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urgh, the idea of stoke or bolton in europe. ..

Ashley's cutbacks were by necessity of his self inflicted meltdown, not design. The fact one of his first signings was alan smith on hollywood wages should clear that up. There's no saying freddie wouldnt have tightened the belt as well if needs must, while not squandering premier league money, addidas money etc through utter (rather than moderate) stupidity.

I guess we'll never know, will we, because we were taken over on a whim by a moron who admits he doesnt know how to run a club.

Fuck off man. Freddie Shepherd would have bloody bankrupted us by now! Don't be daft, successful clubs operate with high levels of debt. That's the way of the world at the moment. Football fans support what's going on on the pitch, we don't sit around with a smug set of satisfaction because we have less debt than Man U. Ashley would have relegated us by now. Oh, wait, he did. We'll never get stability under this regime, we'll never make anything of the club with this moron in charge. We've seen that demonstrated time and again. The best we can hope for is to tread water well enough between each catastrophe that we don't plummet like a stone. Again.

Uh-huh, better to have a load of miserable players who want out I suppose.

So the only options available to us are to be a laughing stock with a cluless twat in charge or to be Man City? What about all the other clubs in the league? Why weren't the same people opposed to us being taken over by a sports billionaire in the first place for the same reasons? I'd welcome any takeover to be honest, with our current ownership you'd be mad to not gamble for what's in the box. I'd take Freddie back in a heartbeat.

Their fans are a bunch of horrible cunts as well, in the Stoke/Birmingham mould.

Can't see it. Something will happen, we'll get taken over, he'll do something to piss Ashley off, have a bad run of results or Ashley will want to do another mate a favour.

Find it hard to get excited about things like Ashley lowering wages, debt etc. Maybe if we made up some songs related to this new way of supporting the club's financial results rather than football results? Weee'reee Geeeeoooordies, We're sensible, We live within our means His wage is pretty small, His price was reason-able, Tiote, woooahh, Tiote, wooaaah How we can mock those wretched Man United fans, with all those debts and trophies.

Didn't Spurs bring out a DVD of their 4-4 fightback against Arsenal as well?

Manchester United fan's 'offensive' sticker censored http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12690652

Captain Arteta off after 8 mins for me

Didn't a Chinese couple get brutally murdered by Triads for doing just that, sitting in St Jame's Park with a phone and telling contacts abroad what was happening before dodgy bookies could stop taking bets on certain events?

Villa ticket on sale now, imagine we'll regale those good humoured brummies with a good-natured round of "Ireland was right, Birmingham's shite"

Although it's a sickening Spurs wankfest, this is pretty well done... Does it count as a football video?

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First touch, header on target

Hattrick of piss easy tap-ins against Man U, must think it's his birthday

Liverpool only turn up against tough opponents though.

Don't we just have one player out on loan? And one whose consistently shown he can't play at this level? Four by my reckoning.

Presume guthrie wasn't 100% seeing as he started on the bench with simpson in midfield? How can a club with a squad the size of ours justify loaning so many players?

Could technically still be 7th place, no? With birmingham still in the fa cup?

Seems a strange thing to say, pretty much any 'whisper' or twitter bollocks ends up on here so they must have been very quiet whispers.

I thought the Riverside had banned vuvuzelas?

Let's see if he handles the pressure of his pricetag better than Torres seems to be.