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Just to let you know that Sir Bobby is doing a book signing at Waterstones in the MetroCentre tomorrow night (Thursday) between 6.30pm-7.30pm for his "My Kind of Toon" book.

Oh Marc will be delighted!

Impressive lads!

He received the Freedom of the City of Durham today. Report coming up on Look North at half 6.

Not confirmed by the club but SSN are still doing the "We understand that he has left" line. It looks pretty likely.

Now that would be entertaining!

She should stick to washing and ironing. If you weren't such a sexist pig, you'd know it's make the tea first, then do the washing and ironing. Will you look at you three. Every one of you under the thumb

I havent seen it yet and I think its fair to say that I dont want to now The scar was from the subsequent surgery that he had and not from the challenge itself. It's not that bad. Saying that, I watch people being carved open every day..

It was "Gan canny" which was even funnier

Hi yourself. Hope life is good. You should come back for drinkies soon make sure your in the town at krimbo. we've got an appointment It's in the diary.

Hi yourself. Hope life is good. You should come back for drinkies soon

Sometimes I love this place in the middle of the night

Juande Ramos, shortly after another training session,comments to the head groundsman at White Hart Lane how impressive the pitch is looking."It ought to," replied the groundsman "We put 70 million quid's worth of shit on it every week."

I suggest you ring the club's main switchboard (0191 201 8400) explaining what it is you want and ask them to give you the number of the appropriate person to speak to. It's worth a try. Good luck!

Like watching paint dry, as usual.

"Balls" or "desperation"? I'd argue the latter. In fact, I'd actually argue that in the football world there would have been others prepared to take on the role ... but of course we were in a mad hurry to appoint someone who couldn't even sit on the touchline for his first two games in charge. Like who? David O Leary is the only one who comes to mind and he's a prick. This argument that it's unprofessional or unbecoming is missing the point. We are a laughing stock anyway. We are a shit team playing losing football. If JFK manages to get these players performing well enough to get us a few points I honestly don't care what everyone else thinks. Simon Bird and his press friends can all fuck off. Right off. Yes, and then JK will be fucking off back into obscurity where he came from before too long too. Let's just see what he can do with the players on the pitch rather than the journalists in the press room eh? Cos he's going to look mightily foolish if we don't improve.

fully agree Cat But at the moment i think it matches the mood of the fans. I dont particularly like a manger whose mouth makes even a foul mouthed git like me cringe but i just cant help but think, is this the right image we want for the club atm? I really don't know. All I know is that I completely cringed all the way through reading the transcript of that exchange with the journalist and he sounded like an embarrassing drunken uncle who spoils anything decent they have to say by sounding like an ill-educated nutter.

I see your point but SBR didn't come into this kind of hostility. It may not be very professional but considering the shit that's been said, perhaps an approach of this nature is needed. I agree that someone needs to take the job by the scruff of the neck and shake it up. There's nothing wrong with an aggressive approach either, I'm just not convinced that calling journalists c***ts is going to do anything positive. It once again just gives us headlines for the wrong reasons. Our players have done enough of that in recent years without the man in charge (albeit for a short time) adding to that.

At the risk of sounding all holier-than-thou I don't think that using foul language equates to being a great manager, motivator or successful. Yeah, it's nice to know that he 'doesn't give a shit' but I can't help but feel that someone like SBR would be shaking his head in despair at this kind of management style.

Steve Howey covering the Wigan v Man City game for SSN. Fucking useless. Can't get his words out and when he does his accent makes me want to throw things at the telly.

If Keegan returned I would spend the entire time wondering when he'd next go in a huff and fuck off again.

No truth in Gazza death rumours say police 12:00am Thursday 25th September 2008 By Matt Westcott RUMOURS that Paul Gascoigne has been found dead tonight have led to police taking the unusual step of stating they believe nothing untoward has happened to him. The troubled former England and Newcastle United footballer has been in the headlines with regularity over recent months following various drink-related incidents and there has been concern for his welfare. However, readers began to inundate The Northern Echo newsdesk last night claiming that Gazza had been found dead in a hotel. Football club supporters sites and online betting forums were also a hotbed of gossip, with people claiming to know the location where Gascoigne had been found. One person even went so far as to post a video on YouTube saying the story was "100 per cent" accurate. Some people named the Marriott Hotel, close to the MetroCentre in Newcastle, as the location, but a call to the hotel led to a forthright denial, with a member of staff saying that Gascoigne had neither been found dead, nor was he a guest. It is understood that calls to Northumbria Police suggesting Gascoigne had been found in two separate locations in Scotland were also followed up, but neither were found to be true. Late last night, the volume of calls prompted the force to issue a statement. A spokesman said: "We have had several media calls this evening concerning former footballer Paul Gascoigne. This is to confirm that we have had no reported incidents concerning Mr Paul Gascoigne and our checks to date give us no cause for concern about him." Last week, the 41-year-old was detained by police after an incident in Gateshead, in which a fan claimed his mobile phone had been broken. There were also allegations of an altercation with a freelance photographer. He had been involved in a disturbance outside The Metz Experience pub. The previous day he had been pictured in national newspapers repeatedly banging on the doors and windows of the same pub at 9.45am.

And how long had Keegan been out of work before he came back to us?

Aye, instead of a concourse it's a big room with a bar but it's not really worth the extra money. EDIT Sorry Wull, didn't see your post.

I've removed all of the links and think it's about time people stopped with the rickrolling. It's getting tiresome and is obviously fucking up important stuff on people's computers. Enough now please.