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From Ronaldo's interview on possible retirement "Logically, no club wants a 31-year-old player who has had two operations, suffered terrible injuries to his knees and is doubtful to play again. " Don't bet on it Ronny

We're going to have to spunk a serious amount of cash on this squad Maybe we can compensate for the fact we're an incredibly unattractive employer in our current position by at least give the impression that we're doing a mini Chelsea and planning to buy a ready-made top class team. After one big signing that we'll have to pay through the nose for both in terms of fee and wages (and possibly getting a player who's not hugely pleased at ending up here), maybe there'll be decent players interested in the prospect of coming aboard.

I know we've been playing quality teams and we have no right to expect points from those games but the amount of goals we've been conceding is pretty frightening.

Sky were nice to us at least, when they showed the previews of the matches you could select on their select-a-match-o-matic thing the first one available was Newcastle Utd 1 - 4 Manchester Utd.

"Arsenal's Da Silva Eduardo is carried with possible broken leg after a challenge by Birmingham" I think they're possibly right

Are those the worst two photos of it? I was expecting blood and bones.

Can't give links to footy clips here. Your best bet is to go to a popular video site, search for eduardo and sort by date added. Brum player in the way of the realtime view of it on sky, can't see what happened really.

Well, that's my Times fantasy team even more fucked.

First I heard of this was a message from my Spurs fan mate which I'll type verbatim "Asapently the toon have signed chris hughton to the coaching staff. Fucking idiots, he's a shit coach. Get used to the clipboard of doom." He's actually pretty humble for a spurs fan and usually happy to see the toon doing well as long as it's not at the expense of spuds.

Minibar.

Papers today are coming up with all sorts of details, that he binged on coke and whisky, held conversations with a plastic parrot, answered the door with "I'M MAD" written on his forehead etc. As usual if any of them are true is anyone's guess.

On BBC1 news now.

Link...? Not yet. Watch the lunchtime regional news, they should mention it.

After an "incident" at a posh hotel. Thought we'd not heard much from him recently...

Just read about an Iranian immigrant who moved here from Tehran 7 years ago and loves the city so much he's just changed his name from Ali Reza Sarkhofh to Peter Newcastle. Is he allowed to support the toon? It didn't say if he's pogoed yet.

I think anyone we picked up during Keegans first term who wasn't serious about it will have fucked us off by now to be honest. If they came here glory hunting and stuck through the last three reigns of shite I reckon they've earned their stripes by now.

Wouldn't say I really have one, although I go to Whitley Bay matches every now and again so them if anyone. £4 on the turnstile, Up The Bay

Yeah, bollocks to 'em. It so easy to say "Yeah, I support Man Utd. Oh look, we won again." and qualify it with "I like the way they play" or "My Mum's from Manchester." Yeah, so mine and she hates those red twats for stealing all of Bury's players when she was a kid.

I like the way they mention the Stoke game in more than half of the descriptions, considering the rest of the games that month they might as well rename it the Man of the Match vs Stoke poll.

Ah well. I'm probably just sick of seeing his oikish face before every match.

What exactly is he then? I've still never had seen it properly clarified any further than when I first heard his rather vauge title when it was reported as

Why does Wise come to our first team matches? Shouldn't he be watching lower league or reserve matches on a Saturday instead, looking for talent?

Horrible little oik, looked like a stunted zombie version of Robbie Williams. Few years back at Villa he got taken off and we gave him a corus of "You're just a little fucking twat! Just a little fuck-ing twat. Just a little, just a little, just a little fucking twat!" and so on. Got exactly the response we were after as he span round and threw a pathetic air punch type thing in the direction of the toon fans shouting "FUCK OFF!" and eliciting a cheer from us all

A £6m return is more than I would ever have hoped for, that's cheered me up this morning.