Ayatollah Hermione

The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard. Canny, so far. Dystopian sci-fi and all that crack.

Albrighton looked canny when he first came into the side but he's went right off as well. I'd take none of them tbh, as Stevie says, a good manager would probably have them flirting around top half and that's as good as it gets with that group. They were terrible at SJP.

Not think they'll opt for a similar approach in the final? I think if they play Bayern, they'll certainly try and sneak a 1-0 in a similar fashion to tonight (thought Bayern won't commit quite as many men forward). I actually think we'll see a relaxed approach to the league game from them and they'll put their eggs in the CL basket. There's less variables if they turn up focused for the CL final, no matter the efforts of us and Spurs, they win that, they're back in it.

Regardless of what NUFC players line up against them, I'd still be supporting England in a tournament final. I still want to see them do well and win things, it just becomes increasingly harder to because of the squad and the fact it's basically another London team as far as we're concerned. I'd still love to see us win the Euros and will support us until we go out, despite the fact we could line up with rapists, thugs, racists and petulant spoit man children in our first XI

The squad is fairly deep in the midfield but Best and (up until this year tbf) Shola spend a decent amount of time out injured. There's definite shortages at FB and we could do with some speciality cover rather than the likes of Perch and Ryan Taylor, who have performed admirably there but are more use in the midfield IMO.

Just our pissing luck that. If we finish 4th at the season's end, it's going to be an absolute nightmare watching that final.

Another player Shola can say he's a better penalty taker than.

I'm sure he's the 16th highest paid manager in Europe. It's amazing that's where they went after Martinez knocked them back; they'd have been better off trying for Hughton, funnily enough (though not sure if there was any crossover between the two appointments).

Nice one. I was concerned it would start to drag but I'll give it a bash.

Hard to believe McPish will be there past Christmas next year if this current form goes on. Bound to lose N'Zogbia in the summer and his signings this year have been far from inspired.

There was that one time where that Liverpool fan came over, asked us questions politely, we answered in turn and then we discovered he'd edited his responses to make us look like a bunch of dipshits so he got it. Billy Castell, Andy and FCUM are/were all good crack.

Aye, I remember when we went down that you, I and a few others made that same point about us leaving the gravy train at that very point and I knew it would mean an influx of players who were at least motivated by football rather than one big contract from a bunch of mugs. However, I always assumed this would mean promotion and mid-table consolidation, never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd have this scouting system in place with these sorts of players.

Is that the acapella album? Does it hold up over a full album?

It always amazes me how hostile people can react to opposition fans on their forum. We do it to mackems but that's because they deserve it and they always come on looking for a fight but if they're sound, they're fine here. Very odd.

OBAFEMI MARTINS

Think Pardew has said 5-6, regardless of EL or CL. I wonder if CL means they would look toward more expensive and sought-after targets for the first time and EL would mean an exercise in strengthening the depth.

TBH, I want to see this. Another penalty shoot-out and more John Terry tears.

As long as CT realises that Cwarr nugget is exactly that.

I'd have nobody from Villa; there's a reason they're in the shit and yet there's no real stand-out performer as there is with Wigan and Blackburn.

Enter anyway and bring it down from the inside. Show them why we're paid more.

That irks me as well. I don't have a problem with St. Patrick's Day but the idea that I should don a daft hat and go out and get pissed because Guiness have done a masterful job of associating it with their brand is annoying. I bet the town was dead last night whereas it was heaving on St. Patrick's.

Agreed, saw someone with two of those tatty car flags you see around Euro/World Cup time on their motor yesterday and I just thought "if you're going to celebrate, at least do it in a half-decent fashion" FWIW, I had chilli to celebrate our multi-cultural society. It was smashing.

Scholes Football journalism :lol:

Not the foggiest about this kid but there's been a French journo on Twitter saying he's a canny little player. Hopefully so. From the description, he's clearly Tiote's replacement