Jimbo

A square peg in a round hole ? yes.

3-1.

Shut the fuck up !

BIG SAM'S BLACK AND WHITE ARMY !

MARTINS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clearly Allardyce thinks 4-4-2 is just a magazine title.

Even though I'm not exactly Allardyce's number 1 fan, I can see a lot of sense in what Barton has said, although I question how productive pointing the finger at the crowd is, SJP becoming a theater of hate is not the way forward, but also if the crowd feel that their "loyalty" and intelegence is insulted by the manager's actions then they have the right to voice their objections.

U2 - The Joshua Tree - Remastered 2007 Special edition.

Happy Birthday dude !

By Michael Walker Published: 01 December 2007 In a rare and raw assessment of what it feels like to be a professional footballer under pressure from a club's own supporters, Joey Barton has described the atmosphere surrounding Newcastle United as vicious, surreal and detrimental. Barton said he was shocked by the mood at St James' Park during Newcastle's 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool last Saturday and has asked Newcastle fans to reconsider their relationship with the team. Until it changes and improves, Barton said there could be no progress. "It was surreal," Barton said of the atmosphere against Liverpool. "I don't think I have heard a crowd that vicious. I was sitting on the bench and after 20 minutes I had picked up on it. It was still 0-0 at that point. At half-time I was walking down the tunnel with Peter Crouch and he turned and said: 'I have never heard a crowd so vicious.' To be honest it shocked me." Large sections of St James' had turned on Sam Allardyce by the time Barton left the bench in the 51st minute and the serious nature of the divergence in opinion between manager and public as to how Newcastle should play may be witnessed once again today when Newcastle visit Blackburn Rovers. With one point from their last 12 and having endured defeats at Derby and Reading this season, Newcastle have still managed to sell over 5,000 tickets for Ewood Park. But another disjointed performance today and Allardyce and some players can expect fresh criticism from the travelling fans. Barton is pleading with them for patience and understanding. "I can understand their frustration," he said. "I'm not saying it's not deserved, but we want them to stay with us. "Unless it is addressed and we all get together as one and say: 'Well, we're not having the best time of it, but let's give my support to Newcastle United', then our next home game is against Arsenal and, if we are greeted by that sort of atmosphere, we will lose again. "Unless they change that mentality and get with it, start supporting the side through poor results, then things won't change. It's the easiest thing in the world to be negative, but I would like them just to try to be positive, to say: 'Even if 51,999 are going to be negative, I will try to be positive.' If we can all be positive, before we know it we will turn it around. "We want to earn the respect of the fans. If I had been watching the Liverpool game I would have been disappointed, but it's easy to be negative. As a club, as a city we have to try to be positive. "If we can get the crowd behind us then it lifts the place – it almost becomes a 12th man. I have watched Liverpool and the Kop become a 12th man in the Champions League. That is what we need. The amount of people, with their passion, it can have a similar effect at Newcastle; if it doesn't, it's detrimental." Barton did not excuse Newcastle's players, saying that they had yet to gel, but he argued that would not happen in the current climate on Tyneside. He added that if Newcastle United gains a reputation for being a difficult place to settle then existing players will wish to leave and others will not come. "People have talked about a fear factor up here and you sense it. The minute someone gives the ball away, or the minute someone does something wrong, or there's a backpass, they are greeted with disapproval and jeers. It's like England, the fear of failure. Without being unkind to them [the fans], the Keegan era is gone. In an ideal world we would be playing like that but this is not an ideal world. The squad is in transition, there's been injuries to players like myself. "This is a high-pressure football club. I can only speak for myself and how I feel. I know there are others feeling it. You look at the calibre of players over the last 10 years since Keegan and there are a lot of good players – the Kluiverts, Jenases and Parkers – and this crowd has been vicious enough to eat players up. They are top, top players and they didn't do so well here. When you think about it, you can understand it. It's easy for someone to buckle in that kind of atmosphere." Barton, 25, moved to Newcastle to replace Scott Parker this summer having endured "trials and tribulations" at Manchester City, as well as having touched "rock bottom in my private life." He sees a counsellor from Tony Adams' Sporting Chance charity in order to curb previous recklessness and, as became clear, has been told this week about the importance of remaining positive. "Negative breeds negative," he said. "Unless it is turned around here with some drastic change of thought, it's going to be the same here for this manager, the next manager and whoever comes in after that. Sam's a good manager and the players have to turn up on Saturday and do it, because he is getting the brunt of the criticism. It should be the players. He doesn't deserve it. "This is a time for coming together and seeing who the men are amongst us. If we don't, this club will be in big trouble. It's trench warfare, if you sit there in the trench you will be bombarded and overrun. I will go to war with them [blackburn]. It's not about passing the ball around and being nice. It's about going to Blackburn – one of the best teams in this league, one of the best units – and overcoming them. It's not the time to shirk responsibility. As the manager said this week, anyone who doesn't fancy it: leave."

RIP, what a legend, a childhood hero of mine, I tossed myself off many a ramp as a child in his honor.

This man should be shot for crimes against music

Agreed. I would put the block on the aid for a few months just to show them that we can't be fucked around with, then ban religion in this country, anyone found practicing will get 40 lashes apart from Pastafarianism, obvioiusly!

Still in a taxi looking for Happy Faces Aunties House? I don't think I've laughed as much as we did that night in months, although I do feel a tad guilty.

Although I'm disgusted by this whole farce, I think withdrawing aid over this incident, and posibly effecting the lives of hundreds of people is as gross as the thought of punishing that women.

Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce has issued a stark warning to his players to stand up to fans' demands at the club or face the axe. The former Bolton boss has admitted he does know if his new signings can handle the pressure of playing for Newcastle, who face Blackburn tomorrow aiming to end a four-match run without a win. Fans turned on Allardyce and his players during Saturday's 3-0 home defeat to Liverpool, mocking Alan Smith when he was named the sponsors' man of the match and jeering the Newcastle boss as he made his three substitutions. The players met Allardyce this week and were asked to declare any personal grievances with him as he strives to put a miserable month behind him. He was greeted with silence in the dressing room and full support from his players, which has at least reassured him. He added: 'I'm satisfied with the conversations we've had this week to try and resolve the problems but the biggest way to resolve the problem is obviously to bounce back with a result.' Goalkeeper Shay Given admitted that the abuse players had to endure was as bad as he has heard in his 10 years at the club and he worries that some may not be able to handle it. Allardyce admitted: 'Winning football matches wins fans over, nothing else. It doesn't matter what you might say. If we're winning they're happy, if we're losing they're not. I think every player has got to decide whether he can handle it or not and if he can't handle the heat then get out of the kitchen, because that is what will happen eventually.' The Newcastle boss claims other Toon managers have been through the same difficulties with the club's faithful but the fans have turned against Allardyce sooner than he or chairman Chris Mort could have anticipated. Allardyce said: 'Nobody likes to be shouted at, but it's part of the job and you have to accept that. 'Nobody wants to hear your own fans giving you abuse or telling you what you're not doing and what they expect you to do but you have to strive to make sure it doesn't happen again. 'You've got to accept it when you play here, it's a special place when things are going well and it's a tough place when they are not. We will find out if we have the players who can cope with it. 'I think a few players have come here before and not been able to perform because of the pressure of playing for a big club like this. I don't know at this moment whether our players are good enough or big enough to handle that pressure because they haven't had that much of it. We will find out. 'It'll make me more resilient, more determined. S*** will happen at times and it's come our way. You've got to accept it because it deserved to come our way.' Allardyce hopes to have defenders Steven Taylor and Abdoulaye Faye back for the trip to Blackburn but Michael Owen, Damien Duff and Claudio Cacapa are out.

There's a slight difference in publishing insulting cartoons in a national news paper and allowing your pupils to name the class teddy bear.

Welcome !

Spider-man 3 Great effects, great action, no plot, too many badies. Disapointing, meh.

Total shut out in the Champions League

Riquelme rejects Spurs for Boca Argentina playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme has revealed he turned down Spurs to move back to Boca Juniors. Riquelme, 29, has been frozen out at Villarreal this season after falling out with coach Manuel Pellegrini. He is now putting the finishing touches to his return to Argentina, but admitted Spurs had tried to sign him. Riquelme, who has not played for Villarreal this term, said: "I thank Spurs for their interest but my family and I want to return home." He added: "I am a simple person and all I want is to play football every Sunday. "This move is the only chance I have to play at the next World Cup, which is the thing that motivates me most. "People should know that of the three parties I am the one who has made the biggest effort and that I have offered to play a year for free with Boca. "I have also told Villarreal they do not have to pay me what they owe me for another year and a half."

I do Sir. very good, don't you think ? I would agree with that notion Sir. What's happened to your avatar btw? Changing it, also used my ex username for a few days earlier in the week, age does things like that to you, just fancy something different man, you know how it is Not that I'm old yet like, still look every inch 40 at the most tbh And what do you like the most by Live ? Lightning Crashes has to be my favourite song, absolutely awesome. haven't got that, how about "selling the drama", do you like that ? The whole Throwing Copper album is just fantastic !

Alan Smith getting a yellow card in the process after being expertly selected to play in midfield ?

Breno