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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/16/manchester-united-19-times-banner-anfield Didn't hear about this yesterday - Man U fans unveil banner at Anfield. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/columnists/2011/5/16/1305542576542/Manchester-United-fans-007.jpg

Fulham set for another crack at Europe after UEFA grant England extra Europa League place http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1387554/UEFA-grant-England-extra-Europa-League-place.html#ixzz1MVmSYC8A

Ceefax running "Pardew dismisses Drogba rumours"

Hitzlsperger was looking good for them by the end of the season, can imagine him back in the prem somewhere next year if he's still got a bit of his career left.

You can't really say, but by some very quick and possibly slightly innacurate maths they got 34 points out of 23 games with Bent, 1.48 points a game. Since he left they've got 10 points out of 14 games, an average of 0.7 points a game. If they'd had 0.7 points per game for the first 23 games as well, they'd have a total of 26 points by today which would have seen them mathematically relegated quite some time ago.

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:bluestar::bluestar::bluestar:

YYYEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHEARRGRGGHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"There's only two Ameobis"

Sickener.

Listening on the wireless on the metro, just yelped when we scored and everyone thinks I'm a nut.

Good start.

You just know before he edited it "dart" was "spear"

Must be delighted he has played such a pivotal part in Man Citeh's success. Be nice if they let him touch the trophy and give him an autograph.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6931699,00.html Harry slams 'idiot' critics Harry Redknapp has angrily hit out at Tottenham fans who have criticised the club's fortunes this season. Redknapp is bemused by those supporters who used a radio phone-in following the 1-0 defeat by Manchester City on Tuesday to vent their anger at Spurs' recent slump. Hopes of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League once again were extinguished at Eastlands and the team are locked in a battle with Liverpool - Sunday's opponents - for fifth place in the Premier League. Redknapp insists the dissenting voices are only a minority and is not taking any notice of their opinion. "The reaction doesn't hurt me. The reason I don't listen to phone-ins is because you're talking about idiots," he said. "Who rings up a radio station? My dad lived for football, went every Saturday, but he wouldn't pick up the phone to a radio station. It's absolute nonsense. "They're idiots who don't even watch football. They say, 'We were rubbish today'. "The guys on the radio ask them if they were at the game, and they say, 'No, I heard it on the radio'. "When I start worrying about what they think, I'll be in trouble. "99.9 per cent of people who go to Tottenham have loved everything they've seen. That's all that matters." No disaster Spurs made their Champions League debut this season, reaching the quarter-finals where they were knocked out by Real Madrid. Redknapp stresses that the club can never take qualifying for Europe's top club competition for granted. "I can't believe what's been said. I don't know where they've been the last few years. Not watching Tottenham obviously," he said. "We've seen some great football this year, some great games. "Maybe expectations have been raised, but they don't have any brains, they don't understand. "If they think we should have Champions League football every year, then what's been happening during all those years we didn't qualify? "I didn't see us reaching the Champions League previously. "It's not as if it's something that happens every year but hasn't happened this time, so it's a disaster. "It's so hard to get into the top four now. "We were flying until Gareth Bale got injured and that was a massive setback for us. We could have got an extra four or five points."

Are we sure this isn't a Daily Mash article that found its way into the Echo?

Best. Article. Ever.

Order it HERE and enter your membership number in 'the box provided'. Although I can't see a box for it, must be on the next step.

Are they only capable of stripes that are too thick or too thin? Have standard width stripes been copyrighted by Nike or something?

Get in. Got a load of mates down there, sounded like a great game.

Last player to get 14 yellows in one season was Robbie Savage in 01/02.

Fergie will love us resting him against a Chelsea team looking to boost their goal difference

eh? Don't shoot the messenger Impeccable source - someone who works at the club who text someone who sits near me

Today's itk - supposedly Barton and Shola had a fight before the game over the choice of music in the dressing room which ended with Shola calling Joey a racists.

Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has revealed he would rather have Wayne Rooney than Lionel Messi. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6917781,00.html