OTF

STop the press... Leon Best in an on-side position!

Abou Diaby is off. CRacked the shits at a Barton challenge. Good acting from Barton.

If we can get 4 back in first half injury time we'll be in with a chance.

Took forty odd minutes for our central defenders to do some defending in the box. What'll be said at half time? This is Ireland's first time watching with the team.

Leon Best kneed in the back of the head. I know he's been ordinary but damn that looked like it would have hurt.

Commentator having a go at Enrique whinging about the free-kick called against him, saying he got nothing of the ball. Enrique wasn't saying he did, more that he got nothing of Walcott who dived. Small victories.

..and Leon Best off-side again.

Their defense is looking pretty ordinary. Something to aspire to for ours.

Great ball to unleash Jonas from Enrique, and not a bad cross from Jonas on the deck.

Best was only off-side by 10 yards then.. come on Linesmen give us a break...

4-0. Noone to blame for this, he was marking van Persie.

Good cross from Lovenkrands. Take note Jonas.

Leon Best man... just looked like he was about to take it to the corner to waste time. Next thing he commits a foul in the box to rid himself of his defender and with a free-header the attempt is closest to going in the moment before it hits his head.

The defender marking van Persie would have been to blame for their third, had there been one.

3-0

We've responded with a shot that was within 20 yards of going in. One for our highlight reel.

2-0 down

Joey Barton tackle = great through ball for Theo Walcott to run onto and slot away.

and we're 1-0 down

Lovelyhands is playing on the right of midfield

The sooner we see Ferguson play a full match in the league the sooner CT will shut up about him.

Difference is Ashley made his money buying low and selling higher and is trying the same approach with Newcastle United. Other mobs are still making metric fuck-tons of cash out of natural resources and the like where they can't go wrong. Their clubs are their playthings for bragging rights amongst the mega-rich. Ashley's relatively small time, but still wants to do things his own way. He'll end up stepping on too many toes and noone will be interested in dealing with him on a club level and no players will want to come here because we won't compete on wages, there's no real ambition and St James' is a 50,000 seater shop window.

They can stick their bullshit media leaks up their arses.

If Colo is any sort of doubt Pardew should err on the side of caution. Sol Campbell is available, might be well past it but it's better than risking Coloccini and potentially damaging his confidence by playing him in a whooping.

Pardew saying he's interested or hasn't been ruled out means nothing. Says that about everyone, just shows he has no idea about what the fat fuck and Dekka will do.