Jimbo

You've spelt "Shola" wrong in your thread subtitle.

I've got a horrible Bernard/Sibierski feeling about tomorrow.

You can imagine old Droopy's face twitching already

Tottenham Hotspur are in real danger of having points docked for illegally playing Wilson Palacios in their Premier League clash against Bolton Wanderers yesterday. The Honduran international was serving a ban for his former club Wigan Athletic, and there are rumours that because he played in yesterday's game, legal action should be taken against Spurs. The suggestion is that if Palacios was still a Wigan player, his ban would have finished on 31st January, but because he moved to White Hart Lane, the ban should see him cup tied for Carling Cup and FA Cup games, meaning his ban should be carried over these games. Therefore, his fixture list should read: Wednesday Jan 21 2009 Burnley CC (A) (cup tied) Saturday Jan 24 2009 Manchester United FA (A) (cup tied) Tuesday Jan 27 2009 Stoke City (H) (suspended) Saturday Jan 31 2009 Bolton Wanderers (A) (suspended) Sunday Feb 08 2009 Arsenal (H) (ban lifted) This news was revealed by a Wigan fans' website, and it is not known whether the Premier League will take legal action against Spurs, but what seems certain is that Palacios should have been made unavailable to Harry Redknapp and therefore should not have been played in the 3-2 defeat against Bolton yesterday.

Snowing down here too, although it's the pretend stuff rather than the proper snow you get up there.

I think we are crying out for a left winger, a creative midfielder and a striker, at the very least, this clearly won't be addressed in the next 24hrs.

Jimbo, Im surprised you feel as you do. The guy has been through 8 managers in 10 years, has seen a change of ownership 3 times and has failed to win any silverware in the time he has been here. For the first time in his Newcastle career, he has probably looked at the situation and thought his ambitions werent matched by the club any more. I can see that, and im sure a lot of other fans do. I dont begrudge him the opportunity to better his chances elsewhere after giving it more than a go for the last 11 years. I dont see how he has left us "in the shit" as Harper is more than a capable understudy, which he proves everytime he comes in to the side. I can fully understand his decision, I just can't understand why people think he should be applauded for it, I'm a Newcastle United fan not a Shay Given United fan, NUFC is a weaker place for his departure, that is to be lamented, not celebrated.

Why do you think it's 'undislosed'? As soon as I saw that word, I knew it was a low fee. Don't feel any emotion tbh - anger at NUFC as we left him no option from what I've heard. In hindsight, maybe it's a fair price for a keeper that can't save penalties, struggles to claim crosses, has little command of his area and has the distribution skills of Royal Mail 2nd class post.

If the likes of Craig Gordon and Gomes are worth £9m, I would say Given is worth considerably more, once again thank you Shay for your impeccable timing.

SSN are saying £6m FFS

Your opinion has nothing to do with you Nationality obviously

Damn right.

Ant is probably having an anger-wank over a picture of Given in a Republic shirt as we speak

Get a grip Ant, he's left us in the fucking lurch, had a European giant came in with a bid we couldn't refuse then he would go with my blessing and thanks but he's bottled it, factotum.

Exactly, if he had any feelings for NUFC he would have discretely asked for a transfer in the summer instead of behaving like a child like he did in 2000 when he stropped when Harper had a run, good riddance.

Fuck you Seamus you bottler, personally I hope you win fuck all.

Someone posted exactly the same link from Waynes World 2, incidently it's the same actor that did Danny in Withnail & I pretty much playing the same character.

Didn't we do this about 2 weeks ago ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/m...day/7863929.stm

I thought Duff looked totally lost on the right, would have been much better to have switched the two.

Liverpool 2 - 0 Chelsea Lampard sent off, he looked gutted.

Kudos to agent Chopra too

Ashley's probably told him it's been extended by a week Like a Sportsworld closing down sale