Holden McGroin

Well, he supported us as a boy. Born in Easington.

I fucking hate Carlos Puyol. What a dong!

While Barca have been absolutely superb Jose has totally fucked up here. The pushing up/high line and compressing the midfield has totally backfired.

Next goal in Barca/Madrid game is going to be a big one.

Great game so far. Full of incident. You can clearly see both teams hate each other. A bit like Man U v Arsenal in the Vieria/Keown/Keane/Neville days.

I would take Robbie Keane on loan in Jan.

Guthrie looks overweight and unfit to me. We had a lot of players lacking match fitness and I think that showed in the 2nd half. We desperately need someone with pace to play off Big AC.

i had Fulham Man City and Wolves down for draws in my acca. 34/1 ish. I also needed ONLY Scunthorpe to score for my goals galore coupon. So close to a £120 win from £2.

Grey Street, Newcastle This should go in the Iconic pictures thread

The Boro game is on today. Edit: And no Scottish games have been called off as far as I can see.

Shirley that was a nightmare!!

This is our best chance to beat Chelski due to their influential players missing.

Is the match going to be on tomorrow?

Spot on, particularly the last part. There's something fundamentally wrong with a country that encourages as many kids as possible to go to university then has to import Eastern European people to earn higher wages than most graduates just because they know how to fix a boiler. I think the Eastern European's were actually doing every job dirt cheap compared to our tradesman.

Spot on. Only the elitist will get the chance to go to University whereas the equally (if not more) intelligent poorer people wont. I do agree that more apprenticeships should made available as another another avenue into a vocation though.

Yep. Me http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=28813

And every player has bad games including Englands John Terry & Vidic etc.

I think Pulis has said that, but in reality actually hasn't changed much at all. Gudjohnsen never plays & looks a fish out of water in their current tactics. Tuncay is rarely used from the start either.

I think most series are like that though. When you have 10-12 hours of screen time per season they have go into character development a bit more. I dont see your comparison with Transformers though.

Granted. I can see both sides of the coin. However, if I am paying £40-50 for a ticket and watching my team not trying to win a game then it wouldnt be long before I stopped going. If they knocked it down to £20 a game and just had a bunch of cloggers in the team then you could (sort of) understand it.

What hotel is that KD? We were in Mandalay Bay. Vegas is class like. Its only a 3-4 day thing though.

Dont agree. The way Joanna upsold the order at the hotel from 3 months supply to six was excellent. Dog with a bone. It should be one of them though. that joana is way too agressive and pushy. might work on a contrived reality tv show but there's no way she'd do better than liz in a real life sales pitch Pushy sales people will win in real life the majority of the time. they really don't. people are more likely to buy of someone that charms them, not someone that tries to force something down your throat. True. I had some woman who was (only) fairly decent looking that grabbed my hand when walking through the shopping centre and tried to sell me some of their products. It was so see through & forceful it was embarrassing for her. She was keep giving it the "You're a good looking guy" & "you have amazing eyes". Both untrue . Then proceeded to give it the: "Why not? Its not that expensive. Look I'll throw product B in for 1/2 price" Cringe worthy.

I dont really have an affinity with any of la ligas players (eg I hate Rob Greens face and like it when he drops a clanger etc etc) so i'd prefer to watch the PL as its more personal to me. I can imagine the standard of football is probably better though (less people like Karl Henry clattering people anyway)

I agree with most of that. Football is supposed to be a form of entertainment. A release from our day-to-day lives. Watching a team not prepared to even attack (especially at home) is a joke.