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http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcas...72703-26248635/ I based who gets one on current appearances. No one in the list that gets them has played less than 10 games though, so it'd be unfair for Barton take one of theirs. As the article says though...they can try to apply for more.

Never had a bad word for Ameobi.

Rooney - 24 Milner - 24 Fabregas - 22 Hart - 22 "young" player of the year nominees I was thinking that, there should be a rule that once you've played 150 top flight games you're ruled out, Rooney's been playing top flight football for 7/8 years, Milner and Fabrigas for 6. Having said that, no decent youngsters are springing to mind as there doesn't seem to be the next round of younsters setting the scene alight as in pervious years. My vote would probably be for Jack Rodwell, but beyond that all I can think of is: Kalinic at Blackburn, Wiltshere at Bolton, Junior Stanislas/Collison at West Ham, Raffael at ManU maybe Adam Johnson. ....Carroll at Newcastle...

They've said we only get 16 medals... One each for... Harper Coloccini Enrique S.Taylor R.Taylor Nolan Guthrie Simpson Williamson Smith Gutierrez Butt Routledge Carrol Ameobi Lovenkrands None for... Hall (played 6) Barton (6) Kadar (6) Pancrate (5) Best (5) Ranger (4) Harewood played 9, Aanholt 7, Khiznishvili 6, Geremi 3, Duff 1

Rooney - 24 Milner - 24 Fabregas - 22 Hart - 22 "young" player of the year nominees

Hilary Andersson investigates detention at Bagram on BBC Radio 4 at 2002 on 11 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8621973.stm

That's crying out for the Kutiman treatment...

Needs some Premier League badges on it.

Milner to win young player of the year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/e...rem/8622316.stm

Do you think there's a clear split in the bottom 12 teams in terms of quality? Which teams in the bottom 12 are a cut above the rest? The top 8 are a tough nut to crack. Everton, Spurs or Villa might drop down to the bottom half for the odd season but you'd never imagine any of them being relegated (a bit like us 5 years ago). But after that group I see it as a pretty even fight between 12 clubs who can all afford to spend about £20m each per season. We should aim to win that fight, no? Also, are we weaker than when we got relegated? I agree we're weaker than we were at the start of that season. But we were a total shambles both on and off the pitch come January. I think the squad we have now would have (at least) run villa a lot closer than we did on the last day of the season.

Where has 7th come from? I think I mentioned I'd rather aim for 7th than 17th but that was more to do with the poetry in the phrase than being what I really though was possible. It's not unrealistic to aim to emulate Stoke, Birmingham or Fulham next season though is it? 9th or 10th? Stoke and Birmmingham spent around £20m each since last summer. Fulham spent....less.

Fundamentalism is the belief in the original form of a (religion or) theory, without accepting any later ideas. Dawkins and Hitchens are exactly the opposite. They insist on shaping views based on facts as they come to light. What's the antonym of Fundamentalist? Revisionist?

Tory policy provide university and further education scholarships for the children of servicemen and women killed while on active duty So you need to die to secure it? What a vote winner. We'll all be joining up and scouring the roadsides for bombs to trod on. Begin spending cuts in 2010 to eliminate "the bulk" of the UK's structural deficit within five years..... ....protect the defence budget for 2010-11. Why is it social spending can always be cut, but never defence?

Leon Best to go on a run of 3 hat-tricks and prove the doubters wrong.

Manifestos.... Tory Labour Lib Dem If you want to print them off for some bed-time reading

The best post in this thread. Give some examples of them being annoying. Have they ever said that religious people were less than human? (as Cormac O'Connor said about Atheists) Have they ever ignored the deaths of millions of South Americans and said they were "crying out for Christ" before conquest like Ratzinger? Most importantly, if either of them forced themselves upon thousands of little boys sexually would they still be free to preach their brand of dogma?

To be fair to Berbatov he's played 60 games for Man U and scored in over a third of them. Dunno how much they'll recoup if they were to sell in the summer (I'd hoy in a cheeky £10m bid ) but there's no way they could have let City buy him and admit to being the second biggest club in Manchester.

If any one of them calls the other a dick they'll win my vote.

I can't see any dust. Blatantly a cover story. The mother ship is obviously hovering above the clouds as we speak.

Adam and Joe are supposed to be back later in the year. I get the feeling it won't happen with Joe's film stuff going well. But Count Buckules now has his own podcast Adam' Buxton's Big Mixtape

25 games in 3 years for £17m And we thought Owen was a shit deal.

For a moment I thought you were talking about '97 Keegan then I realised you must have meant '08 Keegan cos the previous board always backed the manager

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2008 Giro d'Italia champion Alberto Contador intends to skip the Giro to better focus on the Tour de France, just as he did in 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Giro_d'Italia

Giro dItalia 2010 - Winner Cadel Evans 3.45 Franco Pellizotti 4.3 Ivan Basso 5.3 Carlos Sastre 7.6 Michele Scarponi 15 Damiano Cunego 14.5 Xavier Tondo 21 Stefano Garzelli 20 Alexandre Vinokourov 20 Domenico Pozzovivo 40 Marzio Bruseghin 40 Jean Christophe Peraud 40 Christian Vande Velde 4 Bradley Wiggins 8 Gianpaolo Caruso 50 Tadej Valjavec 100 Francesco Masciarelli 60 Sylvester Szmyd 20 Jose Serpa 30 Rigoberto Uran 50 Kevin Seeldraeyers 40 David Arroyo 50 Leonardo Bertagnolli 50 Paolo Tiralongo 30 Branislau Samoilau 50 Andriy Grivko 50 Daniel Martin 40 Konstantin Siutsou 40 Frederik Kessiakoff 50 Gustav Erik Larsson 48 Bauke Mollema 60 Eros Capecchi 100 Riccardo Ricco 15 http://sports.betfair.com/