Rayvin

Louise Taylor is a charlatan, man. She's been banging on about Pardew's headbutt non-stop since it happened, presumably because there is nothing meaningful she can write about Sunderland and their exciting relegation campaign. Any excuse to unsettle us. She was also adamant that Pardew was going to get sacked earlier in the season, being informed by 'inside sources' etc etc, right before we started beating the Man Utds and Chelseas of the league. I find her insufferable, which is a shame cos the Guardian's analysis is generally pretty good.

Probably because Cardiff are an irrelevance.. Fair play to him though

Yep, Cardiff are gonna get relegated hard. Good riddance.

I love the sarcasm. On the goal, I agree with respect of lobbing generally, but 50 yards man... I know you see them attempted quite often and 90% of the time they're off target (and so odds are that occasionally they have to go in), but even so, fair play to him.

Rafael is a walking red card, it's bizarre - I'm sure he wasn't always like that. Not sure I agree on Rooney entirely though, I think his overall team play is actually a lot better than it used to be, he can be very unselfish. Have to say I don't watch them much though, but he played well against Olympiakos I thought - good team player.

50 yards?! Fuck me..

That would actually be an encouraging sign if we could trust our board. It'd just be a case of signing a decent forward. But whatever happens over the summer, we're still going to be limited in some way, either through not replacing Cabaye or selling Krul on deadline day...

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/we-will-finish-bottom.895272/ I quite like this one For the first post more than anything.

Arsenal are gonna come 4th again aren't then

Its better than finishing below them..?

Well, at least we won. Fuck knows where our season is going to end up, but we've an outside chance of finishing above Man Utd I think.

Yeah, to be fair, that was almost all Ben Arfa.

...Ok forgiven.

I mean how in fuck Cisse. How. In. Fuck.

Unbelievable.

Ben Arfa trying to do this on his own...

Has everyone noticed how many goals are going in elsewhere? Cardiff 3 Liverpool 5, Man City 5 Fulham 0, etc. And then there's us.

Oh hurrah, Marvaeux is on...

Yeah, Sunderland aren't looking very clever right now... Not convinced Poyet would stick with them if they went down either.

We'll be fine, he'll buy. It'd be stupid beyond any reason for him not to.

So... this game looks as dull as you all said it would be.

Well yes, but he also said we shouldn't be reliant on a player who is leaving in the summer. Instead, apparently, we should be reliant on a bunch of players who are leaving in the summer...

I thought we were selling him too...

Quiet, you. You'll blow my cover

Just curious as to who Pardew as referring to when he says other players need to step up. De Jong is also on loan, Shola is out of contract and Cisse is to be sold...