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Anne Williams died yesterday, thankfully in the knowledge that the inquest verdict on her son Kevin and the 95 others who perished at Hillsborough had been quashed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-22196415

Thats the thing. On the face of it its inconceiveable going into the final half dozen games without them. But I think Cabaye is still carrying a knock, which is affecting his form and Sissoko has played (I think) every minute of every game since he signed....16 games in 10 weeks. His performance level drops off in the last half hour of most games at the moment. Maybe its because of his energetic style at the start of games that it is so noticeable, but still, he's one of the players identified as coming in during January and making the difference between our shite form pre window and reasonable displays post window. Losing these lads is trouble. Anita and Tiote in midfield, Ben Arfa in for Sissoko is maybe how we'll go.

Wigan's players may be fit enough to lift their games at this time of the season...it will be interesting to see if Sissoko and Cabaye are selected from the start on Saturday. They both need a rest.

There was an ex MI5 geezer on 5live on Monday and he said there had been in excess of 50 domestic terror incidents in the US since 9-11.

http://www.cricbeat....epers-ever.html 18million for De Gea....Krul is 5 years more experianced...you might have a point... aren't Milan skint?...

You seem to be relying on the same media for proof of your "rather wild claims" that also predicted the possibilty of serious disorder in London today, which is rather fucking daft iyam Fuck knows what you're trying to prove here. Are your contributions here a reflection of your off-line character?...

Hearing Harpers in goal for this...Elliot has an ankle injury apparently?..... 20/1 to be relgated, time to lump on I reckon

Course that carry on affected him badly...just the 9 goals before January the season we sold him. Sometimes am not sure what people think they are watching.

so do I take it that in the dictionary entry for the word "Staunch" theres not a picture of a bloke from Boldon in a daft hat? "Pardew for England" I actually agree with Pardew's asessment of the game, half the side looked and have looked for some weeks out on their feet. Played 3 games a week since mid February. Maybe Pardew hasnt got them fit enough. He rotated but obviously made a mistake by playing Jonas, and arguably Cabaye and Sissoko, you could add Yanga to that too But without them 2 we're back to the bare bones of pre-christmas. Little to do with tactics as you claim, key players are fuckin knackered iyam.

2006 Sunderland (a) 4-1 (0-1) Premiership Chopra(60), Shearer(61pen), N'Zogbia(66), Luque(87) Hoyte(32) 40,032 Newcastle secured their biggest away victory against the mackems since 1955, on what was a momentous afternoon for the club. Deservedly behind at the break, the arrival of Michael Chopra for Lee Clark proved to be the turning point and within seconds, Chops had got us back on terms with his first touch. A minute later, scorer Hoyte dragged Charles N'Zogbia to the ground and referee Chris Foy rightly pointed to the spot. That allowed Alan Shearer signed off his derby career with a penalty to wipe out the memory of the one he missed at St. James' and the game was turned on its head. N'Zogbia waltzed through the home rearguard and shot past Kelvin Davis for 3-1, before Shearer limped off after an accidental clash with Julio Arca left him with a career-ending knee injury. His replacement Albert Luque then netted his first senior goal for the club to round off an incredible game and leave Glenn Roeder's side in seventh after four successive victories.

most of this crowd looked like the offsping of the much missed 80s terrace stalwarts

Think describing it as a riot is harsh, but thats the press for you. Dont think horses are generally deployed when there are petrol bombs being rained down on the police. The silly fuckers were mobbing up when we left the ground and I dont think many had been at the game as far as I could see.... the vast majority were coming up from the Eldon Square direction or Stowell Street.

great post ditto and again...this week has made me remember how much people are swayed by propaganda. Nice, decent folk I work with trotting out Sun headlines from 3 decades ago.

Argie v Brazilian...what else is there to say?...they fuckin hate each other.

We're not the ones giving it the big one on someone else's board. You won, well done. Now fuck off.

And its made your decade, just as the 2-1's made the previous one for you lot, and the play offs made it for the the one before that. Your support only exist in relation to NUFC. I pity you lot more than hold you in the contempt you seem to hold us in.

Saints have only made the same change we did with Hughton for Pardew though. Do we need to change to someone else to (CLICHE ALERT!!) "take us to the next level"?....we probably do, but Ashley has only appointed those who are out of work and are/were frankly greatful for the job. Ashley needs to change his thinking if he is angling for change. 8 year contracts suggest hes not.

very harsh indeed. Felt sorry for Elliot, he had no chance with no fucker seemingly able to recognise danger when it approaches.

Poole in Dorset. Its mostly a mackem free zone, but work at a shipyard in Pompey and theres fuckin dozens of them Theyre attitude is mostly ok, but as many have said any good natured stuff is quickly forgotten around the time of the derby. Won't hear the end of it. Worst derby performance I can remember. Worse than the play offs.That hailed a new dawn though,not that we knew at the time, without that SJH and Keegan may never have happened. This wont change much. Its debatable whether much needs to change, but ffs, what a fuckin downer. A mate said the 2-1's were harder to take because we'd played well. Which is true, but this sums us up as an outfit at the moment. Fuck knows whats going to happen on any given day.

Up at 4am, drove 360 odd miles to the game. Got in car straight after, drove home. Got in, went to bed. What a load of fuckin shit. Don't know if it was physically impossible after 7 months of doing 3 games in 7 days and 2 games in 3 days, or poor team selection, or Pardew being unable to motivate players on a fairly regular basis. Likely a combination of all 3. I think football wise we're basically Wigan, fuck knows what team will turn on any given day, regardless of the talent we've signed. Some days we look like world beaters, some days we play worse than shit. Any time we get a good vibe from this lot we're quickly brought back to earth. Some of the players are still carrying knocks yet playing and some are out on their feet yet still playing 90 mins (Cabaye and Sissoko) but with the squad being stronger than at any time since relegation I fail to see what can be done about it given this regime's recruitment policy. Think we'll be putting up with status-threatening inconsistency for a good while yet.

Err...highly unlikely yeah. Not beyond the realms if its Chelsea in the final though and they're in Amsterdam the same week....if its Man City then almost certainly not. It just doesn't happen nowadays.

Swindon, Luton, QPR, Oxford etc etc....Wigan fit in well mate

Used to happen a lot mind. Difficult to tell what kicked it off. Pro Thatch/anti Thatch?......

Am sure Di Canio would approve of the Confederacy flag in the other corner too

Interesting and mostly balanced from Mark Steel and Bruce Anderson... http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/mark-steel-and-bruce-anderson-clash-on-thatchers-legacy-where-there-is--discord-could-there-be-harmony-8570460.html