OTF

6 in a row, quite an achievement. Pressure will be on Wigan next week after their loss today.

Married Phil Brown's daughter like...

Or with Jose Enrique there - though the Spaniard is the only premier league keeper this season who hasn't conceded a goal.

Shocking how often journalists and commentators get stuff like this wrong. Good run from Santon, kid has got some skill, could easily play in midfield.

To be fair if they gave you a photo and told you his name Italian would be a common stab at his nationality.

They paid 10m for then 30 year old Crouch.

Pardew also told Shola we're playing the mackems. Expect a goal.

Shola on for Cisse. Pardew giving Ba a confidence injection.

Good interception from Perch results in the corner. Colo puts a free header wide... Whoops

Ben Arfa trying to be a little too cute there in a dangerous area.

Bit of an ankle issue for Cabaye and he's off for Percham.

Cabaye! A beauty!!!!

Looked just ahead on the replay (if you're talking where he bundled Ba's parried shot into the net).

Bloody close to a second for Cisse. Marginally offside.

Another brilliant cross from Ben Arfa.

43 of 45 passes successful by Tiote. 4 interceptions and 2 tackles.

Oh, and if France don't take Ben Arfa they're mad.

Nervous as, huge part of that is Ben Arfa. Ba and Cisse are also looking for dynamic quick touches. Jonas lpoking good in the middle also but playing third fiddle behind the Frenchmen.

We need to keep pushing in the second. No tappy tappy at the back for the sake of it as that could lead to one of those jekyll and Hyde performances.

Does a Dean Whitehead caricature have a normal looking head?

Let's just make sure we win this one first.

This was before European Qualification was looking like a likely outcome. I don't think we have a lot of players we don't need. Certainly after Smith and Lovenkrands contracts are up that figure is lessened. Hoy Nile Ranger as well and there's not really any more players that you'd want to lose. Best and Perch aren't great, but they'll be on low wages, work hard and will listen to the manager. They're the type of players you want to have if you need to call on them in an emergency. Even Obertan has a place as a genuinely quick player - we can only hope that he becomes a more intelligent player. Then we have our up and coming players in Vuckic, Ferguson, Abeid, Sam Ameobi, Inman, Tavernier who we should be looking to get more game time for with an increased schedule. The quality will come in brining a new central defender to play alongside Coloccini and a new legitimate left back to faciliate Santon's move to the right. A front 6 of Ba, Cisse, Jonas, Ben Arfa, Cabaye and Tiote is already strong.

Super Leon Best straight into the starting team where he will play just ahead of the already marginally offside Cisse.

Simpson has played at left back before and hasn't been particularly worse than when playing on the right.

repwatered.