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It was quiet. But they're basically out of the running for the league* and had the game won after 30 minutes. They hardly had much to take the roof off for. *Though I'd love to see Man City and Arsenal fuck over Man U. Imagine we were in their position and taking the piss out of them on the pitch though? The Gallowgate roof would be found on the other side of the world. I find their support to be utterly shit considering how good they are to watch nowadays. The strange thing is the local ones are sound to talk to, but why aren't there more of them? Surely they should easily sell out their STs for instance? Well....not the Gallowgate.....but the Leazes, aye.

Late to arrive in the box Late to track back Late to face the bloke taking a throw in etc.

It was quiet. But they're basically out of the running for the league* and had the game won after 30 minutes. They hardly had much to take the roof off for. *Though I'd love to see Man City and Arsenal fuck over Man U.

Not really....but hopefully.

How he does will depend on how much money he gets to spend. Nothing a couple of 20m midfielders and a 25m forward couldn't fix He shouldn't get a penny to spend if we go down. If we stop up though, aye, £60M should be enough to secure mid table.

2 points from his first 5 games. The same as Keegan last season.

Logically I saw us finishing 7th.

I would have thought so. I'd guess 3 ex-top flight sides have gone down to the third tier in the same year before though. Must have. Just heard someone mention over the weekend that 9 of the bottom 12 were ex-premier league. Which I think means more haven't been in the top flight from the top half than the bottom half. Only one team relegated last year is (currently) coming back up too, and only one team promoted last year is (currently) going down... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/e...ble/default.stm I don't know if this points to a trend behind the financial ruin of relegation from the premiership or suggests the gulf in class beteween the top flight and second tier is shorter than often suggested...but i found it interesting.

I welcome them to. Get some atmosphere going that the Fulham fans never would.

Aye. All he said is he's not impressed. It's hardly Souness categorically stating Bellamy would not play for him again and taking millions off his selling price.

Is this season the first time all 3 clubs relegated from the Championship have been ex-premier league?

Written after half a bottle of Glenmorangie, the page wet and the ink blurred by his bitter tears.

Not even sure what we need him on the pitch for. 2 goals in 2 years? Penalties at that. Half as many appearances as alleged perma-crock Owen?

It wasn't that bad a tackle (on the corner flag with no danger) The kid provoked him (into punching the shit out of him) The kid provoked him (into putting a cigar out in his eye) Dabo tried to win the ball (what other action could be taken than punching his face in?) The taxi driver wanted paying (so his taxi deserved to be smashed up) Maybe once Barton is able to take responsibility for any of the shit he's constantly in, then he'll be to control it in future. I was never in the ship him out brigade, but he's taken everything from this club and it's fans and given nothing back....so fuck him.

If you read Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless You see, that stuff doesn't appeal either Me neither. I'd never heard of the bloke. I just saw that book amongst the list of criticisms against him on Wikipedia. Proper Wiki Warrior me. You read a fair bit of non-fiction though, don't you irrc? Basically stuff I'd like to read in theory but can't be arsed to in practice (Naomi Klein, etc.). Aye. I love that shit. About 75% of my 'to read' shelf is non-fiction. Though I still like a bit of fiction. Just read Metamorphosis last week which was funnier than I expected. Just getting towards the end of Shantaram now too. Which has been epic. I'm reading Shantaram atm. The bloke's a cock like. "I'm greart cos i did this and that and i'm geet nails and that" But, having said that, I've really enjoyed it the more I get into it. It's had me choked a couple of times and isn't nearly as bad as I'd feared when recommended an ex-con's biography, which I'd normally avoid like the plague. Just remembered it's (supposedly) non-fiction too though.

We deserve to go down even if we don't.

Surprised to hear he's all about the proms like, thought they'd have been right bell ends.

If that's true you're fucking mental I'd like to think it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek though. It's not tongue in cheek, I genuinely mean it. I can tolerate people like Brad Friedel, but the whole American thing bores and disgusts me, they're almost robotic, nearly everyone I've ever met, and the way the global media tries to impose their shit way of life on us again, I find that abhorrent. It's a shit culture, I'd rather be German. My mate a while back "right I need to get back sharpish 24 hours is on" I just shook my heed, and questioned my friendship with him. There is absolutely nothing I find interesting about America, nothing. I choose deliberately to be as ignorant about them as they are of us, and Parky summed it up when he said "I can honestly say I shudder when I hear the accent in the flesh.". There was this yank who used to work for my company (but got sent back to Wisconsin when his passport ran out - what a borin cunt he was as well), we were in a pub near Euston after work one night loads of us, and he's coming out with how proud he is to be American, I said well why don't you go back there then, and this country is dirty and overcrowded, the stupid cunt was living in Luton. Then I got talking about sport and told him that all yank sports are wank, which they are, and then he started on about the World Cup not being a valid event because if it were valid America would be the natural leader. Hasten to add, the more drink I had, I started sing the yank anthem with impromptu lyrics ending with and yanks are all cunts. He might be a bad example, but, I've met a few yanks, and they're all pretty dim, ignorant and basically have no place here. Al Murray's got nowt on you mate.

There's actually a film called "Ashley" http://farm.imdb.com/title/tt1378188/combined Note it's a horror, with the strapline "What would you do in a world gone to hell?"

Whenever I hear Stevie speaking I become physically sick

His voice is better than his writing on this album.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8031636.stm Nice one Bob. I'll be gutted when he dies and everyone else starts wearing Dylan T-Shirts and that

been getting it on and off this weekend.