NJS

If I was Hughes I'd wait till the last day and then slap a cheeky £3m in for Given and maybe a couple for Owen - it'll be like Woolies.

I was mainly thinking of the jug-eared cunt and the parasitic whore when I said his family weren't that bad on race - obviously the Queen Mother was a piece of shit.

The context was "our little Paki friend" - do you not think that's extremely patronising at best?

I'd say it had more to do with the army officer training mentality/attitudes rather than his family. His "Dad" is a fuckwit but not a racist imo.

For Taylor I blame Tony Adams - that loan spell at Wycombe "under his wing" accounts for his pointing/ "I'm in charge" attitude which is fine if you were Adams and could defend/had respect but not when you're a headless chicken.

Better than none at all. In all the games he''s played I don't think Jonas has put more than 20 crosses into the box.

Fair enough but Duff (Who I don't rate at all) made the goal - and goals get results.

I think we have to stop looking at names and look at contexts more - I was saying to the lad at work who's a Blackburn fan who was going to go to fulham today that I thought at the time losing to them was a fucking disgrace but now a draw there would have looked like a good result. Given West Ham's recent form the result wasn't bad but I'm still worried about the rest of the season once the squad is weakened.

Must have been fantastic in the first 35 minutes (which I didn't see) then because he was fucking shit for the rest of the game. You're always hard on him but I can't see how you were watching the same game as me, he was incredible. (And he did provide a good run and assist for Owen's goal, which you missed then) I just don't get it - he's a winger who rarely puts a good cross in and can't shoot to save his life - but at the same time he makes me think "hmm... good player" when he does get on the ball - I just want more.

Must have been fantastic in the first 35 minutes (which I didn't see) then because he was fucking shit for the rest of the game.

My take on it. So that's young/potential out for money and semi-past it in for nowt - sounds about right.

Yeah the people who were interested just happened to have invested with Madoff. This fucker is as much a lying lickspittel as Kinnear.

There weren't any flaws in his ManYoo deal. The flaw in the West Ham deal was the clause that the owners could transfer him whenever they wanted regardless of West Ham's wishes. No such clause exists in his ManYoo deal. I'm sure the rule was about "third party ownership or financial interest" - as I said above how can he be "on loan" from a non-club? I know they tried to fiddle it by saying it was about "registration" or even by mentioning what you have said but the deals are definitley against the spirit of the law.

Hopefully that will expose the flaws in his Man U deal.

It really bugs me when I read about Tevez being "On loan" - on loan from where you bastards? Blatant red shirt rules for him amd Mascherano - I'd relegate the pair of them.

Depressing - snowy and fucked trains this morning.

Birmingham were the same when they were up (cat A I think) - in fact a complaint was made as they were charging home fans a lot less with the membership fiddle.

Eccleston was good imo, Tennant was shit and Tate made it unwatchable. The new bloke screams student wanker at me.

I've said a few times that Ashley's failure to outline any kind of target beyond "having fun" and being financially solvent is the big fuck off warning sign. The timid acceptance of this steady progress model absolutely appals me. Having said that his toy out of the pram moment when Keegan said we couldn't compete with Chelsea in May seems strange. I now think that was because he was worried how Keegan's statement would affect ST sales or perhaps even then he was looking for an out with Keegan after realising he was too ambitious.

Now you're making it a nice to see rather than sadly will happen.

I used to watch The Sky at Night quite religiously but stopped after seeing him at a bash for supporters of Thatcher at the 87 election - if I catch it now I just wonder why the fucker isn't dead yet (Moore).

Watched it a couple of weeks ago and they obviously had fun (as well as some good fights). Maybe its my age but I thought Miranda Richardson looked old but still an absolute definite.

Distracting attention from the real story - pathetic. (I don't believe him saying its all crap)

I watched Transformers last night. Despite considering myself a semi-serious film watcher from time to time (though not on the same planet as Happy Face etc), I'm perfectly willing to switch my brain off for 2 hours if a film warrants it. This didn't. It was shit.

That's part of the window profit sorted then.