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I am still in awe how Maradona lead Neapel to win the Waffa-Cup in 1989. I'll always remember watching him in the semi final against Bayern and then in the final against Stuttgart tbh

The development of Samba is incredible. He was nothing special when he was here in Germany and Hertha quite happy to get as much money for them as they did, less than 500k if I remember correctly. An absolute steal tbh.

I'll stay frosty.

Gone for 1m then.

I like how the referee also fist gave a straight red and then a yellow afterwards...

Why not? it's the only place I'll see it cos I don't go anywhere else. Happy birthday. How many years younger than me are you? Incontinence isn't a question of age...

Hessen Kassel are top of the table. If they can stay there after the winter break until the end of the season it would mean the return to professional football after nearly 20 years and a bancruptcy.

FYP I remember the shirt. Didn't he wear it when we played football a couple of years ago? Btw. Happy Birthday

The good prospects tend to get signed by the big clubs when they are very young. That's not only the standard in England but also all around Europe. Also, English clubs are not only signing the 16-17 year olds from domestic clubs but also from European clubs. That's why you find all the youth and reserve teams full of foreign players as well. And even then it's in the hope that one out of ten players might be decent. But mostly they are off to a lower league team when they are older with a baheng ... You might be lucky to find the occasional steal, but the talented players from the lower leagues are mostly already overhyped and overpriced.

I.e. the wage demands must be next to nothing, so it probably will be someone serving community service.

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The richer he gets the better for us. It has absolutely no relevance for the well-being of the club tbh. I'd rather see him going bancrupt and to be forced to sell the club.

And for an extra tenner you can see the chairman running naked across the pitch...

So, that's West Ham playing in Europe next season and Grant the next manager of the year then...

"Media exercises" Ashley and Lambiarse would probably invite them and then charge them for tickets ... or they'd invite those miners from New Zealand

Aye. Confirms my suspicions. Ashley makes decisions based entirely on what the cheapest option is.... http://www.trophy4toon.co.uk/salaries.html I imagine Hughton would have been looking for a contract to give him party with other non-european qualifying managers in the league. So bringing in Pardew has saved Ashley at least half a million. And being on those wages he definitely won't get sacked for the reminder of his contract...

Very much so. They reckon they've had 10's of thousands of requests to start a message board and have refused. What harm would it do. Only thing I like about how they come across is they think Steve Wraith is a tool, in fact I had some ITK off Biffa by email when telling me he'd been sacked from his fans liaison position before it even came out. 4 or 5 years ago that. They were involved when the very first "Toontastic" was set up ages ago, but distanced themselves after a couple of weeks when they didn't like what was written there and associated with them IIRC.

If we're playing that game Are you playing a different game of looking at old threads now?

He should do it more often to demonstrate what clueless tossers those two are.

Sort of agree but at the same time the owner not only employed him but has stuck by him in all this. He's the one with the real power and, as such, is the root of all our problems. I blame Ashley for being a incredible thick owner of a football club who is getting almost all of his decisions wrong. Though I don't think you need any qualifications to own a football club, but you should have some managerial ability when you are employed to run it.

I think Llambiarse should get even more stick than Ashley. He's doing the day to day stuff at the club and should be capable of stopping Ashley to make stupid decisions. It's either that were he fails or that he is proposing those decisions himself. He has absolutely no qualifications to run a football club and since pissing off Keegan has at no point proven he actually can grow into the job. He's the real cancer at the club iyam.

he must be on his "plan J" by now. Which means he has neither a plan nor a clue.

Couldn't catch any news until a couple of minutes ago. I wish I'd not. Alan fucking Pardew for five fucking years? Are they serious?

Klinsmann will be happy with this...

FACTS are so much better than "plans"!