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your thinking Kinnear would have made a well thought out tactical substitution though Even Allardyce got the hang of chucking strikers on when you're losing at home. I thought he would usually bring a defender on ? Only against a "good" team (ie top 10).

your thinking Kinnear would have made a well thought out tactical substitution though Even Allardyce got the hang of chucking strikers on when you're losing at home.

The 75% is a joke but he is one of our problems. We cannot keep possession and build consistent attacks because too many players in the team give the ball away a criminal amount of times - Enrique, Guthrie, Butt, Duff, Guttierez, Ameobi AND Martins have been the culprits in the last two games.

Martins should have been dropped after last week. Owen would have scored if he'd started and had his eye in. (yes I know Martins crossed it but he would have come on as sub by then in my world).

Last week I was thinking it should be obvious to warn your centre-halfs that they're up against a notorious cheat and to be careful - suitably avoided going by their actions. This week I would have though that they might mention a centre-half that's decent from corners and to make sure he is marked - suitably avoided. A word also for the fucking fairy on the line who couldn't stop it. Didn't deserve to win - just like last week, pass after pass going astray against a shit team. I've also decided Guttierez IS the new Cordone. Shola has had his bi-annual good spell and is now the Shola we all know again. Enrique was terrible. Funny how the owner seems to have missed the key to a football team isn't the structure or the finances to a large extent or even the players - its having a MANAGER who has the slightest fucking clue what he is doing - thanks once again you fat cockney cunt.

Anyone see that Tourettes doc where the bloke I'm sure just used the disease as an excuse (I think Tourettes is more random) and came out with the immortal: "Ho, Charles, you jug-eared cunt, does Camilla take it up the shitter or what?"

Papers haven't been in Fleet St for years.

Theres a differennce between rounding up people and killing them (which he did) and people dying of starvation brought about as an unintended result of agricultural planning which didn't work. I suppose thats semantics but he didn't make killing an industrial process like Hitler.

Sent shivers down my spine when I read that this morning - up there with Liam's free kick as my favourite football moment.

It was terrible for me for two reasons, firstly I honestly thought that Man U would become our rivals (as they did all too briefly) and selling them our best player made no sense, and secondly I thought we'd instantly gone back to be being the selling club we'd always been. I still think it was wrong to effectively write off that season in January but can't argue with the result the nest season - though a Ferdinand/Cole/Beardsley combo could have been even better.

More of a hero to me than Shearer by a million miles. I loved the unashamed joy he got from scoring and he summed up our "arrival" on the big stage. I know he marked his card for a lot of people but I judge people by what they do in the shirt and he'll always be a legend to me.

My concern is the thought of a 14 year old who would be "freaked out" - how introverted could she be? Probably a case of "stupid" racism rather than "malicious" racism - I'd tend to have mercy.

There seems to be an irrational need on some peoples part to believe Enrique is good (a lot on N-O seem to have it). I defended him last year on the basis of a bit of potential, his age and the adjustment factor. However this year he has been terrible and I won't defend so called premiership footballers who fail so many times to pass to a team mate. This did apply to others on Sunday (uncharacteristically Jonas) but Enrique is a constant culprit. The only problem is that while I think Bassong may be a better defender, his forward play is wank. If we get the chance to rebuild the squad either in Jan or the summer I'd be looking for new left backs.

Olbermann a week late.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/27652443#27652443 ...but well put. Indeed. There was a huge campaign by Mormons - the religion of forced child brides and no black members before 78 - maybe they could argue they were forced to give up polygamy but that was just another tenet of their con-man founder - the root reason is the usual Christian bigotry.

The irony of "hun" is staggering - I know she was English but her family by marriage is rather Germanic. I also always found "the nations favourite grandmother" thing a henious insult to everyones proper nanas.

Gonzalez is out for 4 months according to he chron - was carrying the injury when signed - what a system eh?

Christianity came to prominence as a uniting force for the Roman Empire so no different to Islam really.

Undoubtedly but WWI was caused by empires squaring up to each other - I see both nationalism and religion (though more in the past) as part of the whole tribal tendency of humanity and both equally as "wrong". I know you could argue its natural but my hope is that by this stage in our develonment the need to be defined so strongly in one "gang" or another would be lessened. One notion about Islam I admire at a basic level is the notion of a brotherhood which transcends borders - unfortunately based on one religion rather than a "simple" notion of humanity.

I think the word you're looking for is cunt I thought that was the American translation - much like their fanny/arse confusion.

Allen - that Anschutz funds the Discovery Institute which marks him down as a fuckwit for me. That Hunt looks too much like the "all American guy" and the last one sounds too much like a "dude".

Yeah but simple explanations like that ignore the use of the religion on the ground to teach people from a very young age who and what to believe. It's a lot easier to start young kids off with you're a catholic/they're prods rather than teach the politics of forced migrations and rotten british landlords (which comes later). NI is/was still seen by Nationalists as part of a catholic Ireland and they yearn for the catholics in the north to be under catholic/Irish rule - I think its that view rather than the land per se that is what matters. Similarly the loyalists have always made a big thing about the freedom to practice their religion which they would view as threatened by a United Ireland. My view now is that with borders meaning less and less in a modern Europe, its the clinging on to the religion that drags it on. The first (painful) step for me would be to abolish sectarian schools.

Israel/Palestine India/Pakistan Yugoslavia Sri Lanka NI All could be described as ethnic/nationalist as well but elements of religion poison and underpin them.

Stalin is a better example for the "all atheists are immoral, genocidal bastards" argument though.

It's actually an Irish lullaby, go and read the lyrics for you don't know what you're talking about. no it's not it's a folk song about the famine and a man who stole food to feed his family. a lullaby about famine, wtf do you sing to your kids... Maybe he frightens them with a prison ship to Botany Bay as well.

It's actually an Irish lullaby, go and read the lyrics for you don't know what you're talking about. So when the bloke gets transported for stealing food during the famine who do you think did the transporting? A hell of a lot of Irish folk songs are love songs with an added twist of Anti-Brit.