PaddockLad

If Stoke lost 3 of that four, who would the "other" replacement be, and would they be as succesfull, not that they've been very good this year so far anyway. (Huth wanted away btw, which is the other problem of having "quality" back-ups). I'm not disputing we should upgrade Perch, however, I am disputing we could realistically upgrade those ahead of him. Theyd still have had one out of the 4 to head the ball away when it came in though...theyre all leaders, take charge in the box etc etc. And if all 4 of them were injured I'd suggest playing Danny Higginbottom there, another centre back by trade. Its called building a squad. Pulis has had more time to build his, granted. But going on the evidence of his tenure here I think Ashley is just content to say to Pardew "Graham will find you this, this and this and thats it, get on with it" We need a bit more thought and investment than that, and the short termism and naivety of Ashley's policy will become more and more apparent as the season goes on. And its January in 3 weeks. Ho-hum.

spot on Paddock Lad. Do you still go in the Denton ? Think you're mixing me up with someone else mate. I'm not from Newcastle and I live on the south coast nowadays. Was up at Norwich yesterday, canny day out ruined by 90 mins of shite, same old same old etc.

Stoke City seem to have at least 4 experienced centre backs in their squad. And in almost all cases they have played for or been on the fringes of their national team squads at some stage of their careers. They may not all be brilliant, and I have my own opinions of them, but Pulis and his chairman have built the squad correctly. If we'd have had one of Shawcross, Huth, Woodgate or Upson yesterday just to head the ball away from the area when it came in then we may have got something. Who knows, its all conjecture. But we wouldve stood a better chance if Pardew had been allowed to address a glaring weakness in the squad after Campbell departed. We all knew we were weak in this posistion and Norwich didnt have to come up with anything more original than just lumping the ball into the area to put 4 past us. Two full backs in central defence, and the likes of Stoke can call on 4 half decent ones, fuckin hell. The wheels havent come completely off though. We weren't as good as some were saying 6 or 7 weeks ago and we were never going to be as bad as some were suggesting pre season. It could be so much better if we'd have invested the Carroll money properly but we didn't and thats old news. Rome wasn't bulit in a day, but I don't think Ashley can be arsed to lay the foundations properly.

http://www.endclothing.co.uk/adidas-originals-by-originals-x-david-beckham-forest-hills-mid-db.html Local trainers for local people I cant seem to find a (wearable) pair of size 12 Forest Hills for love nor money....the black DB ones are indeed very nice but £105 is a bit much for me atm.

Well that would help our balance of payments. Pipe down Frenchie. It's a loss leader though innit? You get whole families where nobody works, they have more kids and those kids don't work. In some ways I can't blame them. If the choice is a shit job for shit money or, no job for the same money, then where's the incentive? We need to make people feel that work is actually worthwhile. Years ago you could put your moderately-uninterested-in-school 16 year old council house dweller into an apprenticeship......now, around 20 odd years after the virtual end of the industries which employed the vast majorty of them, the few apprentices which are/were required nowadays have been replaced by semi skilled Poles. Same with huge armies of girls working on factory production lines to any great extent. No point complaining about about "benefit culture" because its here to stay and that won't change as the jobs aren't here any more. We dont make anything. Huge amounts of jobs you dont need experiance for are part time minimum wage. This is partly a result of the current financial dire straits we're in, but mostly down to the huge pool of cheap labour that big busuiness wanted and which the last Labour government delivered for them. And China. And India. Watch Brazil as well in the next few years too. This country to a large extent has lost its reason for existing.

or or is it just unspeakably uncool to have a pair of trainers designed by David Beckham?......

Who did Bellamy bray fuck out of with a golf club?....Jon Arne Riise?....theyre in direct opposistion by the sounds of it tonight scousers playing Suarez and Carroll as well, Ruiz sounding shite, nowts each.

Warwick Hunt?......

Sounds like summat I could torture Mrs P with...Nice. She'll be sucked in by the Brad Pitt angle only to be broken by stats and sporting trivia. Ha! me and Mrs PL are seeing it at ten past two ......she hates sport of any kind, but she trusts me with choosing films. It helps that Brad Pitt is in it or she wouldnt be going anywhere near it.

Anyone see motd last night/this morning?....a mate who did his achilles playing sunday league said after seeing it this morning he thought Jenas did his yestersday too.

last game v Ukraine in Donestk...better hope theyve won the first two, cant see that being easy...

Whats Englands "group of death"?...Spain, Portugal, France?.... Easiest?....Poland,Greece, Rep of Ireland?... I love the Euro's, always better satandard of football than the WC. Euro 2000 was the best touarnament I can rememeber. Only 2 shit teams, Engalnd and Germany, and we beat them with a Shearer header one nil...I won 500 quid on that

for those of a certain age......one of the greatest songs ever recorded iyam... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8b0pmpmflU Guess where he's playing next summer?....got to say am tempted.... http://www.safc.com/...2256213_2522498

Certainly not useless, but overrated by those in the press easily impressed by his charm and university degree. Frankly those fuckers could appoint a joint managerial team of Fergie,Jose Mourinho with the ghost of Cloughie as DoF and l'd still be more concerned about who Ashley is going to sell in January.

Garrincha

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/30/jeremy-clarkson-striking-public-sector-workers-should-be-shot-115875-23600850/ I turned it over after he said that if he gets the train into London it always stops at Reading due to someone throwing themselves in front of it and they should just carry on anyway as there wouldnt be much left of them. If you're going out of your way to be "outrageous" and "controversial" on live tv at least be funny with it Clarkson you fuckin wanker. And how much public money has that cunt taken over the years btw for his awful car programme?

Actually...on a serious note, I would agree that your starting 11 are superior however I would say ours has far more depth. If any of your key players are injured, you would be struggling to replace them from the bench: cabaye and tiote for example. If they get injured, you're left really thin on the ground. Tiote hasnt played for 3 games. Won one, drawn one, lost one. Canny enough, considering the opposition. Pardew is a bit like Sir Bobby in the way you can actually see how he has improved certain players, Danny Guthrie being the most improved. Who do you fancy for manager?..O'Neil wont leave Wycombe or its surroundings iyam...

Aye.........mustve made his debut in the late 80s, still playing for Finland at 40...

Just read this in a book.....name a former Liverpool player who has played international football in 4 different decades?.....

Those wanker stewards at spurs aren't getting to much joy telling the PAOK fans to "siddahn"....fuckin mentalists! two nowt to PAOK....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrLcNWi94Wk&feature=related

For those of you having trouble sleeping tonight heres a piccy of some redshank I took with my snazzy new nokia 800...dont think its good enough for the David Bailey/photography page but am sort of pleased with it....taken at Keyhaven in Hampshire with the Isle of Wight in the background...

Is he the French John Motson?

We're big in France apparently..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz4pCTw2CFE

Weren't we in for that Derdiok who scored the first with hos first touch from the bench for Leverkusen?.....he had a hand in the second too, his pass caused the corner they scored from. Has he been out injured or are Leverkusen just laden with attacking talent?