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Gary Neville casually mentions that a win for Liverpool "will get them closer to Chelsea", conveniently forgetting the two sides placed between Liverpool and Chelsea in the table. We're still a nothing club watched by two men and a dog in a primative northern backwater out there in media land. Suits me fine at the moment.

His mate died in the crash somewhere in Italy during the world cup there in 1990. Redknapp was quite badly injured as a result of the crash too.

Hobby spotted in the Black Bull as we speak drinking coffee...sadly it seems he's left his trumpet at home....

He got off the plane and went straight to the ground. He also had a nice glass of red with lunch before KK asked him if he wanted to be in the bench.

Going on what Pardew said in the presser he reckons they'll be quick on the break today.Can't see them countering too quickly without Agbonlahor who is doubtful for this apparently. Bent needs someone to get it into the box for him where he is quality. Concentrate on stopping the supply to him and I think we'll have too much for them of our own at the other end. I enjoyed last season's game at SJP almost as much as twatting the mackems a couple of months later. It's difficult to genaralise about fans but I'll make an exception for these cunts after the relegation game. Highlight of their decade judging by their reaction

He played 2 years too long, but yeah that's a great compilation, the semi final goal v spurs is my favourite

I think it's dawned on them that he's a cunt If the FA and most of all Capello couldnt see the dangers in re appointing him after he did the dirty on a teamate last time then they're not fit to be in charge of the game in this country. What the fuck were they thinking?

Aye, I hear Radio 4 are interested..."a book at bedtime with LeazesMag" :/

How much did Ashley throw at the academy during the Wise/Vetere/Jiminez era, and how many have come through? Vukic? Will Joe Joyce be in charge still? How does he feel about the err "changes"?

Is this the first time we've released some young players deemed not good enough by the club? Its certainly the first time its been spun like that...id be ashamed to put my name to that drivel.

Sorry to hear that Davide....thought you were ok where you were? Out North Shields way wasn't it?

people would be complaining if we'd paid over the odds for Mariappa though which we wisely refused to do. Colocinni getting a new contract now is a must in the next month or so, Ba and Cisse back in the side will be a big boost, can see the system of late staying the same with them replacing Best and Shola respectively but the increase in quality of those two positions will be immense and will have an effect on the rest of the team Colo isnt signing a new deal, if he wanted to stay he'd have signed by now. He's aiming for the same as Enrique, but may be sold before his contract is allowed to run down completely. Ba scored 2 belters v Norwich and it still wasnt enough because we were shite at the back. Simpson was beaten all ends up by a divi 2 journeyman on Saturday which led to their winner. Santon looked awful v both Fulham and Brighton. I realise it's not as bad as I've painted it, but it's yet another roll of the dice by Ashley when we should be in a posistion of strength and be seen as a good option for any half decent young player as I'm sure Mariappa is thinking as we speak. Don't know if he'd have been any good or not but we've been left short in a vital posistion and there is really no need for it.

Hope not signing a centre back or two doesn't end up biting us on the arse....we're one bad injury away from Danny Simpson at CB for the rest of the season...am sure the club knows what its doing though

BREAKING NEWS: Tottenham sign Swiss starlet Taxee Vasion Is that a coat I see before me?.....

Best to Celtic?....naah... BBC Scotland's senior football reporter Chris McLaughlin on Twitter: "Leon Best will NOT be joining Celtic."

Watford determined to hang on to Adrian Mariappa despite interest from #NUFC @BBCSport The player rejected move to Wigan #WAFC@Iandennisbbc8 mins ago

The smogs have turned down 6 mill for Rhys Williams from Bolton. Thought Gibbo would've took their hands off tbh. Mariappa to Wigan is weird. According to a Watford supporting mate we'd be signing another Leon Best standard player if we got him. Is that standard of player worth 3mill-ish? Fuck knows what Watford are playing at though, doubt the player is impressed with his club. If he's got an agent capable of stamping his feet and pulling his hair till he gets his own way then he'll likely end up with us.

Wayne Bridge going to the mackems on loan?....on 5live just now....

Shite. Broke down at 0515 AA have just said someone will be here at 0700. I had to phone them to get that information. Oh they've just sent a txt repeating that nugget of unbridled joy. Minus 4. ice forming on inside of windscreen. Nice.

The unbearable lightness of being

The unbearable lightness of being

There's sevaral good reasons why Ben Arfa is playing at NUFC and not at Barca or Milan and they were there for all to see yesterday evening. He's unfortunate that all he's got to provide service for at the moment are the virtually immobile bollock brothers up front and its difficult to see what formation/posistion is best for him because of that. But if we have a fit squad he doesn't start for me at moment. He needs to learn to be more of a team player because despite his immense talent his overall contribution is about the same as Leon Best's.I tried to point this out to the huge-haired ginger fuckwit stood in front of me last night at the game and it came as a bit of a surpise to find out this great sulky man-child's debating skills only extended as far as swinging punches in my general direction. Bit of handbags ensued but some prick behind us got involved and then ran away with his missus at the final whistle, only to run into us again at a boozed near the station. Cue his second sharp exit of the day. All in all a pleasant trip, but I blame fuckin Ben Arfa for everything this morning. He could've and should've won the game on his own last night but was too busy doing his 'best player in the playground' bullshit to actually take any notice of anything going on around him. I know he's got magic in his feet but if he can't utilise it properly then he's as much use to NUFC as tits on a fuckin bull.

We haven't won any of our last 8 away FA cup ties and Colo has a (convenient?) injury....i'll be happy to get them back to sjp....

Yeah but I don't trust the current regime to do it "the Lyon way" if you like. Can we make players stay with us? Colo, if you ask me, will/is in the process of "do/doing an Enrique" and will try to let his contract run out. So he may well, at the age of 29, be first out the door, possibly next week. What do we do? make him an offer we cant refuse? Honestly we're fuckin mid table dross without him this season.Could Graham Carr get a player remotely as good to join in January? This is all supposition, the player and/or the board may prove me completely wrong, I hope they do. But for all thats gone before I don't for a minute trust them to make a good fist of it. Hopes are raised, the past 2 and a half seasons have largely been enjoyable, I just think all the hard work may go tits up if the likes of Krul,Tiote,Cabaye and Demba all leave/are sold. Carr is key. The most important figure at the club for me.

Good book that. You going to post the chapter from the same book on Olympique Lyon as well, which details how they became one of the best teams in Europe for a decade by selling their best players and replacing them the season before they leave with carefully scouted yet equally impressive young players? There's a chance Ashley, Dekka Graham Carr have read it and taken note, it would appear that they're trying something similar. I'm in two minds about the whole thing really. Spurs have gone a long way by this system too. Maybe its early days in the "plan"(?). But I truly beleive that our 6 best players will be sold in the next 18 months. Spurs and Lyon didnt do that.