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Good work mate. I take pride in my work But seriously, the place was owned by a crackpot, a fat Greek bastard who owned two restaurants on the same street - one a greasy dive that's been open for 48 years, standard American/Greek diner food, the other a more upscale Mediterranean place (the one where I worked.) Over time, he increasingly tried to turn his classy place into a diner (on the reasoning that the diner was making more money and doing better in general.) Needless to say, there was a negative correlation between "dinerhood" and "customer base" and he can hardly pay the rent for the formerly classy bistro-style place any longer. I never cease to be amazed when I think about how effectively he transformed an upscale bistro with great food, a good wine list, tasteful decor, professional wait staff, a head chef and menu planner, etc etc into a shitty chipped-table dusty-fake-grapes dump with awful service - people who honestly couldn't even carry a plate properly - high prices, a terrible bunch of Mexican primadonnas running the kitchen, etc etc. The Mike Ashley of New York restaurants.

Got nothing to add to the thread like but I got a kick out of Acid calling his place of employment a "brassiere." Those women's underthings can be tricky sometimes lad but keep at it I did 9 years at a restaurant, started out class and had turned into an utter shithole by the time I left. Very stressful work.

Feeble penalty, unbelievable free kick, should be game over now.

Well if you're worried then we're truly fucked.

Lovenkrands missed out for Denmark. That's a shame if you ask me.

B'ham, Blackburn, Stoke and Fulham are a lot stronger than they used to be? Great! Now instead of only having 8 hidings a year off the big four, we get to have 16! Then there's Villa, City, Everton and Spurs....

I'd drop Walcott before Johnson like, he's been cracking every time I've seen him and Walcott's been the opposite. I hope Heskey is not on the plane. Seriously past it imo. Pleased with that in general.

They've done this sort of thing before, like when they announced the stuff about the stadium renaming in order to deflect attention away from other things (can't even quite remember what it was at the time). Wasn't it just after the KK tribunal? It was but also at the same time they took the club off the market and appointed Hughton. When did the bit in bold happen??? The lawsuit was settled while KK was working as a pundit for ESPN, and his fellow pundits asked him about his prospects. He said he was ready to go back to management but probably not with NUFC because (as above), the fans had 'had enough' of him but he also said 'anything can happen in football.'

Aye or.... 1. The board would like to set on record that Mike is indeed a fat cunt, who got lucky early in his life, and couldn't spell obese without using an a till 1994 the thick cunt. 2. The board would like to acknowledge that whilst not only looking like a child molester, Derek Llambias is fully advocates the assertion he is an arsehole and someone with worse communication skills than Steve Hawking when the battery runs out. 3. Will some fuckin arab buy us out for fuck sake. 4. Even a yank, or FFS would do. :( About the only thing worth laughing at in this thread. Once again we've been properly fucked about and no mistake.

"Doom mongers" my arse. Plain as the nose on your face this was going to happen and anyone who denied it was living in cloud cuckoo land. What a pair of utter, utter cockends. Credibility as a 5-year goal? We lost every fucking shred of it the day this fat bastard and his stooge showed up on our doorstep!

Played for the draw away to the worst team in PL history. Nothing else needs to be said really. Worthless fat shite who would've sent us down given long enough; it's no wonder we wanted rid of him.

Obvious parallels can be drawn between CT coming onto a NUFC board to preach that Ashley is the man of the hour, the promise, the stability etc and coming onto a board dominated by North East liberals to preach that Cameron is the same (and, let's not forget, to tell the current denizens of the board that they are ignorants who don't know their own club/their own party well enough to see the 'truth' in what he's saying.) Half delusion and half wummery I think. Either way he's a complete loon.

It truly boggles the mind that anyone old enough to remember the devastation Maggie wrought in the North East could ever be pleased at the prospect of the Tories returning to power.

Wish we could replace this mug with a fake tree and only bring it out in time for Christmas. Worthless article too. "There'll be a statement but it won't talk about anything important and we don't know when it'll occur." Aye, get on.

Those are the two I was thinking of when I saw this thread's title, but Enrique getting mobbed after scoring his first and Nolan's overhead kick against Sheff U are up there as well.

I don't see what this failed bomb and South Park have to do with each other. At least one group of terrorists have already claimed it's vengeance for some killings - it even says in the quoted article - and there's no connection other than that the bomb was vaguely close to Viacom's offices...and also to the offices of hundreds of other corporations.

Better to have stuck with Shola as he didn't cost us anything and his personal life isn't always appearing in the rags.

As though Nolan didn't come here for the money himself. Where was he while we were going down? Hiding like the rest of them. Sure, he's banged in plenty in Div 2 but he (like that other worthless wanker Smith) seems to think he now has the right to speak about our club as though he knows it.

Translation: we won't spend a red cent. Another summer of disappointment is all we have to look forward to besides the WC.

But this has been such a great season! Has it? Is our lowest finishing position in nearly twenty years really great? We’ve won a lot of games with the highest paid squad in second division history, but it’ll be very different next season. Repeating this year’s transfer strategy could see us fighting an uphill battle with a team whose confidence has been wrecked by the time the January transfer window opens. That was definitely sarcasm. I'll throw in the safety wink next time. Rest assured that I despair at Fat Mike's "business plan" for our club and doubt we will survive without significant investment in the summer. 20mil at the least.

But this has been such a great season!

I admit I don't follow British politics perhaps as closely as I should, but 'Just Call Me Dave' makes me feel queasy. He's just another family-values small-state man of the people, is that it? A neocon in a decent suit with a good speechwriter. Another xenophobe who'll tear up anything that's been working just because it isn't his idea and who'll promise the world on things that aren't working and fail to deliver. Broken Britain, my foot. I'd like to break his thousand-dollar smile.

Gold and Sullivan are like Morecambe and Wise. Dennis Wise, actually.

Spot on. Has been happening since we achieved promotion.

It's an enigma. What proven Premier League striker doesn't need the ball delivered to him? Rooney, I suppose - open up the chequebook Fat Mike!