acrossthepond

None at all but heres a site you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ I do think its canny daft that people expect you to put money on the table because they cant accept your opinion. "You are wrong and you should either admit it or put money on your opinion". I dont always agree with you but thats a bit stupid. You can even hope ashley will invest enough money over the summer to give us a chance of staying up. It might be a forlorn hope but you're allowed to hope for it. Imo of course. And i am prepared to bet a tenner that this will be proved to be stupid in 5 years time.... when people grow up. The bet's not about money. It's the same bet he tried to offer peasepud - a bet on whether Hughton's in a job at Christmas and the loser fucks off for 6 months. I do think that if he's not prepared to risk that on his faith in Fat Mike, he's got nowt left to say. I'm certainly prepared to risk it on my lack of faith in him.

No response to that bet I offered you CT? Where's your faith in King Khris? Or is it Fat Mike you're afraid of?

Fair play to you acca.

I don't rate Obama. I never have. I said before the election that he was a demagogue who would accomplish nothing. But for them to say he is the Antichrist - I think we need to take a step back and examine what that means. It means he is the physical embodiment of Satan in our world, come to corrupt the world with evil and destroy the forces of good at Armageddon. They are, essentially, saying he is the devil and this is the end of the world. That says all you need to know about White America's worldview: to them, a black man becoming president equates to Armageddon.

Any source on this rumour?

Well I wish he wouldn't. As I recall it was Nolan 'obstructing the keeper' that had Viduka's legal goal ruled out against Fulham last season, so I'd rather not give the refs any excuse.

That Forest load of tripe Stevie's posted is diabolical. Can you imagine the gall of this lot to talk about "delusions of grandeur following their slide into Division Two" - well, you load of Nottingham wankers were playing in Division Three until recently! Then there's the old saw about Keegan being a "tactical dunce" (well, at least they have the right to talk about managers, having had one of the greatest English managers of all time, but it's still wrong) and let's not forget "one club city" and "nobody cares about you." I hope we saw them off with "we'll meet again." Ian Woan. Bastards.

Lacked the killer instinct from Carroll there, I think he should've had 2 by now. Jonas being absolutely shackled by Perch while on the other flank Routledge is having the time of his life. I think the pressure was beginning to tell on them by the end of the half and we should see a goal soon if we can keep up the same level of play.

I had a dream that this game was being shown taped in the States and me mam and I were going to watch it at her house in the afternoon. I'd been avoiding the phone/internet for hours so as not to have it spoiled when my brother called up and asked who had invented nitroglycerin. I knew the answer but I got on the computer to check, but my homepage is the BBC front page and I saw we'd won and the game was spoiled. My previous dream about beating Spurs 4-1 came true. Hopefully this one will be the same and we will beat them, but for my money it'll be a draw.

I think he's definitely improving and in my opinion is PL level. England call ups should be the furthest thing from his mind though.

When are people going to get that Hall is only a loan signing? And a good one at that. He identified where we needed cover and signed someone on the short term - full marks. Hughes would be just about the top quality of manager we could attract, I think.

Shocking bit of opportunism there. Hughton has managed the situation well and this is just disgraceful shit-stirring.

West Ham lost at home to Stoke. End of the line for Zola I'd imagine.

Possibly irrational but nevertheless genuine affection for Iain Dowie.

Hull leading 2-0 at home to Fulham. If West Ham-Stoke finishes 0-0 they're just a point behind. Come on Dowie lad (Who would've thought almost a year on from last season's disaster that I'd be cheering Hull on to stay up?)

Christ, I don't think I'll be able to take the next nine months of your shite. The whole summer will be filled with endless posts of you assuring us that Fat Mike and Hughton have everything in hand, the transfers will come, never mind those players we're losing as they were the 'wrong' sort of players anyway (as in, they were actually good). Then when the window closes it'll be "we've got to get behind the team, our backing is important, Hughton can keep us up" and then when around Christmans after Hughton is sacrificed and Fat Mike puts the club up for sale again it'll be "don't worry, the takeover will be completed by the end of the week." Heard it all before. Broken record. Fuck off already. Well then dont keep reading my posts and commenting on them for fucks sake. You are definitely the most negative poster on this board, so much so, that I swear you must be a relative of Sam Allardyce. At least I have opinions, right or wrong, you just constantly spout shit without any attempt at a reasonable argument. Im sure you actually hope all of your post comes true. If it doesnt, dont forget to come back on and give some credit to those you constantly slag off. In the meantime , and I'd gladly take that bet you offered to peasepud. If Hughton is still in a job at Christmas I'll leave this board for 6 months. If he's gone, so are you. At least it'll spare me having to listen to your "positive outlook" as we go down again. Love how you said "those" I constantly slag off as though it weren't just you. You're the only one thick enough to spout this particular brand of self-delusion and Ashley loving. I would love nothing more than for us to be successful. You make it sound as though my hatred of Ashley and his cronies would somehow eclipse my love for NUFC. But no matter what, even if he brought in Mourinho to manage us and signed Messi and Jesus Christ to play up front, I would never believe another word to come out of Mike Ashley's mouth again. He has no respect for us, treats us with the utmost contempt, and is only in this to make money as cheaply as possible off us. Would I rather have Ashley in charge and us winning things or Shepherd and his ilk in charge and us winning fuck all for another fifty years? Ashley, for sure. But I am realistic enough to know that all we're going to win under Mike Ashley is the Championship title and probably more than once. I don't want to be right, but the facts are all there. If you really think Ashley would change his ways, well, I've got oceanfront property in Kansas I can give you a good price on.

Can we not rename this thread the "Christmas Tree Propaganda Thread" and give you free reign to post whatever pro-Ashley nonsense you like in here but keep it out of the rest of the board?

Christ, I don't think I'll be able to take the next nine months of your shite. The whole summer will be filled with endless posts of you assuring us that Fat Mike and Hughton have everything in hand, the transfers will come, never mind those players we're losing as they were the 'wrong' sort of players anyway (as in, they were actually good). Then when the window closes it'll be "we've got to get behind the team, our backing is important, Hughton can keep us up" and then when around Christmans after Hughton is sacrificed and Fat Mike puts the club up for sale again it'll be "don't worry, the takeover will be completed by the end of the week." Heard it all before. Broken record. Fuck off already.

It all started to go downhill after Sonic Adventure 2. Both the Adventures were class games. Everything from Sonic Heroes up to the present day has been pure shite. I'm glad that Sonic Team are off this game because they have plainly ran out of ideas and they had one of the greatest franchises on the road to ruin. Looks class and if it's even in the same league as New SMB it'll be a huge hit.

It's 2022 actually, now that I look it up, and they are the hosts of the Asian Cup next year which is meant to be a preview of how far their infrastructure has progressed. Same with that recent friendly between Brazil and England. Not that they have much of a chance.

2018, aye. And they are all indoor and air-conditioned. Meant to be the future of Gulf football and all that nonsense. I could see a joint Qatar/UAE bid getting it at some point in the not-too-distant future. Big money to be made there.

Bit hot in June / July though No more hot (ok, maybe 5 degrees F or so hotter) than Pasadena/Orlando/Dallas were at USA '94. I see your point like.

I think if they wanted to play the world cup in Africa, it should've been in Egypt. I admit to some bias in this matter, but there are several factors in favor of Egypt: Closer to pretty much everywhere on Earth than South Africa. Actually has rule of law. Considerably better infrastructure. Not quite as corrupt as SA. Actually has a good national side. Some of the cons: English-speaking is limited outside of big cities. Would be pretty hard to find anything approximating a pub. Serious work would be needed to upgrade non-Cairo stadium facilities (but wouldn't that be needed for any African country?)

From http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...and&cc=5901 : Keep in mind that this Harry Harris clown who wrote this piece is a massive gobshite and an old Fleet Street hack who's been making shit up for English rags for years. But it does paint a sobering picture. They already tried the "boatload of free transfers" strategy once and it failed. I wouldn't be surprised to see them go down a second time in succession.

As an attacking left-back he's one of the best, can't defend to save his life though. Rather have Enrique.