Jimbo

What do you think ??

http://www.newcastle-united-supporters-club.co.uk/

Anyone bought the game yet ??

I'd say so.... Aye it's a translation of "invest in youth" or "build from within" etc. etc. etc. Thats a romantic philosophy, but I don't think you can't you can compete at any level of the Premier League with that outlook sadly, especially with the state of our squad right now.

Some great high re pictures here: http://www.oleole.com/forum/showthread.php?t=481

"But you're blick !"

It is, but I think I can live with that tbh

If it had started "which one is Louise Taylor ?" then he should have a statue out side the ground

An invoice will be in the post for the advertising.

Having played both demos I'd say PES just shades it on game play, graphically I don't think there is anyting in it, but FIFA gets kudos for the shirts and team names.

Black and white may be the colours, but surrealism remains the theme at St James’ Park, where events grow more bemusing as the nights grow longer. On the day that reports that a South African consortium was on Tyneside after bidding £300 million to buy Newcastle United were denied, Joe Kinnear made a belligerent and expletive-strewn attempt to reclaim his authority as the club’s interim manager. Having started in his role officially on Monday, Kinnear stated yesterday lunchtime that his first pre-match press conference would also be his last. At issue was the media coverage that had greeted his appointment last Friday — and which reflected the underwhelmed response of the club’s supporters — although as an illustration of the mood of paranoia that infiltrates the club’s hierarchy it was instructive. In one regard the 61-year-old had a point; passing judgment on him is premature, given that the match away to Everton on Sunday will be his first in charge. And yet the wider context is damning; whether he likes it or not, Kinnear is the public face of Mike Ashley’s regime at a club who are up for sale, who have a paper-thin squad and a team who are next to bottom of the Barclays Premier League and whose fans are in revolt. It has taken a week for Newcastle to concede that Kinnear’s contract does not come to an end on October 31, as had been claimed, but will instead become a “rolling” arrangement from the beginning of November. “I will be taking in as many international matches as I can, so that I will have a hitlist of players if I am still here in January,” Kinnear said yesterday on a very different scenario. Related Links There have been other confusions, including the two-match touchline suspension that followed Kinnear from his ill-fated spell at Nottingham Forest in 2004 and which he admitted he had not mentioned to Ashley. His intimation that the owner had informed him that Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer were lined up for management positions once a takeover was finalised was denied by Shearer. Kinnear took exception to reports that queried the logic of Newcastle’s first-team players having Monday off. In the first five minutes of his comments to written journalists, he employed 50 expletives, describing reporters as “c***s” and “so f***ing slimy”, but his threat to curtail media operations at a club who have been crippled by a lack of communication would appear questionable. “I will stand up and fight for myself in any corner,” he said. “You’re not going to f*** me off or frighten me in any manner. Whatever you do, or whatever headlines you run, you’re not going to embarrass me. I’m not going to stand for it. I’ve come up here for a simple chance to f***ing prove myself. Get off my back and let me get on with my job. That’s all I ask. F***ing hell.” In a calmer moment, Kinnear, the former Wimbledon manager, said that he is attempting to create “a siege mentality” among his players. “I sense the confidence is at the lowest it’s ever been,” he said. “Normally I’m used to dressing-rooms that are on fire.” There was also an unwitting, implied criticism of the club’s transfer policy. “I think the number of languages spoken in the changing-room could be a reason,” he said. “We’ve got to address that.” Locally, it has been reported that a group of British-based South African businessmen are on Tyneside to press home their interest in buying Newcastle, although that has been denied by a source close to Seymour Pierce, the company that has been charged with handling the sale of the club. The source said that, while a South African investment bank had made contact regarding Newcastle, no bid has been received and no negotiations have taken place with Jonathan Cleland, the businessman reputed to be leading the consortium.

Downloading PES from the PSN now.

Congratulations !!!!!!!!!! Its great to hear some good news !

Spurs finally get a win ?

Olivier Bernard is sitting by the phone....

Black lesbian disabled muslim asylum seeking drug taking hookers is where its at tbh.

PES Graphics Vs FIFA Graphics

http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=528812

Naturally there is no sign of that smashing lad, Marco Van Basten.

I'm going back to Nokia on my next contract, the N96 looks favourite.

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has announced the availability of a playable demo of its forthcoming PES 2009 title for PLAYSTATIONR3, Xbox 360 and PC on 2nd October. Due for release on 17th October, PES 2009 marks the triumphant return of what is regarded as the most realistic football title for any format. Users will be treated to an expansive playable demo of the new title, with the bespoke version offering a full five-minute Exhibition multiplayer match. Players will be able to select fully licensed Manchester United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Barcelona club teams, or the licensed Italian or French national sides. The demo will allow users an early taste of the all-new elements set to further bolster PES 2009's reputation as the definitive football game. All new visuals with completely remodeled players and animations, and new physics routines to ensure the ball behaves more realistically have been included, while the AI of the CPU sides has been enhanced to provide an ever evolving challenge. The PES 2009 demo will also include promotional videos detailing the new game's 'Become a Legend' and online 'Legends' modes, which see the player controlling just one player within a team and attempting to forge a career in football. Starting as a promising 17-year-old, players must force their way into the first team and produce a series of blistering performances which will ultimately result to a move to one of Europe's biggest sides. Or, on the flipside, poor performances can see a player struggling in the lower leagues and eventually being released.

They love him on Fleet street.

TEN) Robbie Savage No list of this kind would be complete without a mention of Mr Savage! Yes he may be slipping down the football pyramid, but the long-haired caution-loving midfielder is truly reviled by everyone who has ever had the fortune of being within booing distance! NINE) Sir Alex Ferguson/Arsene Wenger The first of a few on this list who have undoubted talent, but just seem to rub people up the wrong way. The gruff Scot is of course loved by his own supporters, but he is hated by just about everyone else. The way he manages to see everything that goes against his side but ignores everything his opponents fail to receive from officials is always amusing. Even this weekend when he admitted Bolton were very unlucky to have a penalty decision go against them, he still managed to suggest that United also get their fair share of bad decisions, which is of course not very accurate. Ferguson shares this place with Arsene Wenger, whose myopic view of decisions by the referee has almost become a parody. When questioned by a post-match reporter about something that went against his side’s opposition, he always manages to have not seen the said incident. Let’s face it, both managers are equally disliked by fans but they are both considered by all fair-minded football fans to be among the best managers of all time. EIGHT) Marco Materazzi This unskilled defender brought a horrible end to a fantastic career when he decided to verbally attack Zinedine Zidane. Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with abusing a fellow player, it happens every week but it just seems so horribly inappropriate for the lanky centre-back to even deem himself worthy of talking to the great Frenchman, let alone insulting his family. History will thankfully remember the former Real Madrid man far more fondly than the one-time Everton player. SEVEN) Kia Joorabchian This guy is not only symptomatic of the damage that agents have done to the game, he is in fact nothing more than a parasite. Kia has damaged many with his money-grabbing actions and the way he seems to own the likes of Carlos Tevez can surely not be healthy for football. Suspected of money laundering in Brazil during his reign at Corinthians, he has since found his way to the Premier League and is still reportedly paid an exorbitant fee by West Ham as a ‘transfer adviser’. SIX) Sepp Blatter The Swiss head of FIFA is quite simply crazy! His hair-brained schemes may well be amusing but given the man’s power, it is very worrying that he has his hands on football’s ‘red’ button. This is the man who brought us the golden goal and boy was that a mistake. He has commented on the issue of women’s football that they should “wear tighter shorts” and most recently sparked controversy by claiming that Cristiano Ronaldo (yes he appears on this list as well) is a slave, a comment that is so clearly offensive and inaccurate on so many levels it’s frightening! Oh yes and he also endorsed the idea of booking players who remove their shirts, which is just pointless! FIVE) Ashley Cole Cashley Cole was an Arsenal hero up until around January 2005 when he just happened to find himself in the same hotel lobby as Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon and Jose Mourinho, what a coincidence! However, the hatred towards a player so clearly trying to engineer a move only increased when he tried to avoid blame and accused Arsenal of making him a scapegoat over the whole affair, as though they had driven him to leave the club. Since this incident, he has become a figure of irritation for many other sets of fans and his arrogant character was again called into question when he acted with such disrespect to official Mike Riley. The latter had the audacity of wanting to book the full-back for an awful high tackle on Alan Hutton! Oh yes and apparently he was sickened by the audacity of the north London club to only offer him £55k a week, and yes my heart really felt for him as no doubt it did for all of you. FOUR) Diego Maradona What a great player but also damn infuriating. Whether it’s the way he has basically killed his body with a lethal concoction of junk food and various drug addictions, or the way he cheated England out of the 1986 World Cup and the way he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in shame, it does seem that Argentinean has been hell-bent on leaving football fans with a negative image of such a talented individual. Thankfully, he appears to be on the mend but the hatred is still there! THREE) Mike Ashley A recent addition to this list, but well worthy of consideration as the current Newcastle owner has managed to enrage the club’s loyal support with his somewhat mindless decision making. Ashley essentially forced Kevin Keegan out of the door and has caused the club to rapidly fall down the table and, unless the billionaire leaves the club, they could well find themselves in a relegation dogfight which considering the size of the club is simply outrageous. The fans of the club deserve so much better than the chairman they have been lumbered with. TWO) Cristiano Ronaldo Yes he is probably the best player on the planet but the preening primadonna sure does have some haters out there! He managed to turn his own fans against him this summer by trying (not very subtly) to orchestrate a move to Real Madrid, luckily for him Man United supporters have decided to not boo him for that. Whilst his diving antics have been dramatically reduced, he has decided to increase his petulant behaviour every time he is in some way obstructed to simply turn away and show his disgust with a huge shrug (rather than attempt to win the ball back). Like I said, he is a truly wonderful footballer so his attitude needn’t be so poor. All he needs to do is show those who try to kick him off the ball how to play the game. He should also remember that the club and his manager stood by him after the ‘winking’ incident in the 2006 World Cup. Sir Alex was totally correct to make him stay at the club and the Portuguese international is lucky that the United fans have decided to let him off lightly. ONE) Joey Barton Being a convicted criminal doesn’t endear you to many and it’s more the consistency of this guy’s anti-social/ thug-like behaviour that irks so many. I mean one drunken incident would be considered a mistake, but Barton seems to have made disruptive violent acts his sole aim in life. I for one was fooled when a couple of years ago or so ago, he conducted an interview on the BBC and appeared to have a brain in his head, looking genuinely apologetic and about to turn over a new leaf. However, since that incident, he has of course continued to go off the rails with alarming regularity and quite frankly doesn’t deserve the loyalty the likes of Kevin Keegan have shown him. He is in my view currently the most hated person in football right now, and it would take a hell of a lot for him to encourage people to change their view of the midfielder.