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There was sommat on the news about SWP doing a drive on one of those big chopper trike things for charity. Apparently he was driving from London to the coast in aid of kids in Guatamala. Which could be either impressive of laughably pathetic depending on which coast it was. Which might be why they didn't say...

If you don't believe the results of that survey, why are you quoting them? Oh please. You might as well suggest someone read a George Galloway book to find out about the 'truth' about George Bush. Melanie Phillips is England's Anne Coulter and even some of the most anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism members of our society are very keen to distance themselves from her wing-nut biased ramblings. The fact she doesn't believe in evolution might explain why she's got the reasoning skills of an ape. Her column for the perpetually enraged, designed to terrify dappy middle-class housewives the Mail is funny though. I wonder if it's gay marriage, teaching evolution in schools, Grand Theft Auto, the great global warming conspiracy or her favourite, the MMR vaccine which is going to lead to the implosion of society this week. This guy in the Jewish Chronicle sums up how she portrays Britain, the country she seethes with so much undisguised hatred for, to the rest of the world. http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m12s114&SecId=114&AId=51460&ATypeId=1 The rest of your post I agree with 100%.

At teams with a crap ground My garden shed, is bigger than this, My garden shed is bigger than this It's got a door and a window My garden shed is bigger than this

Makes us look like a right bunch of clueless teenage chaver oiks.

It was also because he was an arab though, hence Tuncay not getting the same abuse (more likely to default to Dirty Turk before getting down to religion.) I don't think it matters if it was racist or not, I don't think sectarian chants aimed at someone because they're Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Catholic or whatever is any better. For what it's worth this line of "It wasn't because of his race, it was because of his religion and no wonder people are suspicious of them" is very different to the people in the thread saying it was nothing to do with his religion and just about how he looks. And wanting Sharia law in Britain is idiotic in my opinion (Or religion being a basis of law anywhere else for that matter - I'm not to keen on what's happening in Turkey at the moment for a start), but you fail to mention that the same ICM poll had 99% saying the suicide attacks on London were wrong and 91% saying they felt loyalty to Britain. Anyway, the epic Mido chants thread is that way

there's a difference likening someone to a famous actor because of looks and likenenig somebody to a radical "islamic" terrorists becaues of his religion. honestly the ignorance on this forum is unbelievable That was exactly my point mate, people are sayign it's acceptable and no different that that. I'm pointing out no-one accused people signing that of being racist because it's a totally different kettle of fish.

I though he just generally had a bomb in this little ditty, I can't remember it being specifically in his shoe? The Fat Eddie Murphy thing proves the point, no-one suggested that was racist even though it was comparing one black guy to another black guy.

I'm sure if it had been directed at Emre by another club, or if it'd been a spanish club reported as making the chants everyone would be equally as forgiving....

Bit of a stretch nowadays like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Richard_reid.jpg/200px-Richard_reid.jpghttp://images.sportinglife.com/07/08/330/Mido_Middlesbrough_557102.jpg

It's not simply because he's a muslim egyptian then, in a league where there are few arab looking players? I thought the shoe bomber was a guy with a pony-tail and a beard? Tuncay and Emre aren't the same race as Mido, are they?

Yeah, sure Emre thought it was hillarious as well.

That really reminded me of the end of Monty Burns book. "What's that you say? Me, thanking you? "

There are valid points being made about problems and potential problems we have at the moment. But no doubt Sam can see those issues as well. Until he's consistantly shown himself to have a Roeder-style inability to see what everyone else in the ground can see is the reason we aren't making chances, or a Souness style refusal to make changes which will rectify it, it's absurd to look at one performance, one formation, one set of tactics against one type of club with one selection of players and say the entire season is a write off because this is how it is and this is how it always will be.

Two. Games. In.

Cento Campista's over-rated man. People are only basing their opinion of him from champman and youtube.

It's quite a dangerous precedent to set like - which is one of the reasons the FA stand up for refs even when they're completely in the wrong. If you start suspending referees each time they get a decision wrong which changes the outcome of a match then we're not going to have anyone left to referee the games. Of course this is less of a problem than it could be, because there is no chance in fucking hell that he would have been suspended for giving the exact same decision against Wigan or Bolton.

Same but with Man U instead of Chelsea.

He's good cover, nothing more. Wouldn't want him in for any long period of time but he's better than most second choice keepers and I'm perfectly happy with him being our back up. Had me touching cloth with some of those daisy cutter goal kicks though.

Haven't read one for ages, but last time I did it was the footballing equivilant of an in-flight magazine.

Some strange goings on in their programme apparently - firstly the league table showed them second top without the -15 points. The squad number announcements page showed the squad numbers 13, 14, -15, 16, 17 and there was a "-15" page between pages 14 and 16. My guess would be that the league table was a result of incompetance and the hidden "-15s" the work of some mickey taking wag at the printers.

We were missing player in a Dyer style role like, but that doesn't mean we're missing Dyer.

No need to translate, just a little summary from L'Equipe about our match...shame about the bit in bold! Is that how it refers to our performance being a big pile of shit?? Think i'm getting the hang of this french lark! Newcastle were held in check by Aston Villa for the only game on Saturday without a goal (0-0). The former Parisian David Rozenhal found the target but also the hands of the Villa keeper for the Magpies' best chance before the break. Claudio Caçapa, the former captain of OL (Olympique Lyonnais), made his debut in a Newcastle shirt. The Brazilian defender, brought on for the last few minutes, is the 1000th player to don the famous black and white shirt. But White Park Lane reserved the best ovation for Michael Owen, who played the last half hour.

Ah yeah, good save that one. Good servant to the club and much needed decent cover. Which is something we've lacked pretty much everywhere else over the last 4 years...

Thought he had a good game, but is that the one where it was more a case of hitting him than him saving it? Dunno like, I didn't get a good view of it and didn't watch MOTD.