OTF

The ultimate outcome would result in more transparency in any international/World Cup related sponsorship. Electronic Arts may be slightly annoyed if FIFA are made appropriately redundant.

"To your left is Athens, to your right more Athens, ahead of us Athens again and behind us is the Acropolis. All in all it's pretty big, any questions?"

Brilliant

... And thanks for the thread title change. Champions of Asia > Champions of Europe* * Based purely on population you massive thundercaths.

Twats.

Western Sydney Wanderers - Champions of Asia! One game away from playing Real Madrid.

He does look a lot quicker than when we saw him last. Both in mind and body.

This too. Being greedy here, but it would have been great for Cabella to open his account on that counter attack.

It doesn't really matter how we got the first couple of wins, it's plain to see that the confidence has been established. The youth coming into the side has helped as well. Abeid got man of the match, that's excellent.

Deserved result. Tactics good, execution good, general effort exceptional. Hope Obertan is ok.

If we can hold on for this result it seems unlikely that we'll be shot of Pardew this season. If we play like this consistently there can be no complaints.

One striker short of a wonderful goal there.

Could easily have been two there. Our energy and effort has been great and we deserve the lead.

When was the last time our defensive line was so cohesive?

Perez! Good work on the break by several players not the least being Dummett and Sissoko.

On Sissoko: he's got his head down when he runs. Thankfully he's good at body fakes so he does relatively well at beating a man when on the trot. More than a little frustrating for those making good runs adjacent to him though.

Agreed. Was going to edit my post to mentiom that. Carroll as the main target with Nolan hanging about being an effective pest looking for any scraps.

It's hard to argue with our effort. Not everything is going to plan buy it has to be said that tactically it appears to be a good approach with suitable personnel.

Taylor's been pantomime carded for his pantomime foul.

Coloccini is reading the game very well so far.

Am I right in thinking that Barton was our last consistently decent corner taker?

He's a special one. Our special one if it ever works.

He's still on a stretcher. Hope it's not as bad as it looks.

Good start from Aarons, using his pace to draw the free kick from Johnson. Pace. Love it.

Aarons on ahead of schedule.