Sparks

My anger has now resulted in me being unable to post correctly. You can always tell when someone pissed when they start making mistakes in their posts.

Once again I would only compare Given's situation to that of Cech, Van Der Sar and Reina. Wouldn't they and their fans find it somewhat strange to find them out of the team after they come back from injury. We are talking about a goalkeeper here who has twice been the PFA Goalkeeper of the Year, Won the North East Footballer Of The Year, and has been our player of the season for about five of the last seven seasons and has won 80 International Caps. This situation goes to show what short term memories people have, and how fickle and knee jerk you are. Some people are even now claiming Given is nothing special or simply an average goalkeeper. Yet if he comes in and puts in a few good performances all of a sudden he will then be a world class goalkeeper again. The same thing has happened with Geremi, at the start of the season we have this classy quality player who should be captain, now people want him dropped.

As predictable as Andy Johnson's haircut. At least there could be some originality.

hmmmmmmm that actually sounds what the real alan shearer would say The sort of thing Shearer would say was that Newcastle fans wanted to win the FA Cup more than the league. Which was equally as crazy.

I am pretty sure the players chose a few months back to donate all their match fees to charity.

Have your tried flickr? I posted some of the best modern pics of St James' about halfway down this thread. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=504007 Make sure your modem doesn't explode though.

Most interesting thing about the stats is the amount of times Butt gives the ball away with a sloppy pass. Your holding midfielder should have the highest % of completed passes in your whole team, up towards 90%. Butt hardly ever gets over 70%. Compare some of our stats to that of Arsenal. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2007/09/03/sfgars103.xml

Newcastle of course, and it would be same sort of results for virtually every club team you poll. The media are just waking up to the fact that a lot of people don't really care about England or the International game anymore.

With the Saxaphone on full blast, it always gave me the impression of the climax of some dodgy daytime soap or TV movie, sailing into the sunset all and all that. Or even worse a scene in a Porno movie, and you know what type of scene I'm talking about.

Yep and then we can only be the 6th club to use it then.

If it didn't work for Jenas, who will it work for?

I'd prefer it to be saved for a handful of matches each season. Playing it before every game means it loses its value.

Ehh???, Given is going to hang around solely for a testimonial? No chance, if Given loses his number one position he will be out of here. He stuck by us in recent seasons when he has had continuous s**** play in front of him. He deserved to be playing at a team far more successful than us. You should always play your best goalkeeper in important competitive games. That's why when he is fit he should be in the team. Would it have done Shearer any harm to have left him out of our team when he was in his prime?

Ashley Cole appealing for offside despite being 5 yards ahead of Agbonlahor.

Could turn a game on its head, Reo-Coker smiling.

Ah man I bring Dunne into my fantasy team and he gets sent off.

Anyone who thinks Harper should be first choice must have been out on the lash last night, as they seems to have forgotten what has gone on in the past 7 years.

And that works the same for the likes of Cech, Van Der Sar, Reina etc?

Burned his face with a candle last week.

I'm admitting my ignorance in this field, but why do bookies pay out early? Of what advantage is it for them to do so?

who gives out these bonus points?

Four new defenders, and only one who speaks English. That is going to take some time to gel, don't expect to see them play together for a while yet.

Hope he likes bench warming.

Couldn't really care about Faye, Beye is the important deal.

Aye, canny little interview. Would make a better coach than a manager though.