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Think Neville for all the praise he gets is too concerned with the top teams, I agree with Murphy, Seedorf is canny as well but was more concentrating on domestic football.

I call loads of these pundits and give them stick as the majority range from mediocre to ear-bleedingly bad, however credit to Gary McCallister, always comes across decent and doesn't ignore sides outside the golden circle of media favourites.

A couple more of Pardews recent fawts on...... Transfers: “I don’t think I’m going to lose a big player and I certainly hope – fingers crossed after Andy Carroll – that continues. “The last two or three years, we’ve lost key players and the ones who’ve gone in just haven’t been able to carry the flag. We feel we’ve done good business this summer though and we’ve got a good solid team.” The Cups: “Perhaps, at board level, we say what other boards don’t say in that the Premier League is the be all and end all because of the TV money, you cannot hide from that. We’re not hiding from it, we’ve actually said it, perhaps to our detriment but we have said it, that is our priority. Of course we want to win a cup and our fans want to win a cup.” I take the transfer talk to be we aren't buying again and might sell a regular starter. The cups bit doesn't exactly fill you with optimism, it's like me saying on a personal level my priority has to be to the Wife as that is where the bread and butter is and I've got her tied down to a contract, but of course I'd like to sleep with Kirsty Gallacher as well.

"Madame and Monsieur, each golden chocolate represents a failed bid by Le Ambassodor for a centre forward, please take one."

"Monsieur Pardoo, with all these chances you are spoiling us."

Take your pic who to laugh at.

Not many.

Going to watch 'What if' tonight with the missus. Don't go to the pictures much and it's always the bairns choice or something the wife wants to watch. Can't wait.

We're not creating that many chances.

No chance of getting the Celtic lad, we're not a big enough club again.

He's accusing you of being an ex- Soviet spy, he's just a dyslexic.

No team building here. Sell on value squad is what we have. Pardew making us into a hard to beat team at best.

Never mind CT, we were shit and played for a bonus 3 points. Clueless manager, Riveire might be canny in support of a proper striker. Cabella no better than Ben Arfa.

Never mind CT, we were shit and played for a bonus 3 points. Clueless manager, Riveire might be canny in support of a proper striker. Cabella no better than Ben Arfa.

Kudos to Ayatolloh's season as well. There was no young kids, bright lights novelty about our first season back up as we'd only been away for a season, however the twatting of Villa and the Mackems were both a bit special and a couple of wrongs were made very right those days. (Even better being near both set of fans in L7).

By the way, not sure if it was the season before promotion, but at Grimsby it was nearing kick off and another big following was making its way from the bars to the turnstiles apart from one mortal looking bloke with a tache who was singing Newcastle songs but heading the opposite way, he just wouldn't have it when he was told he was going the wrong way and he continued on his way shaking hands with people and smiling and waving.

'83-'84 as a young lad of ten/eleven was great even though I only got to the match once that year in what must have been our only home defeat v Shrewsbury. My favourite season is probably the '92-'93 promotion year under KK as I was then a carefree young adult and had just witnessed the chasm of the abyss we just managed to avoid by going down to the 3rd division. The shiny new PL was new and sky were bullshitting it up just for a change. The biggest gate in England on the the opening day of the super duper sky sponsored greedy bastards league was in the division below at St. James' Park where 28,000 people, (minus the flask and blanket Brigade), got absolutely drenched in the roofless terraces to watch a side who'd just avoided relegation to the third tier take on Southend Utd. It only took a few games to realise this was the start of something special, I'd never seen us play like this before and it was an absolute pleasure. The end of the back pass to the keeper rule came into effect and it suited our game down to a tee where others struggled to cope and panicked when put under pressure at the back. The only downside to this season was near the backend of it I was made redundant and had to curtail my away games but I managed to get to some great games that year, beating PL Boro away 3-1 in the cup with for once a big following thanks to cup ticket allocation rules, (Ayresome Park wasn't a happy hunting ground at the time), Roker Park and the start of a great winning record down there thanks to Liam O'Brien, Derby away was our first away game and great revenge for our 4-1 reverse only a couple months ago, they moved us from behind the goal to the side of the pitch between games but the atmosphere was still electric and the same thing happened with those Derby kids playing football getting chased after the game. Had some great away days around this period including three of us staying in Sidcup for the Charlton game played at Upton Park. We met a few kids from there on holiday and stayed with the Spurs fan out of them, the rest were Charlton, a 3-1 win, thousands down there, the poor Charlton kids desperately taking us to different 'Charlton' bars only to see each one stowed off with Pissed, loud singing black & whites and back in Sidcup later on that night to give the unsuspecting female population the entire back catalogue of Sid the Sexist quotes, eg. in a chinkies Chinese at the end of the night to lasses wanting to hear our accent, 'Do you like Chinese food, then, love?", "Yeah I lahve it", "Whey come an chow mien then.". "They're nice ear rings pet, do you like jewelry then?" "Yeah". "Well tek a look at this, it's a fucking Gem." etc, etc. (Would've got you a slap in the Toon, but err, didn't down there that night). The night at Grimsby where thousands managed to get in and we probably outnumbered the home fans was a fitting way to round the season off as champs and get us promoted, David Kelly slotting in the winner almost a year after he scored the late winner v Pompey to give us hope of staying up. Fantastic season and quite funny seeing the states of our large following taking over places like Peterborough which was another great day out in the sun.

Man U cast offs, eh? Apart from being overpriced and generally poor, what could go wrong?

If ever there's an away game I fancy us in its these. Unless we're absolutely dire we tend to do ok here. 2-1 to us.

I'm schizophrenic and so am I.

There's a bloke drinks with us, lovely lad, but his hair is almost cast iron, it never moves, even in a gale. His fringe is funnier than Edinburgh's.

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