BlueStar

Your fans on the Sunderland forum were having a go at him to be fair, guy who started the thread saw the guy drop it and it was a mackem. Doesn't seem to happen at St Jame's Park, the stewarding is pretty abysmal at the SoL. Last time I went the turnstile operators were letting two people in on one click in front of me for a £20 bung and the stewards were too busy celebrating themselves at the end to stop people invading the pitch. it's all very well saying it's both sets of fans, but when was Newcastle's last derby pitch invasion? That's Given, Harper and Joe Kinnear all confronted by arseholes, how many Sunderland players and managers have been accosted on the pitch?

Bit gutted we conceded that late goal, but guess I would have taken a point at the start of the match, with Tiote and Carroll out, and I certainly would have taken 4 poitns and a 6-2 aggregate at the start of the season. Sunderland seem to have a lot of trouble controlling their fans, they're on the pitch every time we go there and this is the second time recently a Sunderland fan has attacked our keeper, plus rushing our bench a few seasons ago and invading the pitch after the 2-1 win. Could have been worse, one of them dropped a kitchen knife down the steps of the south west corner when they scored.

Well that was a thoroughly gutless performance. And to add insult to injury, one of the stevenage fans knocked out one of their own players with a right hook because he wouldn't give him his shirt and some places like the Daily Star are claiming it was a Newcastle fan and talking about what shameful horrible people we are. Sigh.

So, Daglish till the end of the season with Rush touted as probable assistant. Remind me which team has a messiah complex again? Guess if this doesn't work out it'll be a Shankly/Acorah dreamteam.

Aren't like 4 of your first team loanees though? Does that not worry you that you may need to invest just to stay where you are, with Quinn saying unless your gates improve there won't be investment? Anyway, cracking result last night, plus I had £2 on Wolves and Blackburn both to win, which returned me £75.

Why are you asking me, a fan, why Newcastle are a big club then? The motivation for this sacking doesn't seem to be because Hughton isn't 'big enough' for the club, but more that he won't do as Ashley says and he's 'too close to the players' whatever that means. The fact that Pardew was seemingly lined up a month ago as the preferred replacement suggests that the 'bigness' of the name has very ltitle to do with it. Depends what you consider most important when judging a club's size really, isn't it? Attendance, fame, history, historic success, recent success, current league position. Are Leeds, Forest, Ipswich and Norwich bigger clubs than Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn and West Brom? Forest still sing "1-0 to the famous team" and were giving us "You're not famous any more", "You're only here to see the famous team" and (to Marlon Harewood) "You used to play for a big club", although it's worth pointing out that when Newcastle visted the City Ground it was their record gate of the season with even more home fans turning up than came to see them play bitter rivals Derby County. Newcastle are not a dominant footballing force in the English game, they don't have financial clout, they're showing limited (if any) ambition and they're not a particularly attractive club for players and managers. They have some decent players but a generally thin squad. That said, they are still getting some of the highest attendances in the country, they attract big opposition crowds, they have a long history with historical success, they're one of few teams in England to have played more than 100 matches in European competitions and they're a famous enough name to garner an amount of interest wherever they go (and be selected for about three times as many Sky matches than, say, Sunderland, who are in a similar league position). How big you think that makes the club is up to you, but any implication that the fans at least see themselves as entitled to a top 6 finish or something simply because of who they are is very wide of the mark.

Congratulations, you've totally missed the point - Newcastle fans are under no illusions as to where they fit in the scheme of things at the moment. We were perfectly happy to have some stability and a nice guy at the helm, trying to progress and establish ourselves in the premier league. The last thing we wanted was a knee-jerk sacking.

Oh really, that's why the fans were all behind 'small name' Chris Hughton then, is it? Typical lazy stereotypical shite reguritated from the tabloid press.

Hell yes we want Martin Jol when it currently looks like Pardew is all but nailed on.

Supposedly it was similar to the Keegan/Wise situation. Ashley gets on well with Beardsley and promised him the assistant managers job, Hughton said no thanks, gets the sack.

We've sacked Hughton, for reasons only known to a certain rotund fuckwit

Seen this posted as "Blackburn's new badge." Let's just break this down for a sec. Niqab - Arabic and Islamic Rao family - Indian and Hindu Lahore - In Pakistan Apart from that, 10/10

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/9168655.stm Their proofreader must have been banned from the stadium already

Thanks Here's an excellent article about how we approached the game. Tiote's 98% pass success rate is quite a stat. http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/11/08/newcastle-arsenal-tactics/

Cracking win by the lads yesterday. Crazy to think where we'd be in the league if we hadn't thrown away point against the likes of Blackpool and Wigan.

Well, I was at st James today and I was at villa park in 09 so I'm delighted we humiliated them on tv. Used to have a soft spot for them before they stayed up painting 'sob on the tyne' on their bedsheets. Blub in the brum, happy birthday Steven Ireland.

Well, I was at st James today and I was at villa park in 09 so I'm delighted we humiliated them on tv. Used to have a soft spot for them before they stayed up painting 'sob on the tyne' on their bedsheets. Blub in the brum, happy birthday Steven Ireland.

Absolutely livid about this astoundingly wrong-on-so-many-levels snippet in the Guardian today, talking about how England needs a breakthrough Asian star (Michael Chopra, who played in the Premiership for Newcastle doesn't count, I guess) http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/25/football-star-british-asian-chelsea Right, firstly, Andy Cole made his debut away, against Swindon. Secondly at his first game at St James Park he scored one goal against Notts County, not a hat-trick. Thirdly, there were no protests whatsoever at the signing of a black player. He was well liked immediately and the only protests came when he was sold. We already had a black player on the team when he was signed, Fraz Carr, who was also well liked and had a large repetore of songs. How can one guy get so much wrong in such a short period of time? Maybe if Mr Taylor wants anecdotes about the difficulties black players had getting into the game he can look at his own club, rather than making up nonsense about ours... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1189328/REVEALED-The-shocking-revelations-Chelseas-black-player-Paul-Canoville.html

Pokemon:TCG was probably the best game on the GBC in my opinion.

Hmm, Theresa May Minister for Women & Equalities, someone who voted against equal ages of consent and equal adoption rights for gay couples.

Sun headline is BRITAIN REJECTS BROWN Somehow they've missed out the subheading "Doesn't think much of Cameron either."

Let's hope that head injury doesn't go... *removes shades* Euro-septic.

PLEASE, if any of you are considering voting Tory because you've been taken in by this "compassionate conservative" stuff, at least read this article for me first. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-welcome-to-cameron-land-1962318.html Cameron is not the first social conservative to go for this angle to try and get into power

"All these Eastern Europeans, where are they coming from?" Have a wild guess you absolute plum of a woman.