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Its on Mikey's own err.. "news service" so it must be true....

I'll see your 80s Boro monstrosity and raise you the father of a well known and particularly attractive-for-her-age televison presenter...

Thats the difference between reading the books properly and just watching the series Point still stands, its basically a medieva/dark age soap with hot women getting it regularly. Best thing on telly by a mile, but it is getting really convaluted. Difficult to follow at the moment, to many story threads and obscure characters that havent been seen for a series and a half.

Its got fantasitical elements, but George R.R. has drawn heavily on historical events and customs from dark age and medieval Europe in his writing. The likes of Theon being brought up by the Starks was commonplace among northern clans right the way through the middle ages, young lads were often fostered by cadet branches of the main family, it hleped promote kinship, which was important in battle. Hasn't worked out too well for Theon mind

I've liked Snodgrass this season too....he has good delivery from both sides....hes a bit like Milner i.e works hard, not hugely pacey and doesnt really have a trick, but may be a better player in the long term just due to the quality of his balls into the box.

Sell the fuckin perma crock surrender monkey!!!

CT judges our entire season v 5 minutes of Wigan's Keep on keeping it real CT...

Spurs will love that Brock We have got to be fair to them, if the boot was on the other foot we'd want a full strength team put out...

Wigan had a better defence and a better team with Titus as their "rock" at the back. Broocie as manager,Valencia Catts, Ryan Taylor...that was a half decent side tbf. Yeah he rolled out the injury thing on 5live last night....sounded like Pardew

their results are quite similar though someone will have to tell me how Martinez has improved Wigan because I fail to see it...

If they replace Arteta they could do very well.....top half dozen clubs possibly in a state of flux, apart from this lot and Spurs..

""We have had three cruciate injuries and no other club has had that." http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/14/alan-pardew-newcastle Ryan Taylor....who else?....

We've let in 67 goals this season, Wigan 72. We've only scored 1 more than them, 45 to 44. So is it fair to say that its Krul,Elliot and M'biwa who have kept us up?...I'd add Colo but for his flounce in January he can fuck off.

Getting beat off Swansea last week too. Too much to do with a cup final in the middle.

Martinez is the new Alex McLeish and if Everton appoint him they'll regret it.

Wigan haven't got Papiss Cisse or the spirit to never give up on a lost cause. Kone's a good player but not a 20 goals a season striker. They were abysmal before Christmas, where we were only awful. Maccaspakkas injured, good.

Good piece by Bird, its all there. Loads of reasons for failure this season. Not just one.

Youve contradicted yourself in the space of one post there mate, which is good going even for you We're a stepping stone club, you say thats the case, but when one of the better players wants to step off the stone its down to the manager? As an opinion, its fuckin baseless shite. Impossible to state with any degree of certainty or accuracy. Do you think Newcastle United are the limit of Yohan Cabaye's ambitions? last trophy won in 1969 and run by the Ebeneezer fuckin Scrooge of Hertfordshire? Where do you get this shit from?

Its true that theres a lot of pretty fundamental things that are seldom mentioned...like Dekka's favourite: "we wipe our own mouth" i.e. the days of Ashley bailing us out are over, we spend what we generate. Accept that and its easy to see the motivation behind selling a player as good as Cabaye...we've got to pay for the 5 we signed in Janaury. Money doesn't grow on trees, we have to make it. The really clever clubs already have the big players' replacements at the club when they sell the big assets. Lyon were expert at this, Essien's replacement was Thiago Mendes and he had ben there for a season when Essien left for Chelsea.Think Anita,Haidara and Elliot (we were linked with the lad at Birmingham,in the England squad?) and you could be seeing who might leave in the sunmmer. Perhaps.

Its the model Spurs have used for a decade and its a self perpetuating thing. Sell the asset, re-invest. Theres nothing actually wrong with it, I just dont think Ashley will look to re invest as much as he should as hes looking to get his money back rather than move the playing side forward. Someone will need to explain all that to the likes of the CT...theres nowt wrong with being pissed off with selling the likes of Cabaye, but it is the financial reality at the club thats doing it rather than whether he plays 10 yards further up the pitch.

Right. So thats 18million less to spend on players? "fat bastard" etc etc... I've given up being bitter about him, if he wasnt personally owed as much we would be in a far better place. Relegation in 09 was disastorous in that regard. If we stayed up would he have had to have pumped that 25 million in?

It is a good post, don't get all shy now The only thing I'd add to it is "suck it up kids, this is how we roll...a feeder club for champions league sides."

TV, transfers, its all revenue. I actually dont have too much of a problem with it tbh. Where did the first chunk he took come from?..can we actually see it in the books?...

Or a huge centre forward

Agreed, thats how I see how/where he's been playing this season. I'm also told regularly that Sissoko is being played too far forward. Not for me, but I wouldnt like to second guess what goes on between a player and a manager where this sort of thing is concerend. The bit in bold: All the players Spurs have sold for big money over the years under Levy...the profits are largely re invested to keep their wage cieling at a level where champions league standard players get the going rate for their level of play. Am unsure, but I think theres a strong likelyhood that now Ashleys steadied the financial ship a lot of transfer income will start to reduce the debt the club owes him personally, something which has already started. This will consign us to mid table mediocrity at best. Don't be surprised by another relegation battle next year either. If cheap players aren't avaialable this summer to replace any outgoings then we all remember how last summer ended up...again, it needs to be stressed that many people have praised this policy. Cabaye was always, at the price we got him at, going to be sold on relatively quickly when his true worth in the market was deemed to be at hits highest. His wife let the cat out of the bag months ago as well. Move on. Hopefully Carr can come up with another one as good as he could be on his day.