Wullie

Speaking of other games, just seen Mikel's red card from last night. Fuck me! It's getting seriously out of hand this "bad tackles" nonsense.

Sick of hearing mongs on Sky Sports emailing in - "the football wasn't good enough." The RESULTS weren't good enough. Just perpetuating this ridiculous myth that we'd love to get relegated as long as we were playing good stuff.

What, he was genuinely on?

How much would postage be to send a gift set of golf clubs to Germany?

Cos he's not?

Steve McClaren.

Mark Hughes ffs.

Wrong.

Took you a while to lift that rock up and crawl out.

Aye. At least we'll have a bit of excitement around the place.

Scarily, I have to agree with the "rather Shearer than any of the other no-marks" comments.

There's no way it will be McClaren.

Oh man.

Re: the timing, maybe they thought of Arsenal, Arsenal and Man Utd as write offs (which they were/are) and want someone in to try and lift things to get points from Boro and Middlesbrough so we don't get sucked in at the bottom. I was all for giving Sam the season, but with confidence clearly on the floor at the moment, I wouldn't have even been that confident against Stoke, Bolton or Boro tbh.

Fucking hell, those mongs on SSN.

Fucking hell.

Some of the funniest threads ever have originated on the SMB - but then when you have hundreds of new threads an hour, it's not that surprising. Clearly does a good job, just look at its membership for evidence of that, but it's never been my bag. If you want to read about a breaking news story, you have to look through each of the 27 threads stretching across 3 index pages to find a decent one, then you spend an hour looking through that because they fit about 5 posts on each page. Hourses for courses and that though. This place isn't perfect, it's a very long way from it - I bet it's a lot closer than most football forums though.

I voted for Given, Harper, Beye, Cacapa, Faye, Enrique, Milner, N'Zogbia, Owen, Viduka, Martins, but then I think we've more to see from Barton (not that I'd be arsed if we ripped the twat's contract up) and even Rozehnal, cos I refuse to accept that a seasoned Czech international can be so poor. Our players aren't as bad as they look at the moment, they're just not.

There's a few players I reckon would do well in a side playing with fluency, shape and confidence which we've not seen thus far, making it a difficult question to answer.

I love it when someone drags out that old argument. It's not about them not physically being able to play 2 or 3 matches a week, it's about the standard of football you get when they do. It might be a bit cliched but footballers today are athletes and you wouldn't expect an athlete to put in world class performances every few days while their opponents try and click lumps out of them. Aye, Arsenal and Man Utd play more than anyone and they're shit.

What's really ironic is that you're right, Wenger is often cited by idiot journalists as evidence of "stability breeding success". That's Arsene Wenger who won the Premiership title in his first full season. That's without mentioning Mourinho who did the same and Benitez who won the Champions League in his.

Man Utd's lap of honour two seasons ago when they only finished 2nd: http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4485/ysifsiv7.jpg We're no better or worse than many other sets of fans. Difference being that no support even close to the size and passion of ours gets continually kicked in the bollocks as much as we do.

Look at Arsenal. If there's a manager in Europe who can genuinely claim to be "special", it ain't Jose Mourinho.

Toure and Eboue ... Rosicky or Hleb will play on the right, they'll bring Walcott on. Senderos is absolute s****, we have to hope they play him instead of Djourou who in my opinon is much better. Adebayor, Diarra and Diaby too. I realise some are not starters, but the less options Wenger has, the better. Where are Adebayor, Diarra and Diaby going? Only Eboue, Toure and Song are going to the tournament. I stand corrected. Bollocks! Useless bloody Togo, could have done with Adebayor being away.

Toure and Eboue ... Rosicky or Hleb will play on the right, they'll bring Walcott on. Senderos is absolute shite, we have to hope they play him instead of Djourou who in my opinon is much better. Adebayor, Diarra and Diaby too. I realise some are not starters, but the less options Wenger has, the better.