NJS

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.

What happened to those charges on the Faye deal?

Compared with some of the fuckers on N-O, Baggio's tongue isn't that close to Ashley's intestines.

Exactly the same trip by bike: Vietnam

You still don't get that the number of contradictions he has made means that people simply don't believe him do you? If you're not going to believe it then why would it matter if he said it again? Doesn't bother me - it was PP saying he should have mentioned cash - I'm just saying that I personally and a lot of others don't believe anything he says. The only thing I want to hear him say is that he'll take a market price for the club and fuck off.

You still don't get that the number of contradictions he has made means that people simply don't believe him do you?

Like you I think that was the key phrase in the statement - no change in balancing the books which is why I think he'll spend nothing in January.

The "big" games like Liverpool always show a good performance by the fans - its the ones against Stoke. Bolton etc that usually disappoint.

Men against babies who can't even crawl - including the managers.

A bit off-topic but fuck it. I've been thinking over the last week or so and especially today about how I feel about football and NUFC at the moment. With today's news from Ashley I see at best years of mediocrity and struggle and I've come to the conclusion that I won't be unhappy if we go down. A couple of my mates were talking to some Leicester fans when we played West Ham who were enjoying going to different places (though only wanted to go once) and I can now see where they were coming from. Paying £48 to go to Stamford bridge just doesn't appeal to me any more and trips to home games costing at least £100 are even less palatable considering the anticipated dross.