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Or like in this case to find a central source for relevant stories which means not having to trawl loads of sites.

Unless he completely changes his attitude to the club and actually defines his goal as improving the position of the club on the pitch and in terms of league placing then him hanging on is pointless. I honestly can't see how any manager could take the current squad where we want to go and his tippy-tappy approach to squad building wouldn't change that for the forseeable future.

I don't know which is worse - the idea that we didn't look beyond Roeder and just gave him the job, or we did look at and even interview other people and then still gave him it.

The only problem I have with the ethos is that instead of teaching people to be good for its own sake or for the sake of our fellow man, we are told to be good in service to a god who will reward us. Furthermore good works are rewardless without worship of said god.

There is no substantial proof he existed but depsite my atheism I accept that he did (though pointing out the lack of non-biblical proof is fun). Obviously the supernatural bits are bollocks and a lot of his quotes were made up a lot later as Paul established the church and defined it for his needs and then later by the council of Nicae as they defined it for their political needs at the time. Lot of good stuff in the ethics but it all falls under stating the bleeding obvious imo as funnily enough the same tenets appear in all the other religions. The christian concept of original sin which defines us as flawed at a fundamental level is however an evil doctrine in my view.

Ins and outs of the actual incident aside, I think a lot of people are using this as an excuse to get at people they don't like and especially in Ross's case this is driven by his salary. I wouldn't be suprised if he gets his agent to phone ITV/Sky and try and get out of his BBC deal.

He did? So this is basically about someone telling the truth in a not very nice way and Ross swearing. Aye, she's come out and said as much since . Not only said as much but has sold the gory details to The Sun.

(Yes I am sad) What got me was that there was a good line when Eccleston started where Rose said he had a funny accent for an alien and he replied "Other planets have Norths too". However the BBC obciously decided that they couldn't follow a northern Doctor with a scot so made Tennant another posh Englishman.

Another good chance for a gene pool cull - 27000 complainants. It was a bit strong but an apology should be enough.

I thought Eccleston was excellent and was disappoibted he left so soon. I couldn't stand Tennant but still watched occasionally until Tate joined. A new combo will see my return as a viewer.

how good a player he was, i don't see him playing more than 10games even if that, between the long layoff and getting fit Fair enough - you could argue that he is used to coming back from lay-offs but then again his age will be more against him. I really hope he does.

To me it was the like the early Keegan home games last year - a team with no confidence in a feedback loop of nervousness with the crowd. I hope it will improve as we get more results though Villa will be tough. Having said that I don't think Villa will be as passy as West Brom which may give us a chance - I would take a point though and then look forward to two winnable games after that.

We'll need him at the end of the season as we did last year - if you don't recognise how good he is when he does play then I despair.

I would also add that Martins was up to his usual trick of coming back to "help" the team and trying to dribble his way out of his own half which nearly always ends in him losing it - that's why it wasn't a bad idea within the flow of this game to take him off (though we may as well have played with 10 with Xisco).

They are both absolute clowns who can't even play a 5 yard ball to a teammate - Martin's only plus is the odd spectacular goal (though a distant memory). They both should be dumped but unfortunately Xisco is fucking shit as is Carrol which as I said leaves Viduka and Owens as the only decent strikers we have. Pisser is 40 games between the two of them would be a miracle.

What worries me is that only Viduka and Owen are missing from our best team including tonight.

The article is a load of shit but perhaps the bastards now know how it feels to have such shite written about you as we have in the last few months.

I went to Morocco a couple of years ago for a holiday and had a great time but was warned pretty early on that one thing they don't stand for at all is any kind of anti-royal sentiment.

I didn't see the Given thing but I'd imagine that's worth more getting up in arms about than the "trouble" at the end which I thought was minor compared with some of the reports. Having said that in the context of it having happened every time they've scored against us there I do think it merits comment that nothings been done.

When Boro made the UEFA final a couple of years ago I remember saying to a mate that it was pointless them winning it as they couldn't be happier or celebrate more than when they'd beaten us. The same applies to them yesterday - their greatest moments as Sunderland fans had been the Marseille game and Keegan walking out - now they have an actual victory to celebrate their lives are complete - in fact as a mutually beneficial pact with the rest of the world why don't they all just kill themselves now.

For someone who doesn't drink or whatever that is the most pissed remark I've heard for ages. Martins was absolutely terrible.

Just got home. Cunts. Been through feigned acceptance, depression and anger (airport crawling with parasitic red&white Irish bastards) and have got to the cunts stage.

Cunt.

It's a schizo experience - you're full of adrenalin but at the same time fear of defeat makes you nauseous. The extremes make it a different experience to all other football games and I'm not sure whether its worth it. In my lifetime we've definitely had the better of them but the fear of defeat still terrifies me and sometimes I wish we'd never have to play them again. However when we aren't in the same league, the absence of the fixtures is palpable. They seem over-confident this time around - I think the first game at the SOS when they were flying under the heed and we were lower mid-table dross was a much better chance for them to beat us but they didn't (2-2) - I hope tomorrow is the same even though I don't think they're that good and I'd certainly take a draw.

I don't mind laughing at people's misfortune in the right circumstances but I had to switch that off because of the peskiness of being human and feeling sorry for her.