Optimistic Nut

Was funny when Souness lunged in for a tackle and missed, hearing Shearer shout from the touchline "stay on your feet".

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs 7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs 5 to flame the spell checkers 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive 2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp" 15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum 11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum 36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty 7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs 4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's 3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group 13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too" 5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?" 13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs" 1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

I can remember in the 1996-7 season a game at St James' against Arsenal. Asprilla was walking from an offside position (he must have been at least 15 yards beyond the last man), and the ball was played over the top for Shearer to chase with Adams. The ball went near Tino, who jumped over the ball so not to touch it, and Shearer raced onto it and was brought down by Adams who was sent-off. I couldn't understand how on earth the referee felt Tino wasn't interfering with play when both Shearer & Adams literally had to round around him to get to the ball!

He's a f**king mercenary. One and a half games with us, the club who plucked him from the suburbs of LA, and he pisses off to Madrid. If we play them in the Champions League, I for one will boo him.

Problem is, he was still breaking the "gaining an unfair advantage" law. Exactly like when everyone in the press were saying Kluivert's against Liverpool last season shouldn't have stood.

Jesus wept tbh.

The Rafa Benitez point is a f*cking brilliant one too.

"Whitley's not there I'm afraid. It's actually spelt Whiteley."

I suppose he's one of the "housewives' favourites", which is about 90% of the Countdown audience, so he's probably as good a choice as any.

Not really. van Nistelrooy could have walked into an onside position. He didn't. He continued to run towards the goal giving him a scoring opportunity.

The Scottish lad bottled it in the final. Seriously though, he's now up to 68th in the latest World Rankings.

But one of the bylaws is "If he's gaining an unfair advantage by being in an offside position, it's offside". If being 2 yards infront of Goma isn't an unfair advantage, then I don't know what is!

On MOTD 2, the presenter said that because van Nistelrooy didn't get the ball originally, it didn't count as offside. Last season when Kluivert scored an almost identical goal at Anfield there was uproar. Typical example of favouritism.

Claire's Accessories tbh.

Des Lynam. Think he could pull it off?

(3 months out last season)

I was sacked in September by Newcastle during my 4th season (sound familiar!). Got offered the Everton job, and they £40m to spend in the transfer window which went on Murphy (£2.6m), Marchena (£10m), Lagerblom (£1.2m), and raided Newcastle for N'Zogbia (£4m), Boumsong (£3.8m), Viana (£1.4m) & Luque (£17m). Won the League Cup, currently 12th in the league.

Me being the complete prat I am, went up to the ground before thinking the actual match was today because the advert through the week said "The Match - October 2nd"

He then wasted his first £10m (Cort & Bassedas).

Anelka to Newcastle either in January or next summer is probably one of the certainties to come off.

Well the season just before Souness took over we had no Woodgate, Dyer, Jenas or Bellamy for important UEFA Cup Semi-Finals & Premiership games for Champions League qualification, so it's not as if injury plagues are a new thing under the new "regime".

We had no Bramble, Dyer, Luque, Emre, Solano or Owen, then lost Babayaro to injury and got a 0-0 away. Take Toure, Ljungberg, Pires, Gilberto, Hleb & Henry, and then Cole away from Arsenal and they'd have struggled. Take Heinze, Ronaldo, Rooney, Keane, Scholes & van Nistelrooy, and then O'Shea and they'd have struggled. (well they lost 2-1 at home to Blackburn last week without a few of them). Take King, Davids, Carrick, Jenas, Lennon & Defoe, and then Stalteri from Spurs and they'd have struggled. Take Hyypia, Garcia, Gerrard, Alonso, Hamann & Cisse, and then Riise from Liverpool and they'd have struggled. It's all very well people saying we should have the squad to compete, but our injury situation is beyond a joke, and any club barring Chelsea with the equivalent injuries would have been lucky to get a point today.

224th overall for October! Picked up 53 points today (clean-sheets for Boumsong, Given & O'Brien & 2 goals for captain van Nistelrooy the main point scorers).

The complete contrast of Shepherd who seems a bit of an arse, but does actually know what he's doing.