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Are you saying NUFC will pay me 15 quid to watch them? I guess 15 quid in my pocket is compensation for listening to that accent and indeed being sat behind that shirtless pie eating Geordie :rofl:

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I'd think they'd pay you 15 quid not to watch them.

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But back on topic; the first half of the important stuff this season is on Sunday at the Stadium of Shite. :fingerscrossed:

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where are all the spuds.
what did you think of the game.:rofl:

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Exciting game.

A shame Bale did not play.

I think Chelsea will be Champions this year and this is the most exciting team that they've ever had.

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Jolly sporting James. I just hope I'm never put in the position of saying something like that about them reed & white stripey bastards.

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Didn't see the game today. BBC said the sending off was a bit harsh.

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Unfortunately the way Tiote aggressively throws himself around has given him a reputation where it is hard to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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A marginal yellow. Not a red. The referee was bent.

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No wonder he was subbed early against Fulham!

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Who? The ref?

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Never a bloody red. 3 points should have been ours.

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Hear hear.

I accept that Tiote is a robust defensive midfielder who did pick up 11 yellow cards last season (no reds though). That was a travesty, only made worse by the ref ignoring a clear handball in the penalty area two minutes later.

If I may quote from the Guardian's minute by minute report ...

"20 mins: Still no bookings, though Seb Larsson could really have been punished for fairly gratuitously kicking Ameobi in the chest. The free-kick, from 35 yards out, is arrowed towards goal by Cabayé – never likely to beat Mignolet, but impossible to catch as it dipped under the crossbar, so he tipped it over. The corner is put back behind his own goal by Gardener, but the referee thinks it's a goal kick.

25 mins: RED CARD FOR TIOTÉ! Tioté tussles with Colback for possession. Fletcher nips in front and takes the ball, and Tioté's studs take his shin. It wasn't horribly violent, but it was nasty. And the really strange thing is, it all ends with a Newcastle free kick.

26 mins: So Newcastle had been awarded a free-kick for Colback's hassling of Tioté before the stud attack that followed, making the red card offence even less explicable. Anyway, the ball is sent into the penalty area where Seb Larsson very deliberately controls it with his left arm. Newcastle appeal but neither the referee nor Sky's commentators are impressed."

Referree. Bent, bent I tells yer.

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A cracker, but really Chelsea was just allowed to play in the midfield too much which was overwhelming. Where's our midfield from last year? Oh yes, sold ...:(

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Hi all, Swansea fan here, now living in Vancouver =)