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Especially when it's used by Freddie to justify board decisions. Roeder getting the job because 'he's an adopted Geordie, I class him as one of our own.' It seems to be being used more and more to paper over the cracks, peddle the Geordie Nation shit in the hope we all swallow it and shut up. 148281[/snapback] And that is exactly why Shepherd's obsession with all things 'Geordie' is so sickening. It's got nothing to do with regional pride IMO, it's just a parochial attitude and a narrow-mindedness that is getting in the way of sensible footballing decisions.

What a tosser. Embarrassing and patronising beyond belief.

To be fair to Italy, there wasn't a lot of cheating from them tonight at all. Sima raises a valid point when he mentions African goalkeepers - why are most of them just plain useless?

Luca Toni is class.

I saw that, what a joke.

True, but neither are good enough. If we can replace him with someone better, I won't mind Carr leaving. I wouldn't actively try to sell him though.

indeed they were Crap, was hoping we could get back to goal scoring ways against them... 147416[/snapback] I was pleased for them, but I can't see England failing to score against them. Sweden are in shocking form and it will be a comfortable win for England on Thursday IMO.

The referee was shocking. Virtually every free-kick decision went Paraguay's way.

Good riddance.

Blatter actually played as a centre-forward for the mighty FC Visp. The Viduka of Swiss football tbh.

I'm half Swiss and I guess I want them to do well, but England will always come first. The main reason why I like Rooney is because of Euro 2004 and England's 3-0 win over Switzerland.

That definitely happened in South Shields, though not sure if the man himself was there but my Dad told me of "normal" blokes getting together to run fascists out of town when they tried to march in blackshirts. Always made me proud. 145163[/snapback] Useless sandal-wearing left-wing do-gooders tbh.

He's swissmag isn't he ? Always thought he posted rubbish tbh. And as for you .... 145116[/snapback] I'm not Swissmag, there's a poster over on Newcastle-Online who's using my old nick name though. Not that I care what you think of my posts anyway. Again, did you even read the first post in this thread before you replied?

The grass is always greener .... Quick sign up some of those glamourous foreigners for NUFC 145089[/snapback] Did you even read the post??

Spot on!

To be fair, the English are much more obsessed with the Germans than the other way round. Most of the English jokes about Germans are amusing though whereas you can't say the same about German humour.

99% of all choreographed celebrations are completely unfunny, cringeworthy or just generally crap.

Is Owen struggling or am I just being paranoid?

Good riddance, I hope it's true.

Exactly. All they're doing is helping out their biggest rivals! If I were a Man Utd supporter, I'd be over the moon.

To be fair to Luque, he never said that he wasn't going to the World Cup because of problems with Roeder. He said himself that he hasn't performed and that he knows Aragones doesn't rate him as much as he rates others who play in similar positions. Beresford can fuck off anyway, the way he continued to stick up for Souness until the end was embarrassing.

That's because they're wankers, and Nobby is not.

Green has torn his groin