PaddockLad

Poole in Dorset. Its mostly a mackem free zone, but work at a shipyard in Pompey and theres fuckin dozens of them Theyre attitude is mostly ok, but as many have said any good natured stuff is quickly forgotten around the time of the derby. Won't hear the end of it. Worst derby performance I can remember. Worse than the play offs.That hailed a new dawn though,not that we knew at the time, without that SJH and Keegan may never have happened. This wont change much. Its debatable whether much needs to change, but ffs, what a fuckin downer. A mate said the 2-1's were harder to take because we'd played well. Which is true, but this sums us up as an outfit at the moment. Fuck knows whats going to happen on any given day.

Up at 4am, drove 360 odd miles to the game. Got in car straight after, drove home. Got in, went to bed. What a load of fuckin shit. Don't know if it was physically impossible after 7 months of doing 3 games in 7 days and 2 games in 3 days, or poor team selection, or Pardew being unable to motivate players on a fairly regular basis. Likely a combination of all 3. I think football wise we're basically Wigan, fuck knows what team will turn on any given day, regardless of the talent we've signed. Some days we look like world beaters, some days we play worse than shit. Any time we get a good vibe from this lot we're quickly brought back to earth. Some of the players are still carrying knocks yet playing and some are out on their feet yet still playing 90 mins (Cabaye and Sissoko) but with the squad being stronger than at any time since relegation I fail to see what can be done about it given this regime's recruitment policy. Think we'll be putting up with status-threatening inconsistency for a good while yet.

Err...highly unlikely yeah. Not beyond the realms if its Chelsea in the final though and they're in Amsterdam the same week....if its Man City then almost certainly not. It just doesn't happen nowadays.

Swindon, Luton, QPR, Oxford etc etc....Wigan fit in well mate

Used to happen a lot mind. Difficult to tell what kicked it off. Pro Thatch/anti Thatch?......

Am sure Di Canio would approve of the Confederacy flag in the other corner too

Interesting and mostly balanced from Mark Steel and Bruce Anderson... http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/mark-steel-and-bruce-anderson-clash-on-thatchers-legacy-where-there-is--discord-could-there-be-harmony-8570460.html

"But the dead didn't get buried!!!!!".....aye, in London and Liverpool, for about a fortnight. CT only reads headlines, because he can only understand words of no more than two syllables, one sentence at a time . So he knows what the tory press printed, but nothing more. Fallen for the propaganda. We try to tell him but he just won't listen...

More myth making from the worlds biggest liars.

I was getting ready to go to Lisbon last week and Mrs PL said "you love Newcastle more than you love me!"..... I thought for a while and then replied "Actually I love fuckin Suunderland more then I love you..."

Is the Portugese league any better than the Swiss league?...Basel are only one point clear of the side in second place in their league and they just knocked Spurs out. Can't see Basel's income being bigger than Spurs. This proves nowt, but Spurs are viewed as being a good side and as you in a way point out above, theres no fuckin way they should be getting beat off Basel. In the same way Spurs are viewed as a good side, Arsenal are viewed as shite, despite Arsenal having more of good chance of finishing 4th yet again, behind 2 sides where money is no object and manu, possibly where they should come in the natural order of things. Cup competitions are less predictable and Pardew had to be safety first last night due to Santon and Taylor's failure to keep things tight in Lisbon. Fulham beat Juventus on the way to their final, so did we in the champions league. In the end you can cherry pick loads of facts and stats but cup football makes little logic.

Aye Keegan, European football expert. Remember Bilbao at home?....different approach, same result, out.

She's married to that fuckin pansy on the guitar...wtf are they playing at?...always thought they were shite, this confirms....Hpigrave's first wife was Gail Porter...mad, bald, nice tits 15 years ago...

Newcastle born and bred....doesn't sound like it now mind....sounds a bit more "homely" on the wireless on a Saturday morning with Danny Baker...Mrs PL reckoned shes a lot older than her hair is claiming her to be....still would, and Mrs PL has gone to bed, so Lindsey might get it from me and not even know about it...

Think of it as strolling across the green of a morning and humouring the village idiot. Its what he wants. Bless.

Who appointed him again?....its your "genius" you should be criticising for sticking with him if you feel like that...

Good subs Pards

ok numbnuts explain the plastic fan comment and I'll explain why, having been brought up in Scotland, my old man wouldnt allow me to go anywhere near the local Celtic and Rangers "fans"...but positively encouraged my attendance at St James Park

"Celtic Lyrics" http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/505.html

What the fuck is this supposed to mean?...all fans of clubs in England are plastic?.... You're speaking with sweeping and overwhelmingly inaccuarate generalisiations about things its impossible for you to make an accuarate judgement on...how many English games do you get to a season?...

Oh.. I thought it was him and his mates who used to stand in the corner of the Gallowgate edit: found it!

Can someone point me in the direction of this intriguing sounding "corner group"?

My mate turned up for the Stoke game and viagogo had sold the seat for which he's held a season ticket for 20 years to another punter. Couldnt even get through the turnstile so he decided the best course of action was to adjourn to the Strawberry to take stock of the situation. He ended the evening urinating in a hotel lift

I bet the regulars fuckin love seeing you strolling in for a half of mild....