Optimistic Nut

Bernt Haas back on Wearside I see.

So how exactly are you signing him? Across 24 months, or selling someone first? Yeah I sold Kieron Dyer to raise the funds.

Get in Franny Jeffers! Won 1-0 to go up. Just as well I clung on because Cardiff won, and they'd have went up in 2nd place ahead of Newcastle & Derby had we drawn.

Just going in to the last game of the season and it's another nailbiter! Currently 2nd on 82 points...final game is away to Derby...who are 3rd with 81 points!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572181/ Obviously used Purely Belter as a springboard for his career.

"Babayaro and Carr were fantastic in the full-back positions apart from when those nasty speedy wingers kept running past them".

I've been having a think about this quote, and I don't think he's fully thought it through. What if someone cuts off his legs, for example? "Relegation? Debt? Is that all you've got?!"

Of course heading isn't an elementary part of a centre-backs game....eedjit.

Slipped below Wigan into 2nd spot in the Championship with just 7 games to go.

What we need is a pair of centre-backs who don't allow Danny Shittu a free header from 5-yards...

There should be a special edition DVD and open-top bus parade tomorrow celebrating the day we won a penalty shoot-out.

Why oh why didn't he bring Luque, a penalty-taker, on in the last minute at least?!

Well he could at least bring Luque on to take a penalty!

Lucky lucky twats!

And STILL there's no N'Zogbia or Luque. Roeder, fuck off.

FUCK OFF.

Haha, Mick Lowes just couldn't resist another unnecessary dig at Babayaro.

Was just going to say...he's not even in the squad. :s

The best example being the one where Souness throttled Bellamy at the training ground. Leazes believes that as if he saw it with his own eyes. "Och, ye wee...."

There is a fair chance he has been approached. Although Isegrim is taking me to task on this as we speak. http://www.sport1.de/de/sport/artikel_544378.html Hmm, but you said it's been over there for a few weeks now, that article was only from yesterday.

Must have taken an age to make as well considering that was from January 2005!

"The name's Daum, Christoph Daum"

Ar shit man. Forgot all about this.

He looks like a man under pressure, pale and ill. It's clearly getting to him. When he came out for the second half in just a shirt, my mate turned around and said, "That's Shepherd getting the tie and suit dry-cleaned in time for Tuesday's Sven press conference".

Been posting this on N-O, but a quick run through my game. Was in the bottom 3-4 all season as Newcastle, saved the game before the final game because I wanted a crack at the Championship as Newcastle manager. In my real game, I stayed up thanks to a 2-2 draw with Chelsea (didn't want to go down actually trying!), so they replayed it so I deliberately went down. Was sacked after the match, but added a new manager to take over at managerless Newcastle, and just retired my original manager. First season's transfers were Given & Milner out, Gordon, Bale & Appiah in. The pre-season I've just had, ahead of my Championship campaign... OUT Craig Moore to Atlante - Free Steve Harper to Watford - Free Michael Owen to Lyon - £12.25m Steven Taylor to Chelsea - £5m Antoine Sibierski to Oldham - Free Carl Finnigan to Stockport - Free Kazenga LuaLua to Sheff Wed - Free Titus Bramble to Bolton - £500k Stephen Appiah to Blackburn - £3m Kieron Dyer to Fulham - £1.5m Stephen Carr to Ipswich - £350k Obafemi Martins to Atletico - £10.25m Damien Duff to Man City - £5m Emre to Aston Villa- £3.2m Matty Pattison to Millwall - £250k Olivier Bernard to Hearts - £500k Celestine Babayaro to Portsmouth - £500k TOTAL = £42m IN Christian Vieri from Atalanta - Free Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink from Charlton - Free Paul Bosvelt from Sheff Utd - Free Mark Iuliano from Messina - Free Jari Litmanen from Malmo - Free Francis Jeffers from Blackburn - £850k Andy Webster from Wigan - £2.8m Sergey Ignashevich from Wigan - £3.1m TOTAL = £6.75m First-choice squad is, GK - Gordon RB - Ignashevich LB - Bale CB - Iuliano CB - Webster RM - Solano LM - Luque CM - Parker ACM - N'Zogbia CF - Ameobi CF - Vieri Krul, Ramage, Litmanen, Jeffers, Hasselbaink. Currently unbeaten after 7 games sitting in 6th, but I've just been knocked out of the League Cup in the Second Round at home to Rochdale on penalties.