Jimbo

I normally follow Barca but I want Madrid to win, but only so that Beckham can pick up a trophy, I think he deserves it.

Not a great film for me, but as you said it's no-brainer entertainment, like the Rocky movies, but as said the match footage is stunning, the best part of the film.

agreed, and had never raced on that circuit before this weekend, the lad is a phenomenon.

Another fantastic win for Lewis Hamilton.

Bargain ! I paid about that last week for just the 95-97 shirt.

Its an anagram of wanker

I trim mine (i guess you're talking about pubic hair) but on the basis that I don't want the equivalent of a decaying haystack living in me boxers rather than the demands of a lass. The optical inch tbh

My pre-masturbatory self

Faith No More - Epic

Get a room.

SAM ALLARDYCE is preparing for life after Michael Owen by lining up a £7 million swoop for Seville hitman Fredi Kanoute. Sport of the World understands Newcastle boss Big Sam has already contacted representatives of the former Spurs star. Kanoute's agent Christophe Mongai said: "It's true Newcastle are interested, but so are Portsmouth. "There's no concrete offer yet but Fredi is interested." Kanoute wants to join a big club and fancies the Toon ahead of Pompey. The Mali striker, 29, has 20 goals for the Spanish side this season but has recently fallen out with them. Owen cost the Toon £16m in August 2005 but could leave for just £9m.

Some of the comments on that clip suggest it's PE6, judging by the old England strip in the clip they might be right.

Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce’s past transfer dealings will come under further scrutiny on two fronts as the fall-out from the Stevens Inquiry continues to overshadow preparations for his first season at the club. There is understood to be growing unease at St James’ Park about the bad publicity surrounding the former Bolton manager, who has been handed a £3 million-a-year salary and generous transfer budget to revive the club’s fortunes. The latest developments came within 24 hours of Lord Stevens unveiling the controversial findings of his Quest team’s £1.3m probe into Premier League transfers, which made public 16 deals involving five clubs that remain under suspicion and named 15 agents and three managers worthy of more investigation. Investigations into a 17th deal are so sensitive that it has not been identified. With Graeme Souness out of football and the reasons for concern about Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp remaining unspecified beyond his alleged ownership of a bad horse, Allardyce is the figure most damaged by the revelations. Quest’s report recommended further inquiries into the apparent conflict of interest which existed when Allardyce’s son, Craig, was involved in transfers at Bolton, and it is understood solicitors for Allardyce are considering a request for their client to be re-interviewed about up to four deals, involving Julio Correa, Ali Al-Habsi, Blessing Kaku and Tal Ben Haim. And now Allardyce also faces having to explain in court how Bolton came to sign Israel international Idan Tal last year. Unlicensed Israeli agent David Abou has launched legal action against Craig Allardyce in a bid to receive half the £135,000 commission he negotiated for himself from Tal’s free transfer. It was Abou, through The Mail On Sunday, who revealed how he had acted for Ben Haim, Kaku and Tal in breach of FIFA rules forbidding unlicensed agents from being involved in transfer negotiations, and who then provided Quest and the FA with documentary evidence to support his claims. Abou said that he and Craig, then a licensed agent, received secret payments from another licensed agent, Jamie Hart, after the Ben Haim and Kaku deals in 2004 which fall within Quest’s remit. Abou also claimed that when he acted for Tal in last year’s transfer, Craig agreed to split his £135,000 commission with him. But having never received what he says is his rightful share, Abou has now launched legal action to obtain it and to recover from Bolton the $1,194.50 he spent on his credit card to buy plane tickets for himself and Tal to fly to England on March 5, 2006. Top sports lawyer Mel Goldberg, of Max Bitel, Greene, who is representing Abou, confirmed "letters before action" had been sent out to Craig Allardyce and Bolton. Goldberg said: "If we do not receive a satisfactory response, legal proceedings will be issued." Allardyce Snr, who is aware of the development, would be a key witness if the case against his son reached court. Abou, who will be in court in Tel Aviv tomorrow for the start of a separate case against Tal Ben Haim, also wants to prevent Bolton paying any further instalments of Craig Allardyce’s commission. The £135,000 corresponds to the agent’s traditional 10 per cent of Tal’s three-year, £8,500-per-week basic contract and the first instalment of £45,000 was paid in October last year. The next tranche of £45,000 is due in the coming weeks but there are signs Bolton are in no mood to do the Allardyce family any favours. Having backed Sam to the hilt while he was still at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton chairman Phil Gartside has apparently begun the process of distancing himself from his former manager, offering to provide Quest with the results of the club’s own internal investigation into how transfers were conducted. As a member of the FA Board, Gartside has his own future to consider and his comments in the wake of the publication of Quest’s report could hardly have been more pointed. "I’m glad that we found that every person who continues to work at this club has been totally exonerated by our inquiry," he said. "I don’t believe it’s my job to talk about individuals working for other clubs." Lord Stevens’ report pulled no such punches, as Allardyce’s new employers are also painfully aware. Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd has already suffered the embarrassment of seeing one of his sons, Kenneth, named in the document, along with former manager Souness, as having provided evidence which contained inconsistencies. Just as at Bolton, four transfers involving Newcastle remain uncleared by Quest and it was hardly an auspicious week for billionaire Mike Ashley to move a decisive step closer to gaining full control of the club by taking his stake past the 75 per cent threshold for delisting the company. Sources indicate that Shepherd Snr, despite striking a deal with Ashley to stay on as chairman after selling his family’s 28 per cent holding for £37m, may not stick around much longer to support the manager he appointed. It is also understood that Allardyce would not have been the new owner’s first choice as manager and that the bad publicity about the Bolton transfers, on top of Ashley’s problems with his own company, Sports Direct, has not impressed him. If Allardyce thought his move to Newcastle would draw a line under the past and herald a glorious new chapter of his career, he was mistaken. The day after the fixture computer decreed his new team would begin next season with a match at the Reebok Stadium, the ghosts of Bolton, in the form of the Quest report, came back to haunt him in a potentially far more damaging way. And there is every sign that they will continue to do so for some time to come.

I voted for Paul Potts, purely because he sounds most like a Cambodian mass murderer.

A message on behalf of Noeile: Since the first week of my arrival in California I have always had an association with football, playing, coaching, managing, until I gave it all up a few years ago and now just resort to me telly and the Internet. Some of my friends are former players who came over in the late 70's early 80's to play in the now defunct NASL. My last connection with 'live' football was managing a team of over 35/over the hill English expats in an annual tournament against the 'Auld Enemy'. On occasions when his schedule would allow Rod Stewart would turn out for the Scots. This photo of Rod and I was taken in 2001 after one of these games which took place in Palos Verdes, California. I have another of Rod and I taken in 2000 in Garden Grove, California. Lads who have turned out for me in these games have been; Mick Mahoney - Newcastle. Peter Wall - Liverpool-Crystal Palace. Clyde Best - West Ham. Paul Cahill - Portsmouth. Bobby Sibbold - Leeds-Southport. Jimmy Hinch - York City-Tranmere-Plymouth. John Craven - Blackpool-Crystal Palace. Bob McNab - Arsenal- ENGLAND. Gerry Ingram - Blackpool-Preston-Bradford. Laurie Abrahams - Charlton. Colin McNeil - Huddersfield. 2001 Palos Verdes, LA 2000 Garden Grove. (note the Magpie cap)

Best ever international managerial debut ?

I'll grow a pornstar one.

Ask Brock he's a die-hard Reading fan with a passing fondness for NUFC.

Billionaire businessman Mike Ashley is on course to withdraw football club Newcastle United from the stock market after lifting his stake to 77.06%. Once Mr Ashley owns more than 75% of Newcastle's shares, stock market rules mean that the remaining investors are obliged to sell their stakes to him. Mr Ashley runs the Sportsworld chain and Lillywhites. Newcastle is the latest club to succumb to a takeover as investors are lured by the world's richest football league. In the past few years, investors, mostly from overseas, have swooped for clubs including Manchester United, Liverpool, Aston Villa and West Ham. Last month Mr Ashley's company, St James Holdings, bought 41.6% of Newcastle's shares from Sir John Hall's family. Mr Ashley later convinced chairman Freddy Shepherd to sell his 28% stake in the Premiership football club. Analysts said that football clubs were seen as cash cows by many investors, especially after they re-negotiated overseas TV rights. Despite not winning any silverware since 1969, Newcastle is one of the UK's best-known and best-supported clubs, giving owners a large market for merchandising Newcastle is Europe's 13th wealthiest club by annual revenues. The club, famous for its black and white strip and Magpies nickname, has sell-out crowds of more than 50,000 at most home games.

Another £1m worth of shares snapped up today.

It does my head in when you get stuck behind a pensioner who insists on paying in cash and counts out the exact amount.

I can't believe I managed to retain the French league title, by midseason I was midtable and not playing well, I changed to a 4-4-2, Marseille had a crap run in and I made them pay, I beat them at home with 3 matches left, they then only took 1 point from the last 3 games which allowed me to sneak to the title again !

I must say though, if these rather petty allegations are the best this Quest report can come up with after all this time, it does make a bit of a mockery of it all.

Quest Report - NUFC Statement Following the publishing of the findings of the Quest Report, Newcastle United has issued the following statement: Newcastle United has noted the contents of the final Quest Report compiled by Lord Stevens and his team for the Premier League. The report makes clear that Newcastle United officials have done nothing wrong and have at all times offered their full cooperation, willingly providing full access to all documentation and information requested by the Inquiry team. The club firmly supports the Inquiry and calls on those agents referred to in the report to assist the Inquiry in resolving their outstanding queries as soon as possible.