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You don't half talk some shite.

Ummm yeah, slightly (or totally) inaccurate.

This is why Viduka should have been given a run out on Sunday ahead of Ameobi. I'd prefer to start Viduka but we can't do that when he's not played a minute of football since last season. BTW, what's wrong with playing him in the reserves?

(never mind that it is rather a huge and dangerous "one" flaw) What did you expect him to say? 'Aye it's shite, I use Firefox meself'.

It doesn't matter who the manager is if we're winning IMO. I wouldn't get rid just because he doesn't have a "big name". If the players are playing for him and winning we'd be mad to have more upheaval for the sake of it. We've had more of that than we deserve. Look at Ramos at Spurs, you'd think he was nailed on to do a good job but what happened? The very top managers won't look at us in all honesty and so we're left with taking a gamble on who? Deschamps? Houllier? Ketsbaia? I'm not saying that one game and one good result should give Kinnear the job in the long term, but I don't see the advantage of not getting behind him and not taking him seriously. He's doing much better than Big Sam or Souness IMO and we *could* get a bit of confidence back if we keep being hard to score against while still playing some decent football. If we go on a fantastic run until the end of the season then maybe he should get a proper crack at it. However, don't forget what happened with Roeder, most of us knew deep down that he wasn't good enough for the job but he got it on the basis of a very good run of results but couldn't sustain it the next season. If we have an option to replace him with someone likely to do a better job then we should do so.

It's wonderful the difference that one game makes on peoples' opinions. While Kinnear has surprised us all by not being completely fucking awful he is still far from being a 'good' manager imo. If we can replace him in the summer with someone we could say with a degree of certainty is a better manager then we should do so, I'd hope that the board are searching for alternatives to take over at the end of the season.

I don't think he did tbh-I think all sources seem to suggest it was an amicable agreement. If it was anything but you can guarantee the papers would have gone hell for leather dishing it out for months. You reckon Madonna wanted to give him the money? I'd say it's more to do with the fact that McCartney is a 'national treasure' and Maddona a 'crazy American cult-loving nut'. Either way Ritchie has walked away with much more than Mills hopped off with and hasn't had a bad word written about him.

So is this £50m in addition to the money he's made himself? I love the way Peg-leg was branded as a money grabbing mackem whore yet no one says a word about Ritchie looking for a huge payoff.

The Mido chanter should've used that in his defence.

Crimes against comedy

Do you reckon Keegan would have agreed to him being sold if he hadn't been assured that a replacement had been lined up? Well he agreed to sell Andy Cole without having a replacement lined up and even used that as an example in the press conference about getting the right player, that's without mentioning that Jonas is a far better player who's playing wide right now. The Cole transfer was in a completely different time and situation, Keegan had been banging on all summer about needing a stronger squad, to say that he would agree to selling Milner knowing he wasn't going to be replaced is absolutely ridiculous.

Do you reckon Keegan would have agreed to him being sold if he hadn't been assured that a replacement had been lined up?

A bit of an exaggeration like.

Fat pig.

50p for 100 cans? Well that sounds well worth it.

Didn't Socrates play a few games for them too?

Kinnear said in the post-match interview that he doesn't want to sell him in January.

Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to work out who. Tbh I wouldn't trust either side in this one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ted/7578328.stm Indeed, dunno how I missed that. Well someone is lying then.

Finally puts it to bed that he hasnt been offered a contract though. What a joke that we can pay £17mil for a player and then not protect that investment. i certainly wont hold it against him if he leaves To be fair we already knew that he hasn't been offered a contract. Wasn't there a press release on the official site just before the transfer window shut that said he'd been offered one? I mean, there's lying....and then there's mong challengingly retarded. I don't remember any statement. Owen said last week that there were talks with Keegan and a member of the board but since they've both left then no one has spoken to him about it. It's a ridiculous situation.

*cries a little* so close had a fiver @ 150-1 I know what you mean, I had mixed feelings when we went two up.

Finally puts it to bed that he hasnt been offered a contract though. What a joke that we can pay £17mil for a player and then not protect that investment. i certainly wont hold it against him if he leaves To be fair we already knew that he hasn't been offered a contract.

Would you like a spoon for that?

Easy to say that at half time. I am win.

Owen completely avoiding the question there about January.