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Really sets women back in the sport when one of the few female journalists writing on football for a major newspaper comes out with such utter clueless shit on a weekly basis, someone who wasn't familiar with her work could quite naively shrug that off as being a pre-menstrual response to reading unkind words on an internet forum, if they didn't know she was a fucking moron for the entirety of each and every calendar month. That rambling dirge would be a waste of a post on a forum or personal blog, never mind a newspaper column.

So we've got Louise slagging off Hughton, implying we're deluded and think he's going to be great in the Premier League when he'll be out of his depth and we've got this guy saying we're ungrateful and won't give him time in the top flight. And that also makes us deluded, somehow.

Guess as a Wolves fan you have to snipe at whatever teams you can, seeing as how none of your nearby clubs really see you as their traditional rivals. Guess they're much like Boro in that respect. Fairly certain WBA - Wolves have a healthy rivalry. More recently they do because they've been duking it out at the same kind of level, but I thought Villa were the main target of West Brom's vitriol long term.

Guess as a Wolves fan you have to snipe at whatever teams you can, seeing as how none of your nearby clubs really see you as their traditional rivals. Guess they're much like Boro in that respect.

NEWCASTLE FANS TO RESUME INEXPLICABLE SELF-CONFIDENCE http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2618&Itemid=26 Bit like the football equivalent of a TV dinner or mother in law gag, don't think I've seen Newcastle fans be confident of anything but disappointment and failure since the mid-90s.

Loads of coppers and stewards started massing in the corners before the final whistle, and then those two guys ran on and no-one did a fucking thing. They were milling around with the players and the stewards were just looking at them. One of them tried to go down the tunnel with the players and it was only then a copper stuck his arm out and stopped him.

Climbed over the hordings while warming up at half time to shake the hand of some pissed bald bloke in the east stand who was calling him over.

At the ground, great atmosphere and the same 'proud to be a geordie, we'll support you ever more' banner that was just behind me at villa away last season was unravelled in the leazes corner, till it was taken down by some stewards. Almost brought a tear to my eye.

Thing is, last season we had a team of high value players who thought they were above a relegation scrap, didn't want to play for us, were disorgansed and disinterested. Our relegation rivals were generally teams of cheap players who were motivated, organised and were pleased to be playing for that squad and excited to be playing in big stadiums, against big teams in a top league, players to whom recognition of the manager and the fans actually meant something. Whether we struggle in this league or not, I'm looking forward to being in the latter camp for a change and I fancy our chances against jaded, long term premier underachievers with costly wasters like elmander moping around the pitch.

Their little teeny boppers with painted faces were having a right slanging match with some young whitley lasses in the seahorse at half time as well

Anyone see the barwell fan celebrating their disallowed goal like mad even after the free kick for offside had been taken?

Enjoyed my Bovril, watered down by the rain

Might take the glasses to the Bay match after and watch that in 3D too.

Deed in the monkey, glasses are a quid and you get to keep em. Looks alright, they're showing highlights of various sports and that. Anything that comes too far out the screen is in double vision for me though cos one of my eyes is a bit shit, had the same problem with avatar although the longer I watched it the less it happened.

Nar, wouldn't reckon so, just nipped in to make sure they were showing it because their advertising consisted of a black and white A4 print out saying it was coming soon and to ask to reserve tickets to the debut showing or something (which must have been earlier)

Definitely on in the Monkseaton Arms, 100 pairs of glasses, first come, first served. Gonna be a lot like Avatar, just going for the spectacle and don't really care if it's the cold-hearted capitalists or disgustingly trendy urchin savages that win in the end.

Is the 3D coverage exactly the same as the normal coverage, or is it directed independently so that they can show gratuitous shots of things like bits of the stand, the crowd, Wenger's nose or Jamie Redknapp's crotch waggling out the screen towards you that would look terminally dull in 2D?

unless your liverpool or man u yes it does and a tut tut from the premier league for not treating their "best league in the world" as your top priority Resting players for Champions League is fine because the Premier League wants English teams to win it. Resting players against one of the big four is not fine, because it upsets the rest of the big four.

All sounds theoretical, would be nice if it happened while I was over on me hols though.

Pass the Monkey all the time and haven't seen any advertisements for it, which is a bit odd. This bit on that site seems a bit contradictory. I'd hope in the monkey they'll show it in the lounge on a big screen, it's not a very good venue to watch a particularly popular match because most of the flat screens are in the bar bit and there's only about three spots you can see a screen from.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6068367,00.html

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6068339,00.html West Ham are to lodge a complaint against Fulham after Roy Hodgson fielded a weakened side in last weekend's defeat to Hull City.

You know, I was wondering if some teams take big attendences and vocal support as some kind of arrogance. In general the better teams are doing, the betetr the football, the higher the chances of success, the more folk turn up. Are people going "Deluded geordies, look at 45,000 of them turning up and singing about how great Newcastle is when they're only finishing 7th/10th/13th/gonna get relegated/in the second teir, they must think that they're great and gonna win the league in a season or so."

Maybe I'm being overly harsh and don't know what's happening behind the scenes, but has he been doing much 'steering' at all recently? Is it not more that now he's stopped fucking around making the wrong decisions about backing/sacking/appointing managers and selling players, now that an alright manager fell into his lap without having to do anything that we're drifting back up?

Guy next to me has been saying he wants to see him converted to a centre forward for a while now. I think he's only half joking. But yeah, massive man-crush on the guy.