Dr Gloom

The difference is no one really gives a shit about Blackpool or Hearts. We're a big club that the media, and country, care about.

Thank fuck they've done the right thing and the stadium has its proper name again. I wonder if that means Wonga signage on the roof though in place of SD

What, like last year?

The lack of investment in defence over the summer costing us more points. Wonder how we'd have coped had Douglas and Debuchy have been playing. Ah well. At least our billionaire owner didn't overspend by a couple of million euros.

Wonga on so many levels

Not sure how anyone can write him off considering his management experience consists of the ten or so games he had to save us after the JFK fiasco

Couldn't agree more. Just because they take their whacko religion seriously doesn't mean the rest of us have to. Public apology ffs

It might be a good move for him if the owners weren't such total knackers

It's a joke ffs, a not particularly funny or offensive one. Agree that the tip toing around the Muslims is becoming ridiculous. If they want to live in a multi cultural society they need to stop taking themselves so bloody seriously.

decent conference speech from miliband tbf. goign without notes seemed to loosen him up a bit. he actually delivered an address with a bit of personality and confidence for once. some good lines on the top rate of tax, the banks and the tories. definitely trying to occupy tory ground with this one nation stuff though

aye, france sure is known for its shite food like

even that wouldn't look as shite as the sports direct signage

I'm constantly having a go at the wife for throwing everything away the day it hits the best before date. She chucks leftover takeaways out too if I don't stop her. Sacrilege.

none are as bad as ours. the emirates is quite subtle actually. doesn't look that bad at all. ours is hideous in comparison. ours even makes the ricoh arena look classy ffs.

any sponsor's got to be better than the bloody awful sports direct signage that's plastered around the ground on every available space. it's just so tacky.

my eyes

got to be a wind up

ewwwwwh. go home half way through they day. they can't give you grief if everyone can see how sick you are and you've made the effort to come in despite being unwell, surely?

every forum needs its arseholes. would be boring if everyone agreed all the time

Agreed. This is one of the first big tests of Pardew's management. Is he willing to drop his tried and trusted players when they're off form for one of the young guns who has done little wrong when given a chance?

not looking forward to this at all, the way we've been playing.

the beeb is one of the great british institutions and the envy of much of the world. they set the industry standard on a lot of the tech innovations too. every few years sony ask them what they want their cameras to look like in a few years; devlop them to the beeb's spec. then they're inevitably bought up the rest of the world's media companies.

I fancied a win against these. relieved to come away with a point in the end. the big difference between this season and last season is the injuries. the lack of depth in the squad was the same last season but we managed to play a settled team for large parts. the other big difference is we might have scraped a win last season after putting in a similar performance. you could argue we're getting the results the performances deserve so far, where last year there were more tha a few games where we'd win while playing pretty poorly.

made for bigi to come in