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As we know too well, yellow can look terrible in the promo photos but then amazing out on the pitch

Fans of most teams would probably begrudgingly accept it. Arsenal fans, however...

Whole reason why it's so wide spread now. No one takes responsibility for their behaviour and just pass the buck in a "they started it" way. Makes most important games into big bullshit-fests.

Stereotypes often exist for a reason.

Love that France kit. To be fair, the design is quite lovely... but it's just an absolutely ridiculous use for it http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8394/18423910150111145441716.jpg

And the fact Barca should have had a pen in the first-half. Fucking annoying that these games are always tainted. Still UEFA know the score and have their priorities... let's just make sure we outlaw snoods first.

Fucking travesty of a sending off tbh. Still... not going to start feeling sorry for RvP or Arsenal

Literally 99% of Prem teams?

Barca managed more attempts on their own goal.

Nope, absolutely perfect!

Leads me to a similar grievance about defenders feeling they are owed a free kick and stay down as play rightly continues to go on around them. Unless it's pretty serious there's no excuse for just lying down in or around your own area, playing everyone on side or just becoming a liability. Get up and deal with it.

Very much agreed on that one, Neil. Made all the more annoying that it seems to have become a sort of social convention that all involved buy into. So much so that in France I've heard several people, including professional broadcasters, talk about it being a rule that you are not allowed to touch the keeper inside the 6 yard area.... hummm, no it's not!

Shola should be the one grateful he still gets a look in. Too right he should be willing to play injured

What's going on with Chamakh? Is he turning out to be a disappointment? or is his spell out of the team just due to temporary form and RvP?

I didn't take a manager's job at the club, constantly declare how special the situation was and what the position meant and then quit knowingly leaving it in a lurch. Only thing the fans are guilty of is to have had faith in him.

No thanks. Once a traitor, always a traitor. Bollocks. Young and blinded by money - still a geordie. Would take him back at a flash. Carroll + £20m for Leon Best.

That sums up what Ashley did wrong. And no one is denying that.

Not saying it was his fault. He didn't help though and the verdict of his lawsuit showed he knew exactly in what state he was leaving the club. People need to realise that is now part of his legacy too.

You keep saying that, but you do realise that Keegan played his part in both those things happening, right?

Again with assumed Ashley love. Why not quit at the end of 08-09 then?

One of the reasons it became as much of a drama and 'untenable' situation is probably also because of Keegan and him creating such a situation where he then believes he is at loggerheads and has to leave. He's done it before. I'm not saying he didn't get fucked over, he did. Just a real shame he felt the need to just pass the buck and in turn fuck over the team. Chris Hughton seemed to manage alright in compartmentalising and getting on with it.

There we go again. I'm not even contesting the verdict at all, more that we even got there. What good did it do anyone other than Keegan? It left the team sportingly in a lurch, that should be part of the bottom line to NUFC fans. Also, if he was in such a privileged position to know what they were like he could have chosen any time to get the truth out and would no doubt have been backed by all supporters. But he chose to make it damaging. His lawsuit is very similar to how he quit. Shortermism thinking from him where he was desperate to spite Ashley even though it meant fans and the team would be the ones in the crossfire. Hooray for his 'morals'.

Exactly. A whole big ball of wrong for all concerned.

Yes that judgement again, the one that went a long way exposing what everyone suspected of Ashley but not so much excuse Keegan of quitting again. But as long as he was 'right', ey? That's what matters most, not the state in which it left the team.