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drogba gives Chelsea a good chance. Wouldn't mind them doing it, keep their mind on Europe.

When the chief exec is putting it out there that we want a better bench rather than a better first team I think it suggests we're happy with the starting 11. Hopefully it's all smoke and mirrors to drive a hard bargain on world class signings.

Can't see any report of it. Rumour at the end Of Feb was that Villa were going to take him.

23 of which are contracted to be here next season... Coloccini Santon Cabaye Simpson Williamson Barton Guthrie Cisse Ben Arfa Lovenkrands Abeid Perch Gosling RTaylor Smith Gutierrez Barton Best Marveaux ShAmeobi Tiote Obertan Krul STaylor SAmeobi Vuckic Ferguson Elliot

A group of Washington insiders including Rudy Giuliani, Howard Dean, Michael Mukasey, Ed Rendell, Andy Card, Lee Hamilton, Tom Ridge, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark, Michael Hayden, John Bolton, Louis Freeh and Fran Townsend are under investigation for providing material support to an Iranian Terrorist organisation. http://www.salon.com/2012/03/12/washingtons_high_powered_terrorist_supporters/singleton/ Shame they won't get the jail time they push on others.

George's Marvellous Medecine Bit of an abrupt end, but can funny the way Mrs Kranky gets over her mothers disappearance so easily. The BFG Just started, but quite scary for a few chapters before he tells Sophie he is friendly.

Not sure what we're even arguing about then. We have almost a squad of players out of contract.... Danny Guthrie Peter Lovenkrands Alan Smith Ryan Donaldson Ole Soderberg James Tavernier Tamas Kadar Phil Airey Michael Richardson Conor Newton Brad Inman Samuel Adjei Stephen Folan Jeff Henderson Patrick Nzuzi They've played little between them anyway, so drop them out of the equation. Harper, Forster and Xisco seem to be done too, without any iinvolvement this season, so drop them out. Considering all that, out first team squad is down to 19 bodies. We can all agree, the players on the books are too many, but you have to say the players pushing the first team are too few as well. If our plan is to lose all of the above deadweight, but just replace them with a few slightly better players, to flesh out the reserves that's desparately disappointing.

it says something, when a supporter of another club makes a post superior in every way to anything you have ever posted. I see now, lavish Leazes with praise and he's as nice as pie. What a star, and 100% right about everything ever written.

Which I acknowledged here > http://www.toontasti...ost__p__1050284 The point being that the squad has the bodies, too many of them deadweight and we could easily cut down the number while building a stronger group. If we do nothing, we're down to a 22 man squad. We should be buying 3 first team quality players and selling no-one in order to improve the bench and to have a squad that can compete. For every one sold on top of that, an improvement should be brought in.

They certainly manage the top 4, which is more than you can say for the league. http://www.caughtoffside.com/2011/07/24/the-most-hated-teams-in-the-premier-league-the-results-are-in/17/

Guthrie, Smith, Lovenkrands & Kadar are all out of contract in June.

The new "How much is a boiler?".

We've just bulked our squad out with under 21s who don't contribute to the 25 man rule and are barely considered for games. What you left with when you remove Ranger, Vuckic, Abeid, Sammy, Ferguson, Kadar...

The FA cup final winners will get £1.8m. A semi finalist gets £450k we got to the 4th round where it's £90k. Make it £10m and a champions league place. It would soon be as important as it was in the 50's again.

go for the truth. I can't help it if they can't take it. Are you saying people should get banned for having an opinion ? What if time proves it to be indisputably correct ? This time last year, Toonpac was saying re. the Carroll cash, "wait until after the summer deadline" before knocking the ambitions. No I wasn't [big brother voice]Who's right? You decide![/big brother voice] If there's been a policy change, it'll be evident by 1/9 and if that happens it'll be safe to accept that it was down to the Carroll money. http://www.toontasti...680#entry926680 The club now has money, this summer it should use that money, I've said that all along. The sale of Carroll (at that price) was absolutely too good to turn down. We wait to see if that good is undone (or not). http://www.toontasti...487#entry926487 In terms of the financials, this summer is his first chance. It's also his only chance, because it will truly define his policy. We had no money man http://www.toontasti...517#entry905517 Summer 2011 spend... Out Kevin Nolan -£4,000,000 Wayne Routledge -£2,000,000 Jose Enrique -£6,000,000 In Yohan Cabaye £4,300,000 Gabriel Obertan £3,250,000 Rob Elliot £100,000 Davide Santon £5,300,000 Total = £650k spend

I think he's been removed along with all of his tweets.

Some Arsenal supporting prick was calling Tiote a monkey on Twitter yesterday too. Tiote retweeted and said he reported it like, so we'll see how that goes.

I think people's desires to see Liverpool lose is more to do with that club, rather than them competing for the same league position. That's a mackems trick It's important to people on here that Carroll isn't seen to have made a sensible choice.

Richard Keys is Roger Mellie. Andy Gray Sid The Sexist.

If Peter Crouch can go from Southampton to Liverpool without being overawed by the shit tip that is Anfield, i don't think he has to worry that's the problem with Andy Carroll.

Well, it's a buzzing thing, isn't it. "A buzzing thing."

Had the desired effect then. Ignore the Chead.

JONAS GUTIERREZ has questioned the character of Robin van Persie after accusing the Premier League's leading goalscorer of over-stepping the mark during Newcastle United's stoppage-time defeat to Arsenal. The Football Association could still come down hard on both clubs for the way Monday night's meeting at the Emirates boiled over in the immediate aftermath of Thomas Vermaelen's last-gasp winner. Vermaelen's goal sparked unsavoury scenes in a passionate game when van Persie squared up to Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul, creating a situation where almost every player on the pitch became involved. Even when referee Howard Webb had issued the two players with yellow cards after restarting a game which had to be delayed for a few minutes, the two Dutch internationals had to be separated as they walked down the tunnel together. There remains a feeling the situation stemmed from van Persie – who could be seen regularly trying to block his compatriot's drop kicks – being fed up at the length of time Krul took to clear the ball. Allegations of time-wasting were refuted by Newcastle manager Alan Pardew. But Gutierrez was furious with Arsenal's exceptionally talented captain. He said: “Van Persie was wrong. There was no need for him to do that - Arsenal won the game, it was finished. I can't understand a person like that. It is not right. When you feel like that it's because you are not a good person. “I don't care about the football, I'm talking about (Robin van Persie) the person. When you have people who do that, it's not right. “We are all used to getting kicks, it's a sport of contact. But when you have things like that, it is not right - it is not easy to accept. “He was the only Arsenal player who reacted like that. The others were saying to him 'calm down, calm down'. “When you do that the fans go crazy as well, so it's no good for the atmosphere of the sport. It didn't help the game - both sets of fans are having a good evening, they're enjoying the game. He made a big mistake.” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger floated the idea both players could have had a previous disagreement during their time away together with the Holland national team. Despite hailing from rival Dutch cities the Hague and Rotterdam, however, sources across the North Sea insist there are not known to have been any previous feuds between the pair. But Gutierrez, knowing how incensed the normally cool Krul was, thinks the Newcastle goalkeeper should not be the man to blame for the spat. “There didn't seem to be any reason for van Persie to do that,” said Gutierrez. “Well done to Tim for staying calm. In a second you can lose your mind but we have to stay focused. “I was pleased with Tim, you have to think of the next game and the rest of the season at that moment. It is no good to have a reaction and get a three game ban or something like that. Tim went to react but then he calmed down, which was very good.” Aside from the events surrounding van Persie and Krul, the fact remained that Newcastle had lost in North London, extending a winless run to four games ahead of Sunday's visit of Norwich City to Tyneside. And while the Gunners closed the gap to third-placed Tottenham to a point, Newcastle are left eight points shy of the final Champions League spot with ten matches remaining. The onus now, according to Pardew, is securing a place in the Europa League. For that to happen, the Magpies need a return to winning ways sooner rather than later. There were plenty of positives to be taken from the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal, but Gutierrez does not think they should be reflecting on the performance of Hatem Ben Ara or the team's defending. He would rather put the wrongs of Monday night right. “It is hard to get nothing when you play as hard as we did against Arsenal,” said the Argentina international. “But this is football - you never know what is going to happen. That is why it is the best sport in the world. “You never know what is going to happen, if you saw Arsenal's last game against AC Milan (when they won 3-0) you would think they would have had an easy night against us. But they didn't. “We played well, we defended well but we have to play better with the ball next time. We need to analyse the mistakes that we made, the defensive mistakes and make sure we never make those mistakes again.” Pardew will monitor the fitness of midfielder Cheik Tiote and Danny Simpson over the next few days. Both players struggled in the latter stages of Monday's dramatic fixture with cramp and fatigue respectively.

No idea. Maybe NUFC didn't like their physio talking trash about the club online and put a stop to it.

When I see a dull as fuck back and forth like Davey and LM were having, where Davey incessantly pushes Leazes for details he's NEVER going to give (because he's not interested in coming to a mutual agreement, he's interested in the argument), then I try to step in like the self appointed (Fish style) Toontastic board of arbitration. LM was spot on, some people did prefer Williamson over Taylor. LM was talking shite, no-one booed a 5th place finish. If it comes across as contrary then it's not intentional at all. I just try to find the details being argued and nip the tedious bollocks in the bud with something more interesting than "fuck off Leazes!" or "answer the question!"