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

Injured yet again after playing less than 200 minutes this season i nall competitions. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

It's ridiculous. The high stakes Europa league are smart enough to ensure that sort of tomfoolery doesn't take place but apparently the FA aren't. The pitch should be the maximum size safely possible within the constraints of the stadium. Regardless of the results it ruins the viewing spectacle of matches.

That challenge wasn't worthy of a yellow. A bit harsh on him, though retrospectively it's kinda funny that he'd been on the pitch a matter of seconds and picked up a yellow card. I was dreading him coming on and when that happened at the time a horrible feeling of inevitability swept over me.

He did well in what must be the absolute worst place to play for a keeper. Effectively a clean sheet for him and the defense as you can't be expected to save penalties.

You beauty!

Looks lovely. Our 2nd and 3rd strips are better than our home one.

Can you imagine being a Stoke supporter... The misery of watching them play.

Raylor using the towel boy

Best offside for the goal unsurprisingly... Got away with it though! Ba looks up for it... And they look slowwwww

Credit where it is due, that was a quality cross. Lovely finish as well. Getting in behind them looks like it will hurt them.

Above all teams outside Manchester.

Saw Drive tonight. Highly enjoyed it.

That b leacher report pumps out a lot of... stuff.

Exactly. The teajms we've played are ranked so poorly because we're just that effin good.

Super Sib scored on debut for us in the Uefa Cup, despite his signing being widely considered a piss-take.

My memory has Coloccini starting off pretty well. Looking a little slow.. his worst games came from the middle of the season to the end when his confidence and the teams was affected by the circus in town.

Jonas would be ahead of N'Zogbia in terms of his input and value. Has already clocked up 113 games for us in just over three season, and that will continue to grow as he's rarely injured. Never sulks, always has a great attitude and despite most considering him a bit of a turkey in front of goals he's only scored 1 less goal than N'Zogbia and has five games up his sleeve to draw himself level. Bernard tarnished his own image with his second 'stint' here.

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

http://www.timesoccer.com/video/011/10-newcastle-vs-blackburn-live-highlights.html Who was right back? Check out their awesome positioning at around 1:00m - Perch standing there not really marking anyone as well. Samba's arms ALL OVER Ba shortly after... The contact from Krul shortly after was a definite pen from what you can see of it, though it looks like there's a good chance of that being offside (can't see from the camera angle). If it wasn't offside there must have been a woeful offside trap from the defensive line. Great shot for the first from Guthrie - saw the chance and took it. He looks like he's lost some weight since last season? Peach of a free-kick from Cabaye. Would have been good to see some other angles. Tough deflection for the Pedersen goal, the kind of luck we'd normally get in the league TBH. Actual decent ball into the box from Obertan in the lead up to the Lovelyhands penalty. The defending on the final set piece was absolutely woeful.

After 90 minutes we were techincally behind anyway.

Free kicks can be dangerous like that. Big deflection apparently. Can't be too upset though. Pardew put out a pretty strong team, had a crack at winning it and they just missed out. Changing the defense obviously caused big problems, and resends the message that we need to improve our depth there. Taylor is frequently injured, and for his pussy-footedness Williamson is prone to injury as well.

Took a Perch to break our unbeaten run. For a while there it looked like it might have taken a Smith, but no, just a Perch.