Greg
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It came from the Civil war of the late 1600's, Newcastle and Sunderland ended up on opposite sides and the main rivialry was between the two ports.
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Boumsong missed the first header bit the Wigan goal was all Taylor.
No-one would listen to me when I said he is a liability. People were hailing him as the new saviour when he gets too many cards for my liking and at this level that isn't good enough.
He isn't as good as people make out and needs a break from first team action when Titus comes back.
Taylor was exposed becase Boumsong got pulled out following the other striker and failed to make the tackle.. then when the ball was played through to Roberts there was onle Taylor in place of where there should have been two defenders. If Boumsong gets dragged out like that then either Parker and Faye should immediatly fill in that gap...That however is tactics.. and up to Souness get that working.
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Phillips has stated he would never play for us.
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Aye fair point More the trip than the match.
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Last Newcastle match I enjoyed was today. Fucking love it, always.
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Same as usual, list your three top players from todays game.
I've just got back, not as drunk as normal!
For me,
EMRE - this lads world class
SHEARER - goal should have counted and won a lot in the air, one of his better games of late. Could have snatched an equaliser late on!
PARKER - not as good as he can be and has been but solid enough, why oh why play Parker and Faye is beyond me!
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It's called Autumn.
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From what I have herd it isnt actually him, it was his friend who is a non football and the said player is just a witness.
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I'm perfectly sober today, not everyday you spend 13 hours on a bus getting mortal drunk you know
Anyway, it's all updated now and can be found here
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Same usual, list your top 2 players from yesterdays game.
I'll go first...
GIVEN
BOUMSONG
BOYWER
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Hmm we shall see. But I have already ordered my copy of FM2006
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No!!!!
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Hurricane - best song ever imo!
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You are
Rivaldo
You're one of the best players on the planet. You lead by example and you're way too refined to rake your studs down anyones shins. You do sometimes have trouble passing the ball to lesser players, though
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Both teams have been shite imo.
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Shamelessly thieved from football365.com again.....The Premiership Weekend Winners & Losers
Monday September 26 2005
By Pete Gill
Winners
Chelski
But every time they win the Premiership loses out.
Roman Abramovich’s money has killed the top-flight as a competition. Although there is more to the Premiership than just a title battle, there is also a severe limitation on the interest which can be generated by a relegation dogfight and a squabble over the remaining Champions League places.
Players do not compete to finish second; nor do fans follow their teams in the hope they can finish second.
Although Arsene Wenger continues to talk a good fight, Chelski's title is all-but secured already.
"Is the title over or not? I don't believe so," he maintained on Saturday night. "If everyone is right about the championship, then let's stop, give them the trophy and then start again. If you think it is over, that is all we can do because it will be really boring until the end of May."
Unfortunately, it almost certainly will be.
As for Chelski, there is much to admire. Yet there is also a growing sense of disappointment at what they are not.
As The Sunday Times noted, victory over Aston Villa was achieved 'by organisation, tenacity, fitness and hunger'. But having spent £300m in two years, are fans not entitled to ask 'is that all?'. Supplied with a bottomless budget that overwhelms their rivals' on an unprecedented scale, do Chelski not have an obligation to aim for more than simply 'winning football'? To strive to be entertainers as well as winners? A superstar team full of superstars rather than 'just' a well-oiled machine?
Jose Mourinho says not, but given their unique finances Chelski could and perhaps should have aimed at being a unique team.
Arsenal
A point at the home of a London rival third in the league is, in ordinary circumstances, a reasonable day's work. But with Chelski rampant, these are no ordinary times in the Premiership.
Newcastle
And their next three opponents are Wigan, Sunderland and WBA.
Michael Owen
If Sir Alex didn't have enough problems, little Mickey is making a mockery of his refusal to consider bringing the England striker to Old Trafford.
Sunderland
Even more unlikely weekend victors than Wigan and Blackburn.
Danny Murphy
Goalscoring feats can be illusory - just because a player scores a penalty and a two-yard tap-in doesn't necessarily mean that he played well, although The Sun has never seemed to grasp this point - but Murphy has been excellent this season. Quite how Jermaine Jenas continues to be named in England squads ahead of him (and Scott Parker) is a mystery that the occupants of F365 Towers can't be alone in pondering.
Blackburn Rovers
Be careful what you wish for.
Sir Alex has a habit of bemoaning the lack of ambition shown by visitors to Old Trafford, complaining regularly last season about packed defences and non-existent attacks.
Blackburn duly arrived in Manchester with two out-and-out strikers and brimming with intent. Admittedly, they rode their luck, but theirs was a deserved victory nevertheless.
Losers
Sir Alex Ferguson & ManYoo
Not since the mid-eighties has Sir Alex suffered the ignominy of being heckled by his own supporters.
Chants of 'attack, attack, attack' are understandable given the team's position. But the calls for '4-4-2' indicate that the Red Army foot soldiers have lost faith in the judgement of their general. Perhaps it's just as well that he has stopped talking to MUTV.
Pre-season, I opined that, to challenge Chelski, ManYoo had to double the number of goals they scored last season. Doubling the number of strikers deployed - i.e.. reverting back to the tried-and-successful 4-4-2 - was the obvious method to achieve that target.
Instead, Ferguson has continued to persist with an austere 4-3-2-1, and the result has been two goals in four games.
Even more baffling was the omission of Wayne Rooney. Although his forthcoming midweek suspension was cited as an explanation for his absence, it was surely a convincing reason for him to play on Saturday.
No wonder the ManYoo fans are revolting.
Ruud van Nistelrooy
It's now not a question of when he will rediscover his 2002-03 form but if.
Last week at Anfield he spurned the only clear-cut chance of the afternoon with an optimistic chip. Ferguson later disclosed that he had demanded an explanation from his striker at half-time why he hadn’t taken a more conventional shot.
Was this a sign that Ferguson has begun to lose faith in his number one striker?
If so, events on Saturday may have been the final straw with ManYoo failing to convert any of their eight goalscoring opportunities into a shot on target and Ruud the culprit-in-chief. The sight of the Dutchman slapping the ball ten yards over the bar when unmarked by the penalty spot almost defied belief.
Paul Scholes
Do you remember when he was a good player? Do you remember when he justified a place in the ManYoo team? Do you remember when he used to score goals and was hailed as Ferguson as the best finisher in England?
Or do you choose to remember Scholes' interview on MUTV last week in which he announced, "If we can't beat Blackburn and Fulham we have no hope of winning the league" - words made all the more memorable by Scholes' errant pass setting up Morten Gamst Pedersen's winner?
Everton
Having won so many matches last year by the odd-goal, there’s a suspicion that Everton's luck has simply evened itself up so far this season. But the failure to score a single goal at Goodison in 270 minutes of football cannot be dismissed so easily. Against Wigan, they barely created a meaningful chance.
How long before we view Everton as genuine relegation candidates? In all probability, less than a month - Everton's next fixtures are away to Man Citeh and Tottenham before Chelski travel to Merseyside on October 23.
A crisis is mounting.
Peter Crouch
For a big man, he's not very good in the air, is he?
The Armchair Supporter
For all the talk of prohibitive ticket prices, it's television which is, in the words of Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, the "rocket fuel" of the Premiership.
Viewed cynically, fans at matches are little more than a studio audience, their sole function to supply the atmosphere and noise required to give the television audience a sense of theatre. For Formula One, packed grandstands are actually anathema to the overall product. The sport's money is generated from advertising and sponsorship - aspects of the sport which are only fully appreciated by the armchair fans and certainly not by those watching in the flesh.
The case is not as extreme with football, but, given that the Premier League is essentially funded by TV, rather than by fans going through the turnstiles, it was no surprise to hear Scudamore to insist that he was unconcerned by the sight of empty seats.
But Scudamore will be concerned if armchair fans begin switching off - or, to be more accurate in all probability, continue to turn off.
While Match of the Day continues to depict the Premiership in a flattering light - as Gary Lineker noted, "It's amazing how good you can make matches look in five minutes" - the big money comes from Sky and their exasperation with the bored-down Prem is becoming plain. Having paid so much for TV rights, they're entitled to expect rather more than the odd goal in their flagship matches. So too are their subscribers.
For Sky and the armchair fans, the last three 'Super Sundays' have plumbed new depths, with the tedium of Bolton v Blackburn followed by the dreadfully disappointing Liverpool v ManYoo. But even the attraction of that fixture compared favourably with Middlesbrough v Sunderland, the only live match available on Sunday. 'Super' it most definitely wasn't.
It's not just the 'real' fans who aren't receiving value for money this season. And unless the trend is reversed, and the armchair fans/Sky are kept on side, even Richard Scudamore may have to admit that the Premier League has a serious problem.
We play Pompey next.
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Were you blowing the said horn in the upper tier of the gallowgate end yesterday???
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ahhh uim too slow to get this one going ehhh???
well an so pissed uil put mine down in the morning and also update the league table.........
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Just back from picking someone up from the airport, time for a beer!!!
I've certainly deserve it....
I have done nothing all week, I suppose thats what being unemployed is all about.. although I did actually do something this week, applied for some jobs!!
It'll make the match sound more interesting 
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Pre ordered ages ago.. should be on my doormat tomorrow morning! shame im at work till 3pm!