Ayatollah Hermione

So, Raoul Moat shot himself, causing his brains to fall into the stream behind him? Raoul, Raoul, Raoul your Moat, gently down the stream.

I hate Facebook. But I do love suburban white kids working 9 to 5 jobs holding resentment over the police for no real reason. Was that from Fop? Fop shot himself last night, man.

I hate Facebook. But I do love suburban white kids working 9 to 5 jobs holding resentment over the police for no real reason.

Happy birthday, you little monkey man.

I'm fairly sure I could pull Lauren Laverne. I think it all it would take would be a few Smiths albums and a bottle of Smirnoff.

Shot himself apparently.

Well, it's exciting in a sense but it's no Butch Cassidy.

Someone told me the gun at his neck had no ammo in. Is anything true at this point or is it the nationwide news equivalent of chinese whispers?

want to see this porn.

The absurdity of the coppers in the stand off saying to Raoul "Raoul, are you mates with Gazza?" is making me laugh far too much.

sure, it's been gradually going that way for a few seasons now. i just thought it was an interesting blog, not only because it highlights the different takes on 4-3-3 but also because it's so widespread now. england were one of the few teams employing a traditional 4-4-2. not many of the other teams played with more than one central striker either. of those that did, i thnk only the argies got into the quarter finals. newcastle mainly employed 4-4-2 in the championship under hughton last year. i reckon it's probably time for us to move with the times. a 4-4-2 with our current crop will get over run in midfield. plus i doubt carrol and lovenkrands will cut it as a front pair against top flight back fours. I agree in principle but it would take signing a fair few players (which I can actually see happening, just not players of a very good standard). While the team definitely needs to be improved if we're going to do anything worthwhile in the next few years. Say we're going with 4-2-3-1, for arguments sake, you could have the 3 of Guti-Nolan/Guthrie-Routledge but who would be in the defensive roles? Barton maybe? We don't really have a "tackler" in midfield. I think Nolan could be a fairly decent spoiler but I assume Hughton's going to play him further up since it worked well last season in spots. You could sign a defensive midfielder certainly but a good one of those sets you back a fair bit and we don't have the money. I don't think Carroll is good enough to be up front by himself in his first full season in the PL too. We're definitely in for a slog if we keep the same formation as last season though, I agree. We were getting overrun by the likes of Derby sometimes last season.

Keegan proved a couple of seasons back that the players then could perform well in a 4-3-3 but I don't think we have the squad to do it now. As for 4-2-3-1, i have doubt whether Carroll is good enough yet for that sort of role and like you say, we're lacking in proper defensive midfielders (if you excuse the term 'proper'). I'd think we don't have the players available to play like that just yet so we'll probably see 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 all season, for better or worse.

Agreed, think Robben missing the first few games will count against him and Sneijder's contributed a little more overall in general. As for Villa, Spain would be long gone if it wasn't for him. Have to say I think Forlan may have been the best of the lot but won't get the recognition, had huge responsibility and didn't let his team down in a single game. Aye, I've been massively impressed with him. Looks absolutely top drawer at the best level. I've noticed that he seems to have found the sweet spot on the Jabulani as well.

http://not.so.tickli.sh/ Raoul Moat sightings

They should try looking for raoul moat in Sue Sim's hair.

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Now we can get real answers. Does Mr. Moat prefer Space Raiders or Hula Hoops?

He's a free agent, you fucking lemonhead.

http://twitter.com/thekeithchegwin "Friend of mine was addicted to mud wrestling. Been clean for 4 years now."

If it turns out to be Fop, we should all sell our stories to the Ronny Gill about dealing with the headcase.

Gosling is now a free agent.

what if it's overcast?

Is it true that the nicest place to go out in Glasgow is, in fact, Edingburgh? I really like the West End of Glasgow tbf. Cracking record shops and I love walking through tenements.

Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty Will do very nicely until Outkast churn something out again. Also got Roky Erickson's new one with Okkervil River as his backing band; I've not listened yet but that shit can't be terrible.

For the simultaneous games at the end of the group stage, I had one of the matches up on the ITV website. They have a chatroom running while the match is on - wall to wall Kevin!s. Completely mongtastic. These are the flids votimg for MOTM. Didn't find much to enjoy in that game like. Felt more like a qualifier than a semi-final.