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Football comes second. He's a dad and making sure he's fit and well is very much the priority. Should have known it'd take a broken neck to keep Hogg down, though - he's tough as old boots. Leader of the press, which makes it doubly g...

Half the team was ill. Hefele and Stankovic were both sent home, Hudson and Schindler were also feeling the effects, and it looked like Smith, Billing, Kachunga and Mooy were also really struggling with something. The sheer number of times we seemed to j...

Not helped by most of the team being ill today. No energy - not physically able to play how we can. Not helped by Hogg going off after 7 minutes and them then being allowed to boot us up in the air. Telling stat: Billing, one foul, one card. O'Neill,...

First one's never seen a penalty. Zero contact, trips himself up. Changes the game. Handball in the build-up too, even if we didn't get it away as we should have. Second should be disallowed - as Ward has the ball in one hand and in his control....

Hopefully used up your quota of luck with that Diame goal! That said, you make your own luck with things like that from time to time.

No complaints about the result, other than it being a bit on the harsh side. 4-1 or 5-2 would have been fair, 5-1 makes it look like more of a thrashing than it was. Don't get me wrong, they were miles better, but we deserve some credit. It takes ser...

Calling referees corrupt is my job. Piss off.

It is. Even if the FA are determinedly trying to ensure we won't be able to go up with Wagner's ban. What an absolute joke. It's one thing to ban him, but the timing is suspect and the fact he's got two when Monk only got one for doing...

Despite the fact it should have been 3 points (but for dogged defending and lacklustre finishing), I'll always take a point away at Barnsley. Disappointing not to see the job through, but they're a good side having a good season and we won'...

Crucial win tonight. We've not played well - Reading have stifled us. As predicted, we've missed the first penalty we've got in the league (VLP given responsibility for some reason - good save, but why was he taking it?), but we've plu...

Need to keep it going. Another 20 points will guarantee play-offs, which has to be a minimum now. As for you guys, I saw the highlights. Wednesday very lucky - yet again. Not seen the Sam Hutchinson challenge on Gallagher which I heard was a bad one and...

Fo shua.

Ah, I see you've swallowed Pravda lock, stock and barrel.

Cheerio, Leeds Scum. Thanks for the points. Now fuck off back down the shithole you came from and take your lying scum manager and his team of thugs with you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38868227 All the best to Connor Goldson. Hope he comes back stronger than ever

Worth pointing out that Brighton had conceded only 18 goals all season before tonight. If they were poor at the back, it was because we forced them into errors and capitalised on them. Stockdale ended up keeping the score down (how he saved VLP's dri...

Ahead of the 6 toughest home games of the season (Brighton, Leeds, Manchester City, Reading, Newcastle, Villa), it's worth saying that even if from here on in it does go pear-shaped this team has given the fans a fantastic season, beyond our expectat...

Alternatively, we'll take Manchester City at home. Given they have a Champions League game that week (and also play the previous Monday), I wonder if they might rest a few or take their eyes off the ball. Could prove a glorious chance to go through t...

We're bound to get Millwall away. Though Sutton or Lincoln at home would be great.

First time since the inception of the Football League in 1888 that two non-league sides have reached the fifth round (though this should be taken with a pinch of salt, as the modern format of the FA Cup didn't arrive for many years, with top-flight t...

To say we had a real banana skin of a draw away at Rochdale, we acquitted ourselves very well. 8 changes again, but the real change came with the subs at half-time. Got to be honest, I've not seen a pitch that bad in a very long time. The ball held...

"So it shouldn't have been a red card?" "Nope." "So the ban's overturned?" "Nope." "But you just said that he shouldn't have been sent off?" "Yeah, well. Fuck you." Wolves ke...

Excellent way of skating over the fact he should have been off for a blatant professional foul in the same incident As for us, really comfortable 3 points even with half the team missing against Ipswich. They were vastly improved from their abysmal sh...

Can't blame Brighton to be honest. Were the boot on the other foot I doubt Newcastle would move it or any other club - it'd be daft to let an advantage, however small, over title rivals go. Town news: striker apparently imminent - pictures from...

It's no wonder that fans feel alienated from the modern game. We come second to the money. Christ, the clubs themselves come second to the TV, and without the clubs themselves there'd be no football at all. In actual football news, we've s...

I'm very rarely sympathetic to anything he does. On this occasion, though, I agreed with him. Not normally an issue for us when we're pootling around lower mid-table, but we're going to have at least 7 on telly this season. Norwich away on...

Bristol City away on a Friday night, too. Which is a charmer of an away day. On one hand, they provide a crucial revenue stream. On the other, it's not fair on the fans and the clubs the way they dick around with fixtures. We play on Sky twice in a w...

Town v Leeds moved AGAIN. So that's five times the time or date has changed. From Saturday to Sunday to Monday back to Sunday and now slightly earlier on Sunday. Bugger off, Football League and bugger off, Sky.

Port Vale are a bit rubbish. We played a much-changed team (only one player likely to start at Hillsborough next week in the starting XI) and duly put their first XI to the sword. Very young Town team, but a very good performance. Couple of players coming...

Izzy Brown signed on loan from Chelsea. One of two Rotherham players emerging from this season with something resembling credit, he'll provide more cover for the advanced 3 behind the front man, going on Wagner's comments, which hopefully means...

Awful first half gave way to a marginally worse second half. There were two shots on target in the entire game - with the first, Kachunga stung the palms of Jaaskelainen, and the second came because the keeper dropped it at Wells' feet. The second we...

All he needed to say was that you came with a game plan which you executed to near perfection - which you did, up to the last-minute free-kick. Does he still refer to himself in the third person, like some kind of Roman Emperor? We were profligate, and th...

On one hand, lucky to get a draw after being a goal down going into injury time. On the other hand, we were a goal down to a very poor side who benefited from a very charitable decision not to penalise a blatant push that stopped us clearing our lines - b...

One for the Newcastle fans: there was an incident in our match with Forest the other day which you may be interested in. Van La Parra got on the run and Mills came across to block him. The incident starts at about 44 seconds in the video, and it's in...

A win is a win. Not at our best, but worth noting just how crap Forest were. They had one shot of note in the whole game and scored - and that was in no small part down to a very lucky deflection straight into the path of their striker. One of those we co...

I'm the paranoid one around here, sod off back to the Premier League

Wolfsburg dismiss speculation. Good enough for me. On one hand, it's worrying when your manager gets linked to another club. But on the other hand, it's also hugely complimentary to the job he's done in taking us from relegation dogfighter...

We never win at Norwich. We never win on Sky. We never get any luck. So a 2-1 win at Norwich live on Sky with the first goal being marginally offside somehow feels like we've fractured the fabric of the universe. In truth, we richly deserved the win...

Zola going in there apparently. I expect they'll resemble a brick descending through water for a little while. Top win last night. Scrappy 1-0. Fantastic saving tackle from Martin Cranie to keep it goalless then Nahki pops up with the winner. And t...

There's something about beating a set of dirty bastards, who spend the afternoon being aided by the malign influence of the referee, thanks to a dose of beautiful, magnificent karma. Yet another referee belligerent to Town ensured Bristol didn'...

Only because it was televised, I'd guess. Normally they don't bother, they take the £500 or whatever it is these days and say sling your hook. Telly forces them to own up when their officials cock up. Seen this in action with Town a few ye...

I'm staggered the Shelvey one has been overturned. He kicked him. Doesn't matter what went before. Should have been an extra ban for a frivolous appeal. You compare that to the overwhelming majority of appeals that aren't overturned (even w...

Not Reading or Charlton. Makes it sound exciting until you realise Port Vale are the only side we've faced more in cups in recent years - FA Cup in 2008 and 2009, with a League Cup tie in 2011. Chuck in a two-legged Coca-Cola Cup clash in 1995, and y...

It was a penalty. Puts an arm out and pulls him. Compared to those we've not been given, it's very harsh but we have no room to complain.

Wait, what? A penalty given against us after what happened on Monday? How did I ever fucking guess. While we're absolutely slaughtering them without scoring a killer goal? Yeah. Standard.

We're due a win, too. Not been playing badly - performances have dropped off, and we have been making mistakes, but things out of our control have gone against us too. Seen the team, and I'm hopeful with Hefele back at the back we'll be mor...

Nope. Distinctly under the weather so I've let a mate have my ticket. Take it you are?

Can't tell me after that game that: A) We're not naive; B) We didn't deserve at least a point; C) Referees don't actively hate us. Reading have had NINE penalties in the league this season. NINE. After last night, I'm convince...

I hate it every week. Who did you have - I've probably whinged about him in the past

Goals conceded from open play: 6. Goals conceded from set-pieces: 15. Goals scored from open play: 18. Goals scored from set-pieces: 1. I mean, we score some wonderful goals. Billing's goal today is the best goal scored at this level this season....