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It will be hilarious watching him up against Peter Crouch then.

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Do any of our senior first team players play in reserve games ever? 50642[/snapback] I can remember Robert & Bellamy playing a reserve match just before the 2-2 draw at Anfield during the 2002-3 season.

If he'd acted like a charver on his walkabouts outside the ground, he could have been in Newcastle tonight. "Weel you lend eez ten pee for ze fare Meester"

France was a shithole (pun intended) for dogshit in the streets. St-Etienne was just ridiculous. Every 10 yards there was a pile of crap in the middle of the street, and people just walking their dogs, letting them do their business, and not even picking it up.

Surely has to give us hope this weekend seeing Charlton, Spurs, Arsenal & Man U dropping points. I think we'll eventually reel in West Ham, Wigan and the like, so if we keep within touching distance of the above clubs (win tomorrow and we're just 5 behind Spurs), who knows?

Thought that would be the case. Checked my shifts today, and I'm in 3 til 10 next Saturday.

Happy Birthday Leazes. A membership to the Graeme Souness Fan Club is on it's way to you.

Genius. After the meeting he called through the week, he thought that by walking out before the match, it would sap the players' confidence. Then by the players seeing him at half-time again behind the dugout, it inspired Matt Taylor to score a left-footed wonder goal the master would have been proud of, as well as scoring another, and setting up two. Masterstroke tbh.

Could have been better, could have been worse.

Getting same problem with videos too.

Not sure if he played, but he definitely didn't score (Scholes scored both at Hampden, and Hutchison scored at Wembley).

Yep, just checked and he played against Finland. Strange story then.

As long as he didn't play a competitive match (Qualifier or Finals tournament), he can still play for them.

to play for Ghana!!! Just been on SSN that the Ghanean FA & Andy Cole have had discussions, and they want him to play for them at next summer's World Cup, and he has "considered" it.

If... a) I'm off work, and b.) I get the right pigging place this time, then I'll be there.

Mick McCarthy is out walking his dog one day, really p*ssed off about Sunderland's league position. He bumps into his captain Gary Breen just as he was about to go home, but thought he'd ask him if he wanted to go for a quick pint so they could discuss their plight. So they're standing at the bar talking to one another when a man walks in, lifts Mick McCarthy's dog's tail up, looks, and walks out the bar. Mick & Gary look at each other, and just shrug their shoulders. A couple of minutes later, another man does the exact same thing, McCarthy was a bit angry this time so said to Breen "the next time someone does that, I'll pull them up and ask what hell they're playing at". 30 seconds later, another man comes in, and lifts the dog's tail up. "Whoa whoa whoa, just a second there pal. Why's everyone keep playing with my dog's tail?" "There's a man standing outside telling everyone that passes that there's a dog in there with two a*seholes".

And...

The whole point is we are not financially fine at all. You do know what happened to Leeds United, don't you? I'm not suggesting that's going to happen to us, but I find your naivity incredible. No doubt in the summer you will be looking forward to us signing a £20M striker - well it isn't going to happen. And it pisses me right off the board are rewarding themselves for gross incompetence and under achievement. And I have a right to be pissed off. I just wish some people would open their eyes and see what they are doing to our club, rather that sitting around in their replica shirts thinking everything is fine, whilst being taken for complete mugs. And I haven't even mentioned the very real possibility of declining STs etc. Not everyone is willing to put up with this crap year in, year out. When people finally twig, the balloon will finally pop - maybe this will be a good thing. 50563[/snapback] Difference is, Leeds were going into debt and relying on Champions League money to break even. We've had crap financial results yet have still actually made £4.5m.

Do people who like Warburton's bread whinge when their major shareholders take out a dividend at the end of the financial year?

What's wrong with that? As a fan, I'd sooner watch Solano, Luque & Owen than people that were already here. I don't care what goes on at boardroom level. If worse comes to worse, we sell them on and financially, we're fine.

Great, let Villa, Real & Deportivo have their players back and let us be in profit again next season. Woohoo! St James' will be a wonderful place watching Jenas, Bowyer & Chopra instead.

Isn't it just a £9m dip in profits though. Shepherd has just been on SSN saying we've made a profit. From that, I'd read we've made profit, just £9m less than last year.

I'll "crucify" the fat bastard for constantly robbing the club through his salary and dividends. And the best time to spend is when you're at the top, in the CL. The worst thing you can do is rest on your laurels and watch everything turn to shit. It was so fucking predictable. Fine, people aren't worried about our predicament. Well, I am. Seriously, I think we're fucked unless a miracle happens. 50518[/snapback] I don't see the problem. We've made a loss of around £9m. For years we've been making a profit, yet as soon as it dips for the first time, the end of the world is nigh.