Ketsbaia

Media hype at its best, probably in the hope that a fairy tale career could promote "soccer" in the States. He's only 19, but whenever I've seen him he doesn't look a special talent compared to other players in his age group. He's nee Sonny Pike

Benfica IIRC.

He's nee Sonny Pike.

This morning I asked a bloke who parked pretty much in exactly the same place I did if it was illegal to park here and he said no and that everyone does. That puts all the niggling doubts in my mind to rest. I've sent an FOI request to Sunderland City Council as the car park and surrounding areas are covered by CCTV, my motor should be viewable from where the camera is located. If it is then I reckon i'm on pretty safe ground regarding telling them to shove their fines up their arses. Fight the power, brother.

Buy a Newcastle shirt and you get your money back if we win the league

Shepherd was a mammoth cunt and I wouldn't have him back before anyone asks but at least he had ambition. This lot couldn't care what level we're playing at as long as we're making money

Exactly. Ashley can go on all he wants about breaking even and clearing up debts but that isn't going to help him get bums on seats. People don't want to watch a shit side in real danager of relegation every year, they want to feel like the club is moving in the right direction. It would be worth his while putting £20 million into the kitty, buying some decent players and moving on while clearing the debts. These "you've had it worse" comments just reaffirm to me that we're going to do sweet FA in the summer and probably be in the exact same position next year if not worse.

Umbro are claiming that these images are not genuine. Hmmm - what's not genuine, the images or the design itself? Very loose response from Umbro. Hope to fuck it is the design that's not genuine though. Doesn't help that the barcode apparently links to an official Umbro site which has yet to be launched.

21.8. Slap bang in the middle of healthy. I could probably do with toning up a bit.

No. Once they start the process (be it pad & pen or electronic) the fine is served. Makes no difference if you speed off before they slap it on the screen. I could understand if they were taking photies of Ketsbaia's car if it was still parked up, but a pic of it driving off up the road doesn't prove anything does it? You weren't in mackemland were you? Pretty sure they've been investigated for sharp practice by their parking attendants recently. I was in Sunderland actually. I'll have a look into it if anything lands on my door mat over the next couple of days. It was fairly bizarre as they were no where near my motor and just seemed to get snap happy as I was pulling out of the side street, so it's not as if I drove off mid-ticket. If it was parked illegally (which it wasn't ) then surely they'd have just slapped a ticket on my windscreen, no? Expect a fine in the next fortnight then, they've more than likely cooked up some bullshit story that you drove away as they were issuing the ticket. Fantastic. If I see the same duo tomorrow I may stop them and have a chat. I'll have my dictaphone with me so if I do collar them I may get it out and record the conversation just as back up. I imagine they'll claim they were doing nothing wrong if I do see them.

No. Once they start the process (be it pad & pen or electronic) the fine is served. Makes no difference if you speed off before they slap it on the screen. I could understand if they were taking photies of Ketsbaia's car if it was still parked up, but a pic of it driving off up the road doesn't prove anything does it? You weren't in mackemland were you? Pretty sure they've been investigated for sharp practice by their parking attendants recently. I was in Sunderland actually. I'll have a look into it if anything lands on my door mat over the next couple of days. It was fairly bizarre as they were no where near my motor and just seemed to get snap happy as I was pulling out of the side street, so it's not as if I drove off mid-ticket. If it was parked illegally (which it wasn't ) then surely they'd have just slapped a ticket on my windscreen, no?

I'm a real ale fiend too. I met the owner of a brewery when I was up in Edinburgh as the pub we were in were doing a promotion on his ales. He went mental when he found out I was from up here as apparently the Crown Posada sells his stuff.

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Good work lads. Always nice to see football supporters from other parts of the world adopt us as their club. They must be fucking mad

normally means you've a fine incoming, i'd have gotten out and asked him what he was playing at Probably should have but I was more concerned about getting home. Since he hadn't slapped a ticket on my windscreen I assumed he was just being a tit. I'll windmill him tomorrow if I see him.

If traffic wardens start taking photos of your car as you drive away? I ask because I was on the first day of my placement today and parked down a side street about thirty seconds walk away from the offices. It was right next door to a pay and display car park but certainly not in any way illegally parked (There were loads of cars parked down this street and the fuckers had been milling around all day and I came back without a ticket or clamp on my car so it can't possibly have been). Anyway, I go to my car while these jobsworths are nonchalontly meandering around checking the few cars left in the P&D. I hop in, turn around and stop at the junction waiting for a space. As I look out of my window one of these daft cunts, complete with fluorescent mack and silly hat jogs halfway across the car park, whips a digital camera out and starts taking photos. Now I axe yer, what's his game?

Where did I say that. If they speak English and pipe down, play football, that would be enough for me. 2m muslims in England, and less than five have made any impact on our game, and don't give me the inherent racism bollocks in the footballing system. It's about integration throughout the nation. Obafemi Martins Habib Beye Abdoulaye Faye (sp?) Robin Van Persie Abou Diaby Mido Aimr Zaki Al-Habsi Nadir Belhadj Kaboul That is just off the top of my head. Emre Anelka.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport...icle2237198.ece

Me and HP spent half the day in the trenches over there this afternoon. Full clip shooting from da hip. They're a bunch of complete fuckwits. Their argument as to why the NUSC rally shouldn't go ahead was daft - "It'll hinder the teams performance!" How on earth is a meeting of fans well away from the stadium going to hinder the teams performance? I'm sure some people on N-O would like fans to be kept seperate before, during and after the game for fear someone says something negative and Ameobi has a mental breakdown on the pitch. They also seem to think we should be blowjobing Ashley silly for paying of the debts, without realising that if he performed due dilligence he'd have ran a mile and isn't paying them off out of the goodness of his heart.

Parky has been at it again

They're always the dirtiest ones, Parkster. In my experience once you get the Burka off they're up for owt.

Ketsbaia for the win

I'm a militant atheist. Me and Dawkins will rule the world one day.

I wish he'd shoot more often. Dyer used to have a similar habit of passing when in a decent scoring position.

It wont happen thankfully. Last thing we need is Shearer shitting all over his legacy by coming in here and making a pigs ear of the job.