Jimbo

And who was manager in the 2 season after that - Thats right, Sir Bob. The man who couldnt control his players and vertually gave them free reign of the dressing room. 22177[/snapback] One season, where we came 5th. And it wasn't until the beginning of last season where we had that outburst from Dyer. Robson was basically too old and soft to handle that then. He was more of a father-figure than anything to the players, even if they were rough, thuggish, loudmouthed louts. And Dyer later apologised saying he felt guilty about the whole thing. So far we haven't had any direct apologies to Souness, and that whole telling Bellamy he won't play again saga is an example why. 22183[/snapback] I agree, inspiration. Somehow I am convinced Jenas is a truly great player waiting to happen, but its not going to happen under Souness, that's for sure. 22187[/snapback] He hides it well.

More developments with the Owen offer, this is a very brief extract from the back page of tomorrows Sun: It seems we are negotiating a getout clause for Owen should he not be happy at St James's park, one assumes if Owen is not content and a fee is met by say "Liverpool" for example, we would let him go. Madness.

Why would Owen have been in talks with us for hours if he had already agreed to sign for Liverpool ?

Strong story's in tomorrows press regarding the sale of Jermaine Jenas to Spurs, with the injuries to Emre and Dyer, dare we sell Jenas ? or do we cash in on a player that is clearly hugely over rated and seems as if his heart is not in the club ?

From tomorrows Telegraph:

Now watching the MTV awards, its all R&B and bling bling rap shite, Usher, Diddy, Pharrell Williams, Alisha Keyes what a complete pile fucking Dung !

But we are building our team around him.......

Happy days !

My friend Ahmed might be interested.....

errr...if we had kept Bellamy, we probably wouldn't be 2nd bottom of the league... nor would we be in a position of spending millions of pounds to replace him [that we might not have] and could use the money to replace Alan Shearer instead.... 21943[/snapback] More than likely Bellamy would be injured for us as he is for Blackburn at the moment too.

From the official club website:

Both BBC and SKY Sports websites have rephrased their headlines regarding Owen, before they both refered to Owen having talks with Newcastle, now they refer to having talks with Liverpool also today, and BBC say this:

Immitation is the best form of complement.

I've got one, but it wouldn't be the same if I used that now would it ?

SKY Sports news:

Talksport are talking to the SKY sports news reporter at the scene, apparently they all left the venue at 5:45pm after spending at least 2 hours in negotiations.

Are there any popular bands that for some reason just give you a *Whoosh* ? Personally I don't get System of a down, what the fuck is that shit all about ?

Careful now, don't upset the libertarian sandal folk !

Yes, he's got Owen in a headlock whilst Shepherd hits him until he signs the contract! 21614[/snapback] A good old chinese burn, thats whats needed.

Who? 21595[/snapback]

Its Michael Owen we are after, not Derren Brown !

Italian referee Pierluigi Collina has retired after resigning from the Italian Association of Referees (AIA). The 45-year-old had been accused by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) of a conflict of interest after accepting a sponsorship deal. Opel, who also sponsor AC Milan, were to pay Collina £545,000 per year and the FIGC told Collina he would only be able to referee second division games. "After 28 years I've decided to hand in my resignation," said Collina. "People must believe in a referee. In the end, we have all lost out." "I have slept less these last few nights than on the eve of the World Cup final. "For me it wouldn't have been a problem to referee in Serie B, but either they (the FIGC) have faith in us referees or they don't. "If they don't, then we have to go. Without trust we cannot move forward." Collina, who has been voted the world's best referee five times, took charge of the 2002 World Cup final between Brazil and Germany. He was due to retire in the summer but the Italian football association extended the maximum age for referees to 46 to accommodate him for a further year.

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I don't think we'll be getting rid of Sourness yet, even if we did there are still managers that would come to us even if we did. 21186[/snapback] Good ones that would stay the course though? We'd always be able to attract a new manager but we need more than that. 21192[/snapback] Le Guen or Hitzfield? 21193[/snapback] Isn't Le Guen in Turkey ?