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'twas just his family GP tbh, moved to Newcastle last year and he continues to see him. Had some sort of boil on his foot. The good news is that it is responding to treatment.

He can go fuck himself. I've never really got why some people hate him so much. I found it surprising that people expected him to stick around when we went down. Even if you accept that, on purely footballing terms, he'd be good for us this season. The club sold him, like he would have stuck around for MUCH lower wages. If the club didn't sell him then he would have had to stick around on the lower wages - no choice. That was a good sale anyway, he's massively overrated.

Slow news day. Really needs to be some big moves in the market to have that domino effect further down. Financial fairplay?

Oh ok. Well The team have fantastic players in it. Up front you probably have one of the best strike force. The defense is good too, but Mangane is back from injury. The problem is the midfield. There's NOBODY there . well actually the best midfielder is on the bench( Dia). the coach selected only 3 midfielders four the tournaments. he is playing with pure strikers on the wings. It's like you guyz decide to play Ba on right wing and ask him to create actions. Everybody saw this coming but the coach didn't want to listen. But it's good they're out because they were too conceited thinking they would beat anyone even without a midfield Interesting. I suppose the best part is that you don't have to wait very long (less than a year) for the next Africa Cup of Nations, so you would hope by that time there will be a new coach who will make the most of the players available - plus the players themselves will have been humbled by this experience and will be keen to get some respect back in South Africa.

Swansea 0 Chelsea 3 Spurs 2 Wigan 0 Wolves 0 Liverpool 2 Everton 0 Man City 2 Man Utd 2 Stoke 1 Aston Villa 2 QPR 1 Blackburn 1 Newcastle 1 Bolton 0 Arsenal 1 Fulham 2 West Brom 1 Sunderland 1 Norwich 0

I always wondered why this sort of thing hadn't happened ealier as it was clear he was so far down the pecking order that he'd essentially never be used in any sort of meaningful way. I assumed that Smith's pride (and the 60k wage) meant that he didn't want to drop down to a lower league. As much as he's not a very good player, you can tell that when he is on the field he has a competitive nature and so must be missing playing in actual games. Could have done it bloody ages ago, any money reduced on his wage would be better than paying him a king's ransom to train having to look at his ridiculous hair style as a constant reminder of the 3 million pounds wasted each year on his wage. Good news is that we've already lined up his replacement.

They looked shite to me and scored a dodgy goal with one of their rare forays into our half. Can only blame ourselves though, that we didn't have enough to beat them despite a bit of luck going their way. Sadly it's utterly predicatble.

The good news is that we've been elevated to the level of giants, the bad new is it's to make us look worse in the 'media'.

This is what the FA Cup is about, thankyou ladies and gentlemen.

That was a handball.

Dembas, if you can hear me, we need you.

Obertan and Lovenkrands crying in each others arms.

Now have to put up with the commentators carry on.

Gosling at the ready.. for who?

Anyone surprised?

My river has gone to shite, would appreciate anyone messaging me with one that'as going strong tks.

Nice whistle work there. They've not created any meaningful chances despite us being poor. A rocket up our lot from Pardew in the break will hopefully improve things.

Cabaye very lucky to avoid injury there. On the replay looked a straight red every other day of the week.

Lovely ball from Ben Arfa and a very good run from Simpson.

Santon just wrong footed very badly there, was lucky to recover. I wonder whether it's because he's right sided?

On the deck is best for Leon.

Good work by him (Best) then...

Best looks like he's in slow motion when he has the ball at his feet.

Hope he does a good job there today, He has had a good season so far. FFS, you clearly have not watched any of his earlier matches. The only times where he hasn't been shit are when he's come on as a very late sub just to close down space in the midfield. However, I hope some kind of freaky friday thing happens a day late and he has a stormer.

Perch centre back? Will we see it again?