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I don't care what he's like as long as he does it for us on the pitch and that remains to be seen. Video clips and reputation mean fuck all. Ask Viana and everybody who unfortunately watched him.

Sad to say but it shows the knowledge level on here. Almost 60 looks and four responses for a player that gave 110% in every match.

I wonder how much money he made? Playing football is still better than working a regular job if you can get by.

Cracking little player in his time.

I suspect he won't be the only one.

I've heard that ameobi looks good in training.

He supported leeds before then. Really? That's news to me.

Aye, he was named Young European footballer of the year and was seen as the future for Portugal. I wasnt saying you were wrong, just that Ben Arfa is bit more advanced in his career than Viana was. Aha. Righto.

I'm calling it as I remember it. I don't think I'm wrong.

When you've followed Newcastle as long as me its difficult to tell how full the cup is until you actually see it. In this case on the field. Remember we also signed the future of Portuguese football.

How do you think we feel? At least HF's posts are worth the effort, yours are one liners that, even as I read them, I feel another ounce of the will to live slip away. God you're a whiny fuck Don't let anything hold you back.

As I said before, I know nothing about this player but I'm getting the impression that arfa is a huffy twat who has to be mollycoddled so he's in a frame of mind to play. Bit like a cross between anelka and insomnia. I hope I'm wrong.

This is the type of stuff I'm on about. Posting shit that nobody can be arsed to read.

I'll reserve judgment until I see him play.

It'll be interesting to see what Gudjonnson is like these days. He's wasted the last few years and barely played. At 32 and high wages he's a bit of a gamble.

Eight people killed when a bar was petrol bombed in Cancun. Not worth a mention but a few jews or arabs and there'll be the usual 50 pages or more of Happy Face drivel.

Spurs have a way of fucking players up. Hopefully it'll happen again. Still puts things in perspective though.

Problem is he has in the past. Look at Best. I'm not sure about Perch either at this time. He also should've worked harder at moving some players on like ameobi and Smith to try to free up money.

Only a fucking moron would pay good money to go and see them play.

It'll be interesting to see how they dance around this in order to be sensitive and not offend anybody.

One what? You little racist. Another racist comment by kevin...what a suprise Strikers? Perhaps you are the racist given thats your immediate thought. I should say useless fucking strikers. Or maybe I was taking the piss. I knew you were. It wasn't meant to be a response to you. Sorry, you just happened to get caught up in the trail.

You've done a good job of standing off and interjecting little one-liners like this from time to time. Makes you sound oh-so-world-weary. Also makes you sound like you know what you're talking about, when I doubt you do. So what might these 'facts' be? Where is the 'conspiracy theory'? Who's being 'naive'? Join in the discussion if you have something to say. I see your post Leazes and I'll respond later. My point is that you all have theories/ideas based on your own agendas/something you've read rather than experienced or fact hence judgement on a book none of you have read but rather paraphrased via Google. Some are so anti US they believe anything they see written that slings dirt in their direction. The whole point of this thread was basically outrage that people had the freedom to protest against something they felt was wrong. The fact that they weren't burning books, issuing death sentences is what sets them apart from those you see burning effigies of anyonr who had the sheer nerve to disagree with their opinions (almost what happens on here). I think I asked you for specifics. You didn't provide any. It's unfortunate that you assume that a: I haven't read the book and b: that I don't base my ideas on 'experiences' or 'fact.' Well, I can see 'The Satanic Verses' from where I am sitting right now. It's on a shelf, between 'White Teeth' and 'The Search for the Giant Squid' (don't ask.) Would you like me to quote from it for you? Here you go: "The anger with God carried him through another day, but then it faded and in its place there came a terrible emptiness, an isolation, as he realized he was talking to thin air, that there was nobody there at all and thrn he felt more foolish than ever in his life and he began to plead into the emptiness, ya Allah, just be there, damn it, just be." Page 30. It's one half of a paragraph about 1/3 of the way down on the right-hand page. Secondly, I think my 'experiences' and the 'facts' that I know will vastly outstrip yours. Unless you mean to tell me that you are also a Muslim and a New Yorker, that you were in NY on 9/11, that you have lived in a Muslim country (Egypt), that you have two degrees in Middle Eastern history and high school education, that you make your living teaching this exact sort of thing to adolescents, I think I have 'experienced' a bit more than you and I think I know a few more 'facts' than you do. Even those who most vehemently disagree with what I have to say on the subject have never tried to insinuate that my knowledge of the topic is 'paraphrased from Google', of all things. So unless you'd like to join in the discussion in earnest and bring your own facts and evidence to back up the specific statements that you make instead of throwing out a few undefined accusations of 'agendas' and 'naivete' (that's with a second 'e', not a 'y', just for your information), then please, in the immortal words of Stevie, pipe down. I don't think the 'entire purpose of this thread' was to express outrage at the freedom of people to protest, as you say. Look back at the first post. I think it was to express outrage and wonder at what they have chosen to protest. Similarly, did you think the teddy bear Muhammad scandal was an outrageous cause for conflict and inflammation? But do you support the right of those people to protest (peacefully) what they felt to be wrong? I find it strange that you consider yourself such an educated person, both academically and in the ways of the world, and yet you are still fixated upon a storybook. Clearly you haven't worked out that in the western world people don't get their knickers in a permanent twist over such an insignificant thing. The fact that you are so obsessed with it tells me that even educated muslims are basically one step from being cave dwellers in much of their outlook on life. You have a fucked up sense of priorities, IMO, which are completely out of touch with the west.

Best is an international player. Shoots down that argument.

One what? You little racist. Another racist comment by kevin...what a suprise Strikers? Perhaps you are the racist given thats your immediate thought. I should say useless fucking strikers.

If ameobi left and cleared his salary then it might help make room for Keane for year. Big IF but I'd take that in heartbeat.