The So, So the most important thing this week I think is the fact that we got to watch Manchester

United play a competitive fixture.

Oh it was good, it was so good.

It's been a long, long three months, hasn't it, since the home gaming against Stoke at the end of the season,

which was a massive anti-climax to Newcastle

at home on a Monday night, thank you Sky, and a good win, I thought, a solid if, unspectacular performance deserved win and I guess Paul's

scoles stole all the headlines brilliant performance

yeah you say solid if unspectacular it had some pretty spectacular elements I thought.

The form of Dimitar Berbertoff was quite impressive and his decision to go for the ridiculously over dramatic

scissor kick which went wrong.

Oh yeah, yes.

The margin of glorious victory and idiotic defeat in these situations is very narrow and it was good

to see Dimitar having the confidence to go for it.

But yeah, even I can't give him Manil a match.

Paul Sculls was absolutely magnificent. The next day Zonal marking posted the chalkboards using the

Guardians chalkboard thing and it just had the successful passes and unsuccessful passes I think it was

86 successful passes seven unsuccessful passes the chalkboard the thing of

beauty it was a thing of beauty although it credited his assist for Dimitar-Burbitov's opening goal as an

unsuccessful pass because the defender actually got a toe on it. Even better he was

even better than that beautiful jockboard look he was yes over a hundred

passes miles more than anyone else on the pitch, yeah.

He was brilliant. Of course, it didn't start that way. Newcastle pressed him in the first 15 minutes, really hard, and that's what you need to do against Paul

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