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Great goal, delivered right onto his head by Janmaat and he didn't disappoint with the header.

That shirt is such dogshit. Wasn't it a grey shirt that old red nose ordered his players to swap out of at half-time against Southampton one year? Claimed they couldn't see each other? The blue/green effort is much better, not sure why we don't just wear that every game as it doesn't clash with anyone except Chelsea/West Ham/Villa/Everton and we can just wear black and white against them.

Reposting cause I fucked up the formatting: Southend manager Phil Brown at Britannia Stadium for 5 live Sport: 'Big Sam is a genius' Southampton v West Ham (19:45 GMT) "Sam Allardye gets almighty stick from all comers. The throwaway comment that got up Big Sam's nose was what Graeme Souness said, probably 15 years ago, that Liverpool in a game found it hard to play against "this long-ball rubbish". These days Sam is enjoying himself. "And remember, Sam was the first manager in England to embrace ProZone - he is well into his stats. He may have dyslexia but he's not thick. I think he's a statistical genius. I think he's as good as Arsene Wenger, if not better."

Taking off Cabella at 0-0 to put on a clogger like Obertan was a Pardew move if there ever was one. Baffling considering he was having a good game and has become integral to our attacking play being a success.

Just call them the Loan Rangers.

I have to agree. Defensively we were terrible, if we were playing a side with better forwards than Hernandez and Jelavic we would've been punished. They had plenty of chances to score while they were still level, and of course their defence for Gouffran's goal was cringeworthy. That said, nothing taken away from excellent goals from Cabella and Ameobi and a much better attacking performance.

Astonishing bit of cheating there. Never trust an Egyptian like. Cabella's goal was great but what made it all the better is that three months ago he would've still been on the floor whining about the contact. Now he's up off his arse and there for the interception that created the goal. Sea change in his attitude, good on him.

Instantly chucked in as soon as he can finish a 200m sprint without breaking down.

Callum McManaman's back in the Premier League with West Brom. Oh joy.

Sky Sports also getting in on it: http://www1.skysports.com/watch/tv-shows/sunday-supplement/news/9660707/the-soul-is-being-sucked-out-of-newcastle-united-says-shaun-custis

The best part is how we registered Darlow as one of our 25 squad members despite him being out on loan with no recall for the entire season, forcing us to chuck games away with "krisis keeper" Alnwick in nets since our own stupidity prevented us from getting an emergency loan in, then Charnley is turning around and saying "well we're full up."

Shocking reffing like but no masking the fact that we've got no ideas going forward. 3 losses and a home draw to Burnley, top audition from Carver, just the ticket.

That looked a penalty to me, Clyne's reaction told it all, both hands up to his face instantly because he knew he'd fouled Sissoko. Foot over the ball before missing it and taking out Sissoko's leg.

The eternal dilemma: I want us to win, but a good result increases the chances of us getting stuck with the Geordie Pardew.

I mean, it's not like they're us.

They've just sold their star striker, they're not going to sell his replacement too.

"The referee's a seal!" is a brilliant one I heard at Hartlepool a couple of years ago. There was also a belligerent six-year-old at that game who spent the entire time perched in his dad's arms shouting random abuse. At one point he pointed straight at an admittedly chunkly Hartlepool player and screamed "FATTY! FATTY!" for a good five minutes.

If we don't sign anyone in the window (and it's almost half over with no sign of anyone coming in) that doesn't bode well for ST renewals anyway.

He was seen at the Leicester game pointing to the badge on his coat and making "I'm still here" gestures at the away fans, according to .com

It was a flagrant foul and a nailed on yellow but I didn't see any more in it. I'm almost glad we didn't win as any signs of good performances or results might increase the chances of Geordie Pardew getting the job.

Reminds me of the first half against Burnley, and we all remember how that second half went....

A flagrant foul on Perez there, commentators only call it a "connection" and "contact." No, you cunts, it was an obvious foul. The defender trod on his heel.

How are we meant to do that? Send round the Muslim whip and tell those crazy backbenchers to get in line? Islam isn't a monolith and it doesn't have a front office. Everyone always makes it sound like we've got some great private army of terrorists waiting by the phone for the latest slight to our religion so they can go out and kill people. The truth is that apart from certain well-organized and well-funded groups like the obvious al Qaeda and their spiritual successor ISIS, and Hezbullah, and Hamas if you want to lump them in although they're a bit different, the people who do these things are usually loonies or already damaged individuals who become susceptible to certain charismatic figures. As time passes, I feel confident that these brothers and whatever other kid they had with them attacking Charlie Hebdo will be discovered to be loners, slightly unbalanced people who at some point developed links (they're never members of terrorist organisations, they're just 'linked' to them) with some sort of extremist mullah or imam who himself was a front for a terrorist organisation. The same way, in other words, that so many of these crimes occur. The trigger happened to be radical Islam in this case. Transport these brothers to the American South and it might be the Klan or some other white supremacist group. Transport them to L.A. and it might be the Latin Kings. To Mexico and it might be a cartel. I don't have the answer to this problem. Certainly the rise of Islamism is the result of many factors that are not simple to deal with - inequality in the Muslim world generated by autocratic rulers, imbalanced societies, and a core-periphery relationship which they are on the wrong end of (all of which were caused by colonialism), a continuing inability to reconcile the secular and religious domains of society which is the result of the Western world's 400-or-so year head start on us (remember the European religious wars of the 17th century? That's pretty much where our society is right now, except the rest of the world has moved on and doesn't understand why we're still working those problems out), etc etc. i just know that terrorist incidents like this are always misrepresented as somehow being indicative of Islam (by right-wingers) or of part of Islam (by well-meaning liberals) when really they aren't, and are just indicative of the actions of crazy people who get access to weapons and a cause, the same as has been going on since Herostratus burned down the Temple of Artemis.

We were literally in the process of getting relegated when Allardyce was given the boot, 11th or not. He was diabolical and we'd never have survived if he'd lasted much longer. Anyone who ever saw us play during that time period (Cacapa getting subbed after 18 minutes at home to Pompey, anyone?) knows that. EDIT: Howay beat me to it, but aye that Fulham away game was utter dogshit. On par with the 6-0 loss to Liverpool for how bad we were, just we were up against an equally dire team.

I'd prefer that to a Pardew-style "Never heard of Carr's players, but can you buy me Rob Elliott and Gabriel Obertan?" relationship.