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Shepherd & souness? LOLapalooza

Funny how people are much more philisophical about losing top players when we're doing well than when we're struggling. Would have thought it'd be the other way round.

Being in a side that can win the CL is more attractive than one happy just to qualify.

Nae bother, similar sort of sensibility as The Beta Band and (currently) DjangoDjango.

Sunshine Hit Me and Free The Bees are great. The former was Mercury nominated 10 years back...but they never really gained particularly much popularity from it. Full album.... http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Sunshine+Hit+Me/184226

Pass Dubuchy to the left hand side. Santon can play on the right then.

Underrated and overhyped? Difficult trick to pull off. If we're talking underappreciated current British bands I'm going to go for the Bees. Said as much in the listening thread the other day, but they've done some excellent stuff and still play tiny little venues.

Soz Andy, Merged 10 existing AM threads though

I don't worry about them stopping the game at all either. I just enjoy close decisions. Half the joy of the game is laughing at other clubs that lose out on these decisions and the pain of falling victim to them. Without that the sport is little better than cricket with it's polite applause and lack of hatred for the referees. It's the basis of 24 hour a day Sky Sports news, there's a reason the cricket only gets 30 seconds in an hour on SSN, no talking points. Also, cup competitions are played at amateur and professional grounds. France has a HUGE domestic cup. Will all matches be played with goal-line technology or only the ones at big clubs?

Not really particularly great, but the 2 for £10 deal made a few CDs cheaper than can be found online, so these 6 were £30.... The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Air - 10,000 Hz Legend Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Battles - Mirrored Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full Wild Flag - Wild Flag The other 5 were a tenner from That's Entertainment. They do loads of old CDS geet cheap...they even have a 6 for £5 section which would be canny if you didn't already have everything that was any good among them.

The NUFC annual 2011/2012. 50p in HMV £40 of CD's:- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Air - 10,000 Hz Legend De La Soul - 3 Feet high and rising Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Battles - Mirrored Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full Wild Flag - Wild Flag Rufus Wainwright - Want One Status Quo - greatest hits Rod Stewart greatest Hits ....1 more I forget 13 return train tickets Newcastle to Manchester - £650

Moyes' £5m+ signings in 10 years at the club.... £15,000,000 Marouane Fellani £11,250,000 Yakubu £10,000,000 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov £8,600,000 Andy Johnson £6,000,000 Nikica Jelavic £6,000,000 Johnny Heitinga £6,000,000 Leighton Baines £6,000,000 James Beattie £5,000,000 Joleon Lescott £5,000,000 Per Kroldrup

Bad week for the US "war on terror".... http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-18030105

In all seriousness, TV has changed the game more than the other way around I think. Although the entire Sky pay TV model was built on the back of securing Premier league coverage and the customer base that came with it, that was always going to be the way TV went I think. Football rules seem to be changed significantly every few year to try and place the emphasis on attack, on goals and on making it faster, (Offside rule changed to give advantage to attacker in line with defender then the no pass back rule introduced then no tackling from behind then the offside rule changed to cut out anyone "not interfering with play", now the attacker has to touch the ball to be offside etc.) even if it leads to massive confusion for officials and viewers. I might be daft, but I think that's down to the demands of the mass TV audience, rather than the dedicated matchgoer. Now they want to introduce video replays. Having caused this level of confusion to what were clear cut rules, rather than go back they're looking to add more changes to try and rectify it. As a fan at St James' without jumbo screens I can't watch the replay, so they're catering to the home viewer there....despite the FA cup "over the line" debate which raged for half an hour going to show there's no certainty, and a strong referee making a call for better or worse is preferable every day of the week.

@YourService We'll finish 7th Deano We'll finish 7th Ewerk We'll finish 8th Stevie We'll finish 7th Tiote's Nutz We'll finish 7th Toonotl We'll finish 7th JonTheMag Cabaye will have at least 7 assists (Premier League fantasy game says 8, whoscored.com says 6. I'm going to give it). Ben Arfa will make less than 15 league appearances (He's on 15 after the late surge) By the end of the season, at least half of our starting 11 will speak French [Cabaye, Tiote, Ben Arfa, Ba, Cisse, Marveaux, Obertan - I'll give it, though only 5 are starters] Lovenkrands and Best will be our starting forwards for at least one league game. Vuckic, Ferguson, and Sammy Ameobi will score their first Premier League goals for us this season. Ranger will not.

I'd like England to go all the way and every English international to come back fucked for the start of the new season. I'd like France and Holland to bomb out in the group stages, preferably with our boys only coming off the bench sporadically to score last minute consolation goals of incredible quality.

It's global. As an inherently racist institution (and perennial league underachievers) LFC are struggling to maintain their global brand as much as Africa friendly Arsenal.

Difficult for a young whippersnapper and Keegan bandwagoner like me to comment too much because I only have limited recollections of Pre-Sky football. That said, the day St and Greavsie were pulled off the air was the day football went from boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts (isn't it? Hmm?) to Fifa on the x-box and a shite national team. ...and Greavsie called it that way at the time too to be fair. He said on that last show that Sky "would never work", it was more of a shout really, much too loud for live tv, caused his microphone to peak badly, the pong of whisky hanging over him evident even to those of us watching at home waiting for Big Daddy versus Kendo Nagasaki on the wrestling. We went from Italia '90, still the best England performance at a tournament in many of our lifetimes....to USA '94....shit!

I never pounced on owt. "Here we fucking go again" suggested to me some (non-mod) posters were concerned about a thread descending again. I said where I thought the first overeaction was, for the record, if it was going to. Seems to me it hasn't though, LM and TP have moved on. All good.

Getting defensive over an idiom that's over half a century old. Jesus wept.

By the same token...the foreskin.

The lobeless look odd.

Remember something about that from biology GCSE. Did it do anything when we lived in caves and dined on brontosaur burgers and grass?