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Was in the air while this match was being played, turned on extortionate data roaming once I touched down in New York, saw the scoreline, went "Ah fuck", opened the match timeline, went "What the fuck." Think I'll forget about footy for the rest of my hols. After I've checked my fantasy team.

I can't see shit either, could someone rehost it?

Maybe we could start a petition and make sure they send him to jail?

Haven't we established that it's a man's sport, that managers can never be accused of asking a player to put a reducer in and that a leg breaking tackle isn't even a free kick? Just send Tiote in with a career ender on Benty in the first five minutes.

Liverpool will probably be awarded 9 extra points, can't have one of the big four in the relegation zone.

Could someone explain how come Southampton were docked 9 points when their holding company went into administration, but the view is that if Liverpools's holding company went into administration, but the club itself didn't, then they wouldn't lose 9 points? West Ham seemed to avoid it as well. There's also talk about there only being a risk of a points deduction if the holding company is deemed by the Premier League as being solely concerned with the ownership of Liverpool and football-related matters, but they'll be safe if the club's just a solvent part of an overall portfolio - I know West Ham's Icelandic bank owners had their fingers in a large amount of other pies, but what else exactly does Kop Football (Holdings) Ltd do?

Where abouts in Whitley has he moved to? (Area /street rather than door number) Don't know exactly, think it's the leafier and less boozy whitley lodge type end rather than by the promanade, thankfully.

Statement from the LMA in reaction to Danny Murphy's comments on SSN in a sec.

Driving pissed at 3pm with no license and no insurance

He's just moved to whitley bay, so don't be surprised if you see him grogging on with Johnny Decker

Pretty sure that came about because they put it in a matchday programme or something, or at least someone used it in a more 'official' capacity where "Fuck the Mags" was not really appropriate, so they used the excuse of "Oh, no, no, it means follow the mackems."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXyPeBKSHg

They could rename them the Liverpool Stealers

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6431663,00.html We will rebuild Reds - NESV Prospective new owners will wipe out debt and target silverware Liverpool's prospective new owners have promised to bring the glory days back to Anfield and wipe out the club's acquisition debt.

I don't know. Image that you had 4 different sources of premiership rights holders to choose from. Sky in the UK, one in Germany, France and Italy. All who paid for the same rights as sky did. Who you go with is up to you. I can see Sky paying less as they won't have a monopoly, but the other countries broadcasters would have access to the rest of Europe and would therefore pay more. Sky could also broadcast their own channels abroad also. Would it be good to reduce Sky's dominance though? I kind of like the fact sky has 90% of the rights as they do it properly and I don't mind paying the subs. Its the whole Setanta/ESPN thing that does my nut in. As long as they show the match, I don't care to be honest. For avid followers of specific clubs (rather than those who just like watching the odd bit of football and weigh up if they want to see Super Sunday, the rugby or just put Top Gear on iPlayer), I imagine the ideal environment would be at the game, with no commentator, no analysis, no replays, no computer graphics - and I think they'd rather watch their own team play Bolton in a meaningless midtable game on dodgy pub telly with Estonian commentary than watch the Sky Super Mega Sunday Chelsea-Arsenal clash in 3D with 'expert' opinion and the technological bells and whistles.

Iv been thinking about this one and have come up with this When the ball hit the net It's not Gyan or Bent, It's Ben Arfa, When he crosses the ball And the Toon Army score, That's Ben Arfa! Running down the pitch, Running down the pitch, Running down the pitch, That's Ben Arfa! When he runs down the wing All the Geordies will sing Oh Ben Arfa! When we all shit our kecks Cos some cunt's broke his legs That's Ben Arfa

I have to say, I've never sat watching a toon match on a pub's dodgy Greek satellite and thought "I'm really not enjoying this game, what it needs is some over paid cunt like Andy Gray to explain everything to me with his expensive etch-a-sketch and stupid fucking pen." If it's about quality. surely then Sky have nothing to worry about, they're sure they have the best quality product and people will pay for it, let the free market prove it, no? Isn't that what Murdoch bangs on about when he attacks the BBC?

Class, it's like a Batman villian off to commit some nefarious acts with his mis-shapen Igor-like assistant in tow.

City fans on their forum outraged he's been dropped from the Dutch side, apparently anyone who has a problem with his leg-breaking tackles wants football to be a non-contact girly sport.

Still can't believe this has happened at the start of the season after the 300 page epic will-he-won't-he transfer saga

Pretty fair assessment from Sky Sports http://www.skysports.com/football/match_report/0,19764,11065_3293519,00.html

Don't like this nonsense of the likes of blackpool, wba and wigan getting points in the most unexpected of places like.

It's Ben Arfa, he can run it off.

What a team of absolutely reprehensible malodorus softcocks.

Bring on Carroll to hold the ball up, instead of having shola the human pinball bumper up there.