Dokko

If we do get back up for next season, Sunderland will tear us a new one without some major investment, a solid manager and a bit of good luck. First time in decades i wouldn't be looking forward to playing them, worlds apart right now.

Daily. Everyday a front page is made of what has happened in terms of news and the forum...think it would be class if T could be arsed.

What a c***. Treated Portsmouth and both of their fans with more disdain than Campbell did with Spurs. I think you're a great poster but that is bollocks mate. Cuntbell said time and time again he'd be staying at spurs. Cuntbell said time and time again he'd never join Arsenal. Barca and Milan both offered us in excess of £20 mill but we rejected those bids because that Judas cunt insisted he wants to stay and will sign an extension to his contract when the season is over. Season ends and he signs with Arsenal. That's one cuntish thing Campbell did, doesn't equal the several thousand 'Arry's done of the years, several of them being borderline illegal.

The Fans. Only part of the club that really matters, and portrayed unfairly across the Country.

Either click on the link on the donation page (think it asks you to sign up) or PM me. Bugger it, i've just used PP. Got an account only it takes off from the creditcard i just paid off yesterday

How do i donate without a PP account?

Former Birmingham co-owner David Sullivan has refused to rule out taking over West Ham in the near future. Sullivan left the Blues as a result of Carson Yeung's takeover at St Andrews last week and has been linked with a move for his beloved Hammers ever since. The 60-year-old admitted he has done some background checks on the Hammers' somewhat precarious financial position but ultimately has not held talks with anyone at Upton Park. It would appear that West Ham, currently owned by CB Holdings, would welcome any sort of funding but Sullivan insists the club need to act now before they see their fortunes on the pitch begin to slide as well. "Well West Ham is a club close to my heart, a club I supported as a boy, a club I would dearly love to be involved with," he told Sky Sports News. "But I have had no discussions with West Ham. From an outsider looking in the debts that appear to be at West Ham look absolutely huge so I'm not sure I could face what's going on there. "But West Ham does need help and it does need help very quickly. They are in the bottom three of the Premier League. "I hope someone gets involved quickly within the next week or month or two otherwise West Ham could be in the Championship or bust or both. "But as I said I have had no discussions but time will time. Homework "I've done as much homework as I can do without being privy to any of the figures. "You speak to people who used to be there, you read accounts that are 12 months out of date, but there is only so much you can do. "It is something I would look at if I was given the opportunity but at this moment in time I have done nothing and to be quite honest I'm happy to have a month or two off because football is pretty stressful and West Ham will be very stressful for whoever gets involved." Having spent 16 years at Birmingham, Sullivan admits he is desperate to get back into football and added that former Blues partner David Gold, who has also left St Andrews after the offer of honorary chairman was withdrawn, could join him on a new venture. "I think David would definitely want to stay in football and like me will be involved in another club within six to 12 months, maybe sooner," he declared "I think there is a strong possibility, but not a certainty, David might want to buy his own club. He might want to join with me and buy another club. "There is a distinct possibility we could be together at another club."

well nufc is an upgrade on birmingham and birmingham was run competently under them if lacking ambition Certainly rather have him in than anything that's come forward as a real bidder so far, in fact in our position i'd be delighted.

He's just a bitter cunt.

This thread is the papers source tbf.

It's amazing how often this happens. Someone high profile (/better than the manager in place) comes in, in an advisory capacity and the manager is assured 'there will be no changes'. Several weeks/months later, said manager is sacked. I bet Sven will end up as manager, just like Grant will probably end up as manager of Pompey. Sven Goran Eriksson has admitted that he does not know where the money currently funding Notts County is coming from. The Swede took over as director of football at Meadow Lane in the summer after Qadbak Investments took charge of the club. The new owners have decided to remain low-key and instead allow chief executive Peter Trembling to front the club. The Magpies are currently under investigation by the Football League to determine whether the owners pass the fit and proper persons act and Eriksson admits that he has never met the men in charge. "If you ask me if I met them my answer is very simple and honest I haven't," he told Sky Sports News. "I don't know them I haven't met them I have only met the two representatives of the owners and when I signed I did some research and what the people who did tell me it was real and so far I can't say the opposite, so far everything is good. "People ask where the money is coming from and I don't really know but the club is working, everyone has been paid there have been new players coming in so it has been good." Not happy Eriksson also touched on the acrimonious departure of Sol Campbell after the defender quit his five-year contract with the club after just one game. The former England manager had hoped Campbell would give it until Christmas at least before deciding his future at the club, while Eriksson was also quick to point out that at no stage did anyone at the club promise the England international that more big-name signings would follow him to County. "Of course I was not happy about it because I know he would have done a great job for us not only in the dressing room but he would have been a big player playing for Notts County," he added. "I didn't really have the chance to speak to him because he went. I hoped he would give it until Christmas to give it a bit longer, a better chance. "Of course we have spoken about players at different levels for months with the manager and chairman and new owners. "But (did) we promise to Sol and other players that certain players will come in? Certainly not. You cannot do that in football. We have tried very hard and the club has been very good taking in seven or eight new players." This setup is as bad as ours. Sven never having met the owners and financial backers. Crackers.

I guess he is mixed race. I'd guess that. It's always interested me that someone with one black parent and one white parent so frequently gets called black. Why not call them white? If anything their skin's usually a light brown. Maybe I should head over to the stupid questions thread. It's a complex issue. I don't think of a mixed race person as black, I just think of them as mixed race. But then there are a million different shades of 'black' and 'white' anyway. Best just to think of them as the people they are I reckon, identity is a complicated thing. [/philosophy] To take it to extremes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule Where does Phil Brown fit on that, or is there another rule for him entirely.

Again, you've missed the point. There are almost no black managers at any level of the game. Nothing to do with PL. But where's the evidence that it's linked to racism? It could be a number of factors. Lack of ability, lack of ambition to become manager or coach etc. - the colour of their skin is irrelevant. According to who? The fact is that, currently, about a quarter of players in the Football League are black, but there are very, very few black managers. I'm not saying it's racism, necessarily, but statistics would suggest there ought to be a larger number of black managers. FOR SOME REASON, black players do not tend to go on to become coaches or managers. A quarter now, and maybe we will see more in the future, but how many was there back 10-20 years ago, at the right age now to step in to management? And don't include foreign based as they possibly will fuk off back home or to another league where they've played before rather than just stay in a Country they played in for a couple of years. Fact is there are more failed white British footballers out there who have the drive to go in to management than there is black, and maybe the former black players who have made it just find that chilling out living the dream off their well earned money is more appealing than the stress and strains of management? I appreciate that there were fewer black players in the past, and that obviously has a bearing. But the younger managers in the game now come from an era when they had several black team-mates. If the percentages don't start to tally soon, I think it's only right to ask questions. (I'm not saying it's racism, btw: there are many possibly explanations) Like i said above, i think racism plays its part, unfortunately, but i think its down to a very small % but gets picked up on due to its heightened media attention and social impact, but yeah there are loads of other factors out there, and those need addressing before some dickhead cunt starts mouthing off he's hard done by coz he's black and not the fact he's a fuking shite manager.

There's loads of factors, personally believe racism is one, but very minor when it comes down to it. So many other things having an impact. End of the day football is a money game and you want the best, if the best is black you get them, if its white you get them, think the days of selection down to skin colour are just about a distant memory for most. I mean lets have a poll, JFK or Hughton... PS: I believe there would be bigger problems in the workplace over skin colour than in football tbh. I could see someone choosing to employ or not too employ someone over their skin colour or nationality for a normal 9-5 job than at boardroom level at a football club. I could be wrong mind, just my opinion.

Again, you've missed the point. There are almost no black managers at any level of the game. Nothing to do with PL. But where's the evidence that it's linked to racism? It could be a number of factors. Lack of ability, lack of ambition to become manager or coach etc. - the colour of their skin is irrelevant. According to who? The fact is that, currently, about a quarter of players in the Football League are black, but there are very, very few black managers. I'm not saying it's racism, necessarily, but statistics would suggest there ought to be a larger number of black managers. FOR SOME REASON, black players do not tend to go on to become coaches or managers. A quarter now, and maybe we will see more in the future, but how many was there back 10-20 years ago, at the right age now to step in to management? And don't include foreign based as they possibly will fuk off back home or to another league where they've played before rather than just stay in a Country they played in for a couple of years. Fact is there are more failed white British footballers out there who have the drive to go in to management than there is black, and maybe the former black players who have made it just find that chilling out living the dream off their well earned money is more appealing than the stress and strains of management?

Should give him a Nobel Peace Prize to keep him quiet...and out of football.

So, middle of next week, then? Depends, i heard from my ITK source (who i cannot name for legal reasons) that he was mighty pissed off with the rapid growth of the Keegan thread last week and may just keep the club to spite us.

Bad news I'm afraid, one of the Red tops has Ashley quoted as saying he will not sell the club until his demands of this thread hit 1000 pages are met.

"us" = Barça (the only time i'll ever get to do that) Every dog has its day.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5616572,00.html Good lad.

Had we conceded once against Cardiff, Leicester, Sheff Wed and Brom, we'd be in 7th place right now. We're not in a position to blood a keeper at the expense of goals man. Buy some strikers then instead of relying on shite kids and nobodies.

Would rather we blood him than lose him, even at the expense of goals conceded and Harper's happiness. Ideally all of this is BS and Krul hasn't had his head turned by the big clubs.

Nice one Dekka. You can just imagine it, "Just sell the fakka Moike, them idiot Geordies aren't fallin for aar lies and tricks, just faak em and faak aff" Are we owned by South Africans? I've always been shite at accents. :-[

Lee Stewart? Aye The fatty. He happens to have moved to North Wales now, good riddons I guess. What was he like playing with/against? I here he's a good keeper? I've played against him, load of shite really, total bottling cunt once one goes past him. Carrying a bit of weight as well, but that's what happens when you swallow too much cum, got loads of calories in it. Said he had his deep throat technique down to art form. I believe him, he's put a lot of effort in to it.