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Dennis for the Blues! on topic, Chelsea =

Classic Newcastle collapse that for once didn't produce the classic Newcastle "defeat from the jaws of victory" result. Get in lads. Lov looked good. Taylor (S.) was shite again even if he did score. Shola was almost a new level of terrible. Totally at fault for their second goal and the revival it sparked. Did anyone else notice how that commentator called Enrique "Luis Enrique" all game long? Bloody hell.

Jesus wept, we buy a right back and we play him on the right wing. This is just a massive bit massive, today. Losing isn't an option. I hope Lovenkrands can show us what he's got today, since we are direly short of pace.

Needed that result, even though it leaves a sour taste to get help from Bellamy and City. Surely Southgate can't have much longer? And Alves is absolute crap as I've said before.

Get well soon Joe. All the best. I also think Hughton is even worse. Imagine Joe needing to leave the job for medical reasons...Calderwood, Wise, Hughton, or Money in the job? God help us.

For whatever it's worth - I'm probably wasting my breath here - but "fatwa" isn't, and I quote, "a death threat under Islamic law." It just means "ruling." Either a case of shit journalism or the protesters themselves not knowing what it means, which is pretty sad if true. Imagine a crowd of 3000 chanting "Legal decision!" or "Verdict!" - it's not really filling me with fear. Seems like the kind of thing a bunch of ignorant little punks would get up to, try to make it look like it's "for a cause" whilst really just wanting to start some conflict of their own.

I think if Bruce had taken over from us after SBR was sacked, we wouldn't be in this shit. I'm not going to sing his praises or anything - he's hardly a world beater - but he's a damn sight better than JFK and I'd have him in a flash. What's the source on this?

Semi-evolved tbh. EDIT: He could just be a really good WUM but I have to doubt that's the case.

He can go to City or go to hell for all I care. He's walked out on us when we needed him most. He could've waited until the summer. He's not what he was to me any longer.

Shola off for Lovenkrands please as soon as possible, he is useless and even if he weren't, he's not match fit.

This has got to be the starting lineup. Looks like a trial by fire for Nolan and Lov. I hope to God the mumbling senile old pisshead starts Jonas and Duff in the right places and doesn't ever try to play Colo in midfield again.

Bye you dopey mackem.

Fine him until he's making no money at all and sell him to the first bidder. His career here is obviously over. I'll enunciate much more clearly than JFK: FUCK OFF CHARLES N'ZOGBIA!

I'd have him. Is this really the start of signing decent players and looking like we know we're in a relegation scrap and trying to avoid the drop? If so, why did we wait until 4 days before the window closes?

I'll take this. At least they have the sense to know we need a midfielder badly. More signings please, don't just think this will pacify us on its own.

Shockingly awful refereeing yesterday. I know I say this nearly every game, but the ref was terrible for both sides although Robinho being such a diving cheating scum made his job a little harder. It's polite to say Duff was "unselfish" trying to pass across the face of goal there on his chance but to be honest it's just another example of the lack of confidence in our side. The goal was gaping before him and all he had to do was pick a spot. Where on earth was Lovenkrands playing yesterday? When we got him we were told he could be a winger or a striker, but he seemed to replace Barton in midfield? Thanks, Kinnear. Jonas was awful as well yesterday although that can be attributed to lack of fitness. We need a big result against the filth. Must-win game if there ever was one.

No other way but a pounding for me although I also think we'll remain relatively unscathed in the first half. That odious scum Bellamy will certainly score.

Even if we did sell Jonas to Chelsea we'd still have to pay for him? Can't see Chelsea wanting him anyway.

Mine: Why did you force Keegan out of our club? Who on earth are you? What makes you qualified to run our club? Why do you fail to realise that we are in a relegation battle and need investment to get out of it? Why do you fail to communicate with us, and when you do, why do you give us only lies (Keegan will be backed in transfer markets; I'm taking the club off the market; etc.) Why has there been no significant investment (net spending) on the first team? Why have you waited until after the window shuts to have this meeting? Are you afraid? Why is our club run from London? Why do you seem so dead-set on destroying our club? What can we do to get rid of you?

Terrible article, barely deserving of the name. What else could be expected from the bleacher report though?

I'd welcome him with open arms for 4.5 million. Nevertheless I think this is 100% speculation.

Barton's terrible for this club and those saying they'd make him captain desperately want their heads examined. He's got "passion", sure, passion of the Alan Smith kind. I'd drive him myself, but he won't be replaced, so I guess we're stuck with the filth.

Nah, because he'd been subbed like Class article apart from that.

I agree Adams won't see out the season. Pompey will end up back where they started and not too soon either - that debacle over the frozen pitch at their crumbling shithole further proves they're not worthy of being a Premier League club.

Anyone else notice "Spain international Jose Enrique" in that article? Non-starter story by the way.