Meenzer

The logical extension being that our natural state is "deciding not to buy big players and running with 25,000 crowds and selling our best players instead" - i.e. we should be eternally grateful for anything above and beyond mere mediocrity, as that's all we can reasonably expect from a prudent chairman in this day and age. But is precedent really completely irrelevant here? The "Keegan bandwagon" you so readily deride stretches back throughout the entire Sky era, after all, a period which has imposed a radically different financial framework on the game. So should Manchester United fans, say, be happy with treading water given their recent history? Should they be listening to supporters with longer memories who say "it's not that long since we were in the old second division, so you ought to be grateful for what you've got", or should they be expecting their clubs to build on the foundations that have been put in place in the meantime and continue to speculate - prudently - to accumulate? Thing is, given how much you praise Shepherd for doing precisely the latter, I just don't understand why anyone who suggests that the goalposts have moved since the bad old days immediately comes under fire. What's wrong with having higher expectations and no longer being content to sit back and accept mediocrity?

No, just a bad mood.

Aww, congrats

I think Renton and SMO should come along for this one actually 124319[/snapback] Meenzer and S-O shirley 124321[/snapback] I'm electioneering in Twickenham this weekend.

I probably wouldn't have been there, no. You're spot on about Gemmill though, whatever his protestations. Poor fella can't stop talking about the food he'll be noshing at half-time, you know. It's getting worrying.

That would be class. I think they should have their reunion in the Trent. 124230[/snapback] I had visions of us both turning up to a pissup and having a moment like. But SMO's detective skills have ruined that now.

Hey baybeh. How you doing?

"DU HURENSOHHHHHHHN!!!"

I had no idea this would have such far-reaching consequences.

Ta.

Stick a pinny on, get dusting and tell him it's his lucky night! 123877[/snapback] I've got a cold so he's already playing doctor, I don't want to confuse the poor wee thing

The guy does a bit of flexing on the front page, too.

Just showed it to my fella. He wants two, one for every day and one for Sunday best.

I didn't recognise his cock either.

Please god don't tell me I know Wacky as well.

I repeat: fucking hell. Are you sure I didn't turn you mind? There must be some explanation as to why you've ended up this way... Nah, flogged it to some brat on Graham Park Road for far too little, in retrospect. Ah well. At least I've still got my Eurovision vinyl. Nowt exciting I'm afraid, it's to do with where I used to live in Germany (and, entirely coincidentally, a useful corruption of "mincer" ).

I can't honestly remember that tbh, we might have done like, pm me who you think i am. 123800[/snapback] Used to live in Elmfield Grove or Gardens or one of them, then?

We went to see Newcastle-Everton on your birthday one year, right? Fucking hell

Gossy High Street all them years ago, that was my domain! And your a Liberal, rings a lot of ding dong bells for me! How old are you? And no before anyone starts I haven't bummed or been bummed by him! 123702[/snapback] Uh-oh. 27. Ish. 123723[/snapback] Shit the bed, i'm 27 no joke. What's your name, pm me if you so desire. 123757[/snapback] And still you claim there's no bumming involved 123764[/snapback] I'm leading you on. 123774[/snapback] So I've noticed

Aye. It wasn't particularly manly, but fuck me it was funny.

As an aside, the £4million we paid for Warren Barton was a world record for a defender iirc. 123765[/snapback] We were Chelsea before Chelsea was Chelsea tbh.

Gossy High Street all them years ago, that was my domain! And your a Liberal, rings a lot of ding dong bells for me! How old are you? And no before anyone starts I haven't bummed or been bummed by him! 123702[/snapback] Uh-oh. 27. Ish. 123723[/snapback] Shit the bed, i'm 27 no joke. What's your name, pm me if you so desire. 123757[/snapback] And still you claim there's no bumming involved

Gossy High Street all them years ago, that was my domain! And your a Liberal, rings a lot of ding dong bells for me! How old are you? And no before anyone starts I haven't bummed or been bummed by him! 123702[/snapback] Uh-oh. 27. Ish.

Saw the Chronicle boards while out terrorising Gosforth High Street, so I hotfooted it home to confirm via Teletext then immediately sent a fax () to my parents who were on holiday at the time. They didn't get it before going out for the night, and when their greasy Spanish waiter found out they were from Newcastle, he spent the entire evening shouting "Shearer! Shearer!" at them without them having a clue why. "Ye-e-es, he's from there too..."

Either that or Pud laced our zinfandel spritzers