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I think we've tended get deals tied up and announced without any rumours (colo, guti etc.) or we've walked away as soon as a club/player starts a public bidding war (Beckford, Perch originally etc)

received her last rites though

Hughton isn't quoted in that "story".

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2...15875-22026530/

Anyone doing better than 2?

Joe Kinnear saw Nolan as our Premier League saviour when he bought him 2 years ago. He was meant to improve our midfield from the limitations of Butt, Smith, Geremi and Duff.

I once woke up in the middle of the night and saw what looked like a little girl stood in my bedroom doorway. It also looked like a trick of the light so I rubbed my eyes and looked properly...and it still looked like a small child so I sat up a bit to get a different perspective and it was still there. I couldn't be arsed to get out of the bed so I just ignored it and went back to sleep.

To be fair to us, they had agreed a loan and went back on that, right?

I'm not too pacicked to tell you the truth. Looking at the performances over the weekend we're no worse than Wigan, West Ham, West Brom, Bolton, Fulham, the Mackems and Birmingham. I'm sure Blackpool won't keep up that form either. I think the stability is worth another 9 points we threw away with our mind on other things when we went down. Doesn't mean anyone should have enjoyed anything about Monday night.

The only comment I made on Harper during the game was that he's no Schmeichel. That bastard would make himself huge as he bore down on anyone squaring up to shoot. He'd do his big star jump with limbs all over the shop. Harper seems to wait for the shot and try to react to it and pull off the save. None of the goals were scored from a range to have a chance at that though.

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/nufc/William...-for.6479246.jp? We lost 3-0 you big Stoke cunt, and you're happy to go to such a "brilliant stadium". Absolutely seriously here, I think we've reached rock bottom. Rock bottom. Hughton clearly has no clue about this club when his players are coming out with remarks like this and he's allowing his players to beg to swap shirts with the "United" players after a humiliation. Rock bottom. Talking like a Premier league tourist as if he plays for Barnsley or Reading.

Cheers Andrew, you tha man. I'll get it from Amazon. It's a couple of quid more but I've read mixed reviews about ebuyer.

Can I get 100gb+ of external storage for under £50 that I don't have to plug into the wall socket? All the flash drives on Amazon seem pretty expensive.

It's D. Not T.

The Shootist John Wayne's last film. Like Unforgiven, it follows a dying outlaw over his last week. I've only seen a few John Wayne films and always thought he was a shite actor. But he's really good in this. James Stewart has a small role in it too. He looks ancient. Hard to believe he lived another 20 years after this was released.

The bouncer?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/t...ers/8920643.stm Christ.

I thought he was good for the first ten minutes. Never thought for a second he could keep it up though.

Unfortunately we don't have a game everyone would expect us to win until after the deadline closes.

There was only one passage of play where Man u pinged it about and made us look as bad as we are. When Berba hit the chance created wide. Other than that, it was us that made them look good. We gave them the ball staright back almost every time we won posession....not because they were chasing and harrasing us particularly, just because our passing was poor or we made no attempt to pass, preferring to hoof it back into their deserted half of the pitch and invite another onslaught.

If only someone could spout some bullshit linking us with Messi. There'd be no stopping us.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...tch-report.html A fairer appraisal of Carroll, less interested in winding up Newcastle fans, from Henry Winter.

Nice goading sir. The bloke's a cock and he's talking shite. The fact "He appears frequently on Fox News Channel" says it all. I agree with him Obama is as unpopular as anyone has beem at this point in his presidency, but to make out that it's because of his lefty socialist agenda is Foxtastic madness. It's because he's gone down the middle on all domestic issues and kept making the same mistakes as the right did on foreign policy. This is the problem with his entire presidency, it legitimises atrocious right wing policy as the norm and he refuses to take a stand against any of it. Me? Surely left-wing dissent is fuel to the fire of the fox-tastic right-wingers? What pissed me off more than anything was the idea that the principles of the 'founding fathers' should be followed when dealing with the complexity of allocating healthcare resources. I think the right-wing strategists have played a blinder and by this, i have to assume that Obama would be even more fucked if he had tried to force through a more socialist programme of reform. Calling centrist policy 'socialism' has allowed the right to keep him in the centre. Agree with all of that. Except Obama being more fucked if he'd done anything he promised on the election trail. The left were apopleptic with what Bush did while in power. It didn't stop him doing any of it. Obama got a majority across the board because of his promises to undo what Bush had screwed up. If he strongly pushed through popular policies the right would be giving him more shit, but his massive support from the left wouldn't be abandoning him altogether like they currently are having been sold a pup. The saddest part of it is that he'd motivated a whole new generation to vote. Young people went out to vote for him like they never did for Kerry....and his actions since getting into power would have done more to disenfranchise those voters than anything Bush did. Even when the guy they voted for and believed in won he pussyfooted around and catered to a right wing faction that were never going to show any bipartisan spirit whatsoever. The biggest mistake was trying to push through a leftist-agenda when the country was / is in economic crisis. Unemployment is now at absurd levels in the US and that more than anything is exposing the democrats to severe pressure. In Tim Harford's fantastic book on economics, he produces some astonishing figures about the US economy. I dont have them to hand but since the 70's the US economy has lost something like 300 million jobs. However, in the same time it created something like 320 millions jobs. A testament to the free market. This year, new job creation in the private sector is completely stalled and unemployment is escalating out of control. This is the prime reason for his drop in popularity imo. The fox-tastic right winger and salon-esque liberals are small constituencies in reality. 'Average voter dude' was always the target for his bi-partisan approach, he wanted to carry middle America with him. Unfortunatley, the economic situation has effected so many of them, he has lost approval from many who should have been carried with him. I'm not sure why those numbers are anything to be particularly proud of. There may be 20 million extra jobs, but in the 70's the majority of the 300 million jobs paid enough that a man could support his stay at home wife and their kids. The 320 million jobs there are now rarely pay enough so that a man and his wife can support themselves and an only child when they both have full time jobs. They're fast food & Wall-mart jobs that pay a pittance but that deparate people have to accept. It's the shame of the free market that people don't get a fair days pay for a fair days work because the stock price of Wall-mart is more important than it's people....and their workers are forced to take credit at outrageous terms to drive the banks stock-price up.....which leads to financial collapse that the people with slightly better jobs have to pay for. The wealth doesn't trickle down from the top, the shit piles up from the bottom.

So Carroll is finished? He only gets one chance and he's done for? What if he'd put away the header? Would he be on the road to greatness? I saw Berbatov waste the move of the game when he shot 15 feet wide from 6 feet out. Rooney too, hit a low flying plane from six yards out. Is that the sort of clinical finishing he must have? Carroll never stopped running. His movement alone to get himself the free header would have had the fat pig drooling if it was Drogba. One of the few plusses for us on the night.

Barton is a twat, and I don't like his "woe is me" attitude, but which other players get a write-up dedicated to them like this because they received a booking? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...s-notebook.html Dick.