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No need to give away the free-kick at all.

Fuck that. The defence has been shown up time and time again.

Still no changes? Come on Pards ffs...

Come on. We need someone here to keep the momentum going. Get Ben Arfa on Pards! Or Sameobi...

What a goal! Ba is fucking top class. Come on Toon!

Okay, maybe he would have got a second yellow but to me that is never a straight red. From the replay it looked as if he barely caught him.

Red!? What!? The commentator is watching the reply going "and there he raises his foot" and I don't see a single thing wrong with it!?

Everyone ready to watch the press wank themselves off later? How many articles will we get about the "wheels falling off" that fail to mention our injury crisis?

Absolutely hopeless. No surprise, really, but how much money do we pay these guys? Fucking hell, I could defend better than this.

This fucking defence man...

Obertan in "does something good" shocker.

Shouldn't have been a corner at all, but apart from that it has been a fairly decent first half. In all honesty, if he wasn't on a yellow, I would quite happily see Shola in the back line instead of Perch. Obertan has been woeful. It brings tears to my eyes watching him sometimes. Get Barfra on - Obertan isn't tracking back so might as well have a player who is quality going forward on.

Cabaye you fucking DREAM BOAT. What a fucking pass. BA I love you.

Never a corner in a million fucking years.

What an absolute fucking joke. How the fuck was that a corner?

I tell you, I do love Ameobi sometimes. For all his faults you can't deny he is Newcastle through and through.

Decent start. Santon looks very good and Perch is actually doing alright for himself.

Send Ameobi into Centre Back and stick Best up front.

With a weak defence, though, it is good that Hatem is benched. I know Shola is hardly mister do-it-all, but he will at least try to win the ball back a bit more than Hatem does.

All I can say is thank fuck for Skyrim. Every time I go back to playing Fifa, it takes about 5 games before I just get far too frustrated with it. If people aren't quitting in the first ten minutes when you're 2-0 up and it STILL doesn't register the game as being played, then the game is just sending your players toppling over when you need them most of it is making your passes go to the most ridiculous person. Does anyone else have that with the passing? I'll have, lets say, Robinho in front of me on the left, then Pato stood a good 20 yards further on surrounded my defenders. I go to to knock it to Robinho and instead the game thinks I am trying to find Pato? Very very odd. Fifa 13 could be a VERY good game if they iron out the flaws, but it is disappointing that they are paying little attention to fixing Fifa 12.

Too true. And it is in all the adverts around this time of year - makes me sick. They are all "get the family together!....around an xbox/wii/playstation". Christ, if you can't have decent family time without the help of a games console then something really is up. When I was younger all I would ask for is new football stuff, then I'd be straight outside no matter what the weather.

Yes. This is EXACTLY why the country is so fucked. Well, it is if you get all your opinions and stories from the Sun/the Daily Mail. Because it was people on benefits who sent us into the recession, right?

Blackburn it is...again!

The bugs in this game man... Just spoke to some guy who wanted a one on one brawl, barehanded. I thought yeah, why not. It started, I hit him, and all of a sudden I have the whole of the bloody town of Markath (or Morthal, one of the two) on me! Take out several guards, take out the guy who was meant to be bare-fist fighting me (who had since pulled his huge axe) and several townspeople. Fair to say I won't be welcome back there any time soon...