Alex

Gary Rowell.

Shaddap you face

Made similar mention of Sellars a few weeks back http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/26952-nufc-pictures-from-days-of-old/?p=1304228 quality player

I think Robbie Elliot was a very underrated player in his first spell at the club. Solid full-back who could play a bit and also could do a job in the centre of defence and in midfield. Never quite the same after breaking his leg as soon as he went to Bolton.

Have a good one, mate.

Might have to get that book. I've heard of doing them in the frying pan before as it happens.

Looks awesome that like. When's my invite?

Worth having at least a couple of nights in Venice to get lost in the back streets. Also has a much nicer vibe when the day trippers have left. Thompson's used to fly to Verona from Newcastle iirc. There's some nice, inexpensive bars and restaurants away from St Mark's Square too.

Just thought I'd champion it as I'd much rather see a small family business like that as opposed to another shitty Subway or whatever.

Kika tha fuk to cun

Music never lets you down....

Also, as much as I like Lone, that tune is where about 90% of his ideas came from.

Listened to this recently for the first time in ages, it's still ridiculously good like:

Saw Papa Laz at the RVI the other day. Hashtag old skool, hashtag random, hashtag piss

Not cooking exactly but food-related. There's a really nice pizza place that opened recently at Four Lane Ends. It's really just a takeawy place, although there's a few small seats to eat inside. It sells it by the slice or does 12" ones to take away. Does nice coffee too. The bloke was preparing the dough fresh when I was in and they're actually Italian, believe it or not. Either that or the bloke and the wife who run are engaging in an elaborate ruse. It's next door to the Sunlight Dry Cleaners for those in the vicinity. Don't think they have a website or owt. It's about £5 for a Margherita and £7-ish for the other ones. I fucking love pizza so I got quite excited when I found out it was nice As most places flog greasy shit in the Newcastle area.

Well that's a different argument. Also, it was a much more level playing field then. Same goes for comparing Clough to Mourinho tbh. Clough wouldn't be able to do it now and neither would Maradona in all likelihood. Or they'd be playing for / managing one of the super rich clubs.

Maradona couldn't hack it at Barca

Yeah, but they weren't a very ordinary side. That's bollocks.

The very ordinary Napoli side that include Ciro Ferrara, Careca and Alemao? Give over man.

Obviously. That's different to just hanging onto the club in the hope of a buyer. He's got a strategy for the club which appears to be medium term at least.

It's cliche-ridden speculation. He's actually refused to turn up to meetings with potentially serious investors in the past as well.

I think you need to factor into your judgement how few PL games he's started at centre-back and agree he looks a better bet there than at full-back.

What was special about Clough's achievements without Peter Taylor though? His record with him includes league titles with two different provincial clubs. Reaching the European Cup semis with one (Derby) and the two European Cups won with Forest. Without Taylor he managed a relatively paltry two league cup wins over a longer period of time.

Stunning analysis.

I think he won player of the tournament at some youth summer cup, where they'd also won it before. Not trying to belittle the achievement but it's not something you should read that much into. If he'd been recognised by some global / pan-European award for a particular year it would be more significant. I don't want to or mean to write him off. I just think he'll have difficulty because of his size. And while he's fast, he's not that fast (or doesn't seem to be). I really hope I'm wrong, obviously.