NJS

Well if he did have any desire for the job he might as well have played a proper team today and played this team next week for the difference it will make then.

Watched that and ejnoyed it but wasn't it a bit strange there were no contributions from Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer and above all Ade Edmonson? There were thanks to Mayall's wife at the end so it couldn't have been that "unauthorised".

Small point but i think the money from cabaye and debuchy does just about cover the summer spending.

No coincidence that his cameos against Everton and yesterday almost and did cost us points.

Pardew must inspire people to brown nose him no matter how well they know him - just caught that Millen bloke from Palace on SSN saying Pardew has "an outstanding record" as a manager. Maybe Carver is the victim of a master hypnotist.

I would have the cunt sacked (and committed) for his spirit of Robson shit. Aside from that he showed he's not an alternative to Pardew but central to the problems that have plagued us - massive distrust of flair. I remember him leading the "that's why he doesn't play" refrain regarding Ben Arfa for "costing" us the game at WBA for losing the ball so its obvious Cabella is regarded in the same way. Purge the lot of the fuckers.

I loved it but I would say that really. I do get the view that they've toned it down but I would argue that they always did have the stadium/Queen/Coldplay however you want to put it in them anyway. It's not as if the early albums didn't have stuff like Motorcycle Emptiness, Little Baby Nothing and even Yes on THB to illustrate that. I do consider my fan-ship of them to be a bit like my liking of U2 - I can take or leave some of the recent output but as long as they keep touring "the classics" I'll be there - I have booked up for the Cardiff Castle gig in June.

What did you think of the holy bible gig?

Well it's his fault De Jong is out by bringing him back from the initial injury too soon but you're right regarding choosing not to play him.

I can certainly remember boxing day/27th doubles in the early 80s.

Bruce.

Less pressure/hassle IMO - though he'll sell it as going home/dream job.

Noticed the Sky commentator calling it a "rollercoaster" year - cunt should be asked to explain how one victory over Chelsea and maybe an ultimately pointless win at Man City represent peaks anywhere near an equal number of troughs - it would be a pretty shit rollercoster. It's a pretty forlorn hope he fucks off but a shitty little manager for a shitty little club comes to mind.

He missed "and we dived like fuck when we got the chance"

Since I've worked in the city I've always been in two minds as to whether its worth working over Xmas/NY - if there are no problems it's nice and quiet and almost civilised commuting but if the inevitible engineering works run on its a disaster. 7 or 8 years ago they closed Liverpool St for the entire period for a complete refit so I took the whole lot off only for the works to overrun which meant a week of absolute chaos with everybody back.

I'm at work but just got an email from on high with a drinks invite for 12 so early finish looks good.

The phrase that bugged me was when he said he would have to live with it (losing 4 in a row) - no cuntface - in a couple of years or hopefully a lot sooner you'll fuck off back to your cockney shithole and will be able to forget it as nobody will ever mention it to you again. We on the other hand DO have to live with it forever.

If it had finished 0-0 the cunt would have hailed it as "not being a defeat".

I was going to just vent but being sensible I thought the ref got it wrong early on. They made three tackles in the first ten minutes he let go without a card which were just as bad as the ones he started booking our players for but that left him fucked after that. I think Brown at least and possibly Colo could have walked if he'd been consistent. When the monkey's heed was in charge there was a period where they outfought us and probably deserved the 2-1s but we overcame that by out footballing them for a run of games. The prick obviously thought he could regain dominance by going for the fight model rather than the football angle and it backfired. He then blames the players for applying what were obviously his instructions. He does really need to fuck off.

Well I've just had my "annual" performance review which I had to have despite only have joined in October as it's needed for bonus/salary determination. I'd realised that even before leaving my previous job that I'd been stuck in a rut being happy to perform just well enough to get by so I'd approached the first few months of the new job from the POV of gradually clawing my way back up to somewhere decent without going too fast which is what I'd thought I'd done. Turns out I've impressed the fuck out of my new boss and he offered me a step up to being a team leader with the chance to grow my own team. I have till the new year to think about it. Fuck knows where I'd be if I actually worked hard and gave a fuck about these things.

In the UK he would have put on a batman costume and climbed a tower but in the US........

Got an email off my mate confirming ticket for the derby so I've just booked the train for Saturday/Sunday with a nice visit to my sister included. First time in the NE since Feb 2009 - should be fun (90 mins aside).

I caught a bit of an an Animal Cops show yesterday where they castrated a tiger which had been resued from being a pet in Texas before it went to a sanctuary. They described how it would lose some of its fercoity and agression but it would at least have the "companionship" of its female cage mate. I imagined it hearing/understanding this and saying "just kill me now".

That quote about trying to be ambitious should be yet another reason (probably #64) to sack the clueless cunt. I really hate watching a Newcastle team who you know from kick-off is destined to lose heavily - thanks as usual Alan. I also hate the way Aresenal are described as if they are good - the cunts had the same number of points as us brfore the game FFS. Welbeck - two deliberate handballs (one in the box) and two blatant dives - cunt. Alexis - 5 blatant dives and 4 yellow card gestures - cunt. Niall Quinn - how is Dummet's challenge a clear foul but Gibbs on Janmaat is a good challenge - cunt. Arsenal fans - cunts.

Not exactly a pretentious phrase in itself but I hate "we lost 1-3" instead of "3-1". It's relatively new and bollocks.