NJS

All immigrants are evil scum, all englishmen are angels. Simple. In reality there are scum in any group that you care to name - there are also decent people in every group. Deportation solves all our problems - apart from the fact that the overwhelming number of scum in this country are white and English but as long as a few token baddies are chucked out then alls well in bigot land.

Phew. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble. I reckon Oliver's made this up tbh. If I had to think of one club likely to want N'Zogbia, off the top of my head it would be Arsenal. I suspect that's similar to the "research" Oliver has done with this story. 129508[/snapback] I remember one of the first conversations I had with Biffa of .COM was about his serious belief that Oliver's "research" consisted of 3 paper bags with bits of paper with player's names, clubs and fees written on them which he just "lucky dipped".

Don'k know what half of the list look like but I do know that Keira Kightley is absolutely fucking gorgeous. I worry about you lot

Theres a lot of fawning going on the BBC site - people reacted badly to someone's (not me, honest guv) suggestion that you'd have to be stupid and/or brainwashed to in any way defend the institution. I think its similar in a way to religion - intelligent, logical people seem to have a blindspot which prevents them from taking the few seconds of rational thought required to realise it has no place in modern world. I didn't bother sending my suggested gift - a bullet with her name on it.

Depends on the scale I would have thought - if a conference club can say "we've got 5000 signatures on a petition" then its more newsworthy than a Chronicle fan's poll or something.

A friend of mine is an Altrincham fan - the've been pissed on by the Conference who have fined them 18 points (probable relegation) for fielding an ineligible player who had lied to them and so they were "innocent" of the charge. The player came from Accrington who didn't check his registration but they've been let-off. Heres a petition for it - probably pointless but lets prove we all don't agree with Fat Fred on non-league clubs Petition

I've done spells of a few months without it before and even now only go daft occasionally - new year was the last one. Unfortunately this weekend will be a daft one. I'm determined not to go stupid on Sunday - last time I had too many nerve calmers the day before and couldn't celebrate the win properly.

Classic NUFC too nice moment - the red shirt clubs would have had the 3 points off them and possibly more.

Don't let how subdued and shite the Mackems are ever translate into a wavering of due dislike.

I'd relegate them for playing that Pigbag shite when they score - lower league shite. I'd also relegate them for Mark Page.

I was thinking after Thursday that its pointless them winning the UEFA cup as they couldn't possibly celebrate more/be happier than when they beat us 3 years ago thanks to D'Arso. That was their Champions League. (Did Mendietta play? )

Its always been a massive thing for the smogs and at times they're as sad as the mackems in their obsession with us (check the bitterness on their messageboard!). But for toon fans its never the same, some couldn't give a toss about Boro and some like me think of it as more than just another prem game but not the same as a derby against the mackems. And most of it comes from their annoying fans and wanting to see us give them a good kicking every time we play them rather than a local rivalry. 118122[/snapback] Spot on - my dislike of Boro has to do with off the pitch antics in the same way I dislike Millwall rather than any "local rivalry" bollocks.

Yes he is a fat aussie bastard but he's also a good player.

I think the sexiest feature a woman can have is her smile - pretty but miserable is pointless. Recently I've realised I have a thing for thickish eyebrows - see Keira Knightly and Kate Winslett and I'd also echo the "english rose" sentiment. Don't worry though - I like nice arses as well

He's had a lot of injuries you know.....

You don't think "Jenas takes it up the arse" was sang with vitriol, you don't think it was intended to be an insult? Do you think the chants would stop if he came out and admitted he was gay? You can't tell the difference between taking the piss out of someone's race or sexuality and the fact they are tall? I wasn't surprised by some of the posts on N-O as I kind of expect it over there, but I have to say this coming from you surprises me. 113565[/snapback] But REALLY what is the difference, why is someone's physical appearance different in the slagging league than their sexuality ?????? 113568[/snapback] People aren't descriminated against on the basis of their appearance (at least not overtly). They aren't beaten up in the streets because of it, or refused jobs, or murdered. The problem I can see with these chants is that it reinforces prejudice already present in a small minority of idiots who can't cope with people having a different sexuality. I can't see much of a difference between it and racism; using your logic do you think it's OK to insult someone on the basis of their race? But as I said, I am also wary about over-sanitization in the game, and share LuckyPierre's reservations to an extent. 113573[/snapback] Thats why I'm so up for arguing about this - taking the piss out of Dennis Wise etc, etc can be nasty but in comparison with re-inforcing an attitude that actually gets people murdered its completely harmless. THere was something on the SMB yesterday about the president of Levski Sofia calling Mike Riley "a british homosexual" to which the FA said they found it deeply offensive. In my view thats put badly as if he was gay (or even if he wasn't) then it shouldn't be "offensive" to be called that as theres nowt wrong with it. What is wrong is that there is an intent with the statement to cause offence which comes from the bigotry that drives it and can lead to violence

I've always thought that Spurs were the last "good" team we play - not counting Chelsea as I'd thought they'd have won it by then so would be playing like they did last year. Can - yes, will - probably not.

"It is not clear how the plane will be removed" - fly the fucker out?

But it's not bollocks that he has set the club back by a number of years with his bad buys and selling of squad players for nowt. 110786[/snapback] I'd agree to an extent but I'm not a "years" man - I don't think theres that much wrong that couldn't have us back top 6 (but a bit of work from top 3) which is where we were when he came without a good appointment and a couple of decent buys.

Robert should have been booted out in 04 - he only "won back" the fans by becoming a flag-bearer against Souness. Hughes and Ambrose are nowhere near being even good enough to be fringe players. Bellamy is the only good player we've lost. Boumsong and Luque are probably write-offs but I'd anticipate getting a fair proportion of the money back on the latter at least and probably the former if he has a good world cup (france are happy with him). Parker and Emre are good players - better than Jenas and Butt. I'm not defending Souness that much but the idea that he has cleared out a squad of top players and replaced them with nothing is bollocks.

Zog has had a dead leg - I know the old one about being fit enough for the bench etc but why play someone probably still feeling an injury?

Worldwide TV audience - publicise city of culture and Gerrard sums up the place - perfect.

I think Pud means that you drag and drop the files into a "target" which mirrors the size of the DVD-R and Nero then burns it to the disk. I've only used DVD-RW/CD-RW in a similar fashion to -R - ie I haven't formatted them as a "drive".

you're as deluded and as naive as him 110480[/snapback] Thee was a statement of thanks on their website yesterday before the general spoke. He has not spoken to a journalist yet. I agree he's an idiot for going there but this "thanks" story is utter shite. I'm sorry it doesn't fit your worldview but thats the truth. Edit: now he has spoken and surprise surprise thanked them whilst making his point.

FFS he hasn't made any statement yet. His organisation did say thanks so the general or whoever was talking shite. Since when has anything generals said been 100% truth? Daily Mail journalism at its best (I saw it in the Standard which is the same thing).