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Wasting your breath Fish. CT has no clue whatsoever about football. He's just on here to be contrary and look for an argument, so stop quoting the silly cunt and slap him on ignore. Ferguson will never make it at NUFC and that's got nothing to do with Pardew, Jonas, Mike Ashley, the stars and moons, or the price of bread. He's not good enough. I wish him the best but Haidara is surely his replacement and he must know that.

Very poor from Marveaux who contributed nothing. Tiote was shite as well and the less said about Shola the better. Turning point was the Gouffran injury, we looked strong while he was still on. Always expected to lose this one, we must take the positives and move on.

Pretty good but we always look vulnerable to pace and Spurs have it in bags and bags. Bale vs Debuchy is a particularly worrying one for me because Debuchy always wants to get forward and Bale ends up with the run of our right side. Any counter-attack looks like it could result in a goal for them. Cisse's been very isolated and we really needed another striker to properly complement him. Sissoko doing well in that role but you could see from their mix-up in the middle that it's not a natural partnership.

I don't understand. Is there some reason these muppets would retain such a burning hatred of Pardew and our club, or is it just because he called their club and their league what they are: a dire, one-horse-race competition dominated by bigotry, glory-hunting, and a poor standard of football? Good luck to Forster like but we clearly have the better player. P.S. The Moldovan champions also get a chance to qualify for the Champions League.

Aye, that one was fucking class. Solano faked the layoff, causing the entire wall to flinch, then rolled it to Shearer who hit an absolute thunderbolt.

Fucking hell man, this club.

What a game. Season back on track I should think. Absolutely incredible stuff, top class goals on display from both sides.

Brilliant first half. Poor delivery from Jonas but apart from that he's done everything right. Gouffran and Sissoko look incredible, Cabaye dominating the game, back line solid, great assist by Santon. Only Cisse let us down with what should've been a simple finish. Let's not see another second-half collapse. Chelsea will probably come out swinging and we have to be ready for it.

Sinking feeling about this one. Is Marveaux on the bench?

Of course he's doing it for publicity, that's practically a given. Why is that necessarily a bad thing? There's enough other facets of Beckham's personality that you can criticise, but generosity isn't one of them. He's doing the right thing.

Of course I only got home in time to watch the dire second half. Penalty was a dive for me like, thanks Dean. If they didn't get that we could've killed off their early attacks in the second half and controlled the game as we apparently did in the first. The Mbiwa sub was an utterly baffling one. Inexplicable is the right word. He looked completely lost in central midfield (as well he fucking should, as he's a centre-back!) and that was no way to give a class player his debut. Disgraceful fouling from Villa especially the one on Jonas which went unpunished (actually it was punished - Jonas got a yellow) but you have to give them credit for realising the hole they're in and picking it up. I wonder if that would ever have happened to us before the new signings came in. Certainly we saw no sign of it happening against Reading. Massively relieved to pick up the 3 points but there were definitely shaky moments tonight - too many for comfort.

Brilliant signing, brilliant week. It looks like the penny has finally dropped for Fat Mike. This is just what we needed to lift spirits inside and outside the stadium. Even if some of these players don't fully live up to expectations, we're made a positive move at the time when it was needed most and it will be sure to improve morale.

He was linked to us and Liverpool last summer iirc. He was from what, Heerenveen, or maybe Utrecht? Went to Portugal instead. Can't say I've ever seen him play but this isn't the first time we've heard the name (it's a pretty memorable name, too.)

Gosling, forgot that clown was still on our books.

Rozenhal, Nacho Gonzalez, Smith, Pattison for some other white plums from recent years, besides the aforementioned Xisco and Luque.

Thank fuck it isn't true. Rubbish player. Likes a joke though, nowt wrong with having a personality.

I agree with that, actually. (Not sure if you're serious though....) An FA charge and fine for Swansea and a lengthy ban for Hazard would do me. Cretinous action by Hazard who absolutely should know better, but I think it's pretty clear this ballboy had a premeditated timewasting plan that deserves punishment. Sack the kid too, owner's son or not, he can do one.

Aye, fuck off you dodgy Argie chancers. Letting our captain go in the middle of a relegation scrap would've been utter madness. Even Fat Mike isn't that daft.

Bradford on the march to Wembley. Very happy for them, not least because they're embarrassing such a drab, poor imitation of a football club as Aston Villa.

I can't believe that anyone would be negative over this signing. We have been terminally weak at full-back for fucking years. Now we're signing players to cover/provide competition for the two class ones we currently have and that's meant to be a bad thing?

Pleased with this signing too although I hope he's a squad player (would be in a well-run club) rather than the Ba replacement.

Get in. Great signing, very pleased. Hopefully this is meant to complement Coloccini although not getting my hopes up on that score.

Just pay the extra money ffs. A quarter-million isn't even a week of our squad's salary, absolute drop in the bucket. If he's worth paying 750k for, he's worth paying a mi for. We need striker cover quite desperately.

Still time for QPR to re-route his jet. Speaking of QPR, it'd be poetic justice if we were to hijack their bid for M'Vila. He's available on the cheap and is a class player, would slot in very nicely with Cabaye.

About the booing, I don't agree and have never. When you've shelled out your hard-won cash, possibly for several seasons in advance, to watch a gutless side poorly mismanaged by someone who then turns round and has the cheek to blame you for the team's (and his own) failings, you have every right to let your dissatisfaction be known. There's no reason why we should be getting beat off the worst team in the league at SJP. That was the very definition of a home banker. It was a must-win game and we lost it - so where do we go from here? Pardew plainly does not have a plan for getting us out of this mess (and I can't blame him that much since his hands are obviously tied - you can't play the players you don't have.) That would be OK if he weren't actually costing us points with his awful tactics. I don't think he'll actually be sacked, but I think his time is up. It was a shocking decision to award him such a ludicrous contract (just another shocking decision in a series of shocking decisions by Ashley and Llambias - another one was signing no-one in the summer) and things are going from bad to worse. I'm not saying that replacing him will suddenly guarantee success, and I know our stock is not exactly high at the moment and that we'll struggle to attract good managerial talent, but I think Pardew's gone as far as he can go.