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What a shambles. Can't blame Given for wanting out especially if Arsenal are sniffing about, but if he does go a club like Spurs, it will leave a very bad taste.

When was the last time we had someone from the youth team break into the first XI? Was it Taylor? Depressing stuff.

The other good news is that Smith will miss quite a few more games.

To be fair to Oliver, he did have a lot of stories that no-one else had. The annoying thing about him was how important he thought he was and how that came across in every single one of his articles. "My understanding is", "X and Y called me to say", the Shearer analogies he came out with the other day ("just a miner's son from Consett") - it's just ridiculous!

At least today's other results went our way.

Who the fuck does he think he is?

How depressing is that btw?

I'd be sad to see N'Zogbia go because we'd be bound to replace him with a clogger, just like we've been doing since the Robson days. One of the main reasons we've been shit for more than five years is because we haven't had enough flair players.

No-one in their right mind can blame him for not signing a new contract right now. Starting with the last two transfer windows and Kinnear's appointment, the club has shown no ambition to challenge for a European spot again, and a player of Owen's calibre won't want to spend the rest of his career at a mid-table club, which is fair enough. Let's just hope Ashley won't try to shift him in January.

Fucking GET IN, well done lads! Fuck off Spurs

Allardyce will turn them into a decent team, he's a good manager for clubs like Rovers or Bolton, he just wasn't right for us. I would have loved to see Souness get the job.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7786633.stm There's a ridiculous interview with Alan Murray on the BBC where he's basically begging for his mate Souness to be given the Blackburn job. "Grame's been looking for a job in the Premiership, but mysteriously it hasn't happened."

According to the BBC, Souness is an "early front-runner" for the job.

That is quite funny actually.

I'm just incredibly relieved. Had we lost this, we would have been in the shit psychologically. Get in!

Kinnear to mess things up again by making a couple of utterly pointless substitutions.

Get in!!

Kinnear is a joke, full stop.

Louise Taylor must be gutted BTW.

I hope it's not Allardyce, he will keep them up.

Kinnear should just shut up.

Shearer would have been a fool to accept that.

What are the odds on the fat bastard declaring himself injured again before the weekend?

Much better than Duff. Duff is totally past it.