Billy Whitehurst

They've changed the title of it about 7 times now I think. Finally found it, absolute gold!

Where is this thread everyone is talking about? It's a right mess on NO.

wellllll - there are countries with similar populations who do better TBF Rob when I was a youngun, there was a cartoon called Henry's Cat, and the song went "he knows everything about nothing, and not too much about that." When I think of that now I think of you. Other than Uruguay, with a similar population to them, who have done better than Scotland and Ireland (and don't say Denmark). Croatia. Albeit a young country, but have still gone further in a major tournament than Ireland or Scotland have. You look at the standard of players they consistently produce and they are better than both Ireland and Scotland.

-------------------Krul Saylor-------Campbell------Colo-------Enrique Routledge--------Barton-------Tiote------Jonas -----------Ben Arfa ----------------------Carroll With Williamson and Nolan being extremely unlucky to miss out. Just think Campbell has loads to offer us in terms of organising the defence and he would probably complement Colo more than he would Williamson (who btw I think has been brilliant for us ever since he signed). Still, cracking dilemma to have. Tiote is the one I know nothing about but I'm assuming he is better than Smith.

Do you actually know how old the people who are commenting on this thread are, or are you just being a tit?

Bernie Winters and Snorbitz Russ Abbot Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin Little and Large Cannon and Ball Terry and June I moan about TV these days but by christ there was a lot of dross on back then.

On the whole I think Soccer AM at least used to be tolerable and/or funny but I remember one thing summing it up when they referred to "League 1" being the "second division in old money" - no you should have said the third you stupid twats. Soccer AM is unfunny but that James Corden show was on a different level, he's just an unfunny, fat, sycophantic twat with absolutely no redeeming features. I genuinely can't fathom his popularity. I flicked on once to see he had Chris Moyles on as a guest. I took it as a sign that the apocalypse was imminent.

So these people are up in arms about there being a mosque at ground zero even though its not a mosque and not at ground zero. Still, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good old bit of islamophobia.

Whatever the truth of that. It's just struck me that Man City value Milner as twice the player Ozil is. Incredible. Wasn't Ozil's price more a function of the fact that he only had 1 year left on his contract? That's more to do with the selling club innit? What they will accept when there's only one club interested. Man City are playing close to £30m for Miler when they could have conceivably gazzumped Madrid with a £20m offer for Ozil. Perhaps Ozil had indicated he'd turn down personal terms with any club other than Madrid so forced Bremen into accepting their offer. I think that's the point, as a result of his contract situation, he would have had a large say in where he went as he would only have to sit out another 12 months otherwise. Hence, Real Madrid were able to get him on the cheap. Given the clubs reportedly after him, it highly unlikely that he would have chosen Man City hence I don't think you can draw a comparison between the price of Milner and Ozil.

Whatever the truth of that. It's just struck me that Man City value Milner as twice the player Ozil is. Incredible. Wasn't Ozil's price more a function of the fact that he only had 1 year left on his contract?

He was the definite MOM like. Sky's inability to deal in anything other than extremes is what we're all ridiculing though. Completely agree, as good as he played, the post match analysis was fucking nauseating.

Think 3-0 was maybe a little harsh on us. Man Utd definitely deserved to win and had the majority of the play but Harper didn't make a save and their goals came from us losing posession near our own penalty area. I think 2-0 would have been fairer. I've seen us pay a lot worse against the top teams and the number of goal attempts we had was encouraging. Right back is a real worry, as is who to play alongside Carroll. At the risk of jumping on the Skysports bandwagon, Scholes' passing was immaculate, best player on the park by a mile, as he was last weekend. How embarassing is the format on Monday Night Football though? Fucking awful, almost makes me miss Jamie Redknapp's inane patter.

Don't you claim to be a comic?

More of an Onitsuka Tiger man myself.

Avoid the West End (Picadilly/Leicester Square/Covent Garden) and you'll be fine. The top end of Brick Lane is decent. Places like The Big Chill, Vibe Bar, 93 Feet East let anyone in and tend to have a good atmosphere and you are close to Shoreditch. Angel is also a good night out, loads of pubs round there and late places. There are a lot of skinny jeans types buy they are pretty harmless and not lairy like your Picadilly Circus/Leicester nights out. Have just seen that you are staying in Chelsea so Shoreditch/Angel are not too convenient. Fulham is ok (would recommend Aragon House on Parsons Green), lot's of bars but lot's of toffs also. If it's a nice day, kick things off in some of the pubs by the river near Hammersmith (The Black Lion and The Old Ship are nice).

Or how many aren't Irish for that matter I noticed that. Only 5 out of the 17 were born in Ireland.

I'd throw Dalglish in there too. Ruined Keegan's team.

Each to their own definitely. But Hughton hasn't a clue in my opinion. I don't believe for a second he's capable of keeping us up. I'd been thinking of starting a thread praising Hughton but couldn't really be arsed. But your comment has inspired me. I think he has done an outstanding job and to consider giving it to that big nosed smoggy is unreal. The improvement in the form of the following has been marked - Colo, Enrique, Carroll, Nolan, Gutierrez. Gutierrez especially has in the last season learned how to cross and is striking the ball a lot better. Every time I see Carroll he gets better, he's grown in confidence is bossing centre halves and now imo looks more than capable of playing at Premier League level. We are showing a character and fitness levels that mean we are getting a lot of late goals and rescuing a lot of games. He's got rid of the right players and made some shrewd purchases and our injury record has arguably improved. We have just set a club record for the number of clean sheets in a season. We could well go a full season without losing at home. We are 8 points clear of forest with a game in hand and about to get promoted, which is exactly the aim at the start of the season. Look at Boro, we've arguably sold more regular first teamers from last season than they have and look where they're languishing. Do you think all of this happened by luck? It's incomprehendable to think that replacing him with Mowbray (a man who proved tactically naive enough to think that playing good football with average players would keep his team in the prem) is going to help us. I personally think Hughton has done more than enough to keep his job, but if Fat Mike wanted to replace him I would hope it was for somebody with premier league pedigree or a much better CV than Tony fucking Mowbray. Robbie Keane is a different conversation entirely and regardless of whether hughton, keegan, mowbray or the lord jesus christ were in charge his wages would still be far too high for fat mike. *Soap box tucked away* Well said, Hughton has done a superb job this season given how the majority of people thought we would fare. Would be completely wrong to replace him next year. He's also done it without resorting to the shite patter we used to have to put up with Souness, Allardyce and JFK.

I've lived down here since 1999 so aside from a couple of years in the US, have lived here for nigh on 9 years. I have to say, I absolutely love the place. So much choice, so many different places to go drinking/eating, so many things to see. The main thing for me that I love is that it is so multicultural, you come into contact with so many different types of people, the variety is amazing. The nightlife is great (so long as you avoid the West End) and not that much more expensive than the rest of the UK. Public transport (rush hour aside) is really comprehensive. Regarding the people, I don't find them as bad as people make out. I'll always found that Londoners have a certain affection for geordies also. I certainly find them friendlier than anytime I've ever been to places like Manchester. They are not as friendly as people in Newcastle but (and I'm obviously biased here) but I think geordies are fairly unique in their live for today outlook which makes them so warm. Having lived here for so long, I really couldn't see myself living anywhere else in the UK. When you come here from smaller places you tend to be out of your comfort zone (it took me about a year to get used to the place) and it can be quite daunting. For that reason, I can understand why people don't like it.

I think 99% of that lays squarely at the feet on that evil bastard Bush and his advisors. I hate him as much as I hate Hitler, and I have no doubt if he had been in power longer the potential for WWiii was very real. By the way there was a lot to take in, don't beat yourself up about wanting to watch some football but a fuckin shitey defensive Italian side??!?!? I was the same when Princess Di died, I was more upset about the toon game at Anfield being called off. You're right there, instead of trying to at least make something positive out of a tragic situation and pull together with the rest of the world, Bush and his daddie's cronies used it to pursue their own agenda and we all saw how well that worked out. As for Roma, I didn't have HBO so the TV was so unbelievably shite that I would watch anything.

I lived in Manhattan at the time. I was sat on the 20th floor of a building in Times Sq (which is miles away from the Twin Towers) watching it all happen. After the second tower fell our boss came round and told us to shut the blinds, not sure they would have stopped a jumbo jet like. We all went home and I remember being delighted that I would get to watch Roma v Real Madrid (I think it was that game) in the Champions League as kick offs were at 2.45pm NYC time so I'd usually be at work when they were on. All channels, including ESPN, were showing footage of what was happening though so I couldn't watch it and was furious. I don't think I was being cold, it was just a bizarre day and didn't seem real. It was only until I saw people at work who had lost people that it really sunk in what happened, it was extremely sad and totally senseless. It was a very strange place to be in for the next few months. After that the majority of the world showered the US with sympathy and goodwill but in the end, I felt that, the US threw it back in everyone's face, they turned nationalism into xenophobia and that was a large part of the reason why I moved back to the UK a year later. It was the perfect opportunity for the US to patch a lot of things up with the rest of the world but they properly fucked it up, and the UK stupidly joined them for the ride.

Are my eyes deceiving me or does that bloke also have his zippo lighter in a leather pouch clipped to his belt?

Fuck me, when did that gobshite release a book? Safe to assume that will be an tissue of absolute lies.

eh ? There's always a lot of bitterness in these threads whenever anyone leaves so I thought I'd try something different! I like the guy as a player and appreciate what he did for us last season so I wish the lad good luck.

Good signing for Spurs, good fee for us. £7.5m profit for someone with only one Premier League season behind him isn't a bad bit of business for us. I don't begrudge the lad a transfer at all. He was our best player last season and was also our lowest paid. If I was in the same situation, I'd have done the same. I hope he does well at Spurs.