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I'm honestly tearing up here. Where has my fucking club gone?

School's out? Take off Edgar ffs, he's useless. Put Jonas on as a wing-back imo. I hope Shearer puts the fear of God into those spineless scum masquerading as NUFC.

This is the end of the line I fear.

Rather Millwall won but I don't care as long as it's over - didn't someone mention if there were extra time/pens it'd run into our game? Anyway, I've been truly panicking since last night. Could hardly sleep at all. This hour will be agony, I can tell already (only to be followed by 2 of even worse agony!) I fear it'll be 3-0 to them, but I'm holding out hope for a draw. Where's our David Kelly now?

Halibut.

People who dash onto the train as the doors are closing and just make it, then put on a big show of panting, looking around for sympathy, and trying to make eye contact and going "that was close, wasn't it?" before trying to make some idiotic small talk with some 60-year-old clinging to the pole for dear life. We don't want your goddamn life story, we just want to ride the subway in peace, thanks very much, die in a fire. Who was it who mentioned touchers? I HATE them. The New York Post. That isn't a ridiculous hatred though as it is probably the worst rag on earth, bar the Sun perhaps and it doesn't even have Page 3. People who talk on mobiles in the public domain, period. When I'm on a bus and I'm hearing way too much about Aunt Irma's hemorrhoid it gets to be a bit much. There's loads of others - I could go on for pages and pages.

I've died a thousand deaths over it and it's only Friday ffs. Not given up hope yet though. I can't shake the feeling it'll be a total non-event though, we'll be down 3-0 by the 20th minute and it'll all just be over.

Aye, that bit about celebrating against Boro really rankled me too. Idiotic thing to say.

Correct Fop if Fop is wrong, but Fop can't remember the last time the BNP actually suicide bombed anyone (and yes the BNP get a lot of their vote from disenfranchised poor people - which is why Labour especially is constantly -ing itself over them - call a BNP activist Muhammed instead of Fred and you've basically got a radical muslim, they are almost the exactly same ). So what you're basically saying is it's "ok" for UK Muslims (and indeed non-UK ones) to hold effectively racist views over myths, strawman arguments and their own general prejudice? And that in fact everyone else should bow down to those myths, strawman arguments and their own general prejudice for it to be "acceptable" (to them). That's just plain gunboat diplomacy dressed up to hide in the PC era. Equality is equality, it is not (and never will be) some being more equal than others. No, that's not what I'm 'basically saying.' The Kraken is for noobs btw, Parky will have picked the mechanical owl while cackling at your naivete.

Scum.

I'd put Reina and Given on the same level. According to some I always massively overrate other teams' keepers but Reina has always seemed solid if not spectacular. He can save a penalty too which Given couldn't really in his time with us, and it's my opinion that he has a better command of his area, but nobody stops shots like Shay and he could collect crosses too (didn't Reina drop a clanger when coming out for a cross this year or is that my imagination?). Saying Reina is ten times the keeper Shay is, twenty, etc. is just tripe.

You make a lot of noise about how you're not racist, but then you come out with absolute reeking shite like this and it makes it impossible to take whatever you say seriously. 'Barbaric cultures' You're still stuck in the age of the British Empire, Stevie. Nobody is saying (except for some extremists who are as loopy as their Western counterparts) that Britain should be 'dominated by Muslims' or 'have Muslim values.' This article is not saying that. But you have to come to terms with the fact that a major section of the UK's population is now Muslim and that is not going to change. Far from it - Islam is only going to grow in the UK and the rest of Europe. Nobody is going to kick the 'foreigners' (many of whom are native-born British citizens) out. They're not going to leave. They're here to stay. And they are British, despite what misgivings you may have about that. And now there are two choices - British society can integrate the new culture, as so many countries across the world have integrated new influences in their own societies; or Britain can, like the body rejecting a transplanted organ as 'foreign,' reject it. History has shown irrevocably that the second option never works and it will not work in this case either. The United States is trying it with the Mexicans, and they will fail miserably, but not before decades of strife. It can and should be avoided. You blithely say 'fuck what they (a large and rapidly growing segment of Britain) think of us,' and that the cultures 'will never be aligned.' But consider how you would feel about London lawmakers deciding "fuck what the northerners think of us, this country will never be dominated by them. Our cultures can't be aligned." You'd complain about southern bias but you're happy with anglo-saxon bias, and that's just an example of a juvenile 'me and my brother against our neighbor, me and my neighbor against our street, me and our street against our town' mentality that has no place in modern society. British society can benefit from Islamic society - not by accepting Sharia law, FGM, and extremism (which are practiced only by fringe elements in the Muslim world as it is), but by integrating positive values such as a focus on family structure, strong work ethic, and significantly better food. ( ) Unfortunately, it is impossible for a people to feel at home in a society they feel is actively in opposition to their values, and that's where the 'foreign policy' reference made in the article comes in. When British Muslims read about Enoch Powell, listen to the BNP, hear speeches denouncing Islam as a culture of violence, and when they watch their representatives vote in support of an illegal invasion based on fabricated evidence whose true purpose was not to defeat the spectre of Islamism, but as a function of United States self-aggrandizement, I think you can see why it is difficult for them to believe that they can ever be considered a true part of British culture. Most 'home-grown terrorists,' I believe, are people who were not brought up in the tradition of radicalism, but who become disillusioned with their lives on their own, and turn to radicalism as an answer. The fact that these events also coincide with the unfortunate rise of political Islam's star in the Muslim world mean they have a ready-made 'answer.' And as such, Omaar is arguing not that Britain must somehow pander to those terrorists and 'Islamify' Britain, but that as a whole, British society can (and should) make more of an effort to integrate its Muslim contingent and to prevent them from ever having to ask the questions that lead to the answer of Islamism. And, according to him, improving Britain's image abroad is one of the ways this can be done. Rant over. Drivel. aka, there's nowt I can say in response to that. Aye, jog on Stevie with your barbaric cultures.

You make a lot of noise about how you're not racist, but then you come out with absolute reeking shite like this and it makes it impossible to take whatever you say seriously. 'Barbaric cultures' You're still stuck in the age of the British Empire, Stevie. Nobody is saying (except for some extremists who are as loopy as their Western counterparts) that Britain should be 'dominated by Muslims' or 'have Muslim values.' This article is not saying that. But you have to come to terms with the fact that a major section of the UK's population is now Muslim and that is not going to change. Far from it - Islam is only going to grow in the UK and the rest of Europe. Nobody is going to kick the 'foreigners' (many of whom are native-born British citizens) out. They're not going to leave. They're here to stay. And they are British, despite what misgivings you may have about that. And now there are two choices - British society can integrate the new culture, as so many countries across the world have integrated new influences in their own societies; or Britain can, like the body rejecting a transplanted organ as 'foreign,' reject it. History has shown irrevocably that the second option never works and it will not work in this case either. The United States is trying it with the Mexicans, and they will fail miserably, but not before decades of strife. It can and should be avoided. You blithely say 'fuck what they (a large and rapidly growing segment of Britain) think of us,' and that the cultures 'will never be aligned.' But consider how you would feel about London lawmakers deciding "fuck what the northerners think of us, this country will never be dominated by them. Our cultures can't be aligned." You'd complain about southern bias but you're happy with anglo-saxon bias, and that's just an example of a juvenile 'me and my brother against our neighbor, me and my neighbor against our street, me and our street against our town' mentality that has no place in modern society. British society can benefit from Islamic society - not by accepting Sharia law, FGM, and extremism (which are practiced only by fringe elements in the Muslim world as it is), but by integrating positive values such as a focus on family structure, strong work ethic, and significantly better food. ( ) Unfortunately, it is impossible for a people to feel at home in a society they feel is actively in opposition to their values, and that's where the 'foreign policy' reference made in the article comes in. When British Muslims read about Enoch Powell, listen to the BNP, hear speeches denouncing Islam as a culture of violence, and when they watch their representatives vote in support of an illegal invasion based on fabricated evidence whose true purpose was not to defeat the spectre of Islamism, but as a function of United States self-aggrandizement, I think you can see why it is difficult for them to believe that they can ever be considered a true part of British culture. Most 'home-grown terrorists,' I believe, are people who were not brought up in the tradition of radicalism, but who become disillusioned with their lives on their own, and turn to radicalism as an answer. The fact that these events also coincide with the unfortunate rise of political Islam's star in the Muslim world mean they have a ready-made 'answer.' And as such, Omaar is arguing not that Britain must somehow pander to those terrorists and 'Islamify' Britain, but that as a whole, British society can (and should) make more of an effort to integrate its Muslim contingent and to prevent them from ever having to ask the questions that lead to the answer of Islamism. And, according to him, improving Britain's image abroad is one of the ways this can be done. Rant over.

Scary guy. @Danny: I hope you don't think the institutionalized racism instituted by 'Bob's lot' is going away? EDIT: Wait until Parky and Fop see this thread btw, I can already see it's going to be clash of the titans all over again.

Did they bollocks. All they're good for is stopping the Mickey Mousers. Anyone they can stop has no chance of harming me, and anyone who does, they can't stop. Much more likely is they'll continue to use the threat of 'jihad' (as exemplified by some confused converts, clearly) to destroy the civil liberties held dear by those who founded this country. That click on the phone line is just static, I suppose, Danny? No its the jews turning on their mind washing machine. A tin foil helmet will see you safe though. I'm not worried about the Jews - far from it. Farmer Bob out in Nebraska, and the people he votes for, are the ones I'm afraid of.

Did they bollocks. All they're good for is stopping the Mickey Mousers. Anyone they can stop has no chance of harming me, and anyone who does, they can't stop. Much more likely is they'll continue to use the threat of 'jihad' (as exemplified by some confused converts, clearly) to destroy the civil liberties held dear by those who founded this country. That click on the phone line is just static, I suppose, Danny?

I live in Riverdale, where this happened. Let's just say I'm a lot more afraid of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly than I am of a bunch of Latinos and a Haitian with fake bombs. I can only imagine what new travesties this will be used as justification for.

My favorite Toon song. RIP Busker.

I didn't think the desperate, pathetic flailing exhibited in the 'Oi Alex' thread could ever be topped, but Danny has done it again. Dire stuff from him, should just edit out all the text in his posts and replace it with Hilarious he fancies himself a hardman too. 'Come down the pub and let's talk about it skinny or I'll tell peasepud on you' :lol:

Maybe if it wasn't for the people for whom he was falling over himself to act as the mouthpiece, we wouldn't be in this situation? 'Naivete' at boardroom level is just a passing mention - it'll be Shearer, not Ashley, who takes us down, is that it? Get to fuck Ryder and take this piece of shit blog with you

Got it on Friday. 21st Century Breakdown and East Jesus Nowhere are the best songs on there and I quite like both the Gloria songs. The Static Age, the second half of American Eulogy, 21 Guns and Peacemaker are pretty good too. The others are kind of hit and miss and I think the album is missing an epic-style song like Jesus of Suburbia or Homecoming from American Idiot. On average I'd say it's better (AI had some right dross, like Are We The Waiting For This Song To End and Wake Me Up When It Does Already) than the previous but its good songs don't stand out as much. Class new sig Tom btw, I was planning to change mine once we finally do go down and throw something from the title track in there.

After last weeks antics everyone on the board should put him on ignore, the kids a Divvy. Probably updating the attendance records on wiki as we speak. No doubt. The kids an embarrassment imo, would put money on that he's been chased off any decent spurs forums. We already know that from some of the other Spurs fans who came in peace. Let's change the topic. I know it's been discussed already but how many do you think we'll bring in when we go down? 30k average maybe?

ATP you did notice we're about to be relegated, didn't you? Sorry, I thought this topic was called 'If we stay up and Shearer is given £20m.' Wait, it is... Honest mistake no doubt.

Chris Brunt from West Brom looked a canny player, far cheaper than Duff. I'd have Tuncay off Boro too, then we can buy a left back for cover. We'll probably need a striker as well and if we splashed a fairly large amount of that £20m on Darren Bent I wouldn't say no.

Let's keep him.