Sparks

So say tomorrows rags.

I'm moderately concerned over the poor communication part associated with Ashley, at least when were a PLC, we knew what was going on with the club financially, we also occationally heard from Shepherd about what the future plans were and what was going on with the club. Now what are we going to get from our owner? Nothing it seems.

P.R is pretty damn important in football, it isn't like running a city business when you just succeed by posting good numbers every 6 months. I'm not sure what Ashley knows about this. The best way to make yourself popular is to come on tv or at least radio and occationally speak to the fans like Learner and Gillett do, even the Glazers spoke to the press.

Wesley Sneijder if Ashley wants to show ambition and a bit of cash.

Give him a week off.

Most bizarre football related story this year, could you imagine Shearer doing this?

There's looking unique & different and there's looking s***.

 

I agree. What is it with people who think that just because something looks different, it's automatically better than what has gone before? Here's Liverpool's previous stadium design. Which would you want your team to play in?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1990000/images/_1992484_newanfield300.jpg

That got rejected by Heritage groups who didn't like the brickwork.

 

Looks good, at least it's different to the 80% concrete stadiums that have been built lately.

Concrete stadiums? What do you think this will be made out of?

Glass, concrete and steel, the same as all the other stadiums are.

You know Roeder's early interviews were described on here as refreshingly honest.

Bit concerned over his lack of football knowledge and experience, he hardly compares well to the likes of Keyon, Gill or Dein.

Owen's record for Liverpool was pretty miserable towards the end of his time there.

There is about zero chance of this happening.

He will probably disappear of to Qatar or something.

Just watched the interview on world from Sam following yesterday's friendly.

 

He reckons N'Zogbia could arguably be the best left-back at the club following yesterday's performance...

 

Worrying isn't it?

 

Worrying indeed

Well, it's not exactly hard.

Baptista maybe a good player but he was down right rotten for Arsenal in the premiership last year, he just couldn't pick up the pace at all. I don't see where he would play for us and I can't see him liking our style of player either. Wasn't he the one complaining about the northern teams long ball tactics last year as well?

I think he wants to go because of what he sees as unfair treatment by the fans, and I think he's got a case. His record isn't unblemished, but a lot of the stick that he gets is OTT IMO.

 

His return last season saved us from relegation. In a few crucial games he had a big impact. No appreciation received for that.

 

A lot of people seem to believe that his long-term injury problem was his own fault. No rational thinking behind that. He was probably desperate to get  back.

 

A lot of fans haven't forgiven him for that row with Robson. He did wrong, he publicly apologised, and there were no repeats. What more do people want? At the same time, we had Shearer saying that he'd move on if he wasn't a first team regular, and Bellamy trying to duck out of games. No apologies from either.

 

This.

People didn't simply turn on him because of that, Dyer had a lot of detractors way before the Robson incident. The reason being that his performances never matched the hype. Dyer strolled his way through long parts of seasons living off his “promising youngster” reputation and the imaginary transfer to Leeds. His lifestyle and personal choices don’t exactly make him appealing to most supporters.

He alone sums up our failures as a club in the past 10 years. A serial injury prone underachiever who is on ridiculously high wages, yet produces virtually no end product. Someone loves the celebrity lifestyle and took advantage of those who helped him get to where he was.

Despite all the money and the all the potential he and we as a club have done nothing since he joined.

The biggest problem with metatarsal injuries is players often try to come back from the injury to soon and end up causing more damage.

£7 million on Wes Brown?

Man Utd and Arsenal would still get massive attendances even if they were not winning things. Up until last year Man Utd had only won the league once in five seasons, yet they were still selling out every week. Arsenal have had a poor two years yet they still sell out easily.

Man Utd and Arsenal don't require a loyal support, they just have the massive shear number of supporters were unlikely to ever have.

Can't for the life of me see it being Bridge given his injury problems.

Southampton had that Microsoft bloke interested in them as well.

Eduardo at Arsenal seems to have slipped under the radar a bit, will be interesting to see how well he can do next season.

Listening to Legends, Peter Graves said that Newcastle have a new hero in Joey Barton, as he is flying into every tackle.  The fans are chanting his name and he applauded them.

 

He's gunning for that armband.

Looking for some penpals while he is in jail more like.

Why have Aston Villa signed Goomba?

A 27 year old West Ham reject is hardly the sort of player that is going to get them in the top 6.

Heard about some crazy things that went on in the 70's.

 

One is particular event occurred at Fratton Park where it was Green Street central at the time with home fans and away fans trying to batter it other to death. Just about anything that wasn't bolted down in the stand got hurled at the oppositions fans. Apparently after running out things to throw, the home fans moved into the disabled section and tipped a bloke out of his wheelchair and hurled the chair into the away section. Fortunately they then didn’t lob the bloke afterwards as well though.

 

you do know Green Street is the street leading to Upton Park from the Underground station?

doh, never would realised the link between hooliganism and Green Street.

How come the training shorts are so long?

Can you change your team up until the season starts? Would be a bit pointless to enter now otherwise.