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And thats before we've sold Cabaye. Ashley could have his money back by the end of next season at this rate though

Seen them both in the last couple of years mate, who says I live in the past?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Converse-Purcell-Jack-Canvas/dp/B001FQANKA/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A153LSLEGJYFRB Mine yesterday for the priincely sum of 24-99 in Tredz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/scottish-independence-blog/2013/jul/26/scottish-independence-northeast-england

Sounds like Debuchy all over again, and tbf there was praise from some quarters about not being held to ransome.

Having said that, using the courts to hush it up is bang out of order, hang the cunt...

"wealthy and powerful aristocat seeks to gain influence"...its not really story of the century iyam..he wants things done his way in what he no doubt considers to be his country. Does it matter that much?..its not exactly a crime against humanity...

Think we can expect a new book about how to boil an egg from Delia considering the amount of cash NCFC are splashing out on their strike force... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23450297 Perhaps Joe can bring Grant Holt in on loan? :/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23459932 Silly fucker, needs to wind his neck in

When did Pardew say he wanted 2 up front?...

I largely agree with what NJS and Renton say but I fail to see what you can do about it. Do away with all forms of inherited wealth or just for posh rich folk? Life is blatantly and often tragically unfair for billions of people on the planet, in the big scheme of things and particularly in this country, its not that much of an injustice. Parky, the best land in Scotland is the Tweed valley and its pretty much owned by the Dukes of Roxburghe and Buccleuch. The Forestry Commision is the largest landowner overall.

Never going to happen...your hopes will be realised, as you say he has a finger in a lot of pies and lobbies Westminster to get his "vision" for the country at least on the agenda, the fuckin old hippy. Thing is his sons are hugely popular. You'll have to strike before he croaks it. Diana was treated appallingly to begin with, but when she learnt the game she was as bad as the rest of them.

Youve said this before...can you explain how this may work? Is he any more corrupt or power hungry than anyone in Westminster?..fair enough we cant vote him out but him and his family are a small part of the big picture iyam.

"zut alors"

To be honest, iyam all thats about how you feel about yourself to large extent. There are people in life I respect enormously, but in a very modest way I dont really feel inferior to anyone and laugh at those with delusions of grandeur, or actual grandeur itself. Am sure almost all of us are the same, so am not sure why you feel strongly about it. I'm lucky emough to have good relations with my now fairly elderly parents, and as long as I have their love, respect and support then I couldnt give a fuck what anyone else thinks. The Duke of Roxburghe virtually owns the village I was brought up in and often mixes with the plebs, attends christmas do's, funerals of his tenants etc and is considered a good egg. Cunt still expects to be called "your grace" mind, so I dont speak to the fucker. He doesnt bother with me so I dont bother with him.

I agree the principle of the set up is shite, but in reality its an irrlevence for the vast majority of the country. I went out with an Aussie bird for a while and we had this exact same argument. She wanted the Amarican system,where anyone born in the US could conceievably become the leading citizen. I frankly couldnt give a flying one what people's ambitions are, and as we can see from most ambitious politicians, theyre invairably utter twats. No thanks, and dont trust anyone with those sort of ambitions either. I really do think its a red herring that real/proper republicans have sort of fallen for. Unless we go down the Irish route and elect Bradley Wiggins as president? Again,largely an irrelevence and what sort of money would that cost us P.A.?

There are twin narratives at St James’ Park this summer; one we can see (mostly) and one we cannot (which is probably just as well). On one side are the players of Newcastle United, the coaching staff, the administrators, the people who work in the ticket office and the club shop, who are doing their jobs in a manner which is more or less visual. On the other, there is Joe Kinnear and, behind him, Mike Ashley. There are two clubs, either getting on with business as usual, or which is still to provide evidence it is doing anything very useful. Some players have left Tyneside – Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, James Perch – but Kinnear’s involvement here was minimal and until or unless the new director of football gives his blessing for a transfer in the opposite direction, Newcastle will be dysfunctional. There is tension at the club, within and without. A concern, based on enough conversations to give it substance, is that the potential is there for a swift unravelling – in those circumstances, my life savings would go on Kinnear returning to the dug-out – and yet positivity could ease matters. A signing would not only provide Alan Pardew with help, it would allow people to exhale, to understand that wheels are still turning. The same applies to something like Papiss Demba Cisse’s dispute with the club over their Wonga sponsorship. The two parties are talking, the Professional Footballers’ Association has expressed optimism that a compromise is at hand and while nobody will persuade me that Kinnear can be intrinsically involved in an issue which involves the complexity of ethics, contracts, religion, money and so on, resolution would be evidence of normality. That is important. Really important. I’m directly aware of one transfer which is good to go in just about every sense but which is being held up because “the people above (Pardew) are the problem.” Deals are horrifically complicated these days, but it is heightened by a sense of limbo at Newcastle. Getting something “over the line,” to use Pardew’s parlance, would (could) release the logjam. So, to the supporters who naturally want to know whether signings are imminent, the answer is yes, no and maybe. It cannot be anything else because, ultimately, they are the preserve of one man. Pardew is right when he says he is “pushing hard to get things done,” and right when he says “it is important now that the message we give out is strong.” That message is: get on with it, Joe. Hence the tension. Time to release the tension at Newcastle, Joe George CaulkinJuly 25 2013 10:07AM There are twin narratives at St James’ Park this summer; one we can see (mostly) and one we cannot (which is probably just as well). On one side are the players of Newcastle United, the coaching staff, the administrators, the people who work in the ticket office and the club shop, who are doing their jobs in a manner which is more or less visual. On the other, there is Joe Kinnear and, behind him, Mike Ashley. There are two clubs, either getting on with business as usual, or which is still to provide evidence it is doing anything very useful. Some players have left Tyneside – Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, James Perch – but Kinnear’s involvement here was minimal and until or unless the new director of football gives his blessing for a transfer in the opposite direction, Newcastle will be dysfunctional. There is tension at the club, within and without. A concern, based on enough conversations to give it substance, is that the potential is there for a swift unravelling – in those circumstances, my life savings would go on Kinnear returning to the dug-out – and yet positivity could ease matters. A signing would not only provide Alan Pardew with help, it would allow people to exhale, to understand that wheels are still turning. The same applies to something like Papiss Demba Cisse’s dispute with the club over their Wonga sponsorship. The two parties are talking, the Professional Footballers’ Association has expressed optimism that a compromise is at hand and while nobody will persuade me that Kinnear can be intrinsically involved in an issue which involves the complexity of ethics, contracts, religion, money and so on, resolution would be evidence of normality. That is important. Really important. I’m directly aware of one transfer which is good to go in just about every sense but which is being held up because “the people above (Pardew) are the problem.” Deals are horrifically complicated these days, but it is heightened by a sense of limbo at Newcastle. Getting something “over the line,” to use Pardew’s parlance, would (could) release the logjam. So, to the supporters who naturally want to know whether signings are imminent, the answer is yes, no and maybe. It cannot be anything else because, ultimately, they are the preserve of one man. Pardew is right when he says he is “pushing hard to get things done,” and right when he says “it is important now that the message we give out is strong.” That message is: get on with it, Joe. Hence the tension. Anyway, this wasn’t supposed to be a column about Kinnear, but more of a reflection of a club in two parts. Until the season starts we cannot judge whether it is a mirage or not, but the feeling I had from four days in Portugal at their pre-season training base was that the playing part of Newcastle is focussing right down. Any bombast from last year is gone. They are stripped back to the sinew. Steven Taylor stood by Braga’s training pitch, sweat streaming from him. In the past, the centre-half has been prone to the odd bit of bluster, but there was none of it here. “Listen, the feeling everybody has got is that we just have to look at Manchester City and then take it from there,” he said. “That’s how we did it a couple of years ago, we looked at it from game to game. We let everyone say what they wanted and focused only on ourselves. “Manchester City on that first Monday night is all we’re looking at, all we’re thinking about. That was one of our biggest problems last year; everyone was saying we need to be back in the top ten, we need to be back in Europe, we need to do this and that. We set ourselves high goals and it just didn’t happen. Even within the team, we were saying we were going to do this or that, but it doesn’t always work like that. “This time, we’re making a conscious effort to narrow things down, concentrate on our work and let everything else take care of itself. Last season was a dent to our egos, there’s no getting away from it. Europe was a big factor in that. You’ve got to realise that we had a small squad for it, we had players playing and traveling and fatigue does come into it. I don’t think we were quite ready for it as a club. I don’t think we were as fit as we could have been for Europe if I’m being perfectly honest with you. “It’s a whole new season now, the lads have come back in really good shape and we have to make sure we’re strong for the games in the Premier League, no matter who we play. The perfect example is a team like Bayern Munich – they’re right at the top of the pecking order for everything. They’re not only brilliant players, but they out-run everybody for the entirety of games. They look like machines. For 90 odd minutes they have players flying forward instead of just holding on to a 1-0 win and being a bit sluggish. Our main aim is to do the same in terms of trying to kill teams off.” Footballers can find excuses, but they are closing their eyes to them. For now, at least. “It wouldn’t be Newcastle if there wasn’t something going on around the club,” Taylor said. “Every year we get the same thing. I’m sure outsiders love it because they can get amongst it, but we can only do what we’re here to do. “If you allow yourself to get distracted by other stuff it can become an excuse for failure, so players have to put themselves in a bubble and concentrate on the things they can control and that’s fitness, hard work, training, matches. Nobody has complained once. Everyone gets on with their jobs and whatever happens upstairs doesn’t matter, because we’re the ones that have to do the talking on the pitch.” A signing or two would not go amiss, but that was a bear trap which Taylor side-stepped. “That’s up to the people upstairs,” he said. “I’m just a player and I need to make sure I do my job, that I’m fit and ready for selection. That’s all I can do. Whatever happens, happens.” One half of Newcastle is stained by effort. The other? The wait continues.

Thats less tricky when the young lady's opening gambit is "are you coming to look at my fuckin tits or what?" which was used by an obvious honours graduate from the charm school on my good self only last weekend

Aspers did 2 for 1 on all drinks when it first opened before Saturday games. Loved it, but it didnt tempt enough utter piss heads to the roulette wheel so it was dropped after half a season or so

People slate the royals for being parasites but they are the least of our worries tbh...the amount the banking crisis has cost the country,businesses and invidual people makes a few hundred million a year look like chicken feed. You can't help who your folks are...having said that, it does need reforming. Thing is, most aristocrats are on huge state handouts/fiddles of one type or another. Make them all stand on their own two feet, its what the Daily Mail would want..

No wonder he was good, he usually had those defensive collosai Robert and Viana in front of him

Has he been charged with rape or not?....

Wonga is a stupid fuckin thing to have on any garment for any reason. Theres nothing moral about not wanting to look like a twat

Not for me, its a phrase that came in with playing as you say either 3 in the middle or 3 at the back. Before that it was only fullbacks, and a lot of them got forward very well indeed...forgot another one, in fact the Daddy of the attacking fullback in the 80s, Stuart Pearce. Doubt if he played in anything other than a 442 his whiole time at Forest under Clough. Brilliant attacking footballer. Think people overcomplicate things at times. And Yahoo answers is mostly wrong too. This is a terminology thing, attacking wide defenders have existed for around 50 years, regrdless of what theyre called.

how do you know 90% of people on this board go to casinos?...