Dr Gloom

So the public schoolboys are teaming up to bash the poor

pics or shut the fuck up

cappelo's only sven moment to date

never has the jesus wept emoticon been so appropriate that said, didn't we get in via this route one year?

sky news is really fucking annoying. they can shove their skycopter up their arse; kay burley's arse to be specific

hangovers getting worse definitely coincides with hitting your 30s. when you're young you can drink as much as you want and not get bad hangovers, eat all you want and not put on weight then all of sudden your body stops performing as it did. if i go out on the piss friday and saturday night now i'm absolutely ruined for the rest of the week.

he's trying to do a bobby robson isn't he

just spoke to my west ham mate about it. he doesn't fancy sparky hughes. billic is the one they want apparently

yup. a new striker is absolutely crucial to survival. you need at least one striker that can get around 15 goals to stand a chance of staying up. don't fancy any of our current lot to do that Actually, only 11 players scored more than 13 PL goals this season : 1 Didier Drogba 29 2 Wayne Rooney 26 3 Darren Bent 24 4 Frank Lampard 22 5 Carlos Tevez 22 6 Jermain Defoe 18 7 Fernando Torres 18 8 Francesc Fabregas 15 9 Emmanuel Adebayor 14 10 Gabriel Agbonlahor 13 11 Louis Saha 13 and here are the top scorers for the teams who stayed up... Brimingham (9th finish) top scorer : Jerome(FW) 10 Blackburn (10th finish) top scorer was Dunne(MF) with 9 Stoke(11th) : Etherington(MF) 5goals Fulham(12th) : Zamora(FW) 8goals mackems : Bent(FW) 24 Bolton : Klasnic(FW)8 /Taylor (MF)8 Wolves : Doyle(FW) 9 Wigan : Rodallega (FW) 10 West Ham : Cole(FW) 10 that's an interesting stat. it does highlight though that if you don't have a guy that can regularly score goals, you are almsot certainly looking at a long, hard season of scrapping near the bottom of the table.

yup. a new striker is absolutely crucial to survival. you need at least one striker that can get around 15 goals to stand a chance of staying up. don't fancy any of our current lot to do that

Fucking hell, are we rehiring fat Sam as manager? That's dad's army with the exception of Joe Cole, who in a perfect world we'd do everything we can to sign. Problem is we're more likely to get Andy Cole. true. i would still fancy that 11 to hammer out lot. petrov, cole, belletti, gallas, ballack and gudjohnsen would be good buys for us but there's no way in a million years they would consider signing for us nor would fat mike splash out on the massive wages required

not a bad team to be fair. a few old legs and hefty pay packets but i'd take all of them David James Juliano Belletti Sol Campbell William Gallas Sylvinho Michael Ballack Patrick Vieira Morten Gamst Pedersen Martin Petrov Joe Cole Eidur Gudjohnsen

the boulton/campbell ding dong was brewing for a while -

what a cunt. she just shouts at him. i know you're supposed to challenge and provoke but she came across like a smug 9 year old bully tbh

i wish all three party representatives would stop harping on about the national interest when it's blatant that all three parties have their own interests at heart before anything else. seems bizarre that the future government is going to be decided on pr when it wasn't an issue in the election campaign at all

it's genius isn't it. after watching the thick of it, i expected campbell to be the one to lose his rag and start squaring up to boulton.

he makes a good point though. how can this rainbow coalition really be stable? too many conflicts of interest if you ask me. i don't want to see the tories in power but a lib-tory alliance might be in the best interests of the country, and of the labour party in the long term.

a serious man. the cohen's poorest in a while i thought.

john reid just on bbc news saying labour would be wrong to stagger on alongside the libdems, the public won't accept an alliance of the losers and that the snps, pc and other nationals the lib-lab coalition would need to get on side in order to form a majority will insist that england and not their own countries suffers the worst of the cuts. he's got a point to be fair. it might be a better strategic move for labour to bow out gracefully now, let the lib dems try to force a referendum on pr with the tories then waltz back into power after the tories are remembered for the savage cuts when an election is called in a year or so

annoyingly, cameron could come out of this smelling of roses. let's say a lib-lab coalition is formed: the british public will watch another unelected pm (probably david milliband) form an alliance with the lib dems ( the party with the third biggest share of the votes) introduce the most savage austerity measures for the best part of a century. there are those who'd be happy to see brown/clegg take responsibility for cuts that are either so big the public sector unions do a winter of discontent or so small the markets are unmanageable. meanwhile a second election will no doubt follow within a year or 18 months and cameron can sit on the sidelines saying i told you so. pr reform will hopefully ensure the tories never see the light of day again.

this. lots of the above are worth looking at - plenty of top flight nous and experience that we lack. none will come here though if all that fat mike offers is 5 grand a week and a £10 sports direct voucher as a win bonus.

yep. He couldn't even let us be slightly optimistic for a few months until the panic set in towards the end of August. to be fair to you leazes, i've never agreed with you about fat fred being a top chairman but you weren't wrong about this fuckwit. honestly, how this guy made billions, i have no idea. this is basic pr 101 other fans can go on about us moaning all they want. any set of supporters would be moaning if they had an arsehole like ashley running their club. beyond embarrassing.

without investment we're going to struggle. there a serious question marks over the entire first 11. i would sayat the least we would need to chalk up a new right back a couepl of new strikers and a couple of new midfielders - one that can pull strings and create one that can drop anchor. if ashley is good to his latest press release and there is no capital for new players, we are looking at a long hard season and will do well to stay up.

just when we thought there was light at the end of the tunnel they pull us back in

Nah, only if a buyers comes along willing to give him 137M + pay off debt. The cost of the club is well over 200m and no one wil pay that nowadays. it would have to be a mug buyer like. but you can tell from this statment that ashley has zero desire to move the club forwards. doesn't give a monkeys does he. someone needs to make him an offer he can't refuse Like the last one? Great © i mean a mug in the sense that someone that is prepared to pay way over the odds, or is happy to write off the debt. but hopefully someone - unlike ashley - whose motivation for running a football club would be to move it forward rather than bleed it dry.