Alex

You already have

Reminds me of one I saw post-Italia 90 in some magazine or newspaper. Can't remind the exact line-up but it marked down Tony Daley as a future England great.

Think that Benitez will look to play Lascelles and Mbemba as his first choice pair and I think they could form an excellent partnership, especially in the Championship. I think Taylor going is nowt to go upset or pleased about really. He'd be fine in the Championship even though I don't rate him at all. The biggest concern would've been his fitness. Therein lies the problem and I think people are probably spot on speculating he was only offered a pay as you play type of arrangement. It leaves us short of cover, especially as it looks like Coloccini will be off too. Neither should be the future of the club anyway. I think Benitez might go for one experienced pro and a youngster to try and replace them. Dummett will also be more than adequate as CB cover in the Championship as long as he has a physical presence like Lascelles alongside him.

Came a cropper on the Great North Road back in the day.

John 11:35

People will always talk about these hypothetical fights though but you can only be the best of your era and I can't see anyone beating GGG any time soon. Certainly not at middleweight. Him v Hopkins at middleweight would've been a good fight though, aye.

He didn't want kids

That Jupiler is nice as well

Barmy Army started off in the 90s but it wasn't a proper organised thing like it is now.

The cuntery club

Ward's a very clever fighter but it's hard to assess exactly where he's at now because of that lack of activity. Also, I know he's about 100 now but I've never seen Bernard Hopkins dominated in the way he was against Kovalev.

Whilst having some reservations about posh wankers singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at Wembley I thought the mood in the country surrounding the tournament was great.

Is that a message to Adam Johnson?

To quote Ricky Hatton, if you found GGG in bed with your missus, you'd tuck him in Also, to be fair to Alvarez, he's a natural light-middleweight. His last few fights have been at the 155lbs catchweight and light-middleweight's limit it only one pound less than that anyway. It looked like an intriguing fight though but now it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Although I agree with your assessment of how it would turn out. Hopefully we'll see Andre Ward fight with Kovalev as that's the other fight I've really been looking forward to.

@@Jimbo What's been the reaction over there to him relinquishing his WBC mIddleweight belt and moving down to light-middleweight for his next fight? Looks like he's bottled out of fighting GGG

More like Touche Turtle

Totally jealous of Dave and his social circle like.

It's symptomatic of the atmosphere that pervaded the club for far too long but hopefully that might change now.

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Thought they'd been phased out for the men.

I bet Paul Merson (who reckoned Benitez couldn't manage in the Championship) will now be 'cock-a-hoop' Di Matteo's going to Villa.