Dr Gloom

we're surely one of the best qualified nations to host a world cup. we've got the stadiums, the history and all the games will be well attended. just look at the quality of the stadiums to choose fom wembley (90,000) old trafford (73,00) and probably around 80,000+ by the time of that world cup emerates (60,000) new liverpool stadium (60,000+) st james (52,000) possibly rising to 60,000 if we extend the gallowgate city of manchester stadium (48,000) stadium of shite (48,000) villa park (42,000) stamford bridge (42,000) then you've got your swanky new modern grounds for the smaller games - st mary's, pride park, reebok stadium, walker's stadium etc

Lazy bastid. He was meeting with fans who write fanzines and websites. He spoke about the structure of the debt that was different to the way they expected it to be after the due diligence. He basically confirmed what a lot people always said that a lot of deals were financed "in advance" by future incoming money. He's also staid very calm about the accusations from West Ham and just said that in his opinion they were doing the business the wrong way. ...without explaining why we raised the price by £2m at the eleventh hour. as it stands his negotiation skills look under par.

nobby's a legend and he loves the club and the area. why would he leave? sam should keep offering him one year extensions as long as his legs are up for it. he's got more class and vision than most of the rest of our squad put together. worth keeping even if he only plays half the games in a season.

did it go something like: i'm bigger and bolder and badder and better in other words sucker there aint no other. i'm the one and only dominator?

anyone checked any of these out? quite a funny way to waste some time if you're bored at work. it's amazing how many dumb americans fall for it and don't realise the person they're talking to on the phone is some prankster with an arnie soundboard. check these out: Telemarketer calls Arnold Schwarzenegger to offer him a discount trip to las vegas: http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pranks/arnold-vegas.htm Arnold Schwarzenegger calls looking for someone's mother: http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pranks/arnold-mom.htm Al Pacino calls a Limo Guy: http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pranks/pacino-limo.htm Joe Pesci calls a Black Guy http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pranks/pesci-black.htm Darth Vader calls Microsoft demanding to know what happened to the plans that they were sent. You figure a Microsoft employee of all people would recognize Lord Vader's voice, however this rep was fooled by the dark side. http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pranks/celebpranksmain.htm and plenty more at: http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pranks/celebpranksmain.htm

i really liked highbury too. the new stadium is horrible. so generic, bland and overpriced. i think if mort carries on fat fred's plans to extend the gallowgat, we'll have a far better sadium.

i think we'll do well to get a draw personally. it's a difficult place to go and get a result at. mind you, a win there would set us up nicely for a good start to the season for once - our first month isn't looking that bad.

god please not ramage at left back.

a bit like htt then during hitzfeld-gate

i swear he reads this board

no doubt attributed to the fact that i've been posting more than usual

duff can open his mouth after he's put in a performance worthy of the shirt tbh

i don't see him as a big sam type of player tbh.

i didn't relalise that. good to know if it's true.

that really fucking annoying sheila's wheels advert.

i've never met a bird who's into that like

i enjoyed it for the first hour or so - it had some funny moments and the script was, surprisingly, half decent - but the prolonged battle sequences dragged on a bit. it could have easily been half an hour shorter. why does every new film need to be over 2 and a half hours long these days? no need for something like transformers shirley? i felt violated by the cgi at times. there were some disgustingly good effects but there's so much going on at one time you don't know where to look.

“Oba was the main man last year because Michael was kept out with injuries, but they will be fighting with each other for a place in the side this season. Perhaps even the pair of them will play together with one of the big men on occasions as well.” interesting. looks like viduka will be first choice with either owen or martins alongside him or both if we go for a 4-3-3.

he's a good keeper but i'm sure that amount of money would have been better spent elsewhere. with £9m they could have signed a top class striker which i think they're in more need of if they want to stay up.

That line there is bollocks. One of his best strengths is his positional sense! fair enough but is luque a winger or a centre forward?

i'd like to know too. it would make our decision more understandable if that is the case.

My Newcastle postcode says otherwise. NE postcodes like they carry any weight. Wooler is 48 miles from the toon and that's NE71. By any definition people from Washington are known and accepted as mackems. Did you go to skewl or skool? Honest answer. i wouldn't say that's strictly true. geographically, perhaps, washington is the wrong side of the river but if you use that as your benchmark you'd be accusing a lot of geordies of being mackems. i lived in washington for a bit when i was a bairn - i reckon it's no man's land personally. pretty much a 50/50 split between geordies and mackems as far as i can remember. about equal distances to both, but i always felt more alliegence to the toon because sunderland was such a shithole. ....but not as big a shithole as washington. got to be the most grim place i've ever lived in my life. What he said. Barring the City of Sunderland Council logo that's scrawled across the wheely bins they've tried to remove every trace of Sunderland from the place. I'm quite literally within pissing distance of the 'border' between Sunderland and Gateshead. It's weird that it's classed as a borough of Sunderland because there are three real areas. The Sunderland disticts, the Durham districts and the Newcastle/Gateshead districts which are all pretty much defined by the post code you have. I don't consider myself a Mackem for many reasons, my favourite at the minute being that a taxi back after a night out from Newcastle City Centre costs less than one back from Sunderland City Centre. As if you needed anymore proof, I may aswell bleed Black and White You're fucking right about it being a shithole like. It's basically a town full of council houses, broken up by the occasional Industrial estate. no soul or sense of community either beyond other than teenage mother charvers hanging around the inshops in the galleries.

Smith would be in there somewhere, there's no way he came here to be on the bench. I don't think we'll play 4-4-2 personally. I think Geremi needs to be in the middle, too. that's just the side i'd go for personally. i'd play viduka and owen (and martins) ahead of smith up front. and i don't think smith's good enough in midfield to start ahead of barton, butt or geremi

i just can't see owen working at all as a wide striker in a 4-3-3.