Official 2012/13 Premier League thread

[Colly]

Good job Sunderland can't pass ten yards in our half, we'd be in bother otherwise. Look forward to unbiased comment from Quinn and Wilkins.

[Lineker]

I just noticed that I can see Loftus Road out of the window!

[Colly]

Ten minutes without Colo. Shitting it.

[Lineker]

Oh dear.

[Colly]

Told you.

[Colly]

Right, so the Tiote sending off is a bit of an arguable one, but Niall Quinn is now trying to convince me he's deliberately gone for the man having looked at him first, and that it was three feet off the ground. For fucks sake.

[Summers]

While I can see why a red was given there's no way in hell that was deliberate.

[Colly]

On the plus side that has sorted my both teams to score acca so I'm fifteen quid better off, which means I should be able to afford Bruges on Thursday!

[Lineker]

Talk about a lucky goal.

Heard the roar from the home fans from my desk!

[Lineker]

1-1. Top header from Distin.

[maninblack]

Oh come on. Pienaar didn't touch the guy!

[brenchill]

This QPR defender who always gets sent off is awesome. He's a nutter.

[MJB]

Jagielka, Howard and Distin have all been immense today for Everton.

[brenchill]

Good point for QPR.

[IAceI]

Our worst performance of the season, sadly trumping our last performance against Man City - so not a good couple of weeks. Will seriously have to improve if we want to beat Stoke away next week in my opinion. On the upside we got a point when I didn't think we would, and we didn't pick up a single yellow card today which is a welcome change.

Worst day of the season well and truly over, I look forward to my last two matches at the Stadium of Light against Middlesbrough and Aston Villa.

[Colly]

Two glamour games to finish with!

[IAceI]

Shame I'm not doing Stoke away again this season, was the coldest match I've ever been to! But yes - last season we drew 0-0 at Villa at home in an awful, awful match and obviously needed a replay in the FA Cup against Boro last season - obviously not possible this season with it being the Carling Cup but yeah, we weren't great against them.

As an aside, though Coloccini and Rose were outstanding today. Colo always seems to play brilliantly against us, he was taking long balls out the air and getting them under control with a lovely first touch.

[Colly]

Colo's brilliant against everyone, easily the best centre half I've seen at Newcastle which may be faint praise but does include Woodgate as a close second. He adds so much to the team its ridiculous, so important for starting attacks and controlling the team. I actually love him, which is worrying.

[IAceI]

Claudio Cacapa is my favourite Newcastle centre back of all time.

Edited October 21, 2012 by IAceI

[Colly]

He had an occasional turn of pace, but couldn't defend for toffee.

I'm still not seeing Tiotes foul as a red, probably influenced by the (disgusting) colour of his shirt, but all I'm seeing is a late tackle. He's side on, in control, and Fletcher goes over his instep, yellow card. The fact he'd have got the ball had he not been yanked back isn't important but he could've been given some benefit of the doubt.

Pointless wingeing on, but I've a feeling if it was anyone other than Tiote (or indeed Cattermole had he been on) its a yellow.