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Can anyone name a club in England that has gone down the "head coach" route and been successful? Seems to me that all the successful teams have a manager who has final say on players. Hasn't worked particularly well at Spurs for example. Oh i forgot, we're not trying to be successful...

any protests arranged for this? would seem sensible - live on sky, more likely to get banners into ground without Ashley's beefed up security...

my best memories of attending a match in recent memory was away at west brom in 11/12 when hatem ran the show and destroyed them single handed. he was unplayable that day, and I thought it was a sign of things to come - attacking football with an interchanging front 3 that looked like a match for anything in the prem. sadly from then on it has just been disappointment after disappointment since then. how many times do you hear managers (our cretin of a leader included) saying they need a player to produce a little bit of magic and create a goal from nothing to win them the game? well guess what chaps, we had one of those but decided that gabriel fucking obertan was a better option. it is obvious to any sane individual that hatem needed support from a manager to bring out the best in him. just imagine him under keegan or sir bob, his confidence would be through the roof and he would be tearing teams apart. i've had enough of this shite. ashley sitting there inside his massive sports direct billboard at st james' not giving a toss as long as we get TV airtime. pardew happily defending every decision and writing new chapters in his book of excuses, as he knows he's somehow landed (and managed to keep) a job way above his level. having the second worst defence in the league last season, and yet letting one of our only competent CBs go out on loan without bringing in a replacement. it's a fucking joke.

great video, such a talent. why wouldn't you want that in your team ffs :idiot2:

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Aye, I saw him kicking off, what a prick. Atmosphere was class all the way through. Some quality fancy dress as well. Anyone from here in this pic? Good effort! http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1820/p1030431medium.jpg

some opportunities for football in paint based amusement here... http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ you can also get it through the NFM's facebook page. my first (rubbish) attempt: http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/?cnv_id=40 do your worst!

We were absolutely shocking in the first half, our players were always second to the ball and seemingly couldn't be arsed to put their foot in. Pancrate was woeful, and Smith, Nolan and Guthrie were totally bypassed in the centre. The one positive was Kadar played well and looked pretty solid. We couldn't tell if the ball was over the line for the first and we were right behind the goal, ten rows back, so I can't see how the linesman could have definitely said it was over. The first pen for Bednar was an absolute joke - Kadar got in front of him and then Bednar did some bizarre pirouette fall, never seen such a blatant dive in my life! Second half we actually started to show some passion, and Jonas put a decent ball in the box for once for Carroll to score. At this point it looked like the game was ours for the taking and WBA were under the cosh. Shola was sandwiched and tripped in the box, obvious pen. He didn't get up but credit to Carson he shouted for the ball to be put out and went to see if Shola was OK, ignoring the ongoing play. Hope he isn't crocked again as I don't think we can do without him and Steven Taylor for the promotion push. Couldn't see if theirs was a pen, but we should have either had one ourselves or at least had the ball put out for Shola to be seen to. Having Taylor sent off when he wasn't even the last man was just the ref 's icing on the cake for a truly shite performance. You could see the team were fired up due to the shocking ref display, and in the last 10 minutes we were all over them. Carroll actually showed some nice footwork, maybe he should try to do this more as his heading today was pitiful. Finish for his second was good though. The ref was abysmal, so many decisions given against us that were blatantly wrong. Not that arsed that we're out of the cup as the league has always been the priority, but the manner of defeat had me seething. Also noticed that the bbc report didn't mention anything about the referreeing, and that twat Alan Green on 606 totally glossed over the lad's complaint about the ref when he called in to talk about it. The only creativity today came from Jose and Jonas down the left, apart from that we could hardly string 2 passes together. Fantastic backing by the fans though, we filled a whole end - there was only 16000 there and we must have had about 4000. Can only hope that the sense of being cheated fires the lads up for another push in the league.