Sho Time

Agreed, the first tackle on Hazard was a great challenge. The referee just had it in for us in the first half especially.

Eddie Howe over Rafa Benitez. Honestly man.

Chelsea fortunate to be leading 2-0, their play definitely doesn't merit it, but they have the cutting edge that we just don't have.

It's a 5-3-1-1 in all, Manquillo and Haidara playing as wing-backs, Saivet, Shelvey and Hayden in the centre with Ritchie playing behind Gayle.

Joselu does not hold up the ball better than Mitrovic like, not by a long shot.

I'm off to the Liverpool/WBA game in one of the corporate boxes organised by my work. Can't wait to demolish a 4-course slap up meal, expense my drinks and then hurl non-stop abuse at Pardew, the fucking cunt.

Call it blind optimism, but this statement makes me think (as long as we stay in the PL) that the takeover is very much still on to happen and Rafa has been assured of spends in advance.

Definitely going to be a case of Mitro sold and he comes in, with us footing around a £5-10m difference likely. Personally from what little I've seen of both players, I don't think there's much - if anything - between them.

A horse. I went to post a in response to a pretty quick-witted joke, then realised it was indeed a horse. Sorry Haydn, this one goes out to Jonny Sharples.

Wow

Warrington.

Absolutely mint that

So in your own words a "fair or reasonable" bid is made yet she's a time waster of Barry Moat proportions because Mike Ashley doesn't have the common decency to respond? So your business experitse is essentially throw way more money over and above the valuation of the asset. No wonder the fans can't push for change, when there's still knackers who take Ashley's side.

Yeah absolutely, she's performed due dilligence on the club and valued it appropriately - made a perfectly reasonable offer based on what she's found and added clauses to help alleviate the risk that the current owner has put on the club due to chronic mismanagement and underfunding. Not only that, she's not heard a single response from the seller despite making 2 other alterations of more or less the same bid, until the same fat, drunken moron calls up his mates on Sky to break the NDA and label her efforts to purchase the club "a complete waste of time" - despite not making any counter offer or re-negotiation. So who is the real time-waster here? Yes, Amanda Staveley is the one who has played this horribly - not the despicable fat liar who has ran the club into the ground for over a decade and robbed all the money the club has generated so that he could stick it in his back pocket.

They really are just a parody.

#wait

He's scum of the highest order, I'm glad Staveley has come out, defender herself and outed him as a cunt. Not sure how many of our fans would read the times though, this story or rewording of it needs to be shunted across to the Sun, the Star, SSN etc. Give it real coverage and hope the fans do something about it in the next home game. If cunts like Steve Wraith/Mike Martin really had the clubs best interests at heart they would help facilitate this. As it is, now is the time where we really need fans to band together over one common goal: Remove Mike Ashley from this club. How we do that and balance it between supporting Rafa and making SJP a cauldron of abuse at the fat man, I'm not sure though. It seems Rafa leaving would be the straw that broke the camel back for a lot, however we have too many narrow-minded fans amongst us that believe he is at fault and are incapable of seeing the bigger picture.

Love these.

Scores 4 goals and gets booed, shows what a horrible little scrote he is that even his own fans hate him.

Every time I close and reopen the webpage I'm having to re-log in. No time out/errors, just like I've been kicked out of my account.

Never given a fair chance here, for whatever reason. Best for all parties he moves on tbh.

Most likely. Which in all honest is quite strange even under this regime because Ashley's main goal was always to spent the majority of his money in the Academy so he could recoup the long-term benefits. Clearly he doesn't have (and never had) the knowledge, the patience or the business sense to make this work.

Darlow - Elliott - Woodman Manquillo - Clark - Lascelles - Lejeune - Mbemba - Dummett - Gamez - Yedlin

And, more importantly of all, changed a 'stepping stone' culture that'd been here for eons. Goes against Ashley's ultimate goal though, doesn't it.