NJS
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Diadora's?
is he Roy Keane ...
The kid must be a youngun because no one started wearing diadora till the early 90's. Sergio Tacchini or adidas Gazelle would've been more appropriate.
Gold Diadoras came out in about 84 or 85 - same period as Puma Villas.
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If Ashley was serious about movingthe club forward he would be looking to generate more income and develope the commercial side of the club.
Credit crunch or not if he wanted to get his hands on a few million quid for the short term, whilst the long term plans are put into place, he would be able to do it.
Good point.
I think in all of the slagging of Shepherd in the context on the finances, I'd say in his defence that I presume his next cunning plan, rather than just new loans, was to generate income from the redevlopment of the Metro/Brewery scheme. I'm not sure if it would be feasible now but if Ashley had pushed this forward in 2007 it could have worked.
The alternative which I expected was to make the football side the priority via investment which being honest, it looked as if that was going okay until the end of August.
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He did score a few goals for Leeds and Man U.
I've said before I always liked him as a player and have been just as disappointed with his time with us as anyone - we can just hope that the lay off and manager change may spark a change in form.
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Pompey have signed two midfielders today so this is probably dead.
I think Barton falls into a group of players whose sale would guarantee relegation.
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Aye, the stuff about Allardyce in the article is laughable. I take it you went to Fulham away last season btw (I know you go to a few away games and work in the City). I was there as well and it's one of the most insipid matches I've ever seen. I wouldn't care but Fulham were a fucking awful side at the time and had nothing to offer and we were there hoping for a draw and scraping a lucky win. Sums 'Big Sam' up in many ways.
Yeah - my unrating of Kinnear aside, I didn't mind in the slightest his gameplan for Chelsea but Allardyce's "respect" for shit teams was soul destroying.
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It would have been touch and go imo is my point - in response to the article suggesting we were safe with no chance of relegation.
The reason I'm so worried this year is that even with players returning from injury, I think the lack of a focal point to boost confidence as we had least year will be fatal.
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I'm not saying we'd have picked up as many points / played with that freedom of Spurs. But to say we wouldn't have gotten the equivalent of 2 wins, 1 draw and 11 losses (or better) from our last 14 games is a tad hysterical imo. Again, I'm not sticking up for the bloke beyond saying relegation was highly unlikely.
When he left we had 26 pts - Reading went down with 36 and a similar GD so we'd have needed 11 points as a minimum - I think we'd have struggled to get that many.
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I know I have a vested interest working for an investment bank but as long as this isn't execs as it states and is just operational staff then there is absolutely nothing wrong with rewarding staff who work hard who have nothing to do with risk.
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I don't want to sound like I'm defending the bloke. I can't stand him and he seemingly has an ego inversely proportional to his talent. It was merely the relegation thing. He'd have needed 7 points (maybe only 6) in the last 14 games to stay up.
I could never see where those points would have come from tbh - I think comparing positions simplistically takes no account of the fixture list.
We certainly wouldn't have been able to play with any freedom at Spurs and would have lost imo - I also think he would have been too negative in the derby and we may not have won it. Also as the end of the season approached I can't even begin to contemplate how much more negative the twat would have made us.
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"..defend the constitution... so help me God"
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The mackem game could get very interesting off the pitch now - I think owner and manager will have no doubt how they are seen.
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NE bottom three looking quite possible now.
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The thing about complaining and rocking the boat like we did for Beye's red card is that as long as they keep employing the same incompetent cheats, chances are they can get you back.
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What's the odds on Obama being the consumate politician and inviting the pilot to his inauguration?
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I don't see why we can't have a PR officer to spread lies to the press. Bloody amateurs
We did have a couple of years ago (probably pre-Ashley) - a lad I know who used to work for the Shields Gazette - I don't know if he's still there
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Pretty much spot on - especially hope and belief >> fear and dread. From my own pov I'd add that that hope and belief rekindled a love of the club and football which was nearly dead and is now in death throes again "one year on".
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Khan
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So this isn't the Ricardo Montalban condolences thread then?
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Bit harsh on Bulgaria going by my visit to Sofia in '99 - some mafia/crime/prostitution related theme would have been more appropriate - the rest are pretty good
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I didn't realise that Llabia was based down south as well.
He was on my flight back to Stansted after the Sunderland game - didn't look as extremely pissed off as I or the couple of other fans on the plane were.
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Slightly off topic, but did anyone hear/see Winslet's acceptance 'speech' at the G Globes the other day?? Phoney, or what.
It saddened me as she's on my "you don't really want to know how many people I'd kill for a chance with her" list.
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I remember he reffed another game either the next year or the year after and disallowed another goal which was actually a correct decision - the funny thing was the crowd didn't even go up for the goal iirc - we just expected it to be disallowed.
It would be good to see the two goals now with modern angles etc - they certainly went beyond even Bennett or any of the other corrupt fuckers worst excesses by a million miles from my "nostalgiac" viewpoint.
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Ambitious teams will realise that Bassong is good and he'll be sold.
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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.
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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.
Who da fuck....
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Disagree - gold ones were about £60 and were pretty much the dogs bollocks - a cut above the more standard trimm trabbs, sambas and gazelles.