BlueStar

Got a fiver on Villa at 11/1. Chelsea are the last team I need on an accumulator for £20, so hedged my bets and put a few quid on a draw as well.

If it was a direct choice, yes. But we need depth pretty much across the board, any player of Bentley's quality shouldn't be sniffed at if he's within our means to get. We've got to take some of these gambles and hope he'd grasp to chance to prove himself at a team where he'd be getting regular games after the frustration of being on the sidelines and he's not just settled in to being happy to coast along picking up his wages. There's always going to be gambles though, we're not really in a position to pick up players which are first teamers for decent sides. Players we bring in are always going to have an element of unproven/out of favour/getting on/not been tested in this league.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6627252,00.html Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has confirmed he will try to sign England midfielder David Beckham on loan.

If his wages are reasonable and he doesn't come in permanently at the expense of someone going out, or come on loan instead of getting someone permanent, yes.

Barton free kick? Shola shinner? Jonas dribbling it into the goal like someone showing off on Pro Evo? I'm clutching at straws like

Jose's tweets giving spurs an advantage, fuck me. What about the advantage they were given by you picking perch and smith you fucking novice?

Blurgh. Could we not play Simpson left back, taylor on the right and Colo and Williamson in the middle and perch nowhere near anything?

Carroll committed to Magpies Pardew confident striker will not be sold in January http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6619066,00.html

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will not look to do too much business in the January transfer window and he expects Andy Carroll to remain at Newcastle. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6611454,00.html

He could offer to drive them there, long as he hasn't had a drink

The world footballers' union believes the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should be held in the winter instead of summer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9310671.stm

Click on "data view" at the top of the pitch on your latest points page. Now I've looked at it again and Cahill is 5.8 and Elmander is 5 anyway, so fuck knows what I was looking at before. EDIT: And now if I look in the 'transfer' view they're both 4.4 again, so I've no idea. Pretty confident that Cahill will be my captain though.

Elmander will be coming off my bench and Cahill is in my team. Both have a 'form' rating of 4.4 and my emergency captain goes on form. Who becomes my captain? WHO BECOMES MY CAPTAIN? Edit: Hooray! In the event of a tie...

Official NUFC twitter feed came up with "Neither Andy Carroll or Kevin Nolan have a twitter, any accounts claiming to be them are fake. We will have a list of genuine accounts after the weekend." Though I've not seen owt since.

Foot and a half Where abouts are you then? http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/web_snowdepth.html

Soft southern bastards!

There's 2 apparently.

Aye, coventry

Name the English team that hasn't finished in the top 6 of any league for 40 years.

If maradona managed in the prem, reckon his first act would be a bid for Jonas?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6578739,00.html So they're basically going to become us from three years ago, sack Big Sam with no real clue of who to replace him with, go for the crazy headline choice and watch the car crash happen 6 months down the line.

The next thing to do is to appoint dagliesh in an attempt to rekindle their 90s success...

Quite often in discussions about racism people come out with lines like "I've got a friend from Pakistan", although they usually have the sense to stop there before adding "who smells like curry all the time"

Mackems in morally indignant overload

Sitting next to my mate who took the Kevin Nolan fist-pump photo that's being used by the guardian. Who wants to touch me?