Monroe Transfer

Lambert and West Ham are fighting for their lives in the league, and have injuries to deal with. Sad truth is that they'd always swap a decent run in the cup for staying up, and financially who can blame them? As for us, Pardew put out a decent side yesterday that just didn't turn up, whereas I don't know if Ashley himself is the one disrespecting the cup. I know the minutes from that fans forum thing suggested the cups weren't a priority, but to be honest I still view them with a pinch of salt knowing how easy it could be to twist things just a little.

To be perfectly honest - we didn't put a weak team. A weaker team maybe (partly down to injuries), but that side last night should have beaten Cardiff. I looked at the starting 11 and the only obvious weak link for me was Cisse - and he scored. I'm not happy with the result and I now wished we'd started with Remy and put out the best side possible, but I think this was more a case of us simply not turning up on the day and putting in a performance for 90 minutes. Against a side with the new manager effect, no less.

They're fighting for their lives in the league, have a horrendous injury crisis, and are in the League Cup semi. We didn't have such excuses.

Newton and Campbell playing against Celtic at the moment, Sky Sports 1. Not that they've been on the ball much.

Saw American Hustle last night, easy 9/10. Also, I still love Amy Adams

He's been doing wheelies all around the estate.

These two post on here?

Not bad that side, considering there's seven changes too.

20 minutes to cure a life-long phobia?

Cover article in this month's FourFourTwo is about Bayern, good read.

Mom and Dod.

I like how the top 2 results for that are lmgtfy itself, and ye olde Just Fucking Google It.com.

Next up is a thread about "how do I use Google?".

Why? It's only Cardiff. You always seem to assume the worst.

Did you actually spread your butter?

Something about him that has me not liking him (as a manager) from the off. As a player I was pretty indifferent about him.

Failing that, we should bring in J Zanetti to cover for Debuchy.

Santon, with Haidara to LB?

We're still in a good position, but we could well continue this stuttering form especially given we've got Man City next in the league and then two away fixtures against sides down the bottom who are desperate for points. By then we could easily be midtable. I looked at the fixtures post-Stoke and I still feel that 3 points out of that lot would be a decent return and at least we're not playing Man City at their place where it'd be an almost guaranteed loss. Sadly they're finally finding some away form at just the wrong time for us.

Sorry, but if we want to challenge the top 6, we simply can't be relying on the likes of Shola any more. Desperately need a new striker. I'm aware that Cisse is still warming the bench but I'm not sure he's the answer even if he gets a bit of confidence back - we need someone who can partner up well with Remy and Gouffran.

Not a chance.

What a silly twat.

Don't forget a photo or two of his in-flight meal.