Toonpack

Will you stop looking for racist things that aren't even there man? It muddies the waters of any debate. Danny B reckons his dad did wash elephants. If that's true, how the fuck is that racist? And how is calling his mother a whore? It's potentially canny offensive, aye. I very much doubt his dad washes Elephants, it's obviously highlighting the fact he's from Togo. + I never said it was racist to call his mother a whore - I was just putting the song in. Elephants are self cleaning (ok they might need a wax every now and again) and his mother did it for free (allegedly), it's all lies, lies I tell you. I've got a wallet made out of an elephant's foreskin, it's fucking brilliant!! Give it a rub and it turns into a suitcase

get the monkey off the pitch- acceptable banter yes or no If your watching a game in the Congo and an errant chimp runs (bounds?) on and is interfereing with play, then yes it's acceptable. Otherwise no

Will you stop looking for racist things that aren't even there man? It muddies the waters of any debate. Danny B reckons his dad did wash elephants. If that's true, how the fuck is that racist? And how is calling his mother a whore? It's potentially canny offensive, aye. Tom's a rascist, he subconciously believes black people wash elephants and marry whore's, therefore because the song was sung, he recognises his feelings and identifies it as rascism, when it's not but he is. I know what I mean

Aye I know the song, but the first bit is a fact (I believe) and the second is just bile, a'la "Alan Shearer's illegitimate" that the mackems sang. Nee different, not racial, just bile.

FACT. I just did a quick check and one account of Judas' death has him hanging himself. No mention of a tree either. Well you will have to take our word that it is not. No one knows how Judas died because it happened 2000 years ago. The bible talks of him "hanging" the assumption that it was from a tree is a fair one. But wouldn't Spurs having racist songs about Adebayor imply that the Campbell songs are also racist? DO they though? or is it only rascist because they sing a derogatory song to a black bloke ??

I find it incredible that someone who gets paid tens of thousands of pounds a week can get all precious because he was called names for 90 minutes. I find even more incredible that other people get even more precious in defence of the overpaid athlete's precious feelings.

For the last time that chant isnt racist! Give up man, the "chantee" was black so the chant was rascist, end of

There's booing, there's banter and then there are pathetic sick jibes like the song your fans sing. Precious little of that left tbh OK so what they sang may be a tad distastefull but if he hadn't whinged on about the songs since day one it would have died a death, it still effects him 7 years on, so they'll keep singing. I have no love at all for Spuds but he should have pocketed his cash and kept shtum, he's having the last laugh £££'s wise anyway. My heart bleeds for him, poor little waif

They won't want your salute, just your bank details

I'm not sure actually owned shares, I read (somewhere) he was spread betting on the share price, at one point he was alledgedly £100mill down !!

It's the ideas that need to impress to be fair. And having scoffed at stuff like this in the past (as recently as a couple of days ago), I'm pretty impressed with their ideas. At the end of the day if we all just say "It'll never work", then it'll never work. I'd chuck some money at them for shares if it looked like this was getting off the ground. I'm not so sure about the "it'll never work" angle but IMO it's not worth it, let's face it unless a team has a mega-rich sugar daddy it's going nowhere in the current world of football. If a structure was in place where ALL revenues were shared evenly by the clubs (except say their own merchandising) and there was some form of salary cap structure based upon turnover THEN and only then would something like this be worth putting your money in, because then you just might be able to make a difference. By all revenues I mean, champions league, premiership,cup incomes etc is divied up between all the teams in the league, you win it for the glory not the £££'s, everyone gets the benefit of a strong league. A level playing field if you will, It'll never happen like.

According to Setanta news "Breaking News" strapline, we're in talks with Fatih Terim aka Mental Turkey boss

It (the PL) becomming a global product and brand, the Yanks are in the Arabs are just about in, the mega rich Indians are bound to follow. It's a marketing vehicle to the masses on a global level.

God help us, the 2nd half beer farts are bad enough as it is

I'm sure I'm far from being the only one, but go on and make my fuckin day. Stuff of dreams Im in agreement but to quote you a year or so ago "people want to watch what they wish for, the grass isnt always greener" which scarily looks to have been very true.......still the grass at the mo is extremely brown so what the hell!!!! I can't deny that ............ did you see the bit in that article "Those sources said yesterday that Ambani was ready to revive interest in his favourite Premier League club , " yeah but that'll be favourite based on accounts and profitability He's just trying to curry favour with the fans

I'm no expert but I'm sure you get better odds than 3/1 on betting on a single number. He did some special cover bet, where you chose your number but cover adjacent numbers with part of the stake, hence the 3/1 return on him "winning"

Bobby the thing is you dont pay NUFC direct, you pay some loan company, and if you miss a payment it effects your credit reference file. I've just rang up for a refund on mine, and as I paid cash they've said there's no refunds are available. Looks like I'll have to pracitise my booing techniques then. If you've paid for this years up front and you tell the club you don't want next years, you can cancel your DD - your paying in advance for something you have never received. They can't effect your rating or sue you for something you haven't had. It's like buying a car, you change your mind before the car's delivered, they keep the car (with possibly an admin charge) but if you play it by the book there's no effect on your rating.

Very good point. There is far too much money in the top league. In an ideal world. Ticket prices should at least halve and players/board members should get paid less. See the Bundesliga, that's exactly what they do in terms of ticket prices anyway

Excellent I fucking loved the Olympics this year, more than I can ever remember, and I reckon it's because the penny dropped in my head, proper athlete's working fucking hard to achieve REAL greatness, not overpaid fucking chav cunts earning millions whilst breaking sweat when it suits them.

I admire your optimism that we haven't already Global brand, Global owners, fans not needed anymore, only consumers of the product (who will sit quietly and behave), clubs are vehicles for business promotion. Football is more alive than it's ever been (from a financial standpoint) but equally football as what it was is dead. What we are moving towards is an English version of the NFL. In fact we are very close to being there already. I'm just waiting for relegation/promotion to be a thing of the past. It almost is in a way. Very true. All of the wealthy clubs stay as they are while the others simply go up and down amongst themselves never threatening to break into the elite. There is no real elite in the NFL, and it's way more open than the EPL ALL revenue is equally shared and to me the best thing is the salary cap and the way transfers (free agency) works

I admire your optimism that we haven't already Global brand, Global owners, fans not needed anymore, only consumers of the product (who will sit quietly and behave), clubs are vehicles for business promotion. Football is more alive than it's ever been (from a financial standpoint) but equally football as what it was is dead.

Venables

That's one of the worst things about this, the "lying press" may be more reliable than "the horses mouth"

Source (usually reliable) on Skunkers stating "he's gone" from a conversation with a club official Fuck me !!!!!!!!!!!!

£190K a week AFTER tax, alledgedly, beyond obscene RIP Football