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It's what happens when you let Mike haggle, I suppose. "Nothing and that's my final offer!"

Fantasy league bonus points: 3 to Hernadez 2 to Smalling 1 to Tiote

Seems to delube himself that on an individual level everyone really reqpects him and that it's just gang mentality that leads to jeers and boos.

We were still sometimes defending corners with no-one up the pitch, drives me crackers. Means when you clear it, it comes straight back and when there's a black and white shirt by the centre circle it means one of their players has to hang back and mark them, so by not doing it we give them one more body in the box. Daft.

Did well last night, still dislike the horrible fannyrat.

Got a taxi to work this morning at about 6, having the usual crack on with the driver about the match etc and he told me he'd seen Leon Best driving around at about 4:30am in his white Porsche with his LB1 numberplates. Sure enough, about 6:20 we come up to the Corner House and there's a load of blue lights. Go past and it's two cop cars pulled up with lights flashing, a white Porsche with a sheepish looking Leon and a few of his mates standing talking to three or four bizzies. Uh, why isn't he in bed and is he going somewhere or coming back from somewhere at that time of day?

Speaking of which http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9481/capture1fd.jpg http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1815/captureikl.jpg

It's OK, Wigan's in this run of easy games they have coming up, points pretty much on the board already like West Brom and Birmingham. Shame all these 'easy' games are teams fighting for their life, while the mackems are fielding a load of spinless wankers who (probably rightly) consider themselves pretty safe.

Very load in stadium, and it lasted a long time. Loads of booooos, and then everyone started to sing 'One Greedy Bastard'... and just when it was dying down a little bit... it came back again just in case he hadn't heard. Probably the loudest I've heard SJP in a long time singing at once. There was an injury not long after he came on, and Barton went over and was standing talking to him, leading to a chant of "Joey, Joey knock him out"

They won't though. Should get banners for the next game to get the point across, "Loan Ranger"

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Thought he was pretty awful today, but what struck me was his warming up at half time. Fuck me, if he's like that in training no wonder he doesn't get picked and always looks knackered. A row full of lads doing those jogging knee circle things and there's Nile, sticking out like a sore thumb and jogging along, lifting his foot about 2 inches off the ground while everyone else has their knee at chest hight. Same with the twists, everyone with their elbows out, swinging back and forth, with Ranger with his arms down and slightly bent. Then they get in a circle and ask him to to in the middle and he slouches in like Kevin the Teenager being sent to his room. When they do drugs tests do they test for weed or just performance enhancers?

Good point, well deserved. Thought he'd given them a pen at the end, instead of a yellow for diving. Should have booked that little twat in the first half as well. Looked like a pen on loven from the stands like. Giggs and Rooney should have buried those chances mind. Great performance all round really, enjoyed Owen's welcome.

NilePowerRanger B day cake ! http://yfrog.com/gzxmrncj

"The embarrassment of being an Arsenal fan" http://www.football365.com/mailbox/story/0,17033,8744_6882987,00.html

Facebook are trying to tempt me with this http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6429/capturesdz.jpg

Presumably Nani will win Young Player of the Year and we'll have a YPotY that's three years older than the PotY.

Which one's he going to take this one on then?

RT @OptaJoe 36% - Sunderland have hit the target with just 36% of their attempts, a lower percentage than any other team in the Premier League. Skew.

Could have just turned the barstool upside down and got four of them on it.

Someone was telling me they have the worst form of any top tier team in Europe.

When people start singing the Colocini song at first it sounds like everyone's doing the jaws theme.

Stupid songs from the pub before Villa: Ireland was right, Birmingham's shite, His gran isn't dead, that's just what he said His name's Too long To fit in to this song MikeWilliamson, MikeWilliamson I throw my hands up in the air sometimes Singing ay-oh, Leon Best goal (To "Aston Villa stayed at home and watched it on the telly" / went to mow a meadow or whatever it was) Stevie Bruce has a face like a melted wellie Stevie Bruce has a face like a melted wellie

Not deluded enough to go to Liverpool.

If Pardew is telling the truth (ho ho!) is there anything here which could be considered tapping up?