NJS

I hate it when it's used when we're playing them, It's okay when Mancs or Scouse Cunts use it. It's fucking abysmal when you hear people in London use it - I know all the jokes about them being a London club but just fuck off.

I've had many arguments with many people both on the internet and in "real" life where no matter how passionate they became, I always felt I could shake the hand of the other person and buy them a pint. I always used to think exactly that of LM but over recent months I think his level of personal nastiness to people has gone way beyond what I think is okay. I don't want to play the amateur psychologist but I think the few good signs happening around the club (which I'm as cynical as anyone else about) are getting to him as being "right" has become far too important to him and anything that threatens that brings out the worst. Sadly I've got to the point where I honestly can't see him enjoying watching the team anymore which he denies. I think if the mods had said to him "Look mate you're dragging the board down, take a break" it would have been good to see him say "you're right" but to be greeted with a response which at best is an infantile "but I'm right" and at worst a shit lot of abuse is not on. I've said before I don't agree with permanenet bans and I do hope he comes back - unfortunately I can't see him changing the record if he does. Again sadly I can only imagine him returning if the season does peter out a bit and don't want to see any more smilies if we lose a couple of places on the last day like last year.

Corporate HR bullshit. Wasted most of today completing my "annual objectives" - HR doublespeak to give the cunts a supposed purpose in life - you're fooling no fucker whatsoever.

What gets me is the thick Fast Show fucking fans of theirs actually thought what Krul was doing was THAT bad - fucking Sky era fucking pricks - everthing that's wrong with football is summed up by their fucking ignorance. Cunts.

Another played added to the list I would love to see crippled for life.

It used to be 4 hours but they changed it to 24 a few months ago - absolutely shit.

Tranmere: One kid just in front of me shouted Toon Army just after the start of the silence -he was told to shut up be everybody and their fans responded to either the first interruption or the "shushes" - at the end of the minute someone chinned him. Since then the Mackems have interrupted about 3 silences that I know of - I sometimes think that their desprate underlying need to try and be better than us leads them to mirror the bad as well as the good.

I think we'd have a few (maybe 7 or 8) more points if Taylor hadn't been fucked. I haven't gone overboard on this season's performances as I still think we need more creativity (maybe by fitting in Be Arfa) but my gut feeling is we're a better side overall. There have been aberrations but I think we've competed against the better teams a lot better than last year. (Of course being so badly affected by Taylor's injury is a sign of squad weakness)

I think poor seasons by Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool so far have made it look like we are up there which is why I mentioned luck/management as a factor. One thing LM does get right is that it needs to be year on year.

I'm happy to try Spurs approach but see 5 teams whose revenues/profits/cash are very hard to match. That's why imo challenging around 5th/6th/7th is about "right" sadly. Beyond that its about management/luck. Yeah, I think that should be the expectation, with anything higher something worth celebrating. Having the 3rd biggest stadium has less impact than it used to. Having the 6th biggest revenues and the 7th wealthiest owner should give us a good headstart though. Having the 20th net spend going hand in hand with an as yet unknown profit (before the hefty profit on player trading is accounted for) doesn't suggest we're doing what it takes to maximise those things we have in our favour though. I agree with that last bit and that's why I still don't "support" him. I've said before I don't understand what he really wants to get out of it - if it is "enjoyment" then he could certainly do more.

I'm happy to try Spurs approach but see 5 teams whose revenues/profits/cash are very hard to match. That's why imo challenging around 5th/6th/7th is about "right" sadly. Beyond that its about management/luck.

It has also taken Man City 4 years and 400m to get to a point of having a good chance of winning the league. I still maintain the biggest factor in the success of the previous regime was more down to the two managers than anything they did. Obviously football was different in 96 as well.

6m debt versus 110m

Generally true Stevie but in the spirit of accuracy there were only about 150 (I knew one of the lads who bought the tickets) and they did get a canny kicking - still excellent business though.

That's how Spurs have done/are doing it. what a load of crap How many times does it have to be explained - they funded most of their current squad from the sales of Carrick, Berbatov, Defoe (profit) and Keane(profit).

I think Gene should bonus points for the Pat Heard reference

I had a lot of respect for O'Neill when he took the time off to look after his wife and even when he took over that had a bit of a calming effect on my previous distate for the man and his brand of "football" but Sunday has now taken me back to despising him as much as I did when he was at Leicester. I know it's not "classy" but I would have loved to have seen Pardew chin the cunt.

That's how Spurs have done/are doing it.

"Speculate to accumulate" Not one penny, ever.

The thing about Cattermole is that it was obviously a tackle meant as a statement - just like De Jong's on Ben Arfa and Karl Henry's on Barton and/or that Wigan player. I know that, everyone in football knows that and the referee should know that which should mean one outcome. Dean is another fucking coward - as he proved with Luiz already this season.

For once I'll agree with that

Royal Mail International unit. I bought some IR emitters on ebay from the US as they were unavailble elsewhere. They were £21 with postage but I was charged £3.36 vat by customs - no problem with that. But the above fuckers then added £8 "handling charge" - not much but a third of the total extra. Rip-off UK as the saying goes.

5 + 4 years respectively

There was a thread the other week demanding Stelling should be sacked and if not legal action taken against Sky for referring to SJP. I can feel my hatred simmering up nicely.

Just got my broadband back on after 3 days - fuck me what a carry on. It first went off last Thursday and I got through to one of the blokes in their north west call centre who actually know what they are talking about and was told there was an area fault which might take days to fix. However it was back on when I got in on Friday. It went off again on Sunday so I rang them from work on Monday morning as I needed to know when it was going to come back on as I cover a support rota. This time it was unforunately the Indian call centre and of course his script didn't handle someone calling from elsewhere, knowing there probably an area fault which had been temporarily patched then failed again and of course someone who sort of knows what they're talking about. Anyway eventually I persuaded him to check if there were known faults and surprise, surprise there was - intended fix date March 2nd so of course I went off it (though toned down dure to being at work). Tonight the lights on the hub looked about right so I did a bit of messing and found that the bastards had reset it to factory defaults (including the local address) remotely. Phoned them again mainbly to ask them why the fuck they did it and got an Indian lass who putting politely was fucking clueless - "you can't set the IP address yourself sir, its set dynamically" - Me: "Not the WAN address the LAN address" Her: "No Sir you can't set it yourself". I decided to be patient but when she started telling me to forget wireless for a moment and see if I could find a cable to connect the modem to the PC I gave up. Next time I'm going to sod politelness and ask them first off if they have a fucking clue.