Craig

I don't know about the rest of you but I'm more keen to see Ashley et al to be replaced than I am to get Keegan back as manager. It would obviously be nice to have both but our focus really has to be on the former and not the latter. Even if we do end up with new owners, we can't suddenly start going "great! no bring Keegan back!" It would be up to the new man to decide who he wanted. This club needs to move forward. We need to accept that sadly, it's likely that it won't be with any involvement from Kevin Keegan.

Suddenly becomes clear why he used to wear a shirt with 'Smith' on it...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's been leaked by the goons running the club in an attempt to try and shift blame for all of this mess to Keegan. I'm angry, hurt and upset that they've caused this utter shambolic mess but I'm fucking furious that they're seemingly trying to shift responsibility to KK in efforts to keep face.

aye i know... £460 billion isn't it?

Isn't the prize fund determined by how much is invested?

Craig'll go mental! Fuck me, how predictable are you getting?

let me get this straight.... this guy has twice as much money as Abramovich?

Totally echo that one...

I understand why everone goes on about the Portsmouth (I'm assuming that 's what you're referring to) game, but I'm always puzzled why people don't talk so much about the Leicester game away the following week . WE were up then down, then up, then down, threw it away in the final minute, pitch invasion then won it in injury time and stayed up for sure. The most amazing end to a game I've ever been at. Had we lost the Pompey game, we'd have been as good as down. Given they were in the play-offs, we'd all resigned ourselves to the fact that we'd probably get a stuffing down there so the Portsmouth game was paramount. That goal went in with 10 minutes to go and the morale it created is what, IMO, kept us up. Had we gone to Filbert St on the back of a 0-0 draw, I don't think we'd have had the same push in us. Those inside St James Park that day will never forget the atmosphere. I spoke to one bloke who went to fairs cup final and he said it wasn't a patch on the atmosphere the day we survived div 3. Same here, I have to switch it off at the speech to the fans. I was there that day Jimbo, stood next to the church and heard that speech real-time. It was lump in your throat time back then as well...

SSR on NO earlier, nearly wet myself reading it. He did my av too. Gold!

Can they fuck - tarnished goods. This club needs disinfecting man...

I tell you what this structure is now... a house of cards! With Mike Ashley as the foundations and Wise, Jiminez & Vetere as the walls. The fans may well get behind the players on the pitch and even some poor muppet who the draft in to manage us... but they'll not rest now until Ashley is gone and once he goes, the walls will cave in! Surely the three stoogies aren't stupid enough not to realise this? I'd be looking for a way out now if I were them.

please let it be so....

Oi!! Short-arsed cunt from Laaahndan!!! Take fucking notice of what he's saying - your 'get out of jail free' card doesn't want to be your puppet. Time's up - get fucking packing!

I watched this on Wednesday when I was adamant he'd be staying and I was fine - I've just watched it again tonight and I'm a wreck I doubt that era when he was in charge first time around will ever be surpassed in my mind - still the greatest atmosphere I ever experienced was 25th April 1992. We may not have won anything but we proved ourselves to ourselves and that's what matters to me.

does he ever take that fucking shirt off?

I know

Well I thought the anger had passed me by so for the first time since Monday, I dared to listen to Talksport on the way home from work..... The anger is anything but gone obviously!! For starters it's that tit Townsend who is doing nothing but sticking up for his mate Wise and claiming we don't like him simply because he comes from the south. Then he's backed up by the clown Mike Parry who claims he can 'relate' to us because we come close to being like his beloved Everton... WTF?? Anyway a succession of idiots ring in and the crux of their comments are that we are dellusional because we believed the return of Keegan was going to be like some magical 'restore' button that took us back to the way we were in 1995-96. Not only that but these two pillocks were largely agreeing with them!! To me (and maybe I'm wrong) but that is some fantasy opinion formed by the media in an attempt to knock us - further proving that they've no idea what the situation is up here. How did others on here take the return of KK? My views were this: Since SBR was given the boot, we've made a succession of crazy management errors of which was that come January 2008 when Allardyce was sacked, the net result was that the stock value of this club was no-where what it had been just 3½ short years earlier. The problem we had was that we didn't have the core players (or even squad) to attract a decent manager and without the decent manager, we'd never be able to attract the type of players needed to move us forward. It was an awful vicious circle. Then came KK back into our lives and there was hope. Here was a man who had a love for this club that was unrivalled - he'd put his heart and soul into it no matter what shitty position we were in but what came with him was that he was high profile enough to be able to generate some interest from players that would certainly improve the status. Players who could imagine being part of a revolution that would turn things around and share success with the club - possibly enjoying fans adoration as a result (as Rob Lee did). I never once thought "Keegan's back, here comes a title bid!". Nope - my thoughts were "Keegan's back, we've got the perfect catalyst to turn this club around and start moving in the right direction again". We knew we had 3½ years of him and we knew in his heart of hearts, that'd be it. He'd be 60 and would retire from the game with us in a better position and a much better foundation of being able to talk about breaking the top 4 once more. But the title? No way! What fucks me off more than anything with regards Keegan's first era in charge is that the press ALWAYS focus solely on the end of the 95-96 season when we just missed out - 4 months! That's all the period of time they want to talk about. It's all about how he threw away a 12 point lead (which was never ever 12 points of course - 9 points and a game in hand) rather than saying he finished only 4 points behind a Manchester United side that barely dropped a point for half a season! Nor will they focus on the fact he went from being 4 points off Division Three to 4 points off being the Champions of England in only 4 years. Nope - they all like to focus on those 4 months in early 1996. Twats! Someone asked Parry how he'd have felt if what has happened to Keegan were to have happened to Kendall in his second spell at Everton. He discounted that as incomparable on the grounds that Kendall had been successful in his first reign (i.e. had delivered trophies) but Keegan had not. Get to fuck you short-armed fat scouse cunt! And as for us not accepting people who come from the south, you only have to look at the admiration we've shown the likes of Rob Lee, Les Ferdinand, etc over the years to know that that comment is bollocks. Go back a generation and people felt the same about Supermac. Yet these two numpties will have listeners believe that the only people we've 'worshiped' going back in time is Shearer, Keegan and then Milburn and ALL because they've got Geordie roots. Then they had the audacity to claim that we're making that cockney pygmy a fucking scapegoat!!! Grrrrr They nearly, so nearly had me calling in with this lot but what's the point - i'd have been laughed off as delusional as well. Keegan is gone forever and that hurts like hell. But it's the mess left behind which hurts me more

I'd love to smell her hair. Christ I know we're all going through depression but howay lads.. get a grip man

Given it's gone through a criminal trial and was sentenced, albeit concurrently with his other sentence, I think the fine is extortionate. Would love to know where it's going as well? Should be paid to the clubs wo are struggling to make ends meet IMO - let 'football' be the winner As an aside, how does this fine compare to others? (Roy Keane, Eric Cantona, Ben Thatcher, etc)??

Gemmill?

Aye, what they're not telling you is that they followed him around for 4 weeks waiting for him to put a foot wrong...

So it's a henious crime for Barton to do it but it's OK for the Mirror reporter to follow suit?? It's not gone unnoticed to me that the film ends abruptly just before the chase car gets to the red light neither BTW - printing an image of his car registration is bang out of order - surely that contravenes his privacy?

Was listening to him earlier on Talksport - all along the lines of "they need to pack up and fuck off" and that he'd never known us as angry in 30 years of reporting on the club. Oddly I found myself agreeing with him - but then I guess he's always been likely to be anti-Ashley ever since the media freeze-out. As for DoF working with KK, in hindsight it was never going to work. Remember KK's comments 12 months ago?