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Classic Pardew playing players out of position.

Fair enough take back what I say about Kante then as I obviously wasn't aware of that fact. I was wrong it wasn't complacency. But I am still 100% slating them for their lack of ambition by the fact they've come out and basically admitted they're happy to just have a decent UCL campaign and then go back to being a boring mid table side. At least try and push on and be better than you were before the miracle. Even if it means aiming for top 10 or Europa. Not just 40 points. Edit: In fact yeah I got my initial analysis horribly wrong. Better now though thanks to the good folk here enlightening me and calling me out when I was wrong. Still don't approve of the whole 'we only want 40 points' thing though.

I would add that it's just not the sale of their best player that has me concerned about Leicester ambitions (not that I really give any hint of a fuck about the club). But their manager is even coming out and saying their target is 40 points and to do well in the champions league. He has said himself they'll be happy to just stay up this season and have a good run in Europe. So back to being a shitty mid table team once the UCL is over essentially. Great ambition Leicester, great ambition.

It's completely incomparable to us. We spent £6 million on Vurnon Anita that summer, essentially a break even since we got some chump change for Best and Forster. They've spent £60 million on Slimani, Musa, Kaputska, Mendy. They agreed a £38 million deal with Adrien Silva at the end of the window before it fell through. The problem wasn't a lack of ambition. It was just bad decision making. Not all that comparable to us maybe not, but I would personally class selling your best player, the one who made the biggest difference of all, as showing a lack of ambition. We showed our lack of ambition by spending f*** all, they showed it by selling their best player to Chelsea, a potential rival for them if they really had big ambitions. In my opinion no club who wants to stay at the top gives away their best player for just 30m these days. That's the same price as Sissoko ffs.

Indeed Leicester did get as complacent in the summer window as we did back in summer 2012 after finishing 5th. And now they're getting their comeuppance as we did. A relegation battle is on the horizon. If they're lucky they'll have a boring mid table season but not looking that way at the moment. They'll probably use the 'Europe distracted us' excuse that was used by our club for a shit season when we got to the Europa last 8 too. What a shame for them. They were in a brilliant position to push on and make and continue to make a name for themselves but they've showed a massive lack of ambition it's clear that they're more than happy to take last season as a once off miracle and they've no ambition to push on and make themselves as big a club as they can. They're happy to carry on now being a quiet mid table club that's their ambition. They might think they've a chance to win the UCL and make history there? Premier League's big clubs having an off season is one thing, Europe's is another. And never does every big club in Europe have an off season. They've got no chance and I expect them to be out the next round.

Yes. So we can watch them get relegation with 5 points and prove once and for all that Scottish football is utter trash.

Brilliant. Even the FA couldn"t deny how shit the ref was. Hopefully he's back in the conference next week and never has the prevlige of reffin us ever again. Shit cunt.

Sure how could you not be happy looking at the results and seeing lots of near rivals drop points. Thanks to Saturday's results virtually nothing's changed for us since the Blackburn defeat. Still top, still 6 points ahead of 3rd place. It could be a lot worst if Reading closed the gap to 3 points we'd be starting to sweat a little especially if we knew they were capable of winning a tough away game like that. But they got thrashed A win against the brum would be huge and then surely we have enough to beat Burton and Wigan even without our best midfielder. Fingers crossed.

Huddersfield were at one point. Then Norwich. Then Brighton. Then Reading. Now Leeds. Next week it'll be Fulham. No ones a threat, we'll be fine man I can't disagree with you on that. It would take a major fuck up.

Taking full credit for jinxing Villa Delighted because it keeps a Villa fan in family in his place and quiet. Leeds look the real potential threat if there is to be any. But sure we only steamrolled them the other week

Villa looking decent again. They'd be our biggest threat to knock us off 2nd place if we really fucked up imo the rest of the teams look really shit but Villa have been excellent under the chubby mackem.

Just seen Brighton's dissalowed goal. Soft FK indeed. He puts his hands on his back but doesn't shove him or anything. Should have stood really. We got a bit of luck back after yesterday

Justice. A small dose of it indeed.

The s*** ref curse looks to have struck Brighton today now a goal disallowed for apparently no reason.

Hahaha such an egotistical cunt. Palace deserve him.

It's not that bad considering other championship results are being favourable to us at the moment.

The final feeling for me is that if we had of lost by this score with 11 men there'd be room for concern but truth is we battered them until the second red card and even with 9 men they struggled to break us down and got two flunky goals in the end.

If we don't get at least 7 points from our next three game then we don't deserve promotion.

Fancy Clark to go in goal. If for the height if nothing else.

We might as well play with 8 men than bring him on man he clearly doesn't want to be with us we ne d people who care out there not a stroppy foul artist.

They should send the ref back to the national league after this it's clearly his level.

For sure Even if we're one of the best in the league if you don't win at home to nine men you seriously need to f*** off to league one

We'd have won this game comfortably if only there were competent refs in England. Even a defeat doesn't leave me too concerned.

Completely forgot about that. Last man is only a yellow now isnt it? So wtf was he red carded for? Outside the box it'd only be a free kick, no card. Yet he got red? It's not a red if there's "Genuine attempt to play the ball" nothing about a player fucking diving and the ref buying though assume that's still a red.

s*** refs 0-1 Newcastle Really hope it stays like this or gets better. We"ve been f***ing battered them even with ten men. The ref and English refs in general are a laughing stock. Embarrassing.