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Can we rename this thread to "Obsessed (part 3)"? Nobody likes us - we don't care!

Awful ref has ruined it for us but thank the Lord he saw the offside on their second goal otherwise it could've come out a lot worse. Typical NUFC collapse on their set piece. Butt was horrendous today although Emre and Barton were passable and the defence looked decent especially Cacapa.

Owen 1-0! The breakthrough comes!

Is anyone listening to Fat Sam on Sky Sports? Laughable At any rate we just need to keep up the work rate, pass along the floor, and draw Wheater into a second yellow.

Smith fighting very bravely, it must be said. Winning headers and tackles like never before. Where's the goal going to come from though?

Emre being constantly fouled, can't shake the feeling he'll lose his temper soon and go in for another shocker.

Unbelievable refereeing error has denied Owen a goal. Absolute rubbish. Looks like we may be in for a long game.

Wrong example. While an Israeli team would never get a "positive" reception in Egypt what you're implying isn't the case. Given the portrayal of Israeli's in Egyptian newspaper cartoons, I'd suspect it would be exactly the case. Racism isn't something exclusive to "the white man", some of the worst acts of modern (and historic) racism are between non-white cultures. I suspect they do, it's not exactly a secret (he mentioned it in newspaper interviews himself about 10 times in the first 6 months after he signed). I'm pretty sure he prayed as a celebration once. Seen him do it for Turkey, never for us though (much like scoring )

Wrong example. While an Israeli team would never get a "positive" reception in Egypt what you're implying isn't the case. As for "islamophobic" the dozy bitch just needs something to fill up her column inches (and pay cheque.) Is she a Mackem or a Smoggie? I can never tell. p.s. I'm not sure our fans know Emre is Muslim

Well evidently I've read too far into this statement. With "bitter" I was referring to how we beat them 5-0 under Keegan and how he blamed all of Newcastle's problems on that one victory about a month back (I could find the article if you like, it was linked here) and also how we took Shearer off them. But in retrospect it does seem silly. He's still an arse though and needs to keep out of other teams' business.

opening the door for benjani's move to man city? 'Arry must be off his rocker. Throwing away one of the form players of the season and a fans' favorite for another over-rated over-priced England international waster. Senile tbh. No. Benjani is nearly 30 and the fee being banded around is £8mil. So if they can get £8mil for Benjani who doesn't offer a lot other than running and then buy Jermain Defoe for £7mil then that is fantastic business. Defoe isn't the best striker in the world but he is a decent Premier League striker. And he isn't an England international. The fee is £6mil for Benjani, who (need I remind you) is third top scorer in the Premier League with two hat-tricks as opposed to Defoe who's managed 3 Premier League goals and contends with Darren Bent for third place at Spurs. You're also wrong about the England international bit. This is bad business and although Benjani isn't world class he's better than Defoe.

opening the door for benjani's move to man city? 'Arry must be off his rocker. Throwing away one of the form players of the season and a fans' favorite for another over-rated over-priced England international waster. Senile tbh.

No surprise the fat man's got your backing. Glory glory, eh mate? I'm just saying he's got a lot to say about our business, both about Allardyce and Keegan. Seems like it's open season for anyone to take a pop but especially him.

Scum. I lose more respect for his fat head every day.

He's well past it, I've been saying that since before the season began. Too late to cash in though. To be honest we should've had this waster off our wage bill ages ago. I'll be surprised if he scores even another 5-6 this season. It seems like he gets one decent chance a match and muffs it - and, in his defence, the decent chances he doesn't muff he gets called wrongly offside for.

Can't get past how they keep talking about our last games as though we were playing Birmingham or Fulham, it's Arsenal away we're talking about FFS

Seriously man piss off. Were we ever going to win this game? No. Bolton was a trial run, these Arsenal games were pre-season friendlies. Our season begins on Saturday. We can still save it. Come on King Kev! (p.s. buy some players...)

Rozenhal is truly terrible, I'd have Barton back over him. The Zog has done a few decent moves but looks totally out of his league at LB and needs to move sharpish. Given looking shaky to say the least - SUICIDAL defending is not helping him. Carr has looked very confident and I'm pleased to see he isn't serving up his usual shite. Smith = anonymous - maybe just as well. We'll get truly thumped this half, maybe end the game 4-0. They don't even look as good as they did on Saturday.

Jesus, how many of you were born with silver spoons in your gobs? Isn't this what we've been dying for since Shepherd took over? Real structure, a proper management setup, backroom staff, competent owners, etc? I'm all for this move forward, I think a Madrid scout taking over as technical director can be nothing but good, he's highly-rated and as you can read in the article we appear to be looking toward a proper academy. I really don't care how short Wise is, or what he did as a player, unlike Barton who he is being compared to he's actually proven himself in his field and his work at Leeds has held them together. Isn't this what Leazes calls "planning?" We researched a candidate for a management position weeks before appointing him. We are building a dynasty here and if KK is to be the figurehead I think we could have worse figureheads.

Should like to see them play some real opposition sometime. Seems this way every year.

"He's shit, no first touch, no awareness, can't stay onside, etc etc just a very fast retard etc." See bolded bit. Not sure about the Viduka part as I've liked a lot of what I've seen from him but Martins has always looked likely to score and selling him will only magnify our problems in front of goal.

At any point do these people read what they write? Or do they just hook up some sort of arse siphon to their keyboards? Utter bullshit, there was no "drubbing" involved and if our lads could just keep their concentration following the interval we might well have got something out of that game. Scoring would've been nice though but we were still decent and need to build on those kind of performances.

Get lost man, you well deserve your "Miserable" tag. Wha? you can see where I predict a 3-0 loss, then complaints about KK after the game. DD has fulfilled the prediction and I'm dismayed at his miserable response although he'll probably try to play it off as sarcasm.

Get lost man, you well deserve your "Miserable" tag.

goalless in what, five games against premiership opposition? soon to be six. please, king kev, save our season - buy a decent striker and creative midfielder!