Jimbo

i think i had most of these

omg check this out, an Argos catalog from 1985 at the Star Wars figures http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/...57619206330728/

He looks like the long lost Bee Gee.

yup and the full collection box set is £29 on play currently, bought it the other week I'm serious wanting to watch it from start to finish again, Mrs Jimbo hasn't seen it yet which seems like good excuse to watch it. Those final few episodes are some the best TV I've ever seen.

They are like one being to me, hate one, hate both, but it's a good point, it is so very noticeable how Ashley embraced Cuntism so rapidly after Chris Mort left, when Mort was Chairman there was a real positive vibe but as soon as he departed and was replaced by Llambias the whole place rapidly went to rat shit.

Genius !

Is a policeman riding Camilla in a mounted assault on the students ?

He only cares about money, the only way he's leaving is if someone matches his asking price.

Hughton's end at Newcastle was a tawdry business, you can bet on it By MARTIN SAMUEL The bookmakers seemed to know before he did. That was the nice thing about the sacking of Chris Hughton at Newcastle United. If you are going to get shafted you may as well be totally, royally shafted; a shafting to tell the grandchildren about, in fact. If someone is going to do you over, it should be the sort of mugging that makes the 10 o'clock news. And this was a headline-grabbing beauty. Bong! Big freeze continues, thousands left stranded. Bong! Overdraft charges soar to 38 times the Bank of England base rate. Bong! And Newcastle sack the manager who beat Sunderland 5-1. No, seriously, they do. Honestly, we're not making it up. This happened. Axeman: Newcastle owner didn;t appreciate sacked Chris Hughton's worth It would be bad enough in isolation, really, but the additional thought that someone, somewhere, perhaps a crony of owner Mike Ashley, made a right few quid out of it as well opens a whole new frontier of abhorrence. It is the little twist that makes this probably the most tawdry sacking in the history of football; and, as you know, that's a pretty tough field. Good luck to Hughton if he was the mystery gambler, of course. Good luck if, when they finally got around to telling him the news, he excused himself from the room, shot into the nearest Ladbrokes and stuck his pay-off cheque on his own name as the next Premier League manager to go. It is unlikely, though, knowing him. Hughton seems a decent sort who would first wish to say goodbye to his players. And as they left the training ground entirely unaware that a new face would be taking them into Saturday's game with Liverpool, one presumes he was as clueless as the rest of us. The players heard the same way as the public. News filtered through that odds on Hughton's sacking had been slashed overnight. Some bookmakers wiped him from the slate completely, others made him punishing odds on. The sack race is a lucrative market, so any wager that moved it so dramatically would have to be big. You bet: Bookmakers suspended markets on Hughton getting the chop before it was officially announced For the innocents among you, this is how the process works. A good friend once had a bet on a horse called Rebecca Sharp, an accumulator which involved two other races. His first horse won, and those winnings then carried over to the next horse, which also won. Now he had the whole lot going on his third horse, Rebecca Sharp, which was a relative outsider. Because his winnings had accumulated and Rebecca Sharp was a generous price, an initial outlay of £100 had expanded until potentially he stood to collect £26,000 at odds of 33-1. With an upside of £100 and a downside now measured in tens of thousands, bookmakers get twitchy, and my friend, watching the race on television, took great delight as Rebecca Sharp's odds began tumbling on account of his bet. His bookmaker, a leading firm, was frantically trying to lay the bet off by backing Rebecca Sharp with rival companies as an insurance policy to cover liability. Then those bookmakers did the same, the sudden activity in the market driving the price down. The story has a happy ending, too: Rebecca Sharp won. Hughton's journey is more dispiriting but the principle is the same. A bookmaker must have noticed either one big bet, or a flurry of activity, on the Newcastle manager being sacked. He covered his potential losses elsewhere and this started a round of speculation. William Hill closed the book on Hughton completely on Monday morning, having opened the day at 15-1. Skybet made him 1-2. At a Christmas lunch in London, a guest who is an executive at Ladbrokes said Hughton would be the next manager dismissed, with utter certainty; 10 minutes later the official announcement came. Nobody will ever know why the news broke as it did, but Ashley moves in a circle that is known to like a bet. If one of his acolytes has profited from this inside knowledge it truly would be the most heinous spectacle: to not just jettison Hughton, but to cream a quick buck off the deed would represent a new low. Ashley overpaid for the club from the outset and has not appreciated the worth of much since he has been there. He certainly did not appreciate the worth of Hughton, a coach who had done more than his shift at the coal face and who was finally giving Ashley's regime credibility it scarcely deserved. Born in Stratford, London, Hughton had become the acceptable face of the Cockney mafia, winning the supporters over with some impressive results this season. Nobody would have predicted in August that Newcastle would defeat Aston Villa 6-0, put five past Sunderland, win at Arsenal and knock Chelsea out of the Carling Cup before drawing with them in the league. Many other results have been patchy, not least the recent run culminating in the 3-1 defeat by West Bromwich Albion, but there is little doubt that with the personnel available Hughton had his Newcastle players punching above their weight. His parting gift to the club is a young striker, Andy Carroll, with the promise to become an established member of England's squad. Hughton deserved to see that mission through. It would appear, though, that Ashley was waiting for an excuse to dump him. Many have asked why Hughton was not rewarded with a new contract this season, and now we know. Ashley did not want him there; he thought him inexperienced, perhaps lacking in authority. This is flawed logic, because how was Hughton supposed to gain respect while being so publicly undermined by his employers? If they did not trust him enough to extend his contract beyond May, why should the players listen to him? It was a miracle that he took the club as far as he did, in the circumstances. Five star: Newcastle's 5-1 thrashing of rivals Sunderland was not enough to save former boss Hughton from the axe Were Ashley currently locked in a room with Pep Guardiola, this decision might make sense; but the names being linked with Hughton's job - Martin Jol, Alan Pardew - do not seem such a significant upgrade. Jol had a lot more money to spend at Tottenham Hotspur than he will at Newcastle, but could never bloody the nose of the top four, while Pardew is a decent manager who has been around the block with varying degrees of success. Either man will walk into a dressing-room demoralised by the sudden departure of a popular manager, though, and could find it tough. One final thought. Hughton was unique to the Premier League as its only black manager. Nobody expects Ashley to act as a social engineer to the detriment of his club, but being the sole employer of a black coach did give Newcastle a certain accord with neutrals. In a sport with so many black players, the dearth of black managers is a worrying anomaly and Newcastle were the proud exception. More importantly, Hughton was not there as part of some patronising programme of positive discrimination, but because he deserved to be. He did a damn fine job. Apparently that is not enough any more. What are the odds? Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...l#ixzz17YnOxGz1

McDonald on "The Legends" tonight, claims the club is making a statement tomorrow, not an unveiling. Which probably means its definitely an unveiling.

Press conference called at SJP 2:30pm tomorrow apparently.

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2010/11...st-of-the-year/

Ashley only cares about money, he probably enjoys the headlines and attention he gets even if he looks an idiot, the only way to punish him is to hit him in the pocket.

If we failed to field a team I presume the club would face a points deduction ?

Dedicate a win to Hughton ? I'd settle for that right now.

Merry New Birthday.

Did they start their strike action at the Hawthorns ?

"if" that was him, he's definitely using @elgalgojonas now.

The Jonas one is too. Aye, that one is real. And also derelict. @elgalgojonas ? he's fairly active on Twitter.

The Jonas one is too.

http://totallycoolpix.com/2010/12/top-100-...ctures-of-2010/

http://vakart.org.uk/download/james_naughtie.mp3

I bet the Spurs message boards have stopped sniggering at NUFC for just a short while at least

Jol heavily linked with HSV Hamburg, in the Dutch media too. Edit: Yes that's the sound of frantic backpedaling