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Aye, as if it's about Charlemagne as well.

RIP Lee and Moody. I watched Oliver a lot as a kid and Fagin was one of the most memorable characters, surprised to hear he just died because he seemed old even in that movie, I assume it was just the make up like. Lee was clearly a legend, didn't know he led a life like that mind! Special forces and then getting to play Villains in a ton of films, what a life.

With their little hop they must have barely scratched 6 feet high.

I fully expect this to be another that can't cross the line then, no doubt Charnley will sit sweating thinking about how 10m is utterly absurd never mind 15m and QPR will sell him to someone else for 12m.

Aye it is, probably because it looks like something PSG would wear. It's canny enough mind probably the best Puma have managed for us tbh, pity it's a kit the team will almost never wear.

Aye howay CT you must know Berahino man. Would love this to be true, a forward three of Berahino, Austin and Perez would be very exciting to watch. Obviously not getting excited until he's fully signed up but he'd be a class buy for the club especially as there is surely a canny bit of interest from other teams.

His points about the Youth were the more interesting bits of what he said imo. I hope he can really help our youth set up and he's allowed to bring in some credible coaches who can actually train the kids at the club. He had a decent record for giving youth players a chance and coaching them up when he was at Boro, hopefully he can manage similar here because our youth production has been pretty poor for a long time.

"Steven Taylor is here now so I’ve caught up with him." Of course he fucking is, what an arselicker.

Was just about to say, McClaren comes across well enough but as others have said any future success depends on the amount the club is willing to spend.

He's becoming a parody of himself, which was a parody of Alan Oliver.

The Knight Ryder must be fuming, missed out on an exclusive after all the fucking nonsense he has put out on the clubs behalf. Wonder if we'll see an article about how mint McClaren is now after he slated him the other week.

Swansea have signed Andre Ayew on a free: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33071470 We were rumoured to be interested weren't we? Not surprised we lost out to Swansea if so, hard to compete with clubs like that especially when you're spending a fucking month trying to sign a manager every fucker knows is going to sign for you.

So no different to when we hired Kinnear (either appointment).

Aye I think Richards is a bit injury prone tbh but he was canny a few year ago, even if he was that standard it's better option than Taylor.

I'm canny sure the American system has been brought up once or twice on here, it's a good enough idea in that it fits their system but it could only fit a system like theirs. The NFL teams don't share their scouts as far as I know, most pay for an independent scouting company and read their reports (iirc a lot of teams use the same company) and then their own scouts go and take a closer look at the College players they think interest them. This has started to happen a little in footy as I think it's the Football Manager database is bought by teams like Everton so they get a general idea about tonnes of players before taking a closer look (I highly doubt Newcastle pay for this database mind). The Combine is just a set of drills they put a select group of 250 or so college kids through (that have declared they are entering the draft) and NFL teams send their scouts to get further evidence to back or reassess the players they were going to pick, they definitely don't share their opinions by this point and there is even a lot of bluffing and mind games involved trying to put other teams off players they're interested in (the book Moneyball covers this a little when talking about the Baseball draft). If you're meaning more the Football manager database type of thing then I fully agree Newcastle should be involved in it but I highly doubt those in charge are forward thinking enough to consider it.

Cow-bothering

Full credit PL I definitely heard it from you first

Aye, it's absolutely terrifying tbh. His first response to a lad trying to pull him off his battery of a teenage lass in a fucking bikini was to go straight for a pistol, they have a taser he surely knew no one there other than him and the other two cops had guns (look at the type of area ffs, everyone was well dressed etc this wasn't the 'ghetto' which seems to be the usual excuse for being afraid) so why didn't he reach for the taser? This was a bunch of what look like middle class kids being attacked by a total fucking racist, he should have been restrained by his fellow officers tbh it was a disgusting and unjustified attack. I remember listening to Bill Burr's podcast the other week and he made a remark that after the shoot out with the motorcycle gang they were just all sat about on their phones etc and he questioned whether that would be the case if the motorcycle gang was a black gang and after watching how a bunch of middle class teenagers were treat, most definitely on account of their skin colour, it's hard to argue with him. I know a lad that screens new recruits over here and some of his stories are pretty frightening tbh, I couldn't imagine what gets through the process in some of these deep south states... Would be interested to know if this cop had been rejected from the military when he was younger because he looks exactly the sort of headcase that's fucking desperate to be in the middle of a gun fight. If that's not the end of his job as a police man I think it's canny nailed on he'll be involved in a very dodgy shooting incident sometime soon.

The Charvas will love that.

A NSFW metal detecting thread

Forgot this was on so I missed it, thank fuck I did. Hodgson is a fucking shambles and all the players are desperate to get on a plane to some Med island and go out on the piss which is how they are every summer. Can't see the point in having international friendlies when the bloke in charge just plays the same shit formation and shit players over and over regardless of form, Lallana couldn't get a game when he was at Southampton until it was clear he was moving to Liverpool and has since become undroppable, Austin the top English scorer in the Prem last year didn't even come on as a sub let alone start He'd rather play Man Utd players out of position than play Nathaniel Clyne. While I know they'd still be wank even if he did all that at least he'd not be further hindering the useless cunts. I'm surprised Ireland didn't beat us, they actually seem to give a fuck about playing for their nation most of the time as opposed to the English lot who simply do it so they can put 'England international' under their names for adverts. Who's the fella that had a big wankfest over Vardy when we played Leicester? I bet he was on the vinegar strokes when Vardy high fived Rooney and ran on.

Imagine how excited he gets the first time a new rule is correctly applied by a referee.