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Shaka's doing punditry over there as well, isn't he? Aye, he's on ESPN. Warren Barton is bloody useless as a pundit by the way.

Tiote had a brilliant shot too that was luckily (for WH) deflected away. I'm trying to hold back the enthusiasm but he has looked the business since day 1 and had he played against Blackpool I think we'd have beaten them. Good performance against an admittedly awful relegation rival. This is exactly the kind of game we failed to win two years ago and seeing it won with relative ease (and even after falling behind) gives me hope that we will stay up. Jonas has really grown into a genuine menace on the left and I think his final ball is improving, Barton was a tad sloppy in giving away possession at times but there was no doubting the quality of either of the balls he provided for the goals, Krul dealt with crosses well, Shola and Carroll put themselves about - all in all I'd say this team can beat the mackems and I look forward to this derby with similar anticipation to the KK 2008 derby.

Bad feeling about this one too. 2-1, goal for Parker no doubt.

Cole is a better left back, Bale is a left-winger really now. Bale's better than Zhirkov as well, maybe Malouda too. You're right about him having been converted to more of a winger.

Perfectly primed to replace Cashley at Chelsea?

Don't talk that way about Alex's mam.

There's nowhere more backward on this earth than Saudi Arabia. No prizes for guessing who gave the Arabian Peninsula to the House of Saud, though. That's a good message for the people who are always banging on about how bad the regimes in the Middle East are - don't consider only the monster, but also its creator.

If I could interject here - we follow God, not Allah, unless you're speaking Arabic. Allah just means God in Arabic. German-speaking Christians don't worship "Gott" any more than Latinos worship "Dios", so why is it we always get pegged as the ones who worship some "other" god? (Hint: it's because many Westerners don't even know that Islam follows on from what they so blithely term the "judeo-christian tradition.") You may now return to your regularly scheduled quote pyramids. EDIT: French-speaking Muslims talk about "Dieu", not Allah (well, except when they are actually praying, because in Islam the actual words of the prayer are supposed to be recited in Arabic exclusively.) The prayers of Arabic-speaking Christians (such as the 10% of Egypt's population that adhere to the Coptic church, such as the Syriacs and Maronites, etc etc) are addressed to Allah. Just to give you some additional (and probably totally un-called for) perspective on this topic. SECOND EDIT: There I go making an ass of myself. I implied that Copts speak Arabic when they pray. Wrong, their prayers are in Coptic. Glad I could get that one cleared up, since someone was totally going to call me on it

I doubt he'll fancy managing a Championship side like.

Didn't JFK come out with some desultory bollocks about KK or Ashley after we got Shearer in? Even Ashley would never be stupid enough to have him back.

Just wait until he starts calling Happy Face 'KSA-lite'.

I killed him last week. That's a Rushdiebot out there. His next book, "Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love Islam" comes out next week. Also most of the MPs are now Muslimbots as well and Commons will hear our referendum on implementing sharia law next month. All part of our grand plot to take over the Western world, orchestrated from our intricate network of caves in Brumistan. We'd have got the show on the road sooner but we kept having to interrupt our meetings for our 5-times-daily prayers to Allah.

I'd love it if Geordie Boy Lee Clark came in as assistant but I doubt he'd leave Huddersfield.

Which is half the threads in GC now. Thoroughly boring even for me, someone who likes to discuss the topic.

Made up hullabaloo now that the Liverpool saga is definitely over. The hacks need a new blow-up to write about.

Bizarre tactical choices aren't doing him any good. Guthrie over Routledge today was a head-scratcher, and this coming from someone who isn't really a fan of Routledge. Playing Lovenkrands over Shola was another weird one and hopefully Shola will start our next home game as I'd say that barring our anomalous thrashing of Villa, Shola's been better on balance than Carroll. And finally, persevering with a player pretty much everyone can tell is terrible is only going to cost us more points and I hope Hughton has the bottle to write Perch off as a failed gamble and consign him to the reserves. That's not to say that Hughton has been awful, but he's been far from great. I think our best team really picks itself and I'm a little worried that he seems to feel the need to make constant alterations to that team.

Nowt against you mate, I realise you are putting across your case with patience and are probably a good bloke I'm just saying, if I were you I wouldn't go near Bradford or Birmingham anytime soon. are you confirming that parts of the UK are now off limits to UK citizens, courtesy of peaceful and tolerant muslims who believe in freedom of speech ala UK laws and democracy ? How has that came about ? Where next ? I'm saying that I was definitely having a joke with you as I thought you knew. I think.

Get the fuck in!

Tiote and Enrique probably the only ones who have broken a sweat. The rest of these wankers seem content to let Wigan run all over us. Pathetic. Perch needs to be dropped (preferably back to the Championship). I don't care how bad R. Taylor is, he isn't this bad. And I'm not sure Lovenkrands shouldn't join him, he has been absolutely nowhere to be found in this game.

Bad feeling about this one.

Nowt against you mate, I realise you are putting across your case with patience and are probably a good bloke I'm just saying, if I were you I wouldn't go near Bradford or Birmingham anytime soon.

I'm issuing a fatwa on this topic. All loyal Muslims are called upon to kill anyone who posts after me.

"It could go tits up with this one as well, it remains to be seen, but anything is better than Fat Fred." © Toontastic 2007

Ludicrous policy that has endangered the lives of thousands of American soldiers since 2003. Good riddance, if this ruling stands.

1 infidel down, only 5 billion more to go.