Park Life

Think Maradonna. Ghost turn and then drifts past 5 to slot.

The face of god reflected on the water.

That's pure and special.

Fukin hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

This refs gonna do summat silly.

He's made some nice runs. Hasn't quite clicked yet.

the 433 at Swansea looked a bit unbalanced iyam...neither Ba nor Cisse looked comfortable defending out wide. Looks like Pardew is still tinkering, but virtually a whole half without a clear cut chance should tell him to change it at half time. I see what you're saying. This is now tailored for a Hatem special. Needs to be given the ball more and further up the park before the cover arrives.

Looks more like the old 442. I'd rather see Ba zoning the left and Hatem 20yards further up in the 433...Guti tucked in.

Getting bad vibes about this ref.

Have a feeling it will be tight to start with untill they tire in the 2nd half.

I really have no idea who these people are.

"Girlfriend in a coma, I know...I know it's serious.."

It's why we love it so.

The final figure isn't important, it was the fact you deliberately used the value that suits the argument rather than looking at the issue fairlythatprompted me to argue about it. I personally don't care how much of the Carroll money we have spent so far, you wanted to use the figure of £7.5m to continue undermining the club's progress, something you have done all season. Shows how desperate you are to be right though when what you want to focus on is the price of Cissé rather than how you've berated, bullied and undermined anyone who dared to get carried away with our progress at the beginning and middle of the season. Now that looks like you being a twat, it was all a big joke. Not arsed about being right, just like to remind people of what they have been like on here for the last 2 years. That's not fair comment on Nicos's TT persona Adam. I've always found him to be fair and up for banter as you are. It's the nature of football chat that people vacilate in their opinions from month to month. I hated it when we were playing too much long ball and NOT STARTING HATEM and that was the core of my whinning, but that was imo interspersed with postive comments if the team played well and I know you questioned my 7th prediction and I had to go and find it on NO. Think you're over analysing peoples postions to your detriment in this instance. We've all been pretty surprised over the last couple of monts of the acual psychological strength of the set up of the club and the standout performances and there has beena sea change in attitudes toward Pards. You have to accept that as normal behaviour and not something machiavelli.

4-0 Don't matter who plays where. We have a good system that the whole squad is tuned into and we have one of the 3 world class strikers in this league and on form. We also have MOMENTUM.

He's the difference now, like Ba was before between us and 90% of this league.

None of that means anything if the players are getting good goat curry.

At home to City? No chance. Take from one who knows, they'll fluke it some way or another. Before the QPR game that they (deservedly) lost, they had been on a 7 game winning run which included a ridiculously late winner against you, and a laughable disallowed goal for for Everton that gave them a 1-0 win. Not to mention them being played off the park by Liverpool and somehow robbing them (the irony) of a win. Nah, Arsenal are the luckiest team in football, and will beat City via a deflected own goal from the shin of Tevez from the Arsenal penalty area. The bitterness shinning through. Let it go man. You're playing really good football this year.

Arsenal will lose.

It's not "Lets stick to Europa" attitude it's the "Not getting ahead of ourselves" attitude. Fair play mate if your confident of Champions League but I don't wanna get too ahead of myself, If all we get is Europa League i'd be delighted. Start of season I cant see many of us expecting that. I'm not saying I'm confident, but we're 2 points away (albeit with the teams above having a game in hand) and there's 6 games to go. Playing "let's not think about it" is daft. As for "going for it" in the Europa, I think winning it is a bit of a pipe dream once the CL teams drop into it. We're not gonna just enter it and win it in our first year back in Europe for a while. But the cash on offer in the CL would put us in with a much better chance of doing something in future than a bit of a run in the Europa would. Yup.

We don't want to get into the champions league and jeopardise the push for the champions league next season.

It's about as well prepared and cogent away performance I've seen from an away side who know posession will be at a premium. Cabaye told to press high and link the counter. It was honestly like watching football Italia at times.

Officially a Pardew convert after that. Tactical masterclass. Pressing high up and little things like Papiss protecting the left and so on..These destroyed Fulham only a few weeks back. This win is mahoosive.

Agree with that totally. He just needs a goal.

World class finish tbh.