Jimbo

News of the world LIVERPOOL and Everton are set to do battle for Michael Owen as his Newcastle career remains in serious doubt. The Merseyside clubs both made tentative approaches for the striker during the summer and are ready to step up their interest. Owen’s future on Tyneside is still shrouded in uncertainty with his contract now in its final year. He has yet to commit himself to a new deal with Newcastle in a state of disarray after the exit of manager Kevin Keegan and with owner Mike Ashley seeking to sell the club. Owen will be free to talk to other clubs during the January transfer window and will be available on a free transfer next summer if he lets his contract run down. That will open the way for Liverpool and Everton to make their moves. Either could snap him up for a knockdown fee of around £4million during the window or wait until the end of the season and get him for nothing. There is a strong lobby of support within Anfield for their former striker to return and Owen would welcome the chance to return to his first club. But Everton will provide serious opposition, having tried unsuccessfully to complete a deal on transfer deadline day.

Thats why I feel little sympathy for Ashley, he didn't pay off the debt as a matter of kindness, he paid it off because he had little choice after buying the club without doing due diligence, had he seen the books there is every chance he wouldn't have bothered with us.

Thats my view too, but that could all change if the club is sold between now and the new year.

"high" lights. http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/1581362/

Abdulaye Faye got Man of the match for Stokes draw at Anfield.

Crazy !

3-1 Owen

Sadly, it isn't.

Well done Ashley you cunt.

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and so it begins....

What an excellent job Ashley and his henchmen did strengthening the squad this summer....

Stevie - hoyed oot after 5 minutes for starting on, well just about everyone probably Leazes - hoyed oot after 5 minutes for telling everyone how the show was better with Lovejoy in charge. 5th best TV programme over the last 10 years etc... Pud, Wacky - hoyed oot after 5 minutes for trying to get into Helen's knickers Berb - hoyed oot after 5 minutes for telling a joke Lazarus and Jimbo both hoyed out for discussing their respective porn collections mid-show. We would probably have devised our own X rated version of the crossbar challenge.

Count me in too, although I think association has a bit more crediblilty than "club", sounds like something you expect to get a badge and birthday card from rather than the independent voice of the fans, but I'm fully behind it none the less.

was white dog shit a 70's or 80's phenomena ?

Newcastle United visit Upton Park today, a side with whom West Ham currently have so much in common that the conflict come three o'clock will be rightly confined to what occurs in the subsequent 90 minutes. It will not be a clash of ideologies or a confrontation that will tumble through the generations, bad blood begetting bad blood till eventually in a Swiftian dystopia no one can recall what the fighting was really for. Both Kevin Keegan and Alan Curbishley left their respective posts due to perceived boardroom meddling in team affairs as a result of new, continental structures at their clubs. The power of language is such that in spite of the ensuing mayhem the word "continental" still suggests a degree of sophistication - "Oooh, you've got a continental structure" - why, that seems as glamorous to me as a continental quilt once did, before I had one. Till then I had warmed myself by night beneath a Superman bedspread that was, frankly, itchy, and gazed with envious eyes upon the bunks of chums who drifted into blissful dreams beneath a continental quilt, as if Jean-Luc Godard and Sophia Loren were coaxing them off to nod with nocturnal Gauloises and laconic fellatio. Really it was just some feathers in a bag. Curbishley departed hastily, photographed as they always are in anonymous cars, weary at the wheel, but Keegan, never a man to eschew drama has, with timid recklessness, been dipping in and out of his former job like a tipsy teenager in a provincial bus depot who knows he doesn't have a condom. He may yet re-enter the club for yet another "second coming"; he must devour zinc the way Mike Ashley puts away pints. The Toon chairman has been abroad traipsing round Dubai trying to flog his beloved club. Well that strikes me as a bit opportunist - "What? Man City has been bought by Arabs? Take me to the desert baby!" I once heard that Nottingham had a demographically improbable girls to boys ratio and so after a gig in the city wandered round the town centre assuming that women would be staggering about all pie-eyed and knickerless, demented and desperate - like Bethlehem after the slaughter of the innocents - but I went home alone. Now Ashley is marching through the kasbahs and bazaars of the Middle East with tears in his eyes clutching a photo of Michael Owen and offering a bargain. In retrospect it seems unwise to have plonked himself in the terraces, illegally downing pints and wearing his King Kev pyjamas because he has abruptly found himself in a situation where he needs to be taken seriously as a businessman. I think it unlikely that a trillionaire sheikh will unthinkingly hand over three hundred million pounds to a bloke who looks like he'd struggle to cut his own toe nails. West Ham's board have at least appointed quickly and my confidence in Gianfranco Zola has grown now that he has been bolstered by the arrival of Steve Clarke who it transpires was earning a fortune at Chelsea. The Blues demanded a Kings Road ransom for his release, which makes me feel emboldened. Obviously the slippery endorsement from the Special One further enhances Clarke's value; Jose Mourinho took time out from managing Internazionale to stick his oar right into Premier League affairs, proving that no matter how far or how busy he is he can still provoke strife in English football. Many Premier League bosses would battle to gain attention if perched nude upon one's lap but Jose barely has to smile from Milan and eyes turn. Zola has likeability, I hope he succeeds and I imagine he'll be warmly received for his first game in charge today and given the current global economic climate it is perhaps apposite that he finds himself at the helm of a sponsorless club. I never particularly liked wearing a replica shirt with XL emblazoned across it as it stirred in me long dormant body image issues, I'd rather we were sponsored by an as yet un-invented company called "svelte" or "dignity" but in the absence of such elegantly titled commercial enterprises I'd like to support the campaign for the "Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK" logo to be on the West Ham strip for the remainder of the season. It is a great cause, a reminder of a great man and a chance to be proud of the shirt regardless of results. Sign the online petition.

Just how long do you think Wenger and Fergie would have tolerated the Wise situation ? Following the Arsenal model ? yeah right.

My gut feeling is that Guthrie was Keegan's only signing, the rest, including the departures, were Wise and co.

http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2008/09/19/...ls%2Dconfirmed/

Me too, its good but not great in my opinion.

They never represent the 80's. Both at their peak in the 90's. You could include the Simpsons and Seinfeld if you just look at when they were conceived. Both were started and going well in the mid/late-80's. Just because they weren't as fashionable as they were later doesn't matter. You might as well say that combats weren't invented until after 2000. Nirvana epitomise the 90s lashback against the 80's Maybe, maybe not, but from within the 80's..... or do you think Nevermind was Nirvana? Was it not? I know Dave Grohl was a replacement drummer on it, but to say it wasn't Nirvana is a bit far fetched given that they went through drummers faster than Spinal Tap. Regardless of when they were fromed, Nirvana are icons of the 90's.

It all depends on what you are wanting to use it for in my opinion, if you want a games machine or something for major graphical work then yes, you need to spend big, but if you are only using your machine for run of the mill stuff, I see no sense in spending a fortune.

Aren't there smaller retailers who will custom your "rig"* and provide a legit Windows program? * oh aye, I know allll the terms Get a quote from your local Computer shop, I'm sure they will taylor one to your needs if you require a bespoke "rig".