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http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/remi-garde-newcastle-uniteds-new-8419823

BAD GONES being the main Lyon ultras mob google translate isnt entirely sure what gones means...

It has been striking how many ordinary, apparently non-political people have described this as an attack on the République. For a British person, this can seem a quite extraordinary belief in an abstraction. But it is a fact that Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, the defining code of the republic, does mean something. It is what it means to be French, in everyday life as well as in the world of high politics. If anything at all positive can be said about the atmosphere in Paris in recent days, it is the sense that this is a living reality for most people, and not just an empty slogan. I thought about this the other night. If you ask a French person what does it mean to be French, they can point to Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and say "there you go" in one neat and incedibly meaningful and insightful phrase. Am under no illusions that millions of French citizens of Arab and African backgrounds and Le Pen's knuckledraggers would snort derisively at this, but the signs are that France will get through this basically because they have this enshrined in the very fabric of their nation, "je suis Charlie" is just another manifistation of it. Its the same in the US to a certain extent, where the declaration of independance is similarly noble in its tone and intent, although I think the physical vastness and the myriad collection of peoples that have colonised North America in the last 200 years and the huge economic success they acheived in the 20th century have lead to the ideals it espouses being (to say the very least) skewed to one extent or another. But they are both there, in black and white, in stark contrast to the UK, where the question is never really adequately answered because we have nothing equivaent, no bill of rights or written constitution to set an example, something enshrined to serve as the best example of how to live our our lives. For a lot of our history since The Enlightement we've not needed it (we didnt need anything in 1939 to show us the right way) but I think now in our post imperial existance we're missing something for all of us, native born or not, to aspire to. If we did have something written down in the 18th century that still rings true 200+ years later in the way France has discovered this week then I think the inevitable break up of the UK in our lifetimes wouldnt even be on the agenda.

Clothesline straight red...or should've been...

Chosen one chose Zouma not Cahill...

Azpawossisnme injured, good..

Best half Cabella's had for us by a country mile....unlucky by Sissoko...

Costa should've buried that. Shite from us in the centre of the park

"A positive start"

Anyone got what sounds like award winning fuckwit Tony Gale on co commentary duties?....

Yeah....privatisation has suffered a blow this week... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-hospitals-unsustainable-privatisation-deal-collapses-amid-concerns-over-poor-care-9967479.html "Fuck this for a game of soldiers, we're losing money hand over fist, can we have some more public money to back us up please?"

Get with the program.....those who know better than us in the media spent the autumn telling us Chelsea will walk the league this season... "What can stop Chelsea this season?" Errr....a couple of defeats and three points for a win, which we've had for over thirty years perhaps?..... Can't see anything apart from a medium to large scale twatting myself, but if the players ignore Carver and do their own thing a point maybe obtained...we drew with Burnley before we beat these last month so it's not completely out of the question...Dummet has to play with Colo for us to stand any chance though.

4 hostages dead at the supermarket

Kosher grocery store incident now elsewhere in Paris, apparently more hostages. Stay safe Chez and family

Just seen his interview....basically said Evans conviction was a big a miscarriage of justice as corrupt police officers falsifying statements from witnesses leading to false inquest verdicts on 96 football supporters who were crushed to death at Hillsborough. I like to think I'm normally not a foaming mouth witch hunter but he should be forced to resign for these comments and when the Hillsborough families get hold of this there's a fair chance he'll have to.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/noone-murdered-because-of-this-image-onion-article-takes-on-grim-new-relevance

Niang for Santon anyone?....

Well yeah, but in the most recent example they weren't a million miles away with Pardew to Palace..

Time to be very afraid....Tim Sherwood has come in from 14/1 to 2/1 according to skybet...don't think anyone's been as short as twos...

This review of his case that's going through at the moment..... When he was released he applied to the crown for leave to appeal his conviction, not sure on what grounds, but that was turned down by the crown. This present review is being entirely funded by his father in law and is aporently doomed to failure too. Doubt if he'll ever play again if this is the case. His registration as a player is with the football league, but they're seemingly unwilling to withdraw it to make sure he definitely can't.

Shola Ameobi - All 79 goals for Newcastle: http://youtu.be/MoavqvRM31A Had to be done

"An attack on freedom of speech"....If you put a poster up at your desk with one of the Charlie cartoons on it taking the piss out of someone's religion I think you'd be soon having a sharp chat with your manager/ HR...I can plainly see the difference to a certain extent, but it amounts to " you've got freedom of speech, but not when it might interfere with making money" which is a pretty strange concept iyam.

We got 16 points from this point last season. It's a gamble, no doubt about it...

If Rangers accept a bid from the yank this week Ashleys screwed as far as owning Rangers though, his hands are tied; he's been told by the sfa he can't buy any more shares due to his ownership of us.