NJS

Despite my comments I do agree - his defending is a lot better and I think Campbell will do wonders for him - I'm just pointing out his passing/crossing still needs a fair bit of work.

Too many go wrong for my liking - I'll admit he has improved a bit on the not passing to an opposition player who's in the way of his target stakes but I noticed a few yesterday where he played the ball out by rolling it too close to the line. I have nothing against a player trying to pick people out but I think he needs to play it a bit simpler more often.

I'm hoping that little cameo yesterday was a way of reminding the world that Geremi is alive and well. I don't think he's that bad a player and would be useful as a squad player of we had numbers but its probably better now to lose him and get someone cheaper/younger if possible.

Disagree - his defending is okay but his passing/crossing is abysmal - one swallow does not make a summer.

The vitriol of the opposition appalls me. I can understand the insurance lobby rallying against any proposed change but the way the ordinary people are so against any kind of "socialism" is frightening. This shit about death panels is another thing - surely the insurance companies could be brought to book about their policy cancelling/refusal antics?

Had a couple of listens of Green Day's album this week - back to the "canny but nowt special" after the heights of American Idiot I'm afraid.

It is hard to see who its aimed at in terms of discouragement - I work with a Turkish lad who did it a couple of years ago and he's obviously intelligent enough to swot up as you say. That would certainly apply to all of the points based immigrants that they are encouraging now. The people who should be discouraged imo and who probably would have problems with it - the Southern Asian peasant arranged marriage brigade get citizenship via the marriage route anyway. I suspect it's a token gesture for the Mail readers.

Don't get me wrong - in a normal business context I agree with you - but the idea that keeps cropping up is that further investment is required and given the amount we'd need to make a big difference then £10m "should" be trivial in the context of our future. £10m is a 50k 4 year contract - maybe we have too many of those around but we're going to need a few of them in the next few years if we are't going to die.

I got 17 but a couple were pure guesses. Having said that 24 questions given the source material/references should be quite easy for someone committed (and not incredibly stupid obviously). A lot of this citizenship stuff would of course fail on the indigenous population if we all had to re-apply - I'd be fucked as I wouldn't swear an oath to the Queen.

It's hard to see why anyone would put a deal in danger by not stumping up another £10m IF they had substansive funds waiting to be used - that's what worries me (assuming we take the actual bid as true). I'd also say that there would be a point to doing a deal post window/pre January - the appointment of a competent manger instead of Hughton/Kinnear - I'm assuming O'Leary won't come without money available. .

It's funny that the Chron page has now removed the video and the comments which questioned the version and just left the article with the "Mackem dog hurting scum" tone.

The've started claiming that they are now ultra strict but I'm not so sure - last year I failed the MOT and because the garage was booked up, I didn't get it fixed/retested till the 5th of the month so couldn't get my tax till then - I didn't get fined or anything.

I enjoyed Memoirs of an invisible man with Chevy Chase and found it interesting that the food he took in was then affected by the radiation or whatever it was to the point where it disappeared - I remember thinking what happened to stuff that came out of his body - would it reappear? This leads to the question regarding your plan - would it be more disturbing/amusing if the spunk remained invisible or if it appeared from nowhere?

Fabulous player though. No doubt. Can you believe he only got about 30 caps? Jock Stein preferring Willie Miller and Ferguson not even taking him to Mexico '86! Yeah picking McLeish and Miller just beacuse they were a pair at a "top" scottish club instead of the main man in the best team in Europe always made me laugh.

he was different class like. shame he never did it for england....or us. he was like a beached whale by the time he rocked up at sjp Thought he did okay for us - too easy to group him with Rush who was dogshit.

My only thought was that average footballer like that shouldn't be able to afford an M6.

I was thinking of that on Saturday when Lawrensen was bleating on about Collocini getting rid of it quickly - I'd guess him and Hansen being the players they were, they would have been able to cope with the modern game but I still had a mental "you never had to bother" moment.

I have to say its a masterstroke of PR by the coppers for playing the "police dogs were injured" card.

Dominant is perhaps the wrong word - they were certainly the most attractive/flare-ful of the Liverpool teams of the 70s/80s but I'd say the previous team of about 84 were more dominant in being more "professional" - ie win at all cost cunts.

I'm in two minds - I think coppers should be accountable for what sounds like a complete fuck-up but a little voice just keeps saying "Mackems". If I wanted to be nasty on a more logical level I'd say that there are a lot of SAFC fans who are "proud" of the reputation the Seaburn Casuals have (including quite a few on the SMB) and there is a precedent of bother at Central when Sunderland last played in Edinburgh - on that basis you can't blame the coppers for deciding to put on a show. Of course as usual whether they can pull that off without being bastards is another matter.

What's the point in using SP then you fat fucking cretin! I noticed that - either SP have "failed" to do what he asked and are trying to still get him to accept the lesser deal which is fair enough or he is basically accusing them of professional incompetence which is pretty serious.

There is small fly in the ointment of his idea of getting promotion - the absolutely crass level of management the fat cunt has demonstrated to this point. We know the two windows would be disasters and I'd actually contemplate the worst case scenario of another relegation if the twat stays. Surely someone around him can be honest enough to point this out?

Not a song but we used to listen to the whole of Morning Glory on the way to the away matches in 95/96 - my love for the album is tempered by the season ending - sorry Noel but I have to look back in anger.

For a mates 10 years ago we went to Barcelona for a weekend - on Easyjet and we knew a decent cheapish hotel from the CL which meant it cost about £150 without spending money and my mate who was best man who booked it all was let down by 5 or 6 lads who were "definites" - we managed to recruit a couple of peripheral mates who turned out to be excellent crack and had a whip round to make sure the lad wasn't out of pocket. My point is I think if you are going to do something "special" for a stag do you have to limit it to a few close friends who you trust. On the topic I think (surprise, surprise) it depends - I have mates who've never left Shields apart from holidays/football and still go to the same pub on the same nights they did when they were 18. I also know plenty who have moved on.

Yeah - Saturday's team wasn't that bad but that plus Barton and Geremi (for a few games) is about it before its kids galore.