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Seems strange for the club to bring the Olympics into it when the official 2012 pitch was sold on the back of St James' Park, and the official site still refers to it as such.... http://www.london2012.com/st-james-park In this sense, the council are spot on to ask media outlets to refer to the ground using the same terms thousands of visitors to the region have had it sold to them, for an event which will bring in more commercial income for the club and the region than any Sports Direct name change.

Give it to Sammy Lee.

Living up to the Alan Partridge namesake there. We EVOLVE but we don't REVOLVE. Lovely turn of phrase.

Dreamed I went to see Led Zeppelin in LA last night. Unfortunately i never got as far as the gig. I was outside buying tour hoddies off Simon Cowell. As the dream went on they got bigger and bigger. In the end I had my heart set on a John Boham one that was like 2 Persian rugs stitched together down one side with a head hole in the middle. I spent ages worrying about whether the people I stood next to in the gig would complain about the size of my turning circle in a rigid top the size of a goal mouth. Then I saw a Dave Grohl top. He was playing with them it seems, not sure how cos he was dead. the top had the years of his life as 1972-2005. I was gutted I hadn't even heard he was dead. Still a bit morose about it when I woke up. Poor Dave.

The madness continues… http://m.rollingston...on-ifc-20120321 New episodes of Trapped in the Closet Jebus! The first series lost it's appeal after the first few episodes

Total Matchday Revenue is £24.25m Season Ticket Revenue is £11.8m Single Ticket revenue is £7.1m Corporate box revenue is £4.2m Other matchday revenue is £1.1m At the very lowest you'd estimate (7.1/(11.8+4.2)) 44% of all attendees have season tickets, assuming (wrongly) one to one, same price paid for corporate as matchday tickets. Average attendance was 47,746, so that would give you 21,008 Season tickets absolute minimum. As the corporate is such a small number of people paying way over the odds, I'd be more inclined to remove them altogether and say it's a more realistic minimum of 7.1/11.8 = 60% season ticket holders which would be over 28,000. The average person going to every game pays £507 a year, wherever they sit.

Black and white and referee and Liverpool and Sky and BBC and Guardianista and Daily Mail tinted glasses.

Leazes, imagine your daughter is marrying a penny pinching twat who's quite well off but never gets a round in and has bought her a crappy ring. Do you give him the benefit of the doubt for her sake and enjoy the wedding or during your father of the bride speech do you tell everyone the couple will never be happy long term as he is a prick and time will show that you were right? ....and repeat this to her every single day for the rest of her life as they produce fine grandchildren. Texting her when she's not about to tell face to face.

What would he know?

Two such contrasting views from one person. On the subject of him though, this fella reckons he doesn't score many important goals and is something of an underperformer as a result. http://www.soccerstatistically.com/expected-points-added/

...though England were 9th in the latest UEFA rankings http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/Respect/01/74/16/83/1741683_DOWNLOAD.pdf

There's a few clubs above us in the league doing well in the fair play table.... http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/fair-play.html Let's hope Swansea start seeing red a bit more.

UEFA Champions League The top four teams in the Barclays Premier League qualify for the UEFA Champions League. English winners of the UEFA Champions League finishing outside the top four places (but who qualify for the UEFA Europa League through their domestic Barclays Premier League position) go forward as Winners to the group stage along with domestic champions, runners-up and third place. No extra domestic place can be gained by winning the UEFA Champions League, therefore the team finishing fourth drops to the UEFA Europa League. English winners of the UEFA Champions League who do not qualify through their domestic position go forward as Winners to the group stage, with the team finishing fourth dropping to the UEFA Europa League. In this case, the national association of the title-holder is entitled to one additional place in the UEFA Europa League. UEFA Europa League There are three places in the UEFA Europa League available: the FA Cup winners will enter at the Group Stage; the fifth place team in the Barclays Premier League will enter at the Play-Off stage; and the Football League Cup winners will enter at the Q3 stage. In the event the FA Cup winners are qualified for the UEFA Champions League the FA Cup runners-up will qualify, but in the place reserved for the lowest ranking Barclays Premier League representative. The place with direct access to the Group Stage will be given to the club that finishes in the highest position in the Barclays Premier League of the clubs qualifying for the UEFA Europa League. English winners of the UEFA Europa League will enter at the Group Stage, gaining an extra domestic place only if they fail to qualify through other means for the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League. If the holders of the UEFA Europa League have already qualified for Europe, no extra domestic place will be gained. Should the FA Cup winners, runners-up (if applicable) and the Football League Cup winners already have qualified for Europe, their place goes to the next best placed clubs in the Premier League. Fair Play winners enter at the Qualifying round 1 stage. This place will automatically go the three best-placed national associations in the UEFA Respect fair play rankings provided they achieve an average of 8.0 points or more. The top three associations will then be entitled to enter the club that has either won their domestic top-division fair play competition, or if they are already qualified, the runners-up and so forth. http://www.premierle...play-in-europe/

I couldn't agree more mate.......Chezney wouldn't have it though. Threw a proper blobstrop when I suggested it. You had it down as £7.5m and wouldnt even accept it was £9m. Caulkin goes with £10m, so do loads of sources. Oh aye, that was it. Sorry petal.

We'll just conjure up another Ben Arfa then.

We took a scouser to the game with us, I said Reina's head was soft and Perch went down like a fanny...he wouldn't have any sort of excuses though, said Reina only has himself to blame and the ref had no choice. Lad at work this morning was saying Carroll should have been sent off, I had to explain that rule is a booking for a dive.

I couldn't agree more mate.......Chezney wouldn't have it though. Threw a proper blobstrop when I suggested it.

...also if we maintain the 1.7 points per game average we've had over entire season then we will finish on 65 points. Something we've only managed 4 times in all our 38 game seasons. Better totals were '96(78), '97(68), '02(71) and '03(69)....none of which would have got us into 2nd place this year like they did then.

The average premier league points return over 14 years under the previous regime was 59. 2 wins from matching them. Is that including the 42 game seasons? Aye, but using the points per game those seasons to work out a 38 game total only reduces the average to 58 points.

The average premier league points return over 14 years under the previous regime was 59. 2 wins from matching them.

Leazes is flying round his hut in slow motion trying to type.

He's a black Peter Lorre

This only requires a yes or no answer. Thanks to our new found buying policy, we have. Leazes right again.