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Who was that dick who elbowed Shearer for Grimsby? I know Shearer like to used his arms but I remember that being awful. Edit. Seen post above.

Also said it's not worthy of punishment, which imo is a terrible comment. He's being massively hypocritical aswell as dangerous. Any defence of it and his player could do it again one day, with worse results.

He should refrain from saying something so glaringly untrue.

The way Wigan have handled all this is shameful. First Martinez' outrageous comments and now this.

Yeah, with QPR, Reading and Wigan going down. I will gladly accept Sunlun staying up at the expense of Wigan. Steady on now.

He said all he could really. He was certainly very critical of the challenge, so I don't agree he has backed down out of defending his players. You can justifiably question Pardew's tactics, but it's hard to question his man management skills imo. The one thing he's actually good at.

Our goal difference is quite a bit better, thats essentially an extra point on the teams in the bottom 3 and Villa. An avoidance of a pasting at City would be nice aswell. The two home games after are huge. If we can't muster 6 points from a remaining 8 games then we deserve to go down.

Trying hard to remember the opponent. Think it was Sheff Wed or Derby at home in about 97 / 98 (maybe earlier). We won 3-1 after conceding after about a minute or two. Might have to check the history books as I genuinely have forgotten who it was. Despite the scattered memories of who we were playing, wont forget how I was mesmerised looking around the stadium. Just stood there in awe for minutes.

Aye noticed Spurs are 3rd, shite them.

Loved that, first time i'v heard him speak english actually.

Effortless game. Gonna slot in perfectly.

Excluding the Cisse on the right nonsense, much stronger team than I expected.

Key bit for me, would make things incredibly boring.

I'm probably in the minority but i'm not really keen on the idea of it. Maybe a split second thing where the tech would instantly know if it's over the line or not, but not some referral to a 4th official or owt like that. I'm aware of the pro's but I really would find that a tedious solution to it all, however fair it may be. Yes rugby is a good example of how it's used well, but it's been in place for a long time there. Maybe i'm old fashioned but imo football still relies on a bit of controversy.

I agree but also if we limp out the competition in gutless fashion that in itself creates a different pressure for the match Sunday, regardless of who plays. They have to really show some balls out there and not emulate a Bordeaux away style performance.

Hope he puts a decent side out and not be so timid in their attitudes towards the match. We're better ffs and we score and the tie completely changes. Get the feeling we'll go over there feeling sorry for ourselves because of events tonight.

Least we never conceded, sounds like we need to be more clinical like. Excluding his misses Cisse's form is worrying me a tad.

Was working tonight, how did we play? My twitter is a mixed bag of some saying decent others saying lethargic.

They've done nothing but collectively groan for 45 minutes

Aye, best aspect of his play for me. Opponents really do seem to be drawn into it a times. Excellent player to watch when his confidence is up.

He's a good player and has performed absolutely fine since arriving. Can't see the issue.

Also our first season back up it can be said Williamson played consistently decent whilst Taylor was unavailable. Seems to be the latter stages of the last campaign and all of this one where Williamson has really suffered in form and confidence. Without doubt Taylor is better however.

A deceptively important player for us. Obviously can't wait to see MYB's career take off with us but if Taylor is fit and playing well it's good news.