Wullie

Agreed. He's gone a bit 'Spurs' with all the cash he's been given.

Yep.

Isn't Oliver supposed to use his articles to pour scorn on what the nationals have written and tell just how wide of that mark they are? Oh that's right, not when it might unsettle Obafemi Martins. Oba should go round and egg his house.

I don't speak Icelandic, but as I speak Faroese I can make a hint of what it's saying, at least I can decipher the first paragraph - it says that Pálmi Haraldsson confirms to the newspaper "Visir" that they do not wish to buy NUFC. Yeah that seems to be the gist of it from the shitty internet translation I got. Says they're not going to "snuggle up" to NUFC.

Styles is a card happy arsehole though, regardless of Sunday. He's always been the same, another ref who thinks the crowd come to watch him.

I think he's been spot on.

The papers are pretty much rewording what the Icelandic reports have already said. One good thing about the rags over here picking it up is that hopefully NUFC will come out with some sort of rebuttal as they did over the Chinese reports. That's if there's no truth of course, which I hope and pray is the case.

I love how the papers and rumour sites work. If we'd signed Baines/Shorey, there would be none of this, but because a) the Enrique deal was not made a huge deal of and b) no-one had really heard of him anyway, we still tick the "Do they need a left back? Yeah probably, stick their name down, let's go down the pub" box that all football rumour mills operate on, hence we're still "linked" with Shorey and whoever else the rumour sites pick out of World Football magazine.

What did we play at the weekend? I honestly couldn't hear, the ovation was very loud.

You've already said that once.

Christ I'm fucking sick of this. When will the shitty red tops leave us alone?

It's oh so quiet. Shit I've done that one.

Funny coming from an arsenal fan.. but i absolutely agree with you- no point having some radical non-direct freekick this or toss them off for 20 minutes that.. just educate the refs on what a dive looks like and book the offenders, full stop. I agree tossing them off for 20 minutes wouldn't work. We're supposed to be punishing their behaviour, not rewarding it. Besides, there'd be no point doing it any more after approximately 6 of those minutes. Speak for yourself.

At one point in the 1960s, Villa had three midfield players called Brown, Arce and Hole. They never played together, apparently, which was a terrible shame. Arce was a south american of some description.

Love the Sib. See that mob are signing Andy Cole. They'll be bringing in Boumsong and Maric before long, looks like the best they can do is our cast offs.

Funny coming from an arsenal fan.. but i absolutely agree with you- no point having some radical non-direct freekick this or toss them off for 20 minutes that.. just educate the refs on what a dive looks like and book the offenders, full stop. I agree tossing them off for 20 minutes wouldn't work. We're supposed to be punishing their behaviour, not rewarding it.

That's absolutely superb.

Hardly suitable to use the club's nickname.

What does he say?

Radical eh? but yes indirect free kicks, with the offending player receiving a yellow card. Also had radical thoughts on how to punish teams that have loads of yellow cards, and might make refs think twice about booking players for innocuous challenges. If a player gets a yellow card he has to leave the pitch, say 20 minutes from the end of the match, i.e he is withdrawn after 70 minutes and takes no further part in the match. He cannot be replaced by a sub. Any player getting booked after 70 has to leave the pitch immediately. Would have made the Liverpool v Chelsea game interesting as 9 players were booked in that game! Was hoping for something more radical. How about: no pens, but the team that has been disadavantaged by the foul gets a throw-in directly parallel the 18-yard box. It is to be taken in the normal way, BUT no one is allowed to touch the ball other than the opposing keeper who has to stand on the the opposite side of the pitch from where the throw-in's taken. The goalkeeper gets a head start based on the scores of 3 pitchside judges who've cast their votes on the severity of the original offence. Who are they throwing it to?

Gudni Bergsson ffs.

Cheers fella.

I'm looking forward to finding out what these geysers are up to. Blatently stolen from .com. I hadn't actually. Bah! Bastards have stolen my thunder. > I'm still claiming the gag though.

I'm looking forward to finding out what these geysers are up to.

lotp is a mackem btw. Ignore the arsehole.