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Happy birthday mother superior...

We can't be proper fans BTW. Our ex-goalkeeper is out for 3 months with a shoulder injury and no-one's bothered to mention it

Should turn up to St James' on match day in a suit. As for training I really don't see what the point in turning up to training in anything but training gear is. On the way out obviously they can wear something else, but no point in putting on a suit for the sake of it. I'd be ok with them turning up and leaving in club training gear, I suppose. Long gone are the days the players used to drive to the ground and leave their cars in the car park. Miss those mass huddles around a player with people trying to get autographs or free tickets as they made their way to the main entrance.

Tottenham now on the cusp of dropping out of the top 4. Chelsea win their game in hand over them and they've leap-frogged them. Also Spurs' goal difference is massively inferior to the other 4.

Tailored suit and home-knit cardigan. God love Bob Paisley

Pardew, Kinnear, Hodgson, Wenger... please take a bow. Anyone remember Willie McFaul's flasher mac?

I've gone for 4 points but even that I think would be a great result.

This is true, but when I look over the strikers we have I'm not particularly confident in their ability to score. They've done a decent job admittedly so far, but they haven't been convincing. It could dry up, or they could be spurred on.... Shola coming back will help. I'll admit you can't compare it to 2008/09 where we struggled to create chances let alone score. Not just the strikers though. Carroll obviously scored a fair few and Best has done well in the last month or so but Barton and, in particular, Nolan have weighed in with the goals this season. We have a decent midfield this season which is the core reason for why we're not in a relegation battle. In 08/09 the midfield was absolutely fucking wank.

An imposter..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12524755

For Chelsea see Spurs and you can say the same about Chris Waddle. And he's a bellend too.

Spurs have first dibs on him. And given that none of their strikers seem in favour I can't imagine them passing up the opportunity.

Cascarino is a monumental bellend though.

Well you can safely count Villa out, that leaves the dippers.... New contract just means he'll be sold for a better amount tbh. Aye, I'm beginning to think that one of our lot signing a new contract signifies and impending departure rather than assurances that they'll be staying put. Long contract = larger sale price.

Just because we never replied to his thread, we're obsessed with Spurs - I can't understand the logic. I had my thoughts about SBR on Friday just like the majority of people on here would have done, but I didn't find the need to raise a thread because of it - wasn't even a 'special' birthday unlike KK with his 60th. Don't remember us raising one a couple of years ago for what would have been Wor Jackie's 85th. It's the kind of thing we ridicule the scousers for!

Did you see the follow up an hour later?

Despite the fact we've scored more goals than 15 others sides in the division? We've scored at least 4 in 4 league games (Villa, Sunderland, West Ham and Arsenal) which is admittedly very impressive. If you were to take those games away however... My point is that we're not scoring goals on a consistent basis. Out of 27 games this season, there's only 6 where we've failed to score. Baffling to me when people say we've got a scoring problem. We're more goal-rich than we've been for many a season.

Why isn't it a good thing for the common man to demand liberty? Sorry, you've got me wrong. I'm all for freedom of speech. I meant not good in respect of what the likes of Gaddafi will do in return.

Because of how he invests. Clearly man city have more ambitious owners than us and therefore more potential. Our potential remains irrespective of whether you think it'll be fulfilled though Well the potential is there for an Arab to buy Everton, build them a new ground and buy a new team. They have the fan base there Do they? I'm not sure that's true. They don't sell out Goodison, they've a bigger club across the road and they've not tasted genuine success in years. We have a city to ourselves, a huge and loyal fanbase that was topping 45,000 in the second tier of football, we've been mismanaged for over a decade and all it would take is a reasonably savvy owner to turn us from a sideshow into a main-event. Forget about the crowds and the stadiums for 5 minutes. We are a mid-table club that are willing to listen to offers for our best players and move them on, banking the cash. We operate on a tight budget and refuse to break the wage structure for any individual player. A deal will break down on the grounds of it, and new contracts won't be agreed with existing players for the same reasons. Taking those circumstances into account we are indeed on an equal footing as the likes of Everton. I don't like it any more than the rest of you, but it's fact. And we can't use the fact that we are a one club city, have a better stadium and that we have more people turn up every other week as one-upmanship.

There seems to be a massive uprising movement at the moment and it's not good...

The Man City subs each have their own blue hot water bottle. Fucking hell!

Latest reports suggest that an estimated 500 Libyans have been murdered by Gaddafi since the uprising began

It's fair to say that 10 years ago, a decent performance from NUFC would result in a debate about which quality player we'd attract. A decent performance these days results in a debate about which quality player is on his way out. Also I think the comment about our potential being greater than Everton's is misguided. Potential needs to be realised.

Despite the fact we've scored more goals than 15 others sides in the division?

CT on the wind up? Surely not