental health problems. They usually go deep and can go way way back.

Bit of a D'oh brain fade there, because it was them who equalized at the end of the Palace game, not Palace. They did score first though, so they have still lost a lead in their last three games, against Palace, us, and Southampton with ten men.

Just on the subject of Hippo Head and sorry if Giggs, but that's the third game in a row where they've lost a lead in the last seven minutes. That's against the hapless Palace, the hapless nufc, and Southampton who were down to 10 men. For someone the press love to hype, that's very poor game management. Teams that throw points away get relegated.

The early part of the second half was pretty much even stevens with us having one cleared off the line early in. They were on top most of the first half, largely due to them targeting our left side. Leicester scored from a Colback error too, so sorting that side out is priority number one. Number two is working on combinations for opening teams up once we get to their 18 yard line. We got there numerous times but lack of runners, poor delivery and poor decisions cost us in both games. We've finished both games under Rafa stronger than our opponents and have edged the shot count. Under McClaren we averaged 10 for and 16 against. Whether we'll get results is a different matter, but I can see us competing in most of our remaining games. Compared to the Bournemouth home game, that's a big change.

He's clearly not fast, but he's looked more sluggish in the past month or so than he did in that West Ham home game. I dunno if it's tactics, fitness or an injury.

I thought him and Townsend were dropping into nice pockets of space first half (i.e. tactics kind of working), but he was consistently being dispossessed unlike Townsend who was taking it on. Much better second half when Sunderland started sitting back. Needs more time with Rafa methinks.

Hopeless, and won't be missed in the two games he's out. There's a good chance we won't see him starting again this season.

After all that prematch crap on Sky about heart and bravery and Fatso knowing the territory, his team tried to sit on a one-goal lead and pissed away two points against a team as hapless as ours. They might as well have waved a white flag.

Pleased he took his shirt off because I can now dismiss the theory that he's slow because he's carrying a bit of weight. If he is, it's not on his middle. Unfortunately it doesn't mean we can expect him to get any faster.

FT 1-1. Huge feck up from Allardyce. We were there for the taking and they let us back in. Pardew couldn't have done better. It ended positively and give Rafa another week with them. On this evidence, you'd think both are going down.

Nowt wrong with that shoulder charge.

Five minutes to go. Howay the lads

Mackems were asking for it. Totally deserved.

FAT SAM CAN'T DEFEND FOR BOLLOCKS!

YESSSS

Foul throw of the century there!

Here comes Cisse. Wouldn't have been Townsend for me, but still. Let's do it.

They've let us back into this big time. I don't know if we'll be able to take advantage, but you can see why they've been losing leads recently.

Janmatt off, so we might just finish with 11 players.

Open game now, which doesn't help them.

The Guardian thinks its Luuk de Jong

30 minutes to go. Howay the lads!

Time to change it up.