Wullie

That is fantastic.

Anita must be canny embarrassed he can't get near this Dutch squad.

Refereeing is going to ruin this tournament again.

Ronaldo limped out of training again. Quid on Almeida to be top Portugal goalscorer @ 16/1.

Didn't know Right Said Fred were Brazilian.

Aye, stop talking about him.

First day's always a bit of a disappointment with only one game. Pure cocktease.

Paddy Power offer: £10e/w on Lukaku 888 offer: £5 on Argentina >1.5 goals vs Bosnia £1 on Bel/Rus, Arg/Bos, Swi/Fra, Col/Ivo, Bra/Cro all to qualify and Australia to get 0 points @ 123/1 £1 on Dzeko, Lukaku, Drmic, Sanchez, Peralta to finish top scorer for their countries @ 282/1

Strange. Make sure if you do the Coral thing that you deposit via PayPal, they give you a free fiver that you can do anything with, including withdraw apparently!

Team sweeps are shit. I've put on a top goalscorer sweep at work, much less predictable and a bigger prize pot.

I really like using Bet365, it has by far the best user interface that I've come across but fucking hell, the promotions are terrible. Got an email from them advertising Great World Cup Offers - there's two. One is that you get your money back on Scorecasts if the game finishes 0-0 (which they always do), the other is that if your team to win the WC gets knocked out on penalties, you get your money back there too. That's it. Seems that CL offer was very much a one off. I don't even get loyalty bonuses any more, used to get them all the time but even then you had to play through the money several times to be able to take it out.

Ditto.

I'm always winding my Newcastle mates up after they get beat by the mackems, they hate it lol

Fair enough I suppose, I just think the partisan support you're talking about is the same thing that leads other people to 'forgive' him because he was a Sunderland player at the time. Sunderland players are supposed to hate Newcastle. It's just a part of the game. Suppose if you just object to him being a dick then that's fair enough, but then the same argument applies to why you would support our players winding up opponents. I object to him being a dick to Newcastle fans, emphasis on the latter. It's not a part of the game in my eyes. I know i couldn't do it, neither could Lee Clark, who put in a transfer because he couldn't wear their shirt against us. A "Newcastle fan" mocking us on derby day on their behalf? Astonishing to me that anyone will give him a single second of support. In footballing terms, he's the lowest of the low. He's also shite, which we shouldn't forget.

No because unlike some other people I don't give my devotion just because somebody signs a contract with the club when they're actively detrimental to it, like the manager and a number of the players, including Wearside Jack. You don't get a free pass when you've done the things he has just because someone's given you a job that you're not even good enough for in the first place.

Half the SJP crowd enjoys it when he does his shitty celebration and he laps it up. Half the forum in fact loved Barton for his antics in general. You either accept it from all or accept it from none. Half of SJP in being pleased a Newcastle player has scored shocker And who are you to make up the fucking rules like? "You either accept it from all or accept it from none"? Sorry like but ner I enjoyed Barton winding up the mackems or having a bit of carry on over a corner with opposition fans now and then (I expect the mackems didn't like the 5-1 gestures and they rightfully hated him because of it), Danny Simpson shining the ball at Stoke etc, but I think I'll take exception at a player twice goading our fans in 3-0 derby defeats and then posing for photos after the game with team mates rubbing it in. I don't want the daft cunt walking in like nothing has happened and rewarded with a fucking lucrative contract at the club. He's playing for us now and he hasn't done anything wrong. Ironically if he starts goading the mackems, many people would love it. I think he's a good player and he'll be fine if Pardew wasn't managing us. If Pardew wasn't managing us, Jack Colback wouldn't have a hope in hell of playing for us. Another one who will be crawling up the manager's arse because they're both losers. Your point of "nobody minds when our players do it" is ludicrous. I support Newcastle. Why would I be aggrieved if one of our players aggravates a fan of sunderland/Boro/Aston Villa? I don't apply the same rules across the board. I'm extremely partisan, like I'm supposed to be.

He's our best midfielder? Not anymore In terms of performance last season he was behind Cattermole, Ki, Larsson and towards the end Giaccherini. He's alright and I do rate him as a canny player but still... You think he's a canny player but also behind Larsson and Cattermole?, something doesn't add up there Not saying he was your best midfielder like, Ki always looked like your best whenever I saw you play last season, but Larrson's always looked dog shit to me. How does it not add up? A mackem's view of central midfielders has to be considered very differently from ours. This is a bunch that idolize Kevin Ball. They've never seen better. Makes me laugh when I see people saying "well, mackems rate him". Great, wish we'd bought Gavin McCann back in the day in that case. sunderland have never owned a central midfielder good enough to play for Newcastle, including Wearside Jack.

Christ.

False alarm, it was just Colback getting off the Metro.

Jack Colback is he's name

In a month's time Danny Welbeck will be a national laughing stock.

God no he's much worse than Hitler. You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at 3 o'clock in the morning pretending to be a Newcastle fan then mocking supporters after a derby defeat.

There's a surprise. Aye it's proper mystifying like, I can't think of a single reason that anybody would think that about a "Newcastle fan" who taunted real Newcastle fans on derby day.

Be quite surprised if Rotherham come in for Vuckic permanently like, he only ever seemed to get five minutes at the end of every game. Suppose it's possible they feel they need more quality on the ball.