OTF

Our attempts at playing the offside trap are frankly embarrassing.

I'd have taken it, and why shouldn't we? Good lead up play results in a handball in the box, I'm not in the woe is me stage yet.

Sadly true. Haidara can cross a ball.

Hand ball there.

And that's all she wrote. Ben Arfa unfortunately have it away cheaply... was probably a foul, but so soft is our underbelly that they were always going to score once they got in that position.

Heavy touch from Cabaye there robbed us of what would have been a very good chance at scoring.

Ben Arfa is just so good.

Efan Ekoku "he's making no attempt for the ball yanga-M'Biwa is he" (on replay as he gets to the ball)

Why the fuck is Efan Ekoku so biased towards Liverpool?

Gouffran and HBA coming on, if it's for Perch and Jonas that will have 8 of our 11 being French speakers.

Steven Taylor with a pretend injury is my prediction.

Worth noting that mcmanaman who scored Wigan's second should not even have been playing. If Wigan miraculously stay up it will be thanks to the horrible officiating in our game that gifted them three points in combination with the FAs selective impotence.

Wonder if we can sneak Pardew into their room for the rousing half time demotivational speech.

Thanks Newcastle United, I'm comfort eating chips (crisps) at 3:20 in the morning.

The only hope is that they come out flat because they'll feel this one is in the bag. We're all familiar with that 'tactic'.

I'm not defending Pardew, but you can expect professional footballers to have better ideas than lumping balls forward, yes. Fuck off commentators regarding Glen Johnson there 'glen Johnson just as much the guilty party' he's the instigator you fucking biased wank.

He's not great positionally, shouldn't have come so far off his line for their first, but he's better than Krul with his distribution.

Yeah, just about no cohesion out there, as though they've barely played together.

Here's a card for Jonas, makes it easier to take him off instead of Perch then - either for HBA ASAP IMO at least have a crack before the half.

I can see him now majestically rising above their defender to get a glancing header on.... to no one. Perch OMG what a shocker. Get him off please.

30 minutes, no chances created 2 goals conceded, points required, no movement on the bench where our most talented player sits.

This long ball from central isn't working, so let's keep putting it in there. Surely each additional failure will eventually persuade their defense that we cannot possible try the same ball again and then blam we hit them with it and if all goes to plan we win a corner. Half a goal a corner is...

Steven Taylor is treading a ridiculous fine line trying to play the offside trap against players much faster. In other news Sturridge is a cath word.

October 2011. When we last scored from a corner apparently.

Atrocious positioning in defense at first glance, the run was telecast.