Armchair Pundit

Was all about the box in a box in a box and the special box apparently

Jeezo, I fuck off to Tesco just after the second half starts and I come back to a 1-1 draw, how the fuck did that happen?! Bruce has more bloody cake than Kiplings!

Bruce telling Ritchie which way the opposition goal is and getting it wrong

Can't help thinking there's several players, Ritchie included, that Rafa made look Prem standard when they are actually Championship at best.

Fucking hell, get Richie off!

He was going for the man on the back post ... in Gateshead

I hate Souness commentating, he's just a Scottish Bruce.

Worst tactical manager in the league bar none!

To be honest, I'm thinking there's more chance of me being past sometime soon!

Good grief, Morecambe would have made my gran look like a world class player! Nice to score seven goals but it was against a team three leagues below us so not worth getting too excited by the player's performance

Mrs Doubtfire's deffo going to get found out this season, he's not going to be able to rely on all the good work Rafa had put in place or the drills and training that had previously been instilled. We might have some better players that Rafa was allowed to sign but it won't matter one jot with cabbage-head leaving them to their own devices.

What a piss poor game this has been, same old shit from us but then none of the game has been helped by current standards of refereeing or the wank rules in place these days. We thoroughly deserved to get beaten, but I can't help thinking the game isn't half as good as it used to be before all the stupid rule amendments and changes that cause way too much interpretation these days.

Also picked up a knock mid-week. s*** game from him but some absolutely lifting comments about him on here. He was being outplayed by a turbo midget

Hmmm, there goes the suspect French attitude on ASM, doesn't want any more balls ups pinned on him in this game, injury my arse!

I don't think I'm going to carry on watching this shite, tedious doesn't even begin to describe it.

FYP - no way Lamptey can be classed as a man with that stature

Why is nobody roughing Lamptey up? He's only a little shit

Good god, this is arse

Exactly what I thought, the guy went down AFTER ASM had his foot to the ball as far as I could see... I guess my interpretation of the rule is wrong then.

Looked like his toes got to the ball to me

It's that curse on St James', we'll be forever doomed until we leave the ground!

Is it not that she's only lying if the Prem are telling the truth? I'm not sure I'd throw my lot in with Masters, Hoffman and the Prem over anyone as things stand.

Al-Khulaifi looks dodgy as hell, it's his eyes I tell thee! Do they mean Jerome Falk, rather than Falakah? Or is there a FIFA rep called Falakah as well? Either way, if this all ends up with the Qataris being proven to be iffy is there any chance there will be closer scrutiny of the World Cup bidding too? How far could this go? More on point though, would be fun to see the corrupt buggers that the Prem has thrown their lot in with being taken down, hopefully it would start to cast a few more doubts the Prem's way.

Interestingly though, even though it appears not to have been jumped on by some of the media I heard on two different local/national radio stations yesterday that Ashley had hired top sports lawyers to take on the Premier League - and neither of those stations are local to the North East (I'm not based anywhere near Newcastle).