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We had 3 keepers during that game, one being Waddle or Beardsley. beardsley- Thomas? and.......? Chris Hedworth (had to Google it!)

Aye that's right - 3 goals past 3 different keepers (think Beardsley was the last one?)

This kid is going to be a player, can't believe he's just a teenager.

Can't remember it ever happening - must be a long time ago

I'm still not too concerned, but a good transfer window is absolutely essential - if we go into Feb with a net gain of no players we could be in real trouble,

Hope he can play himself into some form at the ACON and come back firing - really want to see him a midfield 3 with Cabaye and Anita.

I generally like to look on the bright side in our performances and can be forgiving to a fault with our players. But this guy need to fuck off. Sharpish. He's actually become a walking opposition tactic - just let him have the ball as much as he wants and wait until he boots it our of play/fucks up spectacularly. We must, must, must buy a new right back. Or stick Tavernier in there. Or Tulisa. Or my Auntie Pat. Anthing, Please.

He has decent penetration but lacks a football brain. If we could somehow merge him with Jonas we would have a hell of a footballer.

Desperately, desperately poor today, seemed to forget the absolute basics. Easy to forget he's a young lad, could do with a break if we had anything resembling decent cover.

Excellent. So it should just come down to who has the best players...

One slight positive is they don't have much height so we might get away with our makeshift central defence (at set pieces I mean, they're obviously still going to rip us to shreds in open play)

Ouch.

The position of the semi-colons suggest a 4-2-3-1 Aye it does, with Cisse behind Ba Nah, be Cisse right, Marv central I think.

The position of the semi-colons suggest a 4-2-3-1

Not that surprising, is it.

Getting a bit boring this like. f*** all wrong with saying we had an improved performance despite losing, after coming off the back of 3 turgid defeats. What's more boring is constantly losing though so he has a point. He said the exact same at half-time of the Sunderland game...Sunderland lost, we beat the same opposition. If you time it right every game has at least one opportunity for a dig at our current plight.

Reading winning

I think he went down easily but if Hatem is bursting into the box like that and gets caught on the back of his knee I'm wanting a penalty.

Sounds like he's going to cry

Apparently a tradition to remember anyone associated with the club who died during the year.

Still calling him Butcher at the bottom of this article:

If anyone thinks Pardew talking about the release clause is the only reason it's in the papers I would suggest they have a poor understanding of how the UK press operates - there's literally nothing he could say or not say that would make them keep their fucking noses out. At least if he answers questions openly he can to some extent control the information and make sure they don't start wildly speculating instead: "Ba contract has strawberry syrup clause - boss Pardew refuses to comment!!!!"

I really wish we weren't so shite this season so I could enjoy this lot struggling a bit more.

I think it's the 1st of Jan the official handover, then Cisse is back to a goal a game and Ba can't hit a cow's arse with a banjo.