NJS

You can't argue with 27 goals from midfield for England 16 more than PB, and Gazza. Great career in Italy too. Not being a great England fan, I suppose I never appreciated what he did for his country though agree he was a bit Nolan-esque in terms of "just" scoring. Having said that I can't knock his Italia 90 contribution. It was all the transfers in Italy that really got me - just didn't see it.

I thought that Stargazing (should have called it Stargazer and used the song as theme/background) was caught too much between catering for people with an amateur interest like me and dumbing down too far for people who'd never looked up in their lives. Would also have enjoyed it more if it hadn't been so cloudy last night which prevented following up on the tips.

David Platt and Mark Hately for me - the money those two made out of football is obscene given their talent.

One of the lads has just opened a present from a supplier - chocolates - not a lot of takers so far.

I've never been able to drink lager (can stomach a few if forced to abroad) and started off drink ales including Smiths along with Exhibition and Dog but I migrated to cider as I travelled more around the country and found that was the only way to ensure consistency. Now drink nothing else.

Caught the end - sounded like Birtles.

I'm looking forward to the world re-opening so I can get on with getting a new fucking job. I'm sure people have been sitting on CVs and sanctioning recruitment using the "leave it till the new year" shit so they'd better be getting their arses in gear now.

On Ranger I thought he was probably saving him to start on Wednesday - could be wrong of course.

The thing is we didn't score more mainly because our strikers and final ball are piss poor. The only hardlines was Taylor's header - the rest were poor imo. Hold on, we had enough final balls to miss those above and probably more. I agree Ameobi and Lovenkrands were poor, but they could have gone in and it was just one of those games. I still think the overall play / creative play was very good, particularly first half. That's against a shit team though where you should make it count - I'd expect to only get one or two good chances against the better teams and without Carroll we won't score.

The thing is we didn't score more mainly because our strikers and final ball are piss poor. The only hardlines was Taylor's header - the rest were poor imo.

I love that TyneValleyBitterCunt - doesn't see the irony in pointing out 3 of our titles were in a short period "years ago" when 4 of theirs were two fucking centuries ago. I thought Sky were playing Mackem wind-up bingo today - travelling fans/biggest club/5-1 - all good shots. Wigan were fucking abysmal - made Shola look good despite him missing a chance a potted plant would have scored. A bit early but I think they could well take one of the places - especially if N'Zogbia goes. Highlight for me was Best's chance/miss - fucking hilarious.

If its the HDNL then you're in trouble. Turbo Gash. City Link, I think. Either way, resigned to it not turning up today (funnily enough ), so ho hum. I'm getting something from Amazon via City Link on Tuesday and after all the bother I had with them last month, I checked whether they were back to normal on their web site - apart from 4 or 5 depots they claim to be okay.

Villa were another one, weren't they? Mind, Barcelona are doing ok Villa and Arsenal were named before relegation when some people still had the idea we were a half decent club under him, Wolves and Birmingham were the "post-promotion" models. On a related note I see Allardyce will return "for a club that matches his ambitions" which I suppose now only means Barca or RM.

Most of Independence Day - again. I always find it hard to resist watching what is probably the best brainless film ever made.

I notice Birmingham have joined Wolves in the bottom three - nice to see our targets/models as named by the cunts and their yes man living up to expectations.

I'm presuming its the usual "adopt our customs" shit that idiots always post - completely fucked by the fact that Australia is the country most based on immigrants there is who've treat the natives like utter shit for 200 years.

Monday is a bank holiday but tomorrow seems hitty-missy - some things open, others closed. We should also be thankful that the UK does this weekend holiday carry over thing - they definitely don't in Germany.

Can't believe 20m sad cunts watched the funeral, when there was only 18m watched England v Germany. This lass I used to work with she was a lush lass massive hips but game as fuck, older than me by 5 years but good value, but she was a right royalist, and she went to London for 2 days around the time of the funeral just to "feel close to the Princess". I was like what ye deein? Women. See the most upset I've been about someone I didn't know was probably Jackie Milburn, I cried all day stood there watching the procession. I was upset by SBR but we knew it was in the post. Lass I worked with at the time who's still a good friend went down to see the floral tribute thing with her husband just after the funeral - seemed out of character because she certainly hadn't come across as a royalist or any other kind of cretin. I remember all the shops being closed till about 2 and I had to go into town to get something and seeing all these morose cunts walking past made me yearn for an AK47 so much - probably a good job you can't just buy them.

Sounds like you're talking about Cheryl Cole there tbh mate. She's got a horrible track record of fellas: Hewitt, Charles, Dodi, the list goes on. I can't honestly say I can see her touring round banging mere commoners though, these blokes had cash and status. I'm talking about pre-Charles here though - she wouldn't have known that tier of suitors then.

It made sense to my admittedly biased world view. I also reckon a blatant lie would be the lad saying it was him rather than his brother. I usually quote Paul Heaton on Diana - "If she really cared about land mines why didn't she protest outside the British factories where they're made - no brown babies to be photographed with perhaps?"

Parasitic slag. Having said that, that's what women like her are bred for so at least she was being sort of honest I guess. The day she died I met a lad in a pub in Brixworth (was travelling to Liverpool with a mate from there) which is near Althorp whose brother shagged her when her and her mates use to tour the local villages looking for rough when she was a teeanger.

Yes because if you didn't notice last year we weren't in the top flight - a premier league proven/international Carroll is different to a championship player. Speaking of the summer, I'll also be astonished if Tiote is still here next August.

It's easy to say that when the situation hasn't arisen. I'll bet since the batch of "deserters" left the summer before last that no decent bids for any players have been made. The change now is that people will have noticed how good Enrique and Carroll are.

I think your optimistic view at the moment is welcome from a balancing pov even if I don't agree with it but trusting Ashley after all that's gone on isn't optimism - it's stupidity.