Newcastle 2 Stoke City 1: Papiss Cisse sinks Potters

“Errare humanum est - goes for Whelan too.”

“Just when you think that Glen Whelan could not play a worse game of football, he produces that **** yesterday ! In his never ending quest to never make a forward pass in a game of football, he was the cause of both of their goals on Sunday and simply continues to be the symbol of everything that is negative about our midfield and really, our team in general. The constant boom of the football being hoofed down field, supposedly toward the head of a Stoke City player but mostly to the head of a Newcastle defender, made it sound like drums in the jungle. However, in a very rare case, a Stoke City player actually dribbled the ball into the penalty area but got upended in the box in what supplied us with out only goal. I can only imagine that Tony Pulis must have been seething to even see one of his players daring to enter the opposing team's penalty area with the ball at his feet and not lob it into one of their defenders.
As I said last week, what would make anyone think that Pulis could or would do anything different to get a positive result and he didn't fail to disappoint !”

“Tony Pulis was in the local and national media on Saturday, saying how well we had played away from home this season, apart from 3 matches and the reason our forwards weren't scoring goals, was because of the lack of service. So the next day we line up with, no pace Walters and a full back Shotton on the wings and Whelan in the middle. Our most creative midfielder is sat on the bench and our best crosser of the ball in Pennant, was probably sat in the stand or out shopping, absolute genius tactics Pulis. After the match he blames the ref as usual and said the lads have done smashing and have put a shift in. When his he going to realise that it doesn't matter how hard these players work, some of them are just not good enough at this level and also his negative tactics are to blame. One away win and only 9 goals scored away from home is not just down to bad luck, the man is a deluded baffoon. Only one team wanted to win that game late on and they duly scored the winner. Pulis settled for a point and hit came back against him, yet again. Why else would you take off your striker with any geniune pace and replace him with a defensive midfielder (can someone tell me what is the point of Owen being on the bench when he will never play him). When is Pulis going to stop been an arrogant coward and take some responsibilty for his ineptness. The results and performances don't lie and the buck clearly stops with him. Just do the decent thing Pulis and do what most of the supporters now clearly want, GO IN THE SUMMER.”

“So how could you name him man of the match when clearly gave the goal away 6 minutes after we went in front”

“No you read again, Pit. I state that Whelan is OUR man of the match, clearly the Guardian wouldn't refer to a Stokie in the first person plural. Then I go on to qoute the Guardian and you confirmed that my qoute was correct by using the exact same words as I did.”

“Just thought, but was Pulis watching the same game as me "The lads have done smashing. It's a very good away display and we looked dangerous all game on the break."

I thought we were rubbish with the Prat in the Caps usually anti-football tactics to kill the game and hope to get something from a set-piece. Yes I was there, so saw the game and coming home reading match reports again, they were more acurate than Pulis and said Stoke created very little.

We have the worst record for any team in 2013 and have now lost 8 out of the last 10, looking at our remaining fixtures, it is hard to see where we will win a game, yes we will play teams below us, but Negative Pulis will not try and win those games, rather he will play for a draw to deny those teams a win to gain ground on Stoke.

But, even if we do avoid getting dragged into a relegation battle, it does look like all the other teams have now found out Stokes tactics and now know how to play Stoke, and because Pulis only knows the one tactic (devised from the 70's style of play), you have to say under Pulis Stoke will be in a major fight to stay in the premier league next season.”

“Every game Stoke city are involved in is dross and boring. The manager's tactics bring even the top teams down to their level. I Haven't been Stoke since the Arsenal home match due to moving away but now I won't watch them anymore as they p*ss the hell out of me!”

“Isn't about time these millionaire Stoke City players put their hands in their pockets and paid all the away fans there travelling and gate expenses . Sometimes I think the fans work harder than the players . About time they chipped in . Not bad £60k a week for doing nothing ..”

“Ha read again Liam says nothing about man of the match but did say some of whelans passes shows he can play a bit but says nothing about that horrendous back pass which led to the free kick from which they scored I also can remember at least 4/5 more lost balls in our half, the guy would be lucky get a game for a championship side”

“Whelan was our man of the match, the Guardian says, he's the one player on the pitch who can play a bit of a football.”