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Looked like he was running in treacle when he tried to catch Agbonlahor

I reckon you could see 10k+ mags heading over for a weekend. The question is, how many will fit into this mammoth stand? http://www.blackpoolfcimages.co.uk/

Fucking hell, Burnley are in the league above us. There's some utter, utter dogshit in the Premiership next year. Burnley, Brum, Wolves, Hull, Mackems, Blackburn, Bolton, Stoke etc.

I disagree. Harper is a good shot stopper, but on the whole a poor goalkeeper.

He has Coloccini on the bench for his "team of the week" He was all over the place yesterday as per usual. If we get a 3m plus offer i'd take it for our WOW man.

I spoke to Guthrie pre match yesterday and said "Will you stay, even if we go down." His reply was "I hope so. I'd only go if they didn't want me."

They get sent out mate. So there will be none at the box office If i'd known you needed one i'd have got you one a while back

If we'd beaten Hull at home we'd now be 5 points clear of relegation like. Some good that protest did

It's worrying how many teams there are probably going to be better than us next season.

NEWCASTLE United will put every single player up for sale if their Premier League survival bid at Aston Villa on Sunday ends in failure, as owner Mike Ashley frantically tries to contain the financial disaster of crashing into the Championship. United’s shocking home defeat by Fulham on Saturday means the Magpies have slipped back into the bottom three and will need at least a point at Villa Park to have any chance of avoiding the drop. However, with Hull City entertaining a Manchester United side which has already won the title and who face Barcelona in the Champions League final just three days later, United are clinging on to their place in the top flight by the tips of their fingernails. As a result, the Newcastle hierarchy have already planned for the worst and The Journal understands none of the first- team squad will be safe from the chop as the club look to reduce a wage bill which gobbles up around 70% of the business’s turnover. It is thought Ashley, who has planned to cut costs and slash staff levels in every department, will look to reduce wages in the first-team squad by at least £600,000 a week – or £31.2m a year – if results do not go Newcastle’s way on the final day of the season. That will prompt a fire sale at St James’s Park as rival clubs look to pick up a bargain from the wreckage of United’s catastrophic campaign. While the non-renewal of the contracts of Michael Owen and Mark Viduka would save around £180,000 a week, there are plenty of other high earners on the books, including Joey Barton, Geremi, José Enrique, Alan Smith, Damien Duff and Obafemi Martins. Fabricio Coloccini and Jonás Gutiérrez would almost certainly return to Spain after just one season in English football, despite costing around £18m when they were signed last summer, with interest thought to be high in the Argentinian pair despite a troubled year on Tyneside. Whether buyers can be found for some of the other big earners remains to be seen and some players may be willing to sit on their lucrative contracts in the Championship rather than move on, despite the damage this could do to the club in the long term. In turn, while the board will want to slash costs, Alan Shearer will fight to keep some of the best players even if he fails to keep them in the top flight after just eight games in charge. The former Newcastle skipper will have some leverage and he will demand certain assurances before committing to becoming permanent manager at the end of the season. He will be desperate to keep the likes of Sébastien Bassong and Habib Beye, as well as a core of younger players like Danny Guthrie and Andy Carroll, alongside the more experienced Nicky Butt, Kevin Nolan and Steve Harper. He will also want money to spend on replacements as the loss of so many players will make it virtually impossible to secure an immediate return to the Premier League if new ones are not drafted in. Shearer knows he is Ashley’s last shot at redemption as Newcastle owner and there will plenty of manoeuvring behind the scenes if relegation becomes a reality, as the United manager looks to ensure he has something left to work with in the Championship. Meanwhile, Newcastle’s desperation ahead of the trip to Aston Villa was obvious yesterday when they launched an appeal against Bassong’s sending-off against Fulham. Bassong was shown a red card by referee Howard Webb for tugging back striker Diomansy Kamara just inside the United half as the ball bounced over his head. But, despite claiming the decision was “ probably right” after the game, Shearer, who may also be without Beye next weekend after the Senegal international picked up a hamstring problem against Fulham, has decided to appeal in the unlikely hope of a reprieve.

A skydiver from Staffordshire plunged 6,000ft without a parachute in Russia and survived to tell the tale. James Boole, from Tamworth, said he was supposed to have been given a signal by another skydiver to open his parachute, but it came two seconds too late. Mr Boole, who was filming the other skydiver for a television documentary, landed on snow-covered rocks and suffered a broken back and rib. "What went through my mind was my wife and my daughter," he said. "I really thought that I was going to die - incredible feeling of sadness and just how unfair that was." James Boole Mr Boole said he could not make sense of his survival Mr Boole, who has made 2,500 jumps, is now back at home in a body brace. He said: "(The other flyer) took us so close to the ground where I thought I was dead. "When I finally looked at the ground and realised how low I was, I knew there was no time for me to get a full parachute above my head. "For the first 48 hours after the accident I thought maybe I am dead and this is some kind of after-life limbo, or some other reality, because I couldn't make sense of it - how I was still here to come through this?" His wife, Kristina, who is also a skydiver, said: "For the moment I'm thinking just of him to recover, so not about jumping or anything like that. "But yeah (I) would like him to stop doing that." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8056599.stm

I've always found the lack of respect from some for Keegan on here, at the games and N-O etc absolutely disgraceful. All Ashley had to do was apologise.

Half the Fulham end has gone on sale today to Toon fans, so I presume they've returned half their tickets. So much for the "mackem invasion"

He is. Xisco

That Toon squad is class. Shame Pedro is too chubby to play nowadays.

Tbf i'm glad Reading aren't coming up. (In the case that we hopefully stay up) I'd rather go to Burnley or Sheff U than Reading for a day out.

.....coming to SJP (maybe). Football stadia part of 2015 bid Millennium Stadium in Cardiff The Millennium Stadium is used for Welsh rugby and football internationals A successful England bid to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup would involve the use of football stadia such as Wembley and Anfield, BBC Sport understands. Full details of the bid will be made public after it is presented to the International Rugby Board on Wednesday. It is understood nine cities will be used for pool matches, with Old Trafford, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and the Emirates also involved. The Rugby Football Union is targeting ticket sales of over three million. RFU chief executive Francis Baron confirmed the bid last week, stating it was "time we brought the tournament back to England". The RFU's five-strong Dublin delegation meeting on Wednesday includes 2003 World Cup winners Lawrence Dallaglio and Will Greenwood, plus Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Other football stadia to be used in pool matches are believed to also include St Mary's stadium in Southampton, Elland Road in Leeds, the Walkers Stadium in Leicester, Coventry City's Ricoh Arena and Newcastle's St James' Park. It is also proposed Twickenham would host the final but for the group games, Gloucester's Kingsholm and Leicester's Welford Road are the only recognised club rugby stadia set to be used. Ireland and Scotland recently pulled out of any co-hosting bid with the RFU, while the decision for England to make a solo bid comes after Twickenham's failure to stage the 2007 World Cup, having lost by a landslide margin to France. England hosted the World Cup in 1991 along with Ireland, Scotland, Wales and France and former England captain Dallaglio is confident his country would provide the perfect stage for the tournament. Other countries in the running are South Africa - hosts in 1995 - Japan and Italy, with bids to host the tournament having to be submitted by 8 May. The IRB will vote on the hosts for both the 2015 and 2019 World Cups on 28 July. New Zealand will stage the 2011 Rugby World Cup. ----------------------------------------------------- I presume they mean the 'new' Anfield there.

Highlights up now on the FA website. One of the Whitley lads hit the bar from 70 yards. Was going in as well till the keeper got a fingertip on it

Hate to be a party pooper like after last night, but Saturday's game is now equally as huge. A win takes us above the mackems, strolling towards safety. However, a defeat would leave us staring relegation in the face. Howay the lads.

The most ridiculous thing of this whole season is knowing that a win tonight would get us out of the relegation zone. This is the biggest game in a generation boys. Tonight we'll see exactly how much NUFC means to players, staff and fans alike.

FT 2-0

2-0 bay

Whitley 1-0 up

The most ridiculous thing about this whole season is knowing that if we win tomorrow night, there's a good chance we'll actually stay up. Says a lot about the "quality" of the premier league.

The joke's on them really, 30 quid to NUFC for every one of those who turn up.