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McLaren is a footballing conservative, he's not going to play a teenager in front of Dummet, having established that his often ponderous displays are still better than Haidara, even before his injury. We apparently couldn't agree personal terms with Enrique which I think is code for we wouldn't pay him the money that would've perhaps kept him here in the fuckin first place. Criticism of a limited yet honest grafter like Dummet is a bit unfair in this case iyam, it's as clear as day left back was a priority in this window and they've failed yet again. The blame lies with the recruitment process, as per fuckin usual.

Now the Siquera loan had bitten the dust and he's gone to Valencia, does it mean a move for Valencia's now apparently very out of favour lb Lucas Olban who was mentioned in the week more likely?

True. Perhaps they are as badly run as we are and just won't bother

Can't see Berahino happening, who are they going to replace him with? Unless this is all planned and they've got a replacement in the wings waiting for the call, which is just about possible as I can't see West Brom turning down 21 mill without giving it serious thought..

"Lunch" I've introduced the Scots term "piecebaggin" to the south east Dorset vernacular, to denote "he can be observed post 1930ish on a Friday evening with a scruffy bag round his shoulders, containing an empty Tupperware box, staggering out of a licenced establishment after entering within its confines several hours earlier for a couple after work "

That was class....."Turn it in Cromwell, you're mugging me off you caahnt"

Tbh, I was trying to point out it's utterly pointless generalising about any set of supporters. The afcb supporters I know best aren't the towns most savoury characters it's fair to say. These lads have freely watched utter shit most weeks all their lives though. Regardless of their extra curricular activities they're part of the clubs 4k core support and I do have respect for that.

People aren't cunts because of their professed support for any given club, take football out of it and you'll find if they're a cunt in general they'll be a cunt at the match too. It's society to blame Dave No real opinion on Bournemouth fans?....most I know are taking this season as an opputunity to go and cause trouble at away games they couldn't dreamed of 5 years ago. A small but inherently nasty little mob. But get this, as far as I can make out,every club has them. Then there was the lad from Bournemouth who sometimes used to travel with us regularly to NUFC games in the late 90s, used to take his family up too, wife, couple of bairns, he loved it. We ran into him at Dean Court in November when we played them and he was dressed from head to toe in red and fuckin black Tbh, I'm more offended by that prick than the elderly hoolies having a unexpected last hurrah,playing up at Old Trafford and Highbury etc.

Daves chucked the towel in already

Is it "National Sweeping Generalisation Day"?

Andrew Fowler sounds like he makes Ryder's tea

I didnt think the area where the bar is was that bad tbh, but we went a few blocks towards the hotel and it was like Harlem in the 1970s We were here http://www.thechieftain.com/beer-selection It was a Sierra Nevada promo night. Its all to do with this http://www.sfbeerweek.org/ which is,am sure we'd all agree, a massive stroke of good fortune for us to have arrived right in the middle of ​

Used this for the first time last night to get back to our hotel from a bar the other side of San Francisco....briliinat service, driver was from Eritrea and was improbably called Mario The current Mrs PL suggested it, well tbh she insisted we use it as the hotel manager had scared the crap out of her when we told him where the bar was (on the edge of Tenderloin, which is apparently where you can get your loins "tendered" for a fee ) I asked Mario what the difference between Ethiopia and Eritrea is, to which he replied "nothing, the split was caused by powerful men arguing about money" Which was succinct and to the point, please take note "worried of Boldon"

I watched the whole of Palace v Spurs at the weekend and tbh the way the Pocchetino has them set up its difficult to see where a lad who likes to get a bit of chalk on his boots would fit in with their style of play, so am thinking that would be the overriding reason he's not been getting games rather than him being a bit crap.Almost all of their width and crosses came from either Rose or Trippier (who on that performance is better than Clyne by miles, should be going to France) with Alli and Eriksen buzzing around in front of Dier. Thing is they had to bring Chadli on for Dier to change things around a bit because for all their possession Palace were putting up a decent fight. He pulled wide and lobbed a nothing ball to Kane who nodded it in. Maybe there's not room for more than one senior wide wide man in Spurs squad?.. Not sure about Townsend's service/final ball like but am hoping he'll be more of the one trick pony some gobshites portray him as.

Err.....anyone familiar with cabo de St Lucas in Mexico?......how's the snow btw?.....

Greetings from Bridgetown, Barbados

Completely ruled the 70s, and without him the following 4 decades will have sounded very different. At least as influential as the Beatles iyam, it would appear he knew this was coming and the new material is a bit of a self penned requiem, which if anyone else had tried it would've been a bit crass at best but is somehow pretty fitting for him. RIp major Tom/star man/Aladdin/thin white duke etc etc, they'll never be another like you...

Aye nice one Ant, in a similar vein... http://www.true-faith.co.uk/true-faith-pavel-is-a-geordie-charity-t-shirt/

Spent this afternoon packing for hols on Saturday, I've found and ironed everything (that needed it) and got a half full case so that counts as a success. Neighbour came over with a bottle of prosecco the other night and I went to the posh offy for beer. Night in with candles lit listening to the vinyl I got for christmas then into town tomorrow for the Poole Quay bath race (local bell ends on perfunctory rafts in the harbour in early January, for "charidee") and the always excellent piss up afterwards. Have a good one you crazy kids

we took ten year old twin boys, one of whom said it would've been a better film wit Zaza Binks in it Agree with you though, thought the first hour was excellent

Good campaign by the Guardian tbh, pity all they've got to show for it is a rise of to 15p to the bare minimum wage for the lowest paid agency staff aged 21-25. The real damage to Ashley is the 400mill he lost when his share price went down due to all this bad PR and public exposure. It'll go back up again though, and the massive bonuses he gives his middle managers to keep the poor sods who actually do all the graft in line (on zero hours contracts) stay in place. The new "living wage" outside London is due In April meaning a rise of 35p an hour to £7-20. Not sure if there's any plans to for SD to start paying that and it's certainly not mentioned in the ridiculous fuckin puff piece that the Mirror have done with him this morning. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/31/mike-ashley-10m-pay-all-sports-direct-staff-above-minimum-wage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I remember what ended Gordon Brown's brief "honeymoon" period; similar scenes in the south of England ( the Severn valley, the river Cuck in Sussex, the Wey in Surrey) when the Tory media annihilated him and he never really recovered. The daily mail's lead story yesterday was actor Michael Sheen having the temerity to suggest that calls for the foreign aid budget to be slashed and diverted to flood areas in the UK were misguided.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377219/Flood-victims-slam-luvvie-actor-Michael-Sheen-saying-sick-hearing-calls-Britain-s-12-billion-foreign-aid-spent-UK-weather-defences.html The Daily Mail, distracting the fuckwit masses since 1896

Sadness all around today...rip Bradders, the soul of ska... http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/john-bradbury-of-the-specials-dies-ages-62?CMP=fb_gu

We've had a change of badge before, but not on these particular grounds. And we've had the present one for over a quarter of a century, bar the change from stitching to an iron-on print. If this goes ahead and coincides with a second relegation in 6 seasons it might finally be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Quite possibly not thought Just thinking this may have been the same reason for the change from the City coat of arms badge we had up till the early 80s to the circular "NUFC" emblem we had till 1989?

Huge influence on Mettalica and all who came after them in the 80s, also massive collector of nazi memorabilia. Most fondly remembered round our way for this little cameo RIP