Murrr

I'm really looking forward to this, provided you lot dinna pick a heap 'o shite.

Give us anything more than a tenner for Tiote and I'll carry him down to London myself.

Let's just get these gremlins liquidated once and for all, eh? Nobody needs these fools. Get them in the fucking bin.

New deal for Ash Taylor. Ryan Jack next pls.

I also have a PS3 that stopped reading disks a while ago if you want it?

Go on then you cheeky little scamp.

Pretty buzzed for this album's release on the 20th. I've always thought that Pro Era were the weakest of the Beast Coast movement's three big groups, but every track that Joey's dropped lately has been great. Kinda formulaic, but I'm a sucker for well-executed boom-bap sounds. I'm glad he's toned down the weird grunty delivery he was using for a while and all.

Same guy. I've been reading about him all day. Everything sounds awesome and he sounds like a hell of a guy, so it definitely won't happen. Gerry Francis in.

I've found that a lot of Aberdeen-based Celtic supporters have a really weird chip on their shoulder about Aberdeen's recent successes. Like, I've spoken with a few who just completely dismiss Aberdeen's League Cup win, fantastic league form, lack of debt, etc. I can't really wrap my head around it. As soon as Aberdeen won the cup it was all "yeah calm down, you've not won the Champions League." It's as if they're the only club that are entitled to be successful, and other clubs making genuine progress just doesn't count. I think this is probably because the only SPFL club that's actually been significantly hurt by "armageddon" is Celtic, and they can't accept that.

How I'm celebrating tonight: Newcastle Brown Ale from one of Ashley's giant mugs. Yaldy.

IT'S OVER.

sorry m8, can't hear you over all the winning.

I'm not even going to read them. Pro-Pardew people don't matter to me.

Stop trolling, you.

Get in there, Droid. The man is an absolute cretin who's made the past few years easily the least enjoyable I've had as a football fan. Can't wait 'til he's gone.

Not an album, but long enough to be. So good. There's something like 40 rappers on this, so a few verses are inadvertently wack, but so many of these guys just murder the beat (looking at you, Killer Mike, Problem and Raekwon). The real stand-out is Hudson Mohawke though: that beat could level mountains.

I've got a bottle of champagne in my cupboard that I bought ages ago, in anticipation of him leaving. It's going in the fridge when I get home, popped open if/when he goes, and then I'm going on a month-long bender. If you don't hear from me by February, send help.

Pardew reportedly off down to London for talks with Crystal Palace. I'm moist.

Done deal. Rondo + Dwight Powell to the Mavs for Brandan Wright, Jae Crowder, Jameer Nelson and a handful of draft picks. Time to hand Marcus Smart the keys in Boston. Rondo was never going to stick around in the summer, so it was smart to at least get *something* for him, and Smart has an outside shot at "Rookie of the Year" with Jabari on the shelf. Wright and Crowder are serviceable players with expiring contracts, and Nelson will be a great mentor for Smart. Honestly, I'm a little gutted for Nelson, as I thought he had a great chance of getting a ring in Dallas. That Mavs team is scarrrrry now though. Rondo feeding Ellis, Dirk, Chandler and Parsons is just unfair. These guys have played exciting, winning basketball with a cluster of mediocre point guards this season, so I'm excited to see what they can do with the most selfless point guard in the NBA in their line-up.

FOO SHITERS MARE LIKE!!!!!

Maybe they'll grow on me, but I'm not enjoying these new Kendrick songs at all. Though this one is at least a bit of a step-up from "I", which was one of the least enjoyable songs I've heard this year. Black Happy/TDE have generally had a very disappointing year, IMO. Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q both released subpar albums and sounded like watered-down versions of their former selves, and the Kendrick/Jay Rock albums that were pencilled in for 2014 haven't materialised yet. Isaiah Rashad was the only guy from that stable to release anything I'd call above average. Aside from that, I think it's been a great year for hip-hop. RTJ2 is one of the best hip-hop albums I've ever heard, MadGibbs was outstanding, Diamond District blew me away, and PRhyme and Ghostface have just dropped two late AOTY contenders.

That's the first annual premeditated Newcastle United cup exit of the season out of the way. Up next, our really three-goal tonking at Gus Poyet's hands. Pardew's back, ladies and gents.

Dunno about that one m8.

Newcastle.