Tom_NUFC

As far as I'm aware, they're not exclusive to Muslims, they've just been designed for Muslims because the standard mortgages come under what Islam constitutes as gambling, which is a sin. I think that's fair enough, its filling a gap and there's nothing to stop non-Muslims from taking out a Muslim Mortgage.

I've got a 40gb Creative Zen, which looks like a brick compared to some of the players around now, but it doesn't bother me, because its never given me any bother, the sound quality is top notch, the memory is huuuuuuge and I paid less for it than I would have done for an iPod with half the memory. Its been dropped a few times, used almost everyday, but it holds up well.

That'll do. A well earned point, and given that those below us have lost, its not too bad.

well if he's got the money to waste fair enough, but I think he's a bit of a twat.

My God! I wasn't expecting that, but lets not get carried away....yet. If anyone can fuck this up, NUFC can! *please don't!*

I've already resigned myself to playing in the fizzy pop league next year.

I give to it sometimes, although having seen Look North the other night, with Children In Need money funding a Charver youth club in Blyth (encouraging that horrid hardcore sh!te) I've been put off. I suppose its better than them causing hassle on the street, but they really should be funding a Charver provention project, to invent, build and buy a machine of some sort where the kids go in on a conveyor belt and come out clensed of all charver characteristics. I will give something though. The other thing that gets me about Children In Need, and I say this every year, apart from the fact that the show is quite possibly the worst Television shown all year, is that there are some kids in desperate need in order to help them live their lives or even keep them alive and they're relying on the charity and kindness of people for this. Where is the government in all of this? What are they doing? We're supposed to have a welfare system. Britain is the fourth richest country in the world - the f*cking FOURTH RICHEST! Why aren't these kids being provided for? Truth be told, I find it sick and disturbing that this is the case. That children have to rely on kindness and something which is little more than a begging appeal for their lives. Its a damning indictment on the development of Ultra Capitalism and the callous, Thatcherite unravelling of the Welfare State. One day, it will go too far and snap.

So when did your Dad and Uncle get out of prison? That does sound bad doesn't it. He felt really guilty when he realised how frightened I'd been. My Mam and my Grandma went off it when they found out. No harm done though. No mental scars from it or anything, but probably not the wisest thing my Dad did. Seriously though, that gives the impression he was a bad father, and nothing could be further from the truth.

Just a watch, and that has a leather strap. Its a nice watch though, a late 1940s Omega. I dare say that if I ever get married, I suppose I'll wear a wedding ring.

I thought they were pretty good last night. Not outstanding, but good enough. I enjoyed it.

'The Camel'. 'The Camel' was made up by my dad and my Uncle, and it lived in my Grandma's outhouse. We used to go to my Grandma's every Sunday and I was told the Camel would 'get' me. One time, they put me in the boot of my dad's car and told me the Camel was in there as well, and then drov around the block. I was shitting myself. They thought it was just a laugh like, but realised the joke had gone too far when they found me in tears. Dogs. When I was a small baby, my parents had a dog, but had it put down when it tried to go for me. When I was three, a dog nearly took my hand off when I stroked it - after being told by the owner that it was OK. So I was shit scared of them for a long time. My dad got a dog when I was about 13 (the bloody thing's still alive 14 years on) and he's OK for a dog, but I still get wary of some. Plus I'm allergic to them if I'm around a dog for more than half an hour or so, so I'm not really a dog person.

The Tree goes up about a week before Christmas and comes down on January 6. Its a real tree mind, not an artifical one. We don't go in for a load of decorations. Just the tree and its decorations and lights, some lights in the dining room and cards in the living room and dining room, and that's it. I can't stand OTT decoartions. If people want to put a few lights in their window, fair enough, but all the tack outdoor decorations - horrible.

Yeah, it's a great book. I love it. That was a great season, and I love how it starts off with the last two games of the previous season (91/92) the Portsmouth Home, and then the Leicester Away. I was at both and they were as emotional and as serious as he depicts it, and all that madness at Filbert Street, all true - even the nun. The nun was the row behind me, and it was bizaare seeing a proper nun, jumping up and down going mad. Cracking times that year. He didn't mention the Hot Dog fight at Tranmere away though, which was quite funny.

I'm not the greatest fan of vegetables myself. I'll eat Potatoes, Turnip and Cabbage - and Onions and Garlic (do they count as veggies?). Carrots, Lettuce and Cucumber sometimes. Parsnips at Christmas. I'll eat Sweetcorn if its mixed into something else (eg Chicken and Sweetcorn sandwich). But peas - no way. Same goes for Broccolli and Cauliflower. I can't stand them.

I might know of someone thinking of getting rid of their car (not because its particularly crap, just that they don't need it).

The Crows Nest at the Haymarket does cracking burgers and Steak and Ale pies. However its always busy and always full of Rahs from Newcastle Uni.

Very true. I can remember about 1991 - when Jim Smith was in charge, I used to go to the games with my Mam and one day we were walking up the steps from St James' Metro and I said to her "Why do we bother?" and she said "You enjoy the good times even better if you've been there through the bad times" and I just thought but we're not going to get the good times to enjoy. There just wasn't any expectation, just resignation that we were crap. You sort of accepted it and got on with it none the less. People used to laugh about it. One time, it was just before Keegan came in, we were buying a copy of The Mag before the game and the price had gone up, and my Mam commented on that, and the bloke selling said "nothing ever goes down does it?" and then realised what he'd said Nah, maybe not."

I agree that Roeder is not good enough. I don't think he's a cunt though. I think he's a decent bloke, who cares about the club, but just simply isn't good enough. I don't hate the bloke at all. My thoughts would be, sorry Glenn, but it's not working out, it would be best if you went. All the best for the future.

I'm convinced of it. We ARE going down. I'd have a bet on it as a bit of a consolation, but the odd will be that crap now that it wouldn't be a consolation in any way.

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Aye, a great performance by Krul tonight. He looks a damned good prospect.

Fighting on Russian TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRcyd4oB9gU I've posted this one before, but here it is again. Old men Fighting on French TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BaAku4TDq8 Romanian TV Presenter punches and kicks guests. Lennox Lewis v Hasim Rahman - in the TV studio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bEUlscm8iU Czech Ministers Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhIUksO3sA

I was worried that I was going to have the piss ripped out of me when I saw Ross Noble. We were sitting in row G and for some reason row C is the front row at the City Hall. There was a lad sitting two rows behind us and only a couple of seats along, and he had the piss ripped out of him all night. Mind, once he'd said that he drove a miniture steam engine, it was inevitable.

Not a big fan of Jimmy Carr. I saw Ross Noble at the City Hall on Monday Night - he was great.

I love it when parents and grandparents get hi-tech stuff. My gran drove around for years in a car with a mini-disc player in it as she had to have it the minute it came out. She's now got a 30GB iPod with a Bose Soundstation, got Sky + installed last week, and now my mam informs me that she's just this past week got a laptop and wireless internet. She's 79. Aye, well I've probably let myself in for months of showing her how to use it. She hasn't got around to grasping how to text on her mobile - infact anything apart from making and recieving calls has her baffled. It took her ages to get to graps with computers - especially the internet and e-mails. A couple of months ago she was having difficulty using powerpoint.