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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?

Well said Joey. Congratulations on the 3 points tonight Alan, hope you don't wake up tomorrow

'get out of our club' belting out after the final whistle.

Anyone who thinks you can't support the team while also slagging off Ashley and pardew isn't at this match.

Which trophy, Johnston's Paint?

Supermac is on stage at the Centurion, slagging off the appointment to a largely disinterested crowd, claiming the decision was made ages ago, talking about pardew losing.dressing rooms, casino buddies etc.

Isn't there a club who have links with the traveller community whose local rivals have a large repetoire of chants like "The wheels on your house go round and round"? Have a feeling it's being made a big deal of because of less light hearted stuff in the past.

Sounds like the start of a chant to the tune of "My old man's a dustman" What were the chants from WBA anyway?

Considering team spirit and morale is pretty much the only thing that's been getting us anywhere, it's absolutely crazy to suggest it's playing it safe to stick by a man which such a record of completely dismantling morale (to the point where he was sacked in spite of a 4-0 win for creating a 'suicidal' atmosphere at Southampton) rather than seeing what's in the box if we don't play nice. The gamble is shrugging our shoulders and saying "Oh well, guess we've got to get behind him."

Uh, yes? Happens on a regular basis. Yep, and even after all that I'd still rather have Beardsley, Stone, Lee Clark, pretty much anyone other than this horrible boil of a man. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Basically, none of us know what's going to happen, and my predictions may be different from yours. I cannot see this ending well. i cannot see it lasting more than a season. At the moment, we're in chaos anyway. Pardew walking away within the next few months is just another aspect of the current chaos. What I can see happening is that we teeter on for a while, things calm down, the inevitable happens, the shit hits the fan and then we have a new period of chaos, rather than just an extended current one. Basically, I'd like what I see as Pardew's inevitable departure to come now or soon, while things are already up in the air and shit is kicking off everywhere rather than it happening 6-12 months down the line when we have to do all this shit again. Forcing Ashley's mate to jack it in the job he gifted him would be a major victory for the club and fans, possibly the first tangible thing we've been able to take off him (certainly more quantifiable than poorly supported attempts to hit his pocket by not buying a pie.) And that can only be a good thing for the power balance of this relationship.