Shays Given Tim Flowers

What's our points total looking like compared to last time out?

Imagine the score if we had a competent manager. I love you Rafa.

You damn right. His decisions are likely to be complicated and hard to understand.

Partizan FC will translate English into Serbian for you.

Pardew playing Gayle

Emre's goal against Reading is a real beauty.

Mind, an EasyJet cabin worker got fired for eating a bacon sandwich. And a woman got sacked from Morrisons for wearing a poppy.

Yeah, he likes to control games, not play percentages. Allardyce and Pardew don't do that at all. Can't ever imagine a Pardew/Allardyce time knocking together a 30 pass move like yesterday (not the first time we've done that this season either). Also Rafa is having to work with a poor quality squad. The foundation is being built, the flare will come.

Looked sharp yesterday, seemed to be covering ground a lot easier too, looked more natural. He's not quick but he looked faster.

Atsu's unethical hair.

Quite a neat finish from Gouffran to be fair.

Truly a goal befitting of Champions. One for the ages.

This was the first game I went to How old were you? Can imagine for a small child it would have been traumatic. I'm 33 now but I don't remember which year it was? Could I have been around 20 maybe..I wasn't a child, but maybe a young fool Old enough to be pragmatic about it.

This was the first game I went to How old were you? Can imagine for a small child it would have been traumatic.

When looking at the chasing pack it's worthwhile looking at our goal difference. Suggests if anything we are more likely to pull away than be caught.

Don't think anyone would start him ahead of Gayle.

Had assumed he'd missed an open goal reading the thread. Certainly not the worst miss ever and looked like he had a decent game from the extended highlights. Can't help but feel he'd be a lot better suited to a two up top. Be amazed if he has a long term future here.

What the fuck was Darlow doing

YES YES YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ugh

God damn it.

Trustovic.

Christ. He would have been so useful.

Why did we get rid of Routledge? Was there an actual reason?

That's what I took it as.