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Where do you work? Can you give me a job? Basel, Switzerland.

That's just fantastic! So Shepherd will give Roeder money to spend on transfers and sack him a few months into the new season. Fuck off, you fat wanker.

I work in journalism. Unfortunately, there's not really a way around reporting on vandalised playgrounds and old ladies collecting for animal shelters. The good thing is that there are usually so many lazy and inept people in local journalism - with any luck and a bit of talent, it won't take you too long to move on to bigger and better things.

Magath would be fantastic imo. Forget it, he's foreign. Which other multi-million pound company actually hires its people at the top on the basis of their nationality?

Speaking of Leazes, what is he doing these days? 5th best team and all that, I do miss it.

GEORDIETASTIC.

As manager.

Seriously Roeder, fuck off.

Depressing stuff. EDIT: Not the subs, the whole match.

Why isn't Milner playing?

How predictable was that? We're not going to score with that line-up.

Not bad.

Beckham is not the answer though. No, that's what the crowd was chanting I know.

Beckham is not the answer though.

I hope it continues like this in the second half with England winning 1-0 and McClaren getting the sack.

I was force-fed British food as a child! Whenever I hear "toad in a hole", I run. Scarred for life.

Everyone knows you can only get good food in London from the foreigners. To be fair, the same applies to the rest of Britain.

Or McClaren. He got the job on the back of 3 flukey results in Europe he has never looked like emulating. That's the top and bottom of it. Clawing back deficits against sub-standard European sides using the subtle tactical approach of ZOMG 4-2-4 FOR DA LAST HALF HOUR!!!1111, and they gave him the England job. A cursory glance at the league table would have shown them that Boro finished 16th that season, and that they were doing the club a favour by taking him off their hands. I don't think Allardyce is England manager material, but he'd be getting a LOT more out of this lot than McClaren is, and without any PR gurus on the scene. Apparently McClaren is picking up £2.5m a year btw - wtf?! Big Sam getting the England job would be good for England and for Newcastle - I doubt Bolton would be in the Top 6 for much longer if he left. He really is doing fantastically well there.

The FA and England are paying the price for appointing their manager on the basis of his nationality. Sounds familiar?

Though I think you could justify claiming that Souness had a bit of an old mates network, I don't think you can level that against Roeder. I am just a bit suspicious about the Montgomery (former West Ham mate, now Rangers) rumour I read somewhere else. Of course, Roeder isn't as bad in this regard as the tosser. And while it's understandable that you want to work with people you know I think you should put quality ahead of cronyism if you really want to install professionalism. He worked for us under Robson too I think so I doubt it is just jobs for the boys. I stand corrected. I forgot about it (even though he was just named yesterday as the one spotting Bernard at Lyon ). So I'll let Glen off this time (just this time). Especially as he is right that the club needs to catch up with the bigger clubs when it comes to spotting cheap talent. 10 years too late as usual....What next video performance analysis?.....Oh wait... Someone told me the story of meeting English scouts last week at an U15-international. He said they told him they would see all upcoming U17-qualifying matches played in Osnabrück. He then told them the matches weren't played in Osnabrück but in Spelle and Rheine. I was actually quite happy when I heard the story, because the first that entered my mind was "Newcastle United". Only our lot could be so incompetent to send scouts abroad with no idea where the matches they want to see are actually being played...

How predictable was that comment?

"Not feeling the pressure"

Oh, and I don't like the collar either.

I don't like it. It looks like it was poorly patched together by a Photoshop amateur. With the last two designs, I thought there was too much white and not enough black, but this one is definitely too dark. Still, as with most designs, you'll get used to them sooner than you think.