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b12 black dog productions plaid FUSE luke vibert all good stuff from "back in the day" for more dancy stuff look out for.... THE PRESETS simian mobile disco. for good general chart friendly stuff you have to love hot chip. their first 2 albums are very good. oh and squarepushers new albums nice.

wise words.

with curbishley all we'd get is mid tale mediocrity. with o'leary i doubt we'd get any where.

he lives near me does Cliff. He also has no real musical talent.

Ah, sorry, I can't help in that area. I'm more aerospace technical buying and electronic goods. Sorry Fish.

good.

the guardian ones good ( the footy one) though Barry Glendenning is a twat. try the fatpie podcasts for bizarre surrealist humour.

no chance. it wouldn't work.

What sector are you going into? I can help you.

hope he burns.

NEWCASTLE GOSSIP Owner Mike Ashley is asking for £481m for Newcastle - a profit of £230m. (Sun) A consortium linked to Dubai Sports City has emerged as the frontrunner to take over Newcastle. (Daily Mail) Zabeel Investments, part of Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Maktoum's Dubai Holding, have told Ashley to lower his £480m asking price. (Star) Zabeel have already told Kevin Keegan he will get his job back back if their takeover succeeds. (Daily Express) However, Zabeel may only be showing an interest in Newcastle in order to force Liverpool's owners to sell. (Guardian) Ashley's attempts to sell the club in the Middle East have not been helped by his claims that he and his family have been threatened with violence. (Guardian) Ashley suffered huge financial losses as the value of HBOS shares - of which he has a sizeable holding - tumbled. (Independent) No representative from Newcastle turned up at a Prince's Trust Charity dinner in aid of disadvantaged children, which did attract stars from Sunderland and Middlesbrough. (Sun)

me, no!

i can't actually beleive you've created a topic on this.

yep, owen doesn't want to waste his time here. give him to the end of the season.

awful.

reasoning behind that is he wants to make £60m profit. Good piece. winter and hugh Mcillaveny (prob spelt wrong) are the only 2 writers worth reading in sports journalism.

its all doom and gloom! hope he recovers soon as he will be a key player for us.

RIP.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/20...newcastleunited

you mean Hughton. doubt it. keegan wanted arthur cox involved. he left because of the way he was treated.

Suggests Louise takes it up the arse 25% of the time. only 25% more like 4 times at once.

I loathe creationism. it doesn't work for me.

Funny's not the word i'd use Alex. Its pretty much the polar opposite as things stand (i know you were taking the piss btw)...

"It's ruined my life. It's ruined my life." As Adrian Chiles suggested on Match of the Day 2, perhaps some Newcastle fans are lacking a sense of perspective over the crisis at St James' Park. If that woman's life has been ruined, it was by whatever left her so fragile that her self-worth was dependent on the performances of a football club. It's the kind of image that leaves the Geordie nation open to mounting tides of ridicule. Mike Ashley, meanwhile, has pointed to how much money he paid for the club, how much debt he has paid, how much remains, as he puts the club up for sale. Aren't these Geordies an ungrateful, over-emotional lot? Well, no. That Ashley has spent a substantial part of his fortune on the club is plain. He has admitted, though, that all was not what it seemed in the prospectus and that the club owed millions on players whose contracts he thought were in among the goods and chattels. He made another miscalculation. He thought he had bought control over the swaying crowds of black-and-white shirts in the stands and streets as well as those on the pitch. He thought that donning an XXL top and downing the odd pint would make him one of them, too. But there are limits to what money can buy. Newcastle United matters to the people of the city in a way that most other big clubs do not. Neither Manchester United, nor their home city's more powerful club, is a unifying symbol. Similarly with Liverpool and Everton, even if the former have the advantage of bearing the name. Peter Kenyon's dream of Chelsea "owning London" has been even less fulfilled than his dream of owning Robinho. Newcastle is the largest single-team city and unlike, say, Leeds there is no alternative in the shape of a popular rugby league side. (The Rhinos are the best supported rugby team in either code; union side Newcastle Falcons cannot compare, watched by 4,602 on Sunday.) The divide in the north-east comes the second you step outside the city. Newcastle is the centre of the local media, but those claiming to speak to or for the region have to remember that for the swathes of Sunderland, Middlesbrough and other supporters, all this Geordie wailing is a source of delight. Reporters should bear this in mind: North-East and Newcastle are not interchangeable terms. For those who are Newcastle fans, though, the team is a regional symbol. Not life or death to most, but important. Worth spending time and money on. Worth caring for. Ideally, worth watching, which they were once more under Keegan. After the sterility of Sam Allardyce's misbegotten reign - which was a mistake by the previous regime, a blunder Ashley inherited - hiring Kevin Keegan was the right thing to do if you shared the faith the supporters have for him. Trying to treat him as a regional manager for Sports Direct, with bosses who knew better in London, was not. Hiring a manager whose principal attribute is inspiration then not letting him choose who to inspire was grand folly. I spoke to some Newcastle fans over the weekend for The Observer, and one point they made was that Keegan was the worst possible choice for Ashley if he was serious about imposing a continental system, because he has always been his own man, taking his own path. To that I would add, if you were imposing a continental system, why in God's name would you put Dennis Wise at the helm of it? Appointing Keegan was seen by many as a high-risk strategy because of his meltdowns, because his record was so questionable. In fact the reason why it has proved so high-risk was because it was an all-or-nothing gamble with the supporters: there is no other comparable figure short of Jackie Milburn and he is not available. And those still alive who come closest are not dumb enough to try to fill Keegan's shoes. Ashley has tried to frame it all in terms of his not being a "multibillionaire" and that the fans financial hopes were unrealistic. But what the sane majority wanted was for what funds were available to be put in the hands of Keegan, not Wise and Tony Jimenez. It was an avoidable mistake. So what next? Well, Ashley is still owner and will struggle to sell in the immediate future. He will also struggle to find a manager. I argued a couple of weeks ago, between the initial crisis and Keegan's departure, that he was in a powerful bargaining position. Ashley's attempts to bring him back confirm this - and if there is one thing about analysing Keegan and Newcastle worth remembering, it is "never say never". Philip Cornwall

golden rule on this is use a credit card. it generally costs more but the card company can reclaim your money if you get fucked over like this.