BlueStar

Just seen a lad in a Man U top with an Irish accent says they're still the best team in the world because they won the Premier League and the British Cup. The what?

Crying Man U fans on the telly in pubs and the ground. It's OK for them to do it mind, they've had a hard time of things poor dears, so we wont see the media laughng about it or people singing about it.

Newcastle

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5350437,00.html

Could easily get worse than this, and by that I don't just mean some kind of catastrophic fall through divisions over the next few years. It doesn't take many seasons treading water in the championship to become just another second-tier club with no parachute payment, no players left over from better times and not as an attractive proposition for players as whichever teams have managed to fight their way to around play-off territory the last few seasons or have just dropped down. Then you're thoroughly in the mire with all the rest, waiting and hoping to one day stumble upon the manager, chairman or players who might give you a shot at the big time, in the knowledge that day may never come, you might end up going down the other way and if you do get up there you're unlikely to have the squad or the finances to pay more than a fleeting visit. There may be reasons to stick with Ashley, but "he can't make it any worse" isn't one of them.

I'll tell you what, it fucking could.

Thing is, I think Ashley still wants out. It's all very well asking for stability but if he jacks it in half way through the season and sells to the first person through the door we're going to be more unstable than if we do a deal over the close season and start afresh in a new league with a new owner. WHoever it is, they can't be worse than Ashley. But then we said that about Freddie

Nope, sang like fuck instead because there's no way I was giving the Sky cameras what they wanted and it wouldn't do any good anyway.

Might be OK backup for Ranger

Let's hope we've honed our negotiating skills since the Given transfer otherwise the transfer fees won't do us much good.

Got back about 2am and just got up. Well, that was pretty fucking horrible. The fans did us proud like.

I saw a magpie chinning fuck out of a sparrow the other week, it had it pinned down on the ground and was pecking the hell out of it, with another sparrow going apeshit and hopping around trying to save its mate. What does that mean?

Good, means Ranger steps up the pecking order Mate of mine found a dying magpie in his garden the other day. He put it in a cardbord box with some water and stuff and took it in the garage, leaving the window open so it could fly out if it recovered and went to uni. His mates there were saying it was an omen and if it lived, we'd stay up, if it died we'd go down.

That sounds canny actually, I'd be willing to have that on the back if I could find somewhere to do it decent.

Just want to be over now, just feel drained. Had a shit day at work and usually I'd be looking forward to an away match even if we're unlikely get a result because it's a weekend away with the lads getting pissed with a load of other lads who are willing to sing any song I decide to belt out but my nerves are just fucking frayed. I've had dreams/nightmares about the game every night this week (depending on if we're winning or losing in them) and the last dream I had there were tattered old Canadian flags all over Birmingham because Villa had just played Canada in Europe the night before.

Who?

Good to hear Dowie mentioning him ahead of Sunday. Hopefully if we're chasing a goal in the last 30 minutes Shearer will think Nile could be his Macheda

Well as the article poitns out, yes there is.

Complete with Kiss Me Quick hats.

Migth take a banner with the web address of some illegal footy stream site, might keep the fucking cameras off me.

... the fuck? The fact it's floating eerily in the sky makes it look all the better

Thought the main problem with the long sleeved one was that the stripes going down the arm stop at the same point as they do on the short sleeved one (above where the league badge is) and then start again further down.

"Here we are when we are shit"

It'll be easy man, I'm out on the piss all night in Nottingham the night before so I just need to make sure I don't sober up. Saying that, Birmingham police are absolute fuckers and lift people at random going into the ground for the offence of "Attempting gain entry to a sporting event whilst drunk." Nabbed a mate of mine at Villa Park minding his own business and hoisted some lad next to me up by both arms and bundled him into a side door at St Andrews for the offence of singing as he came through the turnstiles.