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A little harsh, fuck the premier league, fingers in eyes are never normal. Flat performance from the team though, gouffran must have ran twice as much as most players so far (towards his own goal) and yup riviere looks woeful

stay as it makes fuck all difference whos manager with mike just after free advertising and his money back. To those saying we are the same as lots of other clubs, I dont remember anyone elses having lawsuits and publically recorded scandal than what was shown in the keegan trial. Anyone who would willingly work under that isn't worth having, thus we have pards for the foreseeable.

Heh, interesting he said it before his testimonial rather than afterwards , I thought.

I'd be happy with 3.

I disagree, given hes using it as a platform for SD and hes egotisitical, he will if the media rightly mocks him.

Lol, still with the defense of all this. I get to say I told you so to those giving me grief earlier in this thread. "i fully expect at least 2 transfers" being my personal fave. Now if only next window these peeps remember the previous ones and stop with the hopeless optimism. Ah well, as nufc.com says, if we dont get injuries we might stay up at least.

until he goes daaaahn

Do we know this for a fact? I'm asking as he was publically vocal that he didnt want to leave and was forced. I thought Big Mike wouldn't be the sort of guy to stand for libel. That said, I dont have any links or docos to back that up, but I do remember reading it.

bang on mate, that's my worry with all the french signings tbh.

Oh really, I thought we had to pay him no matter what, if we are putting him in the reserves. If hes on strike then fine. It was a response to the stick him in the reserves comment

Wages etc, why pay him when we can offload him for 10 mil and at least get 5 mil in ashleys pocket. He's clearly not interested in playing for us anymore.

Strange one, but I'd rather we sold and got something out of it, even if its cash in Ashleys pocket so he fucks off sooner. Putting him in reserves costs us too dearly.

Talking about the wonga shirts, I was pleasantly surprised to see the relative lack of them. The Blue Star retro shirt seemed a popular choice though, and its a snazzy kit (I was wearing one myself)

I agree completely, its a keegan situation allover again - if Pardew wanted to go. Getting Kinnear in might actually work against Ashley, but that said, Ashley's probably learnt from his mistakes and reworded the contract since the keegan trial.

Yes, tiote has been shit for ages now, he's the biggest anti-climax of recent years. I heard someone say "kinnear would be better" at the match, I'm still shivering remembering it.

Happy face nailed me on this argument last week though, if you look at the cash in and out since ashley arrive it reads very differently to how we think - hes really not a great deal down on money spent. I'm convinced the figures are misleading, but you can't really argue with them. I think I remember correctly though, Happy Face's figures (the figures) had him as 15 million up at best.

For me mate, he was the only one who made any "chances", just a shame his chances were running it off the touchline and belting it from miles away - but no one else tried anything other than balls over the top - or sideways passing.

I'm getting at the fact that the boo's lasted about 3 seconds and came from a very small section of the crowd.

Do i get to say I told you so, to the flamers ? Anyone at the match this weekend can see where his priorities lie, pushing SD into France.

I've got to say I think I was at a different match to Happy Face, or he wasn't in gallowgate - there was booing at the end, but it was brief and met with a lot of harder applause by everyone round me. It wasn't a massive boo problem . Marveaux deserved it, but I think the boo was more at the sub area rather than anything else, people wanted Shola off . I don't care for the stats Marv was shit, whether thats pardews fault I dont know. I totally don't understand why when WE are in possession we had everyone so narrow. I didn't like the "Where's the signings Joe Kinnear" during the match though, cos I imagine it makes the players feel shit, you're basically saying they aren't good enough. It would have been much better before or after.

also agree with PaddockLad, as usual. A side note, does everyone just have me on fucking ignore or something, or are my posts just that inane?

I was in the gallowgate and didnt hear a lot of booing today, people were pissed off that shola was started over gouffran, the french adverts everywhere , but when cisse came off most assumed he was injured. The most negative stuff i heard, and happen to agree with, is why we were so condensed in the centre of the field, with little wide option when we were in possession. I was actually pleasantly surprised with the positivity at times, and loved the kinnear chants, but thought its not going to fill our existing players with confidence. Marv was piss weak imo, sammy seemed to make an impact.

Too right Tom, he looks about 10 years older already. How the fuck is he smoking a cigar in an airport anyway?

I wish I believed that. Anyone north of Watford is working class to these past 3 governments. Call centres, phone shops, supermarkets and coffee shops are the new coal face. Zero hour contracts etc.

Hmmm. Not sure on that one mate. You can definitely move up and down the class ladder. I come from a working class background, was homeless at 15, in the army at 16 then left at 18, went to uni pretty much off my own back, worked like a bastard for years but have been quite successful as a result. I'd be categorised as middle class, no one would say working class. If you earn more than 28k you're no longer working class by the gvts stupid stats are you? I'm definitely not working class anymore and in some respects I'm glad and in others fucked off. Living in middle class enclaves has taught me that generally the middle class are very lonely, unhappy and pissed off with those above and below. If you live in a working class street you know your neighbours, have a laugh and some fights etc. Here you don't even know your fucking neighbours. To finish with a rant, this is the UK's fucking shitty culture to even have a class system, countries without one have much happier citizens (Australia, Canada for example). Sure some people are richer than others but a blokes a bloke. Look up Aussie battler to see how its even been turned on its head in aus. I hate this class system bullshit.