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Sir Bob said in his book he thought the Wolves game was a nail in his SJP coffin. Good enough for me.

Are there any posts from this bell end about how great Steve Bruce is at this management gig and how his team will stuff NUFC etc etc....youd think they'd fuckin learn wouldn't you?...

No Ryan Taylor...(dons tin hat)....Ben Arfa to start on the right?!

Didnt know arry was Liverpool manager in 83, couldve swore that was Joe Fagan.....he was manager of Bournemouth though who put Man Utd out of the FA cup that year

If only Londoners saw themselves as the rest of the country does mate. They'll destroy him too if he's appointed and hings go tits up. Well, the half dozen of them who dont support West Ham will.

He's back the weekend after next according to physioroom....if 'arry's appointed what price a place in the squad if he gets a hatrick v Wigan or something like that before the end of the season?

Some stuff about Spurs for our new friend to chew over: Harrys window. 1st January:" extremely unlikely we will be doing any business in this window. I'lll stick with what I have" Deadline: Signs Louis Saha, Ryan Nelsen; makes loan bid for Mauro Zárate, Marseille claim an enormous bid for Loic Rémy; sells Roman Pavlyuchenko; loans out Sébastien Bassong, Stephen Pienaar, John Bostock and Vedran Corluka £27m: Public money now committed to keeping Spurs in Tottenham – £9m from Haringey council, plus £18m from Londons riot-recovery fund. £2.7bn: Tax-exile Spurs owner Joe Lewis's fortune, partly from currency trades in 1992 which helped push the pound out of the ERM and cost the Treasury £3.3bn. Spurs, controlled by offshore Enic, are "delighted by the mayor and the council … We always said we could only invest in this area if our commitment was supported by others From the Observer's "said and done" column.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/feb/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview24

As a rule of thumb anything by Simon Kuper about football is well worth reading. Hugh Macilvaney's collection of articles from his columns in the Times and the Observer is also worth a look. Bobby Charlton's (auto)biographies by Matt Lawton are surprisingly good, very detailed.

Names on the cup

Daniel Levy statement: Harry can become the new England manager only if he can write his own resignation letter

Cappello's planned this I reckon, used the Terry thing to avoid taking a squad of under motivated millionaire wankers to a tournament they've no chance of winning and getting a second bucket load of shit tipped over him in 2 years by the media. If I had half an idea that I had to try and get some team spirit going in a squad that contains John Terry then I think I'd run a mille in the opposite direction too. 6 months left on a contract worth 6 million isn't going to upset his accountant too much either. Pearce as caretaker for the warm up next month, Harry takes over for the Poland gig. Steve Bruce to Spurs :

With UK forces heavily comitted elsewhere and no aircraft carrier for at least 10 years am wondering if the Argies really do fancy a punch up over this? They'd never be able to defend them in the long term but I don't know anything about this doris in charge over there now, is she actually mad or just trying it on a bit?

They have decided mate he's not guilty according to them. I don't think there was enough evidence to convict him, just his word v HMRC. Nothing substantial.

No real evidence against him as far as I could make out. Hugely suspicious why anyone would want a bank account in Monte Carlo, but that doesn't make him guilty.

I've got a VHS of the Leverkusen game, am on it in the crowd celebrating after Shola ( yes children, almost unbeleiveably Tynesides chief purveyor of headwear has scored in the group stages of the champions league ) We missed Luas opener as were being half chewed to death by the alsatians belonging to MP's of the British army of the Rhine who had "welcomed" us latecomers outside the ground. After drinking for hours with the locals near the ground after the game we ended up in Cologne in the only gay/lesbian/transgender nightclub open on a Tuesday night. This ended up with 50 or so Geordies on the dancefloor singing their own version of "hey Jude", accompanied by the in house band. We still talk about that night quite often when I run into some of the old crowd now, truly brilliant times.

Great idea, let's offer Colo £100k p/w then what if BA,Cabaye,Tiote etc want the same? It sets a precedence and can easily run out of control. I think he should be right at the top of our basic pay scale with enhancements for clean sheets and appearances. It takes 11 players to keep a clean sheet. That sort of bonus has never worked becuase of the team ethic of football. Same for goals for a striker. Am only suggesting it for Colo as he's 29 and vital to the team. The rest will be sold to clubs who will pay them what they are worth. Thats what we're doing and where we're going as a club. We'll see what happens, if we can push on as Spurs have (this season).

I'm pretty sure he's not going to sign a new deal here. This is where Ashley's "brave new world" that a lot of folks on here (mosrtly me included, certainly when I'm watching the team) are enjoying this season falls down. Why not reward Colocini for his efforts since relegation? Make him an offer he cant turn down to stay? If anyone thinks Graham Carr is going to keep uncovering gems for next to fuck all (and pay them comparative peanuts) that may "take us to the next level" then I'd suggest a lie down in a darkened room for them. That will work at Lyon in France as I've mentioned before, but it's unlikely to work long term in this country where wages are a lot higher. He deserves top wack if you ask me, but we won't pay it.

It seemingly hasnt dawned on Dalglish that Terry has been charged and has to appear in front of magistrates for exactly the same thing that Suarez did. Rightly or wrongly its a criminal offence to racially abuse someone in the UK.To be fair to Suarez his admission of the offence may have kept the police out of it. Parker man of the match?...he's stopped doing his little pirouettes in midfiled as much but apart from that he's an above average midield grafter. Same as he was here. Dawson was the best player on the park last night. That lads come on a lot. If the Terry situation deteriotes and he ends up not going to Poland then he's a good a "stopper" as anyone iyam.

Yeah but would it not been more accurate to mention Newcastle as the team they would get closest to tonight? He maybe was referring to the champs league place but we are seen asa bit of an irrelevance despite what the league table says. Lawrenson said we won't finish in the top 7 on saturday in his column in the mirror even though we've not been out the top 6 hardly all season.

Gary Neville casually mentions that a win for Liverpool "will get them closer to Chelsea", conveniently forgetting the two sides placed between Liverpool and Chelsea in the table. We're still a nothing club watched by two men and a dog in a primative northern backwater out there in media land. Suits me fine at the moment.

His mate died in the crash somewhere in Italy during the world cup there in 1990. Redknapp was quite badly injured as a result of the crash too.

Hobby spotted in the Black Bull as we speak drinking coffee...sadly it seems he's left his trumpet at home....

He got off the plane and went straight to the ground. He also had a nice glass of red with lunch before KK asked him if he wanted to be in the bench.

Going on what Pardew said in the presser he reckons they'll be quick on the break today.Can't see them countering too quickly without Agbonlahor who is doubtful for this apparently. Bent needs someone to get it into the box for him where he is quality. Concentrate on stopping the supply to him and I think we'll have too much for them of our own at the other end. I enjoyed last season's game at SJP almost as much as twatting the mackems a couple of months later. It's difficult to genaralise about fans but I'll make an exception for these cunts after the relegation game. Highlight of their decade judging by their reaction