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The Harvester pub used to close when Stoke played Port Vale and the staff would sit up on the roof watching the fights.

I lived there for 3 years without finding a pub that wasn't best avoided when Stoke were playing home or away

The problem is that sound takes time to travel, so if you've got two groups of people singing at opposite ends of the ground and trying to keep time with each other by ear they're always going to end up out of sync.

Gonna try and get time off to go down there, glory hunter

He seemed to take a heavy hit in the back like, wasn't sure if he was winded at first or what but he seemed to be in a lot of discomfort. Cracked rib? Punctured lung? He was in a bad fucking way whatever it was from what I saw. All the best to him like

Aye, spotted that. Sam on Shearer http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_5138694,00.html Hiddink "warning" for Shearer http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5143137,00.html Owen on Shearer http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_5142973,00.html

Dunno if it's wise to get advice from Hoddle - what does he think Dowie did in a previous life to get a face like that?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5133775,00.html

Very strange considering what a great job he was doing and how misinformed the fans were about what his role was that as soon as Shearer comes in he's told to fuck right off and his role's not going to be filled, isn't it. Someone ought to ring up Ashley and Shearer and tell them they've got the wrong end of the stick before it's too late.

Dunno about "It couldn't have happened at a better time" - how about fucking months ago?

Shearer should become long-term Newcastle manager, says Hall http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/01/alan-shearer-newcastle-manager-hall

Regarding the timing and why the hell you'd announce it on April Fools day, could the start of the new financial year have anything to do with it in terms of contracts, anything like that? Or maybe Ashley just looking at the financial report and going "Ah rats cocks, if we go down I'm going to have to lock myself in the garage with the engine running."

Craig does what Ashlet tells him too. How will Al work with the board I wonder. knock seven bells out of them, hopefully.

Before 12:00 on April 1st then? Fuck knows.

I imagine it's more likely to be an April Fool by the person who gave the "Unconfimed report" to Sky than Sky themselves. Surely they know how little sense of humour the butt of the joke would have about that, they might as well do an April Fool about a terrorist attack in London or the Pope dying. EDIT: But then we get stupid "unconfirmed reports" and equally crazy real events happening pretty much every day of the year, it's no surprise if it's one or the other that's just fallen on April the 1st.

Sadly, this kind of petty stuff is more likely to make Ashley bring in Bruce than our current dire situation is.

We all know we'll just keep Hughton in charge until we can convince Joe to change his mind or until further notice

"Right, who's next on the list? Hmm, Newcastle. Who are their good players? Fuck, never watch them unless they're playing a London team. Weren't they talking about that Taylor lad for England or something? *Checks wikipedia * He's local as well, they'll like him. That nigerian fella always scores against Spurs, doesn't he. Arsenal were supposed to be interested in him as well, he can be number two. Who else is in their squad? Jonas somone, Jose someone, Sebastian Boumsong... Never heard of any of these fuckers... Aha! Nicky Butt, I know him, used to play for Man U, he must be number 3 then."

Stole the colour scheme off this guy http://www.selwg.org/modelling/dalek2.jpg

My mate saw Geremi with Jimmy White in Aspers Casino on Saturday night.

He'd get a lot more time than the likes of Venables and he actually wants the job.

They were singing there's only one Bobby Robson in the first half, didn't hear anything like that in the second though yeah heard that. it was about 10mins to. might have been the arsenal fans singing something Oh yeah - the Arsenal fans were singing "There's only one Arsne Wenger"

Been pretty disappointed to be honest, recently he's looked pretty lightweight and he has a habit of committing himself in one direction too early.

They were singing there's only one Bobby Robson in the first half, didn't hear anything like that in the second though

Could it be that Ashley's... Too nice? Keegan says "I want control of the transfers" but Ashley doesn't want to kick out Wise so he just hopes it'll work itself out and KK will come round, Kinnear gets appointed on a temp basis and Ashley doesn't want to move him on because that makes it seem like he's not done a good enough job, Joe's heart packs in again and he thinks it's be too cruel to give the job to someone else in the circumstances and doesn't want to show a lack of confidence in Hughton by not letting him lead the team in Joe's absence when that's his duty as assistant...? Just seems bizarre, maybe he lacks the ruthless streak you need.