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I would if I hadn't of had to put up with them the past 10 month Calling the Champions Leagues 2 legs a 'Series' really done my nut in.

Great 1st half, hope they keep it up 2nd half Chelsea look like they really weren't expecting this pity Ba's shot didn't go in as it'd of been a great well worked goal and 2-0 at half time would have been a very solid lead the way we're going about it.

Aye, I also disagreed with a fair portion of what Neville said he slowed everything down to frame by frame looking for any amount of contact before going "foul? yes, dive? yes" but it's the type of sport where you will make contact with defenders it doesn't make it a foul every single time that happens, when the contact is strong enough to impede the attackers progress I agree that is a foul but simply grazing the defenders leg isn't a foul. It is very tough to stop but the FA need to do something because it's fair to say a lot of people are sick of seeing things like players punting the ball miles away then searching for contact from the keeper so that the keeper gets a red and they get a pen, or knocking the ball sideways and then 'kicking' the defender in order to win a free kick. The point I agree with Neville is that players know that they often wont get a free kick or penalty without going down and this is also something that needs to be changed as it gives players a good reason to fall over, Tiote getting elbowed by Sessegnon was a good example he went down softly and rather than being annoyed at their own player for being irrational and getting himself sent off the mackems were going berserk at Tiote for diving and some were saying if he hadn't went down Sessegnon might have stayed on the pitch, maybe they were right but if so that's a good reason on why Tiote had to go down.

Seen that and the sequel 'What becomes of the broken Hearted', the first is far better and I agree it can be a bit rough at times.

Aye he goes whole matches only referring to them by their first names, what a nob.

I've got to put up with Steve McManaman over here at the moment, it's like a bloke commentating a match of his mates whenever he covers Liverpool constantly bringing up recent conversations he's had with the players.

Dempsey's looking good again.

As Craig's said I'm chuffed with 6th so anything above that is a plus, it's been a great season regardless.

Cheers I'll keep an eye out for that.

I've tried for years to avoid FIFA as I was always a PES fan until the awful PES 2008, I bought Fifa 11 and wasn't a big fan of it and recently bought PES 12 as it was cheap and it was awful. My lasses cousin has Fifa 12 and to say it was better than PES 12 is an understatement, I far preferred it to Fifa 11 (although it could have been because I only played 4 games of 12?). I think I might buy Fifa 13 when do the demos normally come out for these?

Aye credit where it's due they've always had a canny support, would of been very easy for them to just support Man Utd.

What's wrong with saying it? I'm not negative or pessimistic overall, very happy with this season and I'll still fancy our chances of giving it a go against Man City but realistically they're going to be playing for the title and we'll spend a good part of the game on the backfoot. Nowt to do with our 4-0 loss, I'd still be worried about the Man City game even if we'd beaten Wigan.

We're going to get an absolute hiding

Aye it's a shame the press have their Knives out and he's not even been announced yet, he's always come across as a decent bloke and he's done well everywhere he's went (Liverpool aside I guess but they had a lot of injuries and they give him no time at all, give him the time and money 'King' Kenny has had and he'd have them in a fair better position), he's the right age for an England boss too. Like others have said it's going to be a shame to see him ripped to pieces by the press who will be masquerading as the voice of England fans. It's completely ridiculous that Redknapp is being made out to be the peoples favorite, let's face it Newcastle is split over managerial appointments and it's a city of under 1m people never mind the differing views of a (potential) 60m + fanbase, personally I've never met anyone that likes Redknapp he's pretty much seen as a wanker by most people I know. I also agree with all the posts about getting the new lot in and dumping the 'Golden generation', what's the point in playing the likes of Gerrard and co? they've had about 4 tournaments and haven't played well in any of them really (not talking about missing the ridiculous media expectations but scrapping for 1-0 wins against countries ranked 50 places or so lower than us isn't good enough), as Asprilla said if they couldn't do it at 23-29 what chance do 30+ year olds with knackered knees stand? They don't care about England especially now, I'd far rather see us blood in the next lot and prepare for the future it's not like we stand any chance of winning this one with the strength of teams like Germany and Spain. In fact the youth would probably perform far better and provide much more entertainment than Gerrard and co waddling around while that nob head plays the trumpet in the crowd.

Good appointment tbh.

Weren't the Mackems the last team that didn't?, I'm sure I can remember them getting absolutely battered by either Arsenal or Liverpool sometime around then, they might have managed 1 shot mind.

They were great today and Torres has finally remembered where goal is recently, hoping they have a capitulation like we did yesterday but it's pretty thin hope tbh. Like J69 said I just hope we can nick a draw.

No thanks as others have said they've acted horribly anytime they've had the chance to come to England and there's no place for the bigotry associated with them (and Rangers). They'd struggle imo not due to size of club because they're definitely of a premiership stature but their current calibre of player is Championship standard and it'd be hard to draw Premiership standard players there, so as others have mentioned they'd probably end up languishing in the Championship for a while.

That you will, I agree with Besty's post we seemed to switch after their 2nd with Simpson, Colo and Williamson as centre backs and Jonas and santon as wingbacks but like Besty said the players seemed pretty confused about it which tbh I don't blame them switching formation mid way through a half is daft.

Odd but cheers for clearing it up.

All the rumours about that FC Twente player Douglas seem to indicate he can't join until August because he's waiting to become eligible for Dutch citizenship but according to this: http://www.twentefm....o-teixeira.html From back in November.

Is Williamson wearing the £7 Plimsoles by the way, the cheap cunt . Good article and canny interesting, they lead some life mind.

Just never turned up there at all not one of them. It seems like Krul saved up any mental lapses all season and let them out in this game, Williamson forgetting all his prior decent games and promptly returning to the complete non entity we all know he is. Toothless and very very disappointing plus losing 4-0 to turds like Wigan is very embarrassing, just hope Chelsea and Spurs don't capitilise and we actually turn up against Chelsea. It does seem weird that we perform so well for so long and then we just don't seem to turn up and it's happened a few times this season, mind if this is the price we pay for being so fantastic for the rest of the season then it's worth it.

Aye but I'm sure either him or Walker would be a better option at left back, with the other at right back, than what they're left with but I guess they can't take him back anyway.

Is there anyway they can recall Kyle Naughton?