Kitman

If Allardyce hadn't been sacked we'd have been in the Championship a season earlier. Let's see what this chugger of a journo has to say when he's been subjected to Allardyce's ambitionless neanderthal football on a regular basis.

Would we sing "You're Shittu, and you know you are"?

Pain in the Harris?

Tell me this is all a conspiracy between you and Fat Mike to ruin Baggio. Please. And stop it before it's too late, for the love of the children * insert "will no-one think of the children?" smiley *

I believe 4m is the going rate for "serious" bids?

If this is true, it shows we've no ambition to be a top half club anymore. If we don't invest in decent players, we're on our way to the Championship I'm afraid. It's looking like Ashley is up to his old asset stripping tricks again, stripping out the cash while he can. I'd be suprised if we get gates of 30,000 next season at this rate, unless hordes of people signed up for 3 years

I'm quite relieved. I thought it was going to be Harry fucking Basset.

At last something approaching an accurate assessment from wor Louise. Shame it's so badly written.

Joe Kinnear:"Fuck off Parky"

I don't see why we can't have a PR officer to spread lies to the press. Bloody amateurs

Howay Peasepud man, I hope you're going to apologise for your lack of vision when the Academy starts cranking out Fabregas quality players* * At at a time to be appointed. Quality of Academy dependent on quality of players and staff. The value of the Academy may go down as well as up. Club reserves right to sell Aademy players for a massive profit if they are any bloody good.

I'm getting increasingly worried about the calibre of player we can attract tbh, even if Fat Mike opens his wallet

An American president with balls could stop it in 24h. Threaten to stop aid and weapons sales. Stop using the U.S. vote in the U.N. to stop motions against Israel. Use the 1967 lines of demarcation for a final settlement. Make sure Palestine has a water supply it doesn't rely on Isreel for. Have a pig that flies anarl. The US will never do any of those things.

We're not good enough for Willy Mckays rejects. The gravy train's left the station.

iirc the last player called Quinn we signed from Sheffield Utd was gash

I agree but it's not just about this, IMO it's the message that will be sent out to the footballing world, confirming how bad we are run, both on and off the pitch. I think it merely cements our place as a mediocre club with little ambition (with a plan).

Well he'll fit in great here, Blu Bambu with Mike every Saturday. Gerrin! Kluivert Mark 2?

The spastics board are still bending over for him no doubt Obviously no-one's explained the "plan" to Given. Otherwise he'd be staying surely

I'm disappointed with the lad tbh. What's with the references to the Chronicle? It's all about ME, lad. As in "I can exclusively reveal that reports linking Shay Given with Arsenal are wide of the mark. For I have it on good authority from a source at St James's that the plucky Irishman has no intention of leaving St James's in the near future. This was confirmed when Moses appeared to me in a dream last night and asked me to spread the good news, which I am happy to do."

Looks like JFK's "No way he's leaving statement" has forced Shaymus to break cover. His assessment is the club has no ambition; who can blame him then for wanting to be challenging for honours with a top club at his age. Thanks Shay and so long. Footnote to Kinnear: don't bother with Paddy fucking Kenny, just promote Krul to No 2 and use whatever money you would have spent on a replacement for Nicky Butt. Cheers.

It's shite like this that helped make emigration an easy decision. It's ironic that a country that doesn't hold back in styling itself as the home of democracy and freedom attempts at every turn to undermine the basic rights of its citizens. It's also ironic that the freedom that Englishmen take for granted to the point of complacency took centuries of protest, struggle and bloodshed to achieve. Those same rights are being slowly suffocated in the name of the war on terror and, more obliquely, crime. What passes many people by is that the state and the police are essentially incompetent and are not to be trusted. This has been shown time and time again - for instance with the Troubles and the galloping miscarriages of justice that were committed, the harrassment of CND and Greenpeace members etc - where the government will follow its own agenda and persecute those that get in the way. There's no doubt that DNA testing has achieved some very good things, but I tend to see this in context of all the other measures that have been taken, to ensure that personal freedom and the right to privacy dies by a thousand cuts. The reason that these rights were fought for in the first place, was that the state could not be trusted not to abuse its power. No such danger in NZ. They couldn't afford the software, let alone the hardware required.

We're 13 hours ahead here in good old New Zealand and we've just seen in the new year. Fireworks over Auckland harbour on a midsummer's night with cold beers. Happy new year everybody!

Nearly top of the injury list? Just like the good old days!

I hope McKay's right. I also hope we don't spend a penny on any more of his shit clients.

Stevie G: "Eh, eh, leave us alone, leave us alone" Cell mate: "And he's now approaching the penalty box. He's favourite to score. With a cheeky reverse pass *thumps Gerrard in the gut* he's round the back of the defense. He's going to shoot......he's going to burst the net with this one!" Stevie G: "Arrggghhhhh!"