Billy Whitehurst

I just find the bitterness towards England from the rest of the British Isles sad as fuck.

Yes, that sort of shite and the huge chip on your shoulder.

Completely agree about Schweinsteiger, he's a class act. Makes everything look simple, he's a brilliant playmaker.

Experiencing similar emotions to when Sunderland sacked Roy Keane. Really dislike the man but would have liked him to continue given the spectacularly shit job he was doing.

Chelsea 3 Blackburn 1 Everton 1 Newcastle 2 Man City 2 QPR 0 Norwich 1 Aston Villa 0 Stoke 1 Bolton 2 Sunderland 0 Man Utd 2 Swansea 1 Liverpool 2 Spurs 3 Fulham 1 West Brom 1 Arsenal 1 Wigan 2 Wolves 0

Horrible evil old bitch, I would never celebrate anyone dying though. However, you just know all the media will sugar coat her life and that will piss me right off. She should be remembered for the heartless slag that she is.

Arsenal 2 Norwich 0 Newcastle 1 Man City 3 Villa 1 Spurs 1 Bolton 2 West Brom 1 Fulham 2 Sunderland 1 QPR 2 Stoke 0 Wolves 0 Everton 2 Man Utd 2 Swansea 0 Blackburn 1 Wigan 1 Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1

Adidas Copas and Adidas World Cups every time for me. Don't mind Puma Kings mind, the rest are all horrible.

Not sure about that area I'm afraid as the Mrs' family place is in the 6th. There's bound to be an Irish Pub in the area showing it though. Also, I think the €5 pints are only at the weekend in The Bowler. Have a belting trip by the way, it's a really brilliant city.

Yep, football is almost secondary for some of their fans, the bigotry thing is sad as fuck. We don't want to be having to put up with that sort of shite in our league. The Scottish league deserves the pair of them.

Fairly sure one of the regular posters in here lives in Paris so he'll probably know some better places.

Whereabouts are you staying? My Mrs is French so we spend a lot of time there. Know quite a few places in the 6th (Latin Quarter) or if you are near the Champs Elysees, The Bowler ( www.thebowler.fr ) will have it on. €5 pints in there all weekend too which might not sound cheap, but is for Paris.

Don't want all that bigotry being brought down here. However, I do think everyone in this thread is understating how they would fare though. With the Sky money I think they'd eventually settle as a top half premier league side. I'd say they are equal with us size-wise and are bigger than the likes of Villa and Everton. I agree at the moment that Scottish football is shite but they are operating on a different financial playing field.

Swansea 2 Wolves 0 Wigan 1 Newcastle Utd 2 West Brom 1 Aston Villa 0 Everton 2 Fulham 0 Sunderland 1 Bolton 1 Stoke 0 Arsenal 2 Norwich 1 Liverpool 1 Chelsea 2 QPR 0 Tottenham 2 Blackburn 1 Manchester City 3 Manchester Utd 2 Liverpool 2 Fulham 0 Stoke 1 Everton 1 Chelsea 1 Newcastle Utd 1 Bolton 1 Tottenham 2 Arsenal 2 Norwich 1

Did it twice and, like you, was fucked for a few days after. Felt like my hamstrings were going to snap. I'm sure the pain gets better once your muscles are used to it but I fucked it off after two attempts and a few days walking round like Albert Steptoe.

That's not my experience at all. I've been here 12 years and haven't experienced that at all. In fact, I've only been conscious of racism when I go to places like Leeds, Liverpool and Scotland (I don't come across it on trips back to Newcastle). I suppose it depends on who you mix with. As for London having a "massive racism problem", that is just utter bollocks, I reckon I might have picked up on it in the last 12 years if that was the case.

I only quoted it. While I agree with most of Dr Gloom's post, I'd like to distance myself from that particular part.

Agree with most of this. The tube is fairly grim but it is very comprehensive and absolutely fine outside of rush hour. There are loads of public transport options. Also, the people aren't as bad as people make out, probably more guarded more tgan anything. It is more expensive than the rest of the UK but wages are much higher. If you want to live in a truly multicultural city that has something to offer everyone then get yourself down here. Spent last weekend on a stag do in Liverpool which I found depressing as fuck. The main attraction of the city being (an admittedly nice) dock or a square with the sort of boozers and punters you'd expect to find in Malia. It made me very grateful to live in London.

Arsenal 1 Chelsea 1 Villa 1 Sunderland 1 Blackburn 2 Norwich 1 Bolton 1 Swansea 1 Fulham 1 Wigan 0 NUFC 2 Stoke 1 QPR 1 Spurs 2 Man U 2 Everton 0 Liverpool 2 West Brom 1 Wolves 0 Man City 3 Villa 1 Bolton 1

Bracewell, Venison, Helder, Shola

GK: Schmeichel RB: Neville LB: Cole CH: Ferdinand CH: Campbell RM: Ronaldo LM: Giggs CM: Keane CM: Scholes CF: Henry CF: Shearer Bench: Seaman Adams Lampard Vieira Pires Bergkamp Zola Manager: Ferguson

Who was the third one? The link doesn't work. Going off your description, I'm going for Daniel Cordone.

I'm just yanking CG's chain. He likes to have a dig, lump me in with Leazes because I respect the views of someone with decades of match-going experience and defend the bloke when people put words in his mouth. Fact is though, the only 'narrative' I've ever had is that Ashley is a liar and I wouldn't trust him as far as his belly reaches over his belt. That won't change no matter what. If we win the champions league I still wouldn't have time for the twat. No idea why CG thinks I'd be bitter. I was the one telling the likes of uber positive CT his hopes were too modest after promotion. He's running around demanding plaudits for his positive outlook when not too long ago he was saying to me... http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/27275-back-to-the-future/page__view__findpost__p__731210 I'm fully vindicated truth be told. Fair enough. I don't think anyone would disagree with you on Ashley being untrustworthy and a liar. And a fat cunt for that matter! I still like what he's doing with the club though.

That's patent nonsense. I've said good things about the current regime going back months. All you've done is follow the mainstream media narrtive slavishly regarding Pards and Ashley. If you want to congratulate yourself for that be my guest. Apart from which you stood by Obertans for how many months??? When Chez was bullying those of us who feared we'd sell Carroll back in December 2010, and we subsequently did and dropped down the league, we all largley had the good grace not to mention it to him too much, we left him to reshape his 'narrative'. Every post from Chez since we beat West Brom has been dripping with self-congratulation and nose rubbing. Long may he have reason to blow his own horn like. In fairness, from Carroll leaving, until the end of the season, we dropped from 9th, being 2 points above 13th, to finishing 12th, 2 points below 9th. Hardly a massive shift compared to where we are now having had time to able to spend (some of) the Carroll money and improve the team.

Wonder what Spurs record is since their talk about being in the title race? I think Harry must be a little red faced about it, but then we'll never know for sure. They seem to have gone off the boil ever since Capello resigned and everyone started talking about Redknapp for England.