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Taylor was watched by McClaren during the week?

Typical Bramble cock up, clearly his time spent out of the team hasn't made a difference.

The N'Zogbia fallout continues I see.

Why was the Irish one deleted?

Classy lady.

If a manager of Wenger's calibre wants a DoF in to make his job easier then you give him a fucking DoF.

Surely you're not allowed to carry guns in any state? The law only allows you the right to keep arms in your house as far as I'm aware.

Weezer - Jamie (the acoustic version)

And this is coming from the guy who has been spelling in a phonetic Geordie accent all night?

I know you're on more than that, you'd have to be with your alcohol dependency issues. Still doesn't take away from my point.

Giro not turn up like? I work for HMRC ....don't recieve anything from them other than a payslip !!!! Do you wanty a fuckin medal on your proud £8.25 an hour For all you're coming across as a working class fella what the fuck is wrong with £8.25 an hour?

More to the point it's 1.34am on Saturday morning and Radgina is still coherent, what the fuck is going on?

On the meths again tonight Stevie?

Agreed, I thought O'Briaen (sp?) was excellent but he's got his own similar (rip off) show now.

I dunno if it's slipping, I watched the first 3 series last weekend and then the 1st and 2nd of the 4th series tonight and while it's a bit slower than usual that's to be expected at the start of a series, the quality seems fairly constant to me. Is this series going to be another mere 6 episodes?

Just not as funny as it used to be, a lot of it depends on the presenter nowadays, Chiles just didn't look right in that role.

Wanker tbh, and did you see the state of that fella who's knobbing at her? K-Fed wannabee, not really something to aspire to.

I've a fair idea of what the FA does and its relation to NUFC and I don't think it's as important as you think. So tell me then, what happens if Duff is injured and out for a year while playing for Ireland? NUFC and the FAI are in no way related so does that change things then?

Exactly how are we benefitting football wise by having him playing for England? It is an us and them situation. Do you think the FA give a fuck about NUFC? And the same could be said for NUFC regarding the FA. How can you say the financial loss has nothing to do with the FA, he was playing for England when he got injured, if he wasn't playing for them he wouldn't have got injured, do you not see the relationship there? And again how is it nothing to do with who pays his wages? Owen has picked up £4m in wages since he last kicked a ball, at least half of which have been paid for by us, this is everything to do with wages. I know he was an England player but because a situation has been allowed to remain for 100 years doesn't necessarily make it right and someone had to take a stand and fair play to Freddy he has. As I already stated, if an FA can't afford its insurance then FIFA shouls help them out, the FA are no paupers and can afford the insurance so it isn't an issue here. Again even more bollocks, the FA can well afford the insurance, the TV money, sponsorship deals and ticket money they will earn over the next four years will be in around the £1bn figure. We've one of, if not the, highest earning FA in the world, they can easily afford the insurance payments. Owen is probably the worst case scenario for the FA, not every injury will be as expensive as his but it is now up to the FA to take steps to protect clubs from injuries to their players, they owe them that much for letting them use their players.

You still haven't answered why we shouldn't have covered an 'asset' we already knew was an England player? What would we have done had this happened for us? This financial loss is self made, and we are blaming anybody but ourselves. Freddy came out at the time of the injury and said England had insured half his wages and we had insured the rest, I'm not 100% sure of the details but I'm talking about the principal rather than the individual case. Had the injury happened while playing for us then that's fair enough, we're benefitting by having him on the field playing for Newcastle, we're not benefitting football-wise by having him playing in an England shirt. He's not England's asset in the same way he is ours in that England didn't pay the huge transfer fee or his wages, we do. Yes we utilise our assets but we pay the players handsomely for that, why would the FA charge us for using a player we've paid for? You're talking complete bollocks there. And it wouldn't be the end of international football, if all the FAs had their players adequately insured, either paid for themselves or with the help of FIFA in the case of poorer nations, then we wouldn't have this problem. FAs around the world have been getting rich off clubs' players for a long time and while I'm not saying they should pay for using them they should pay if they get injured as a result of playing for their country.

I don't normally bother with names or numbers, but I think with the style of the back of the new shirt it would look daft without it so I went for MARTINS 9, which has now probably cursed the lad or he is bound to be sold. Hmm, I don't like the new shirt but are contemplating to order a "EMRE 5" one... Well his burning effigy wouldn't be complete without his name on the back.

I think you're mostly talking bollocks, yes it is doing away with tradition and indeed the PL are making a lot of money but what about the money the FA are making? They've just got a TV deal worth £425m for the FA Cup and England's home games, that's no pittance. I'm not advocating them paying player's wages while on duty but there are such huge amounts of money involved, on both sides, that should a player be injured while playing for England it is only right they cover his medical costs and pay his wages while he is out as they're benefitting financially from using him for free.

You don't want Owen to be treated like an asset? Well he is one, that's a simple fact of business and while I'm trying to avoid using Freddy's lending a tool analogy what he says is true, the FA are making money from players we are paying for so when they get injured playing for England the FA should pay for them.

Ok, you don't see what Owen's injury at the WC has to do with the FA when the FA has made millions through using Owen and other club's players practically free of charge? You don't think they should take responsibility for effectively putting another company's asset out of use for nearly an entire season?

I did contemplate other phrases but didn't find them to be as alliteratively pleasing.