Tom_NUFC

I'm not interested in Gridiron myself, but what's happening about the team from New Orleans? and the one from Houston as well, given that their stadium is full of refugees?

Ha! good one

I'm not fussed by them. I don't think it's right that they won. The Mercury is meant to be for British and Irish bands. All but one of them are American, and the singer moved there when he was a kid. They're based in America. I think the British link is tenuous. Brian Johnson is from Newcastle, but you wouldn't say ACDC were a British band. They're still Australian. In my opinion it should have gone to Maxïmo or the Kaisers.

I couldn't fit all the songs on. At the moment, I'm in the middle of making CD compilations of songs I like for every year of my life (1979-present). It's being done on the 1 band/artist, 1 song rule. I've been working back, and so far I've done CDs for every year from 1988-2004. I should have it done back to 1979 within a month, and I'll do the 2005 CD at the end of the year.

Well it's a bit dodgy, but it plays no part in why he shouldn't be playing for England. If he was good enough, he could have a pink mohecan for all I care. But the thing is, he's not that good. He's not shite, just pretty average.

Because he is doing well at one of European's top football clubs? It seems easy to make the bloke from a foreign league the main culprit... 30472[/snapback] He was far from being the main culprit, but for me he's never done anything in an England shirt which justifies his place in the squad. 30482[/snapback] Exactly

Aye, I think we'll still qualify. It's not the end of the world, but it is very embarrassing and changes need to be made.

Felt sorry for Owen having to take all the questions about England, but he handled them well enough.

It was atrocious. I thought it looked a bad formation on Saturday against Wales, and it should have served as a warning. Much was made of Eriksson's lack of passion, but that could be forgiven, because of his tactical abilities, yet playing a formation in which your entire midfield is played out of position and is therefore ineffective is absurd. We have great players, but what use is that when you don't play the right formation? Gerrard and Lampard were rendered useless. Rooney on the left? wtf. If the Midfield is useless, what hope do the strikers have?, sorry, that should be striker. Eriksson, seriously has to change the formation back to a more regular 4-4-2. Tried and tested. It works, so why change? If he doesn't, it's time to go. Owen Hargreaves, why is Owen Hargreaves playing for England? Rooney's attitude was disgraceful. The bit that really got me was when Beckham went to calm him down, and he was effing and blinding at him as well. He's an illiterate scouse thug with no sense of respect or decorum. Rio Ferdinand was also shocking I thought. To do what he did with their goal. Standing still and sticking your hand up, doesn't automatically make the man offside. Abysmal. He's not been the same since he came back after his ban. I hope that Woodgate can get fit and stay fit (a lot to ask I know), but if he does, I'd have him in for Ferdinand. Taking Shaun Wright-Phillips was a bad move as well. Ian Wright after the game was dead on. He looked, acted and said things that every England fan was thinking. The difference between club and country: If it was Newcastle, I'd still be furious. And finally, Northern Ireland deserve a lot of credit, because the players and fans were well up for it and were full of passion and commitment.

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Aye. I don't mind Bobby Gillespie. He's pretty much constantly pissed and fucked on drugs like, but at least he hasn't been a waster and a complete arse like Doherty. He's never let it fuck his bands up either. I like The Libertines, but Doherty completely fucked that up for all of them, and has pretty much done the same with Babyshambles before they've done much.

nope, just seen it now

I'm only saying that cos the lad that started it said he didn't like Indian food cos it's hot. I don't mind a few spicy things myself, just not the really hot ones.

what's this like, a Geordie version of Hello? Real stories or pisstakes? I'm guessing the latter?

Indian. I don't like the mega-hot ones though, but most other things are fine. Not all Curries are hot - try Korma, Malaya or Kashmiri dishes. Or Biriyani. There's plenty nice stuff you can have without needing to have anything remotely hot.

might make it a bit harder next time then.

I tell you what cheeses I can't stand. Parmesan and Stilton.

I'm doing an online quiz on another forum. This is the music section. 10 songs (want the songtitles not bands). They're in alphabetical order. I'm not sure if it's too easy or not. I'll use it whatever, but try it out if you want and see how many you get. http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02KZH3FI5W1RA3BNCCYOLLRLVY

Brie

it must've been bad then to flee to Sunderland.

When I was a young'un, like most lads I wanted to be a footballer. I wanted to play for Newcastle and England of course. But, I quickly realised I was shit at football. When I was a bit older, getting into decent music and stuff, I wanted to be in a band. Honing my Guitar playing, which is average. I can knock out some tunes, but nothing special, singing - I can sing in tune, but that doesn't neccesarily mean you're a good singer, and writing songs. I think I've written some quite good ones, and a few shockingly bad ones as well. Nowadays, there's a few things I want to do. I want to be a writer. I'm working on a few ideas. Who knows if they'll ever get to the publishing stage or not, but you can have a go and see what happens. Alternatively, if I had a bit of money, the last couple of years, I've said, if I win the lottery I'd buy the old Odeon on Pilgrim Street and turn it into a Rock/Indie venue. Knock all the seperate screens into one big venue (as the cinema itself used to be) for a couple of thousand people. And make the basement (formerly the Bimbis fish & chip cafe) into a rock/indie club, and a small venue for local bands. I'd also open some recording studios. That's what I'd do if I won a few million on the lottery.

He's an arse. I liked The Libertines, and I think/thought Babyshambles were OK, but what a waster, what a fucking waster he is.

yes, that is more accurate. Mine was more Bernicia, that one includes Deria as well, and the territory annexed by Scotland. Mind you, you did miss out Carlisle as Cumbria was in Northumbria as well.

Yeah, and yet when we're above them, it's never heard of. Funny, that.

I don't mind being English, but it often feels like the views that foreigners have of England and the English are characteristics of Southern English. If there was a chance for the North to form a breakaway country - Northern England I'd take it. Think about a Northern English Premiership. It still wouldn't be bad. (I'm not suggesting this would be how it would look, just the teams in it.) 1 Newcastle United 2 Manchester United 3 Liverpool 4 Everton 5 Manchester City 6 Middlesbrough 7 Aston Villa 8 Bolton Wanderers 9 Birmingham City 10 Blackburn Rovers 11 West Bromwich Albion 12 Wigan Athletic 13 Sunderland 14 Sheffield United 15 Wolverhampton Wanderers 16 Leeds United 17 Stoke City 18 Derby County 19 Hull City 20 Preston North End Or, if we ressurected Northumbria (present day North East & Cumbria), we might even stand a chance of winning something! Northumbrian Premiership 1 Newcastle United 2 Middlesbrough 3 Sunderland 4 Hartlepool United 5 Darlington 6 Carlisle United 7 Barrow 8 Blyth Spartans 9 Gateshead 10 Kendal Town 11 Bishop Auckland 12 Whitley Bay 13 Newcastle Blue Star 14 Chester le Street 15 Durham City 16 Billingham Town 17 Dunston Federation 18 Newcastle Benfield 19 West Allotment Celtic 20 West Auckland Town