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Great technique from Olivera.

Looks good here tbf. First I've seen of him properly, he's explosively quick, powerful, good corner taker and has picked a few good passes.

Canny bit hair gan on in this Chelsea side with Ampadu, Luiz & Willian.

Interested to see how Harrison Reed (highly rated S'oton youngster) and also James Maddison get on here.

The Senegalese Zidane, from Bordeaux to the black & white. Keep pls.

I think we will too. What we lack in quality we make in for with a positive team mentality & the right manager to guide them. Those two factors are more important than individual players imo. As we have first hand experience of, good players don't keep you up single-handedly, you need a team, we have that now more than in years gone by.

Just go to that curry house in London; rumour has it you can just walk straight in, find Ashley enjoying some Peshwari naan and have a meeting there and then. Just look for the big man with the bib

Where did you get that £320M figure from? From selling crystals for healing and offering Reiki sessions. Very lucrative.

Oh dear Nothing much changes really, it's still all about staying up whether we were to be sold or not. It was too late now anyway for the incoming party to act. He now has to do all he can to help Rafa achieve safety, whatever sum that happens to be - not even for footballing reasons but for his own financial interest. A bit of respite for our great fan base from this takeover debacle is probably not a bad thing either, the players and the manager need us.

The concept of an arse off has me rather amused I can imagine some Abba playing in the background, perhaps...

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Uncanny.

Loves a Megarider does Taylor. Who doesn't for £13.80 a week.

Unsure about Rafael Benitez's future at Newcastle but happy to sign for Alan Pardew at West Brom, righto. Strong and stable, strong and stable, strong and stable. Say it enough times and people start to believe it

Wtf

One for the Burial fans, of which there is many on here... http://i66.tinypic.com/2d9u5vb.png

If I remember correctly it is a weekly basis and only on a game to game basis for UEFA/FIFA matches. No doubt his weekly pay will be suspended until further notice. Or else he will be banned for a couple months without pay. Had the ref not sent him off and just shook the players hand and laughed it off it wouldn’t have seemed half as bad. It was the fact he brought double the attention on himself by then wrongly sending the player off that got him in a real bad spot. The kick itself didn’t even seem all that bad it’s not like he walloped his shin or anything. He has really f***ed himself. Any dream or ambition he had to be a FIFA ref, go to the World Cup, the euros, ref a major final or anything of that nature is gone. I see, thanks for shedding light on that as I've often wondered how it worked with refs. With this French guy the other day though, I just hope he gets the opportunity to clean up his act & continue doing his job. As I say he could have been going through any number of personal struggles; none of which justify acting the way he did, but surely it can't be a one strike and your out basis, that would be very harsh when dealing with a person's living, particularly with what the players themselves get away relatively unscathed with. Unless of course he has a history of treating players in such an unprofessional way...

I don't think so, but why would they put out a press release just for a bid, I guess...

I agree with all of that. On the final/attacking third point you made, I think we do physically speaking have pace up top, we just have no urgency mentally to make use of it. Everything is so ponderous. To be fair to Yedlin he's one of the only ones who injects a bit of urgency on the overlap, even though he cuts back too often having received the ball.

careful of ambiguous sightings on Jesmond Dene... Monkey Dust is brilliant, terribly dark at times - but brilliant.

Do refs get paid on a game to game basis or are they on the monthly payroll of their respective FA's? Bit shit for this guy if it's the former. He shouldn't have done that but we're all capable of fuck ups and you never know what someone is going through in their personal life. Hopefully he can be given another chance if he's had no history of doing similar stuff like this in the past.

Liverpool will beat them today. Then we’ll beat them, or lose 8-0 I still reckon we'll beat them. That's what I like to see, positivity in the face of adversity - go on son

I heard he has been struggling with mental issues. Lots of sympathy for the guy if that's the case, must be a really tough job to do if your heads not right for it; so much pressure & judgement. He looked really talented 4-5 years ago as well.