Sir Bob Almighty!

4.5 Million. I would actually agree that Jonas hasnt lived up to expectations but certainly shouldnt even be considered for that list. Nolan, Coloccini, Raylor and Gonzalez should be though.

Theres actually quite a few championship streams every week on that myp2p site, I'm sure we'll still get to see our team play, probably wont see Owen, Martins, Jonas, Barton, Guthrie, Duff, Bassong, Coloccini, Taylor, Enrique, Beye play though. Bummer.

I woke up this morning and funnily enough for the first time its hit me hard that we have a very, very high chance of playing championship football next season, I'm getting sick of obsessing about these results but it really doesnt look too good at all. I mean Pompey, Boro & Fulham are all winnable games, but we've had so called winnable games all season that we havent took advantage of so you would have to say the chances of us winning all three or even winning two are highly unlikely, our derby with the smogs is normally always a draw anyway and Fulham are sitting in 8th spot. Pompey is the only game from the last five that I'm hopeful of getting three points, which of course is not enough. There wont be any surprises at Anfield i wouldnt think, and although Villa arent the best of teams at the moment they still have some great players and a great manager. People are banging on about the second half performance against Spurs, am i missing something? I though the majority of the players were as hapless as they were in the first half and not many of them are showing any kind of fighting spirit at all, I'm finally starting to lose hope

An unwashed penis at very best tbh.

2 wins and a draw could be all we need with the run-in that Boro and Hull have though Villa's form has dipped also, i dont think 3 points is out of the question against them if we are on our game. Liverpool is a write off, im expecting a 3-0.

What do you think?

Not me, we will pick up enough points from Portsmouth, Fulham and Boro i think. Gonna be close though, very close.

nay, I have the much rarer Sonic the hedgehog version I actually had the sonic version too, just loved the alex the kidd game. Have you got many other games for the MS?

Not to mention Nolan, Smith and Gutierrez

I'm sticking with premiership and Shearer, i have dont have optimism i have nowt! The thought of being in the championship with Kinnear really does make me feel quite sick, we will be relegated from the championship in our first season if this happens, i really do believe that.

If your playing against good players, if you kill them from a sniping position and stay there, you'll end up dead very quickly. I think that was part of his point anyway mate

The master system was AWESOME! Alex the Kidd

By Simon Bird, the Daily Mirror's man in the North-east 15/04/2009 Alan Shearer's appointment as Newcastle boss may not yet have saved the Magpies, but it seems some old battle lines have been re-drawn. On Tyneside, there is no doubt that Shearer has united the club for the final six games. He's given renewed focus on the terraces and, until the end of the season at least, he has calmed an incendiary situation and given United a chance of escaping relegation. But outside the region opinions seem divided. About the former No9 and his merits as a boss. About Newcastle United and its fans. So perhaps it is time for a bit of myth-busting about Newcastle United, as this crazy season reaches a climax. Here are a few theories punted by some observers in the last two weeks, that rile the local faithful the most: a) Geordie fans think they are the special ones: special club, special fans. They think they have a divine right to be in the top flight, and be successful - but they're not really a big club. The club is run on the basis of tapping into the sentimentality of fools. One former legend or big name after another is trusted with reviving the teams fortunes, and reviving hope on the terraces, instead of finding a proper coach and sticking with him long term. c) Shearer is a dour egotist who has only taken the helm to pocket a huge bonus if they stay up, and to walk away blameless if they go down. I admit that Newcastle deserve almost all the muck thrown at them this season. It's been an awful season to watch unfold - one that Les Ferdinand described last week as the most "mad, crazy and chaotic in the history of football". Owner Mike Ashley has stripped the club of its dignity (and a good few talented players), made stupid appointments and bad investments, and given the circumstances it will be a miracle if United pull through. The criticism will be hard, unremitting and deserved. But some charges don't add up. What riles the most is the mocking tone that seeps through from some quarters that somehow what Newcastle United, Alan Shearer and its fans stand for is a bit sad these day. That there is something that's wrong with what the club is all about. I have never heard Newcastle fans claiming to be more special than the next club. Or that they are more loyal or more deserving of success than others. Instead I hear them marvelling at the noise at Anfield, and even Stoke last weekend. Expressing appreciation for the job David Moyes has done at Everton. I see 50,000 turning up every week to watch an ailing club who have not won anything for 40 years. I see regional tribalism at its magnificent best, especially among the away supporters. Advertisement - article continues below » I see a fan base passionate about its local community and ready to defend its place in the world, whether that be their football club or the merits of living and working on Tyneside. I live in a city consumed by the state of its football team. Its only football team. And everywhere you turn it is the main subject of debate. I see the same passions down the road at bitter rivals Sunderland, even though the two sets of fans, who regionally and economically share the same concerns and wishes, will never see eye to eye. In my book, that is what supporting a club is all about. Senitimental? What is wrong with finding a playing icon like Shearer - who taps in to and understands the Geordie tribalism - and making him boss? Likewise Sir Bobby Robson. Local heroes who can galvanise a city. And what about that often posed accusation - Shearer can't lose, he's doing it for the money? No chance. He doesn't need the extra million quid. He doesn't need the aggravation. But when he looked from the outside at the desperate situation Newcastle were in, he couldn't walk away once asked to help out. He's stepped into the storm and is trying to guide a team he hasn't bought, for an owner he has criticised, out of a dire league situation not of his making. That doesn't sound like a cushy ego trip to me. Newcastle bring more than most to the Premiership table. They are way more entertaining to cover than the top four. The ups and downs, the extremes of emotions, the chaos. But also the precious good times. Like being one goal away from the Champions' League quarter finals, 20 minutes away from the UEFA Cup semi-final. (It's easy to forget both happened in the last five years) The Premier League will miss Newcastle if they go down. For the madness, for the black and white hordes, for the big personalities and because - love or loathe them - the club is box-office. Despite the way they have been run this season, the neutral should be praying they remain part of the top flight circus. That sums it all up for me, amazing article! Was a pleasure to read it really was. Sorry if this has already been posted

Shearer was brought in to do a job, which is keep us up. If he doesnt do this then he has failed what hes come here to do, but i for one certainly wont hold it against him, with the team hes inherited after a season of disappointment and constant low confidence some of the best managers in the world would have trouble sorting them out in 8 games. I'm still confident that the man will keep us up and will stay on next season and even bring in some decent players during the season, hes already shown as Dowie said that he has major "cahones" for taking the job in the first place and not being scared to make big calls, e.g. dropping Coloccini and attacking Chelsea at home and Stoke away. I think it will be tight but Big Al will prevail in the end and then we can look forward to finally building next season.

Got them

I want tickets for this aswell, what are the prices like? Is it cat C?

It was an amazing game like, I fucking hate Chelsea, bunch of diving wankers, especially Drogba, i hate the fans aswell, only ever sing when they're winning, it would have been much more entertaining to see Liverpool go through to the semis if you ask me, even though Chelsea have some of the worlds best players they still bore the shit out of me. Not tonight of course.

bollocks You mean I'm talking bollocks or the game is bollocks?

Has anyone noticed, who has this game mode how much different the gameplay is compared to that of the normal online games, the gameplay is slower, great players cant shoot or pass to save their lives and the players never seem to go up well for headers I'm really confused as to why the gameplay is different, its really boiling my piss, apart from that its a good idea. I have a 5 star team with some great players in it and its still like im playing with a one star team! Anyone else noticed this?

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 & Pro Evolution Soccer 2009: these two games have the worst online lag i have ever seen in my many years of gaming, sometimes the lag is so fucking bad that i would find myself in the centre circle ready to kick off, not knowing that a goal had been scored against me while the gameplay tried to catch up with itself! I hate how on Gears of War 2 that the host of the games has an advantage and can ALWAYS kill you with one shot on the shotgun, where as it takes at least two for a non host player. Fifa 09 like people have said above when you get those arseholes who quit when your winning, most annoying thing ever because sometimes it can be as little as 1-0 in the 60th minute GAAAAAH! rant over.

I wish i could be so optimistic

I personally think its worth chucking him in if hes fit in time, but i would have all three of them in midfield, none of this Damien Duff shite. Personally my full team including our best three CM's would be: Harper Beye Saylor Bassong Enrique Guthrie Barton Butt Jonas Owen Carroll Guthrie on the right wing because IMO he can cross the ball better than anyone in our team and is probably quicker than anyone else bar Martins and Jonas, Barton would have a free role in midfield in which he could slip some balls through to the attackers and also help out when we are being pinned back. Nicky Butt would sit in the holding role and tidy up really, Nolan could do this but I'm really not confident of Nolan at the moment he doesnt seem the player he once was. As much as a threat Martins is when hes fit i dont like the idea of having two small strikers in a 4-4-2 system, it has to be one little one large if you ask me, or two larges. I wouldnt play 4-3-3 because i dont think our midfield could handle it.

I bet if you added up the amount that Martins has spent on the sidelines in relation to Owen they wouldnt be very far off. We are just cursed with injury prone strikers thats all it is! Jonas doesnt seem to be in favour at the minute and with Martins out also where is the pace coming from? our team is too fat and slow man

This game has a draw written all over it if you ask me.

Do you think if Barton ever gets back he will be an influential player for us, do you think we will benefit from his presence on the field? I think he could be big player for us if hes back for the final few crunch games and hopefully he can bag a few goals and assists from midfield, hes definitely someone i would keep if we stay up next season, providing he stays fit that is. Whats everyones views on him, and does anyone know when hes back?