Spider Jerusalem

Gone for Beckham, Young, Walcott and Lennon. Soften them up by having Lennon run at them for 60 minutes and bring Beckham on to provide the clinical pass for the remainder of the game. If he can get fit then Walcott can provide a bit of unpredicability and cover a few positions as well. Young is the only option we have that could provide left-sided cover with the pace and stamina that is required over the competition - Cole hasn't played regularly for a couple of seasons, Milner runs like hes on a velcro pitch wearing velcro boots carrying two bags of cement and Downing is just, well, shit. However, if Walcott can't get fit beforehand then I'd go for Milner to cover the utility role as Cole is liable to breakdown and Downing is shit - I'd rather have someone running in a river of treacle with ankle irons on that you can rely on being there and not being shit.

Tell them that - they fucking love getting confused with each other. Austria separates these two countries BTW so they're aren't really neighbours. Watched the last Euro Championship final in Slovenia. All of the riverside pubs had opened up the pub-front and had a large screen TV showing the match on the banks of the Ljubljanica. An excellent atmosphere of thousands getting pissed on Union beer and collective delight in the downfall of the hated Hun.

Nothing new there then....

Wehay the fucking window's shut - can someone remind me why this stupid fucking system was brought in, apart from to give Sky Sports something to report on at the end of August and January.

After listening to him for years on SSN it's became apparent to most on this board that David Craig indeed has trouble identifying which is arse or elbow.

Yes. No. Isn't the match that got moved as the filthy Mackems are at home as well the next day?

Any idea if we managed to squeeze any cash out of them? Mind, the wages that he was taking out of the club probably cover all of our new lad's salary, as well as any prospective buys / loans as well. Allardyce brought in some shite while he was here and this guy was probably the second shittest - and it takes a 'special' player like Cacapa to take that title.

And let's face it the next step down is Rio Ferdinand. I think it's best to stick with John 'Rusty Clotheshanger' Terry for lack of a better option

I'm going for clinicality - it's something we've had that the opposition haven't. But something the opposition next year will have and we won't.

It's not been down to the lack of invention, but rather lack of conversion on thier part. Most of the matches I've seen this year we have given a lot of chances away in the centre of goal that weren't converted but we've put the similar chances in the back of the net.

Just hoping that the second last quote of that article is true.

Unless it's the Mackems and it fucks thier already fragile team spirit.

I thought the same thing. Will not be a Newcastle player (or WBA or Forest either) on Monday morning.

In short,no. I'd rather see Bella Emberg and Jackie Stallone go girl on girl. Too fucking right. And that's one of the worst things about last season. I've drank with away fans before the match , I've helped away fans to find the ground, I've drank with away fans after the match even when we've lost, but the delight that they showed last year when we went down - fuck 'em. They're getting short shrift from me in the future. They'll have a fucking great night out in Newcastle but the hypocitical bastards will hold a fucking party and revel in our misery in our darkest hour. And then next year they'll be back in the town getting pissed up again saying what a great place it is and great people live up here. Fuck off.

Do you want a Villa win then?

Nope... They can fuck off. http://www.expressandstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/wd3315606soccer-barclays-298x450.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/24/article-0-05139FA8000005DC-948_468x450.jpg And I FUCKING HATE Manure. Come on you fucking cunts.

Bloody hell, a right winger. Maybe we can put Guthrie in the middle at some point and get some semblance of creativity in there as well. We can but dream though.....

I've gone for Ashley, because I'm REALLY, REALLY happy how the other owners are doing with thier bags of shite and hope they continue to carry on in the same manner.

FIFA should've just set up a cloning program and made 5000 duplicates of Collina. World class ref He was that - if I remember correctly didn't he actually stop refereeing when he realised that he was starting to drop a few clangers, before he was actually supposed to retire. What has the ref done to us today - have been out all afternoon. Heard there were two penalties though and that always sounds exceptionally dodgy, especially given to the home team.

Thats a shocking article, typically lazy shite. Still i can think of a few who would fall for it Agree there - completely fails to take into account the fact that the world has fell out from under Portsmouth financially to the point that they apparently couldn't play him due to having to pay more to Watford and they still haven't paid the initial fee. There are a lot of poor transfers that have cost clubs more (Veron, Shevchenko) but think this is more of a backdoor Anti-Newcastle article saying 'look the thick Geordies have just signed the worst player in history'.

What you need if you're going to take up this option is have a winger who is actually ABLE TO KICK THE FUCKING BALL WITH SUFFICIENT STRENGTH AND ACCURACY WITH EITHER THEIR WEAKER OR FAVOURED FOOT AND NOT MAKE PEOPLE THINK WHY THE FUCK WAS LEE CLARK NICKNAMED 'JIGSAW' WHEN THIS CUNT WOULDN'T BE TRUSTED TO GET ALL OF THE FUCKING PIECES BACK IN THE FUCKING BOX FROM AN INCH AWAY. That's just what I think anyway.

The Blackburn match was a complete shit-kicker and fucked me off after totally dominating a match, the Boro match we would have won if the ref had done his job and the Manure game had one one of the best atmospheres we'd had in years. And shit, we scored two goals against far superior opposition. We'd have been at the edge of our own penalty area under the last manager at that point. The Derby match at home though - one of thier fourteen points in the league that year. Inept management. But that had fuck all compared to the stupid fucking line-up he played against Liverpool. N'Zogbia on the right. Milner on the left. Geremi as right full back. It was almost as if he was trying to get sacked. And then we had the once in three lifetimes Portsmouth debacle, that you haven't taken on board but try to use a bi-annually win against Everton as a plus. Fuck off. You're talking shite.

Fucking hell - I hadn't realised we managed to beat Everton at home for the first time in two years. I was honoured to watch the match that I was hoping to see when I'd payed my six hundred fucking pound out in June. I was delighted to watch that ground-breaking performance getting butt-fucked by Portsmouth at home for the first time in my lifetime. The Portsmouth fans must have really enjoyed that one. Oh, and by the way, I'm glad you brought relegation into the frame, as I'm sure I mentioned that in my original post.

Most of the matches I've seen, and let's face it there have been a fair few on TV this year, we have given at leat two or three opportunities to the opposition in the middle of goal in most of the matches even VS Ipswich Apart from the Reading match. They were just fucking awful. Against most of the teams we expect to play next year, we will allow more chances than this and probably concede at most of these chances - as we found out last year.

OK then - apart from the Derby matches what were the other results that went against the unexpected. What went against the grain. The Mackems got a point against us, but what was the other unexpexted result?