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I was formally made manager of my team in November. It came with no extra money and despite me saying I didn't want extra responsibilities and they should find someone else.

Merely a padawn. Kinnear's still got twice as many manager of the month awards.

I like Brand, but the column inches and airtime dedicated to the sideshow of him and Farage is all just entertaining filler. None of it has any meaning whatsoever. Farage is on channel 4 with Steph and Dom off Gogglebox next week ffs. Brands job is promoting his book on chatty man and wossy. Giving the charade any credence on question time bestows it with an importance it doesn't deserve and takes actual policy issues off the agenda. Brand calling someone "love" should not be the major political story of the day and never should be.

In the last 10 years, the points total for the 10th placed team after 15 games has been remarkably consistent. 21 19 21 19 19 20 20 19 22 22

There are no trains full of mackems being arranged. They'll be coming all morning on different metro's, mingled with shoppers. If you and a few mates were going up Sunderland for a derby and walking from Pallion, would you get wrecked on the way and mouthy with the mams going to Dunelm when you arrived, or would you just have a few beers and a coat over your colours?

From the .com write up above.. So there will be no no concentrated mass of mackems acting as a focal point, baiting everyone as they go and attracting the biggest nobheads from Newcastle that feel the need to release their pent up frustration on someone who lives and supports a team from down the road. But there will be as many police as usual reacting to any pockets of violence that do inevitably erupt.

There will be a police presence. And a heavy one. They just won't be in riot gear and forming a cordon between fans.

I dont like fans complaining about other fans behaving like animals and all fans being treated as such by extension. I have faith that the minority will be small. Its odd to see people complain about dry trains and insist fans should be trusted, but then reverse themselves and say 'no the fuckheads do ruin it fir everyone and you SHOULD police us strongly on our travels'

That video was made when there were police escorts in place. It makes for a more venemous atmosphere. I know lads myself who make sure to go and bait the mackems arriving and leaving, even though they would never actually be interested in having a fight in a million years.

I'm certain there will be bother. There's bother now though and police can't break ranks to nip it in the bud. They stand in a line they can't break to keep fans apart. All they need to do is target trouble makers and 98% of the other pricks will drop their arse without that line of protection between them and opposition fans.

From .com I've said for years that the policing approach recently causes more disturbances. Mackems covering up their colours and arseholes having police protection remopved will lead to fewer scenes IYAM. What fights do break out can be dealt with, but it's rare at any match not to have several arrests. Amazed at the reaction on Twitter being complete disbelief that we'd even consider fans being treated like grown ups.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/TRAILER-TRASH Out in January. The trailer is available to view at the link

Sterling dances a fucking jig on live TV for every goal he reports on for Hartlepool. The partial wanker.

Play him on the right to accommodate haidara up front.

Pardew needs 2 points from Chelsea, Arsenal, Mackems and Man U to avoid his lowest 38 game total at nufc. 38/38 his lowest so far, 36/34 recently

He never got much of a chance to prove himself in the top division. That run included the first 2 months back in the Premier League as well like.

We've been in the second tier a few times before too.

The 85 points in 38 games to 18 Sept 2010 was the most fruitful run in nufc postwar history. 3 months later Mike Ashley sacked Chris Hughton.

Good stuff I've been listening to that Kate Tempest. White Speech Debelle.

When they played clips of her haranguing jay on the stand I completely understood why Syed is serving life. Any Jury would hate her, and as syed never got a chance to talk to the jury he had no chance to be sympathetic. Not listened to the latest one yet though.

Happy birthday

Burnley tickets on sale to members, with an unmentioned price hike added on for you. Half Season tickets sales must have gone well.

Belated happy birthday