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Yes, with only vast bottomless pits of money to cheer him up poor darling Contrary to popular myth most professional footballers want to do well on the pitch. Owen is no exception. He's paid a huge amount of money to be professional. I don't give a shit about his feelings. I wasn't questioning whether he wants to do well on the pitch by the way. Michael Owen always wants to do well for Michael Owen, that goes without saying It bores me people keep carping on about how much players are paid. They're paid a lot - forget about it. Why don't you piss off instead Ultimately the club must take the brunt of the responsibility for the failure of Owen at Newcastle, that includes signing the muppet. Agreed. Not that that makes you right

Interestingly he says he would have stayed if KK had.

Yes, with only vast bottomless pits of money to cheer him up poor darling Contrary to popular myth most professional footballers want to do well on the pitch. Owen is no exception. He's paid a huge amount of money to be professional. I don't give a shit about his feelings. I wasn't questioning whether he wants to do well on the pitch by the way. Michael Owen always wants to do well for Michael Owen, that goes without saying It bores me people keep carping on about how much players are paid. They're paid a lot - forget about it. Why don't you piss off instead Ultimately the club must take the brunt of the responsibility for the failure of Owen at Newcastle, that includes signing the muppet.

I think it's doable if appropriately worded.

Yes, with only vast bottomless pits of money to cheer him up poor darling Contrary to popular myth most professional footballers want to do well on the pitch. Owen is no exception. He's paid a huge amount of money to be professional. I don't give a shit about his feelings. I wasn't questioning whether he wants to do well on the pitch by the way. Michael Owen always wants to do well for Michael Owen, that goes without saying It bores me people keep carping on about how much players are paid. They're paid a lot - forget about it.

Yes, with only vast bottomless pits of money to cheer him up poor darling Contrary to popular myth most professional footballers want to do well on the pitch. Owen is no exception.

Tbf to him playing for us last year must have been totally demoralising.

Gymbox, which runs three fitness centres in London, offers courses called "Chav Fighting" to train men and women how to defend themselves from street attacks. The firm advertised the sessions through a leaflet bearing the heading: "Martial arts with Burberry belts and a fist full of sovereign rings. CHAV FIGHTING One of 100 different classes every week." "Why hone your skills on punch bags and planks of wood when you can deck some Chavs? "Welcome to the wonderful world of Chav Flighting. A world where Bacardi Breezers are your sword and ASBOs are your trophy. However, the Advertising Standards Authority launched an investigation after people complained that the flier condoned violence against certain members of society. Complainants also claimed that the leaflet encouraged attacks on women by plugging another class called "Bitch Boxing". In response, Gymbox said it had named the class "Chav Fighting" to draw attention to the courses in "witty manner". It added that it believed the advert was not offensive because nobody would ever admit to being a chav because of the negative connotations of the term. Gymbox cited the definition of the phrase on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, which describes a chav as "a white aggressive teen or young adult, of working class background, who wears branded sports and casual clothing, who often fights and engages in petty criminality, and is often assumed to be unemployed or in a low paid job". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/557...ng-courses.html

Clearly better at spin than our fat cunts.

Bit like what happens in Ipswich.

It is less than one month since Burnley's victory in the Championship play-off final brought the curtain down on another memorable year in the Football League. But as the Clarets look forward to mixing with English football's aristocracy, the release of next season's fixtures confirms that Charlton Athletic, Southampton and Norwich City are facing an altogether bleaker reality. Three clubs who were members of the Premier League only four years ago will take on Wycombe, Millwall, and Colchester respectively in League One on 8 August, after being relegated from the Championship. Southampton dropped into the second tier in 2005 after 27 years in the top flight. Norwich came down with them after a solitary season of struggle. Every team and every fan looks for the bigger clubs when the fixtures come out Leicester striker Paul Dickov Charlton, long regarded by many as the model of how a modern club should be run, were relegated from the Premier League in 2007. Their stories are familiar ones. The three worst sides in last season's Championship are the latest in a growing number of clubs to sink from the top flight to the level formerly known as Division Three. Since the Premier League's inaugural season in 1992/93, 14 clubs have experienced the slide from the top division to what is now League One. Of these teams, only Manchester City have succeeded in regaining their place among English football's elite. Longer article here...Scary stuff and a nice clicking chart per club. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8050784.stm

I'm sure another lecture on democracy and fair play will be fired off against the likes of Iran any day.

Quite honestly that is one of the worst things you can do to someone. Hope you gave him pieces of your mind.

He's quitting before he even starts now - prepare for MattM4 to start seething about what a cunt he is Quitting before he starts!! Quittertastic!!!

If it's a tax rebate q JJ won't ans.

Any chance you can advise him of your NI number then? I've already been done.

Well done bro. I think the club needs your head for numbers.

JJ can make people disappear from all formal documents with a lot of numbers and such on them so be careful.

To be fair if the rumours are true about what happened on the last night of the transfer window then i'm not surprised he left. He was probably willing to ride it out until then. I don't know what you expect Keegan to have done? Stay on? His head would've been on the chopping block when the fans realised our squad wasn't big or good enough. If he'd been given assurances about transfers which Ashley hadn't delivered he was well within his right. If you were in a job where promises that were made to you were went back on and it impacting badly on yourself you'd walk. NO he wouldn't cause wankface44 isn't a quitter alright!!

Newcastle - made to leave because he they wanted him to sign a longer contract that he was happy to do so, just so the float went well. Evidently more concerned about their own wealth than him being manager. When he said no they said the only option was to resign. Fulham - intended to carry on as well as lead England (a job no-one wanted at the time). Tried it, couldn't give Fulham the attention he felt it deserved so resigned. Can't blame him for wanting a crack at leading his country. What often gets lost in history was that he wasn't Fulham manager to start with - Ray Wilkins was. KK was DOF. When Wilkins got the boot, did KK 'quit'? Nope he took the managerial job on. Hardly the actions of a quitter. England - the only job he quit. Felt he couldn't offer any more. Man City - he made a comment that he would be retiring from football once his contract had expired, which would have been the end of the season and the press blew it all out of propotion. Because of that it caused unrest with the players and therefore they terminated his contract that week. Newcastle - well we all know what happened back in September, don't we? He actually admitted he felt tactically out of his depth at times at that level. Honorable to the core iyam.

Quite.

So it's total media fabrication that K has a tendency to throw in the towel and quit as soon the pressure is on or that he doesnt get everything his way? You always turn up in these KK threads having a pop.

Put a donk on it.

I mentioned this yesterday and was sneered at by Tom and Craig in quite a vulgar manner.

It's why I tend to stick to the Telegraph for intelligent sport writing.