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I think Chris Hughton has handled the media well on this one. The journalists are making right idiots out of themselves without him feeding them a gold mine of a story.

Can't really see Barca ever selling Messi like they did Maradonna.

What a delightfully arrogant post.

Souness: "You have to stop players like biscuits"

For such a world class player, he has awful hair though.

God it must be awesome to be Lionel Messi.

Well by Boro standards that still makes them Europe virgins I guess.

I do. To be honest I want 100+ points too.

Serious question but have they ever actually played in a european competition in their history?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Premier_League Feels good to be back there. Also feels kinda elite looking at that list .

Don't think we have a chance of getting Dorrans. Maybe next season if we survive and Brom go down. Barnes similar, but why we'd want him when he's so injury prone is a mystery anyway. The others all sound decent and fairly plausible.

32 out of 40 games I'd imagine a fair few of the games we've not been top are due to us having games in hand as well? Early in the season we were behind Boro and West Brom on goal difference. Then when we had that slump in form and then again after defeat to Derby we were 2nd (but I think we had a game in hand).

32 out of 40 games

Betis got relegated? last season Shows how closely I follow Spanish Football Thought they were still a mid-table to top half La Liga club. There's probably a lot of people out on the continent unaware of our relegation too.

Not either of them like, no more former players on principle. Need to look forward not backwards! Few others of that Wigan squad I'd take though. Begs the question, what second stints of players have been successful for your lot? Can't think of any former senior player returning to Barça and being successful again, for example (Stoichkov, De la Peña, bombed in their second stints). I always think that when it's over, it's over. Solano was good in his second stint.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,57722.msg1568850.html#msg1568850

West Ham

Template 3-0 win.

Depends how you look at it really. I'd doubt he phoned up a journalist and started ranting at him. It's more likely an interviewer asked him how he sees his future and he answered honestly.

Will miss: Winning Easy games Stress free nature of this season Our players on the whole being quite likeable Won't miss: Bitter, small time fans/teams The football league show Crap standard of football Shit/blind/outright cheating refereeing

It may come as a surprise to you but we do have fans outside of Newcastle .

Classic Allardyce.

Most goals conceded in a season (42 Game Season): 100, Swindon Town (1993–94) Most goals conceded in a season (38 Game Season): 89, Derby County (2007–08) That Derby season was truly magic. Wonder if the fans would have taken the promotion had they known. And yet they took 4 points off us!

Burnley have conceeded 71 goals! They must be on course for some kind of record.

When you've got nothing - regurgitate the Taylor/Carroll story. They might as well have put this video in place of her article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVV_Qr82kL4&feature=player_embedded