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Hughton mashing up fat sam fathead, what a great day of football it's been.

Shola is gonna be on talksport talking to Collymore shortly :frantic:

Would be good to bump that thread on there that had brummie's post in it. Just for the fact he made his sub on 75 minutes again.

So close, just needs a 'Pathetic!' at the end.

Why oh why do some managers wear shorts and footie socks? do they think they're gonna get a game? VBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

BBC has us at 4 shots, 2 on target. Need to do better 2nd half. Got faith that Pardew will turn it around though.

No, I think people have let the 4 wins on the bounce affect their expectations.. Well I did expect to beat Bolton at home. I'm just struggling with why he's gone with 442 when our 433 system was working so well. It seems a strange one to me.

Maybe he's gone 442 because Bolton are playing 5 in midfield and he's worried about us getting overrun in the middle.

Are we playing flat 4-4-2?

I would love Perch to get one today.

The intro sequence on Chinese tv for football matches has each teams flag unfurling over either a local landmark or their ground. For us and Sunderland they've done both at once unfurling over a wing of the angel of the north each. Bloody scandalous

You can't really castigate someone for having an opinion on a player anyway. If he thinks Cattermole is better than Tiote then what does it matter? Does anyone really think he's gonna change his mind because of what they say?

10pm kick off, no work tomorrow, £3 for a bottle of brandy at the 7/11, looking forward to this

So you'll get banned for 2 days under that rule too now. Wait, so will I, this is getting confusing.

We never got to see his reply to brummie.

I don't know how you have the patience to even try and engage with these mongs, Sima.

Great through ball from Scholes there.

Flashbacks Drawing any of the French teams would be brilliant considering the makeup of our squad and our better profile over there.

Is Abeid a DM? he could be worth a start if Colo is out.

f*** me is this for real? You're actually comparing the two clubs in that way? New forum trend: Swansea are s***, Barca are good. And to think most of us would have been happy with a point before the match started. No, don't get me wrong, i'm not comparing them as teams, just the style of passing game they play and Barca were naturally the first ones that popped into my head. They both play a passing style of football but Swansea's passing seems to be more focused on keeping the ball away from the opposition than penetrating and scoring. You could compare them to many teams who play a passing game but a different kind of passing game. Maybe a comparison between the Arsenal invincibles and the Arsenal side of recent years might serve better. The invincibles played some lovely pass and move football but the passing had a penetrative purpose whereas in more recent times Arsenal have seemed to be passing it for the sake of it. Again, it's not a great comparison but I hope it illustrates the point a little.

The difference between a team like swansea and a team like barca is that the barca passing has a purpose. They're probing and using the movement of both the ball and their own players to pull the other team around and create spaces to run into for the killer pass. Swansea on the other hand just seem to pass it for the sake of passing it, there was very little purpose in a lot of their passes except maybe to bump up their stats. What exactly is the point of one CB passing 10 yards to the other and then him passing it back straight away when there's no opposition player anywhere near them?

I'm just too easy-going. Giving him the benefit of the doubt. He's a mackem, it won't be the first benefit he's been given

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=689487

If the mackems can get anything from Spurs tomorrow it could be on

Santon's had a good game too I think. Looked quite assured on the ball and better defensively.