James

Don't worry he wouldn't be stupid enough to come back so long as he can find a good job

On a roll tonight, I followed this up with Panathanaikos and now New York City are winning 3-1. I am going to attempt getting 20 short odds (1.2 to 1.5) in a row cashing out a few small amounts. If I pull it off it is worth 2000 assuming an average of about 1.3 per bet. I fully expect to fail but I have already been able to pull out my winnings so no harm done.

Today I had Celtic, Juve, Barca and Feyenoord at 4/1. Going well so far

Supposedly the players we choose anyway are chosen by this Scouting database we subscribe to. Graham Carr just makes final checks on personality and mentality by chatting to local taxi drivers.

I would bring in Benitez, but I would also look ahead to a possible relegation and bring in Paul Clement as a coach as I think he would be a good choice to support Rafa and would be an excellent choice to take over if and when we go down, so we aren't in a position where we spend the whole summer not knowing who our manager will be, as has happened before.

Redknapp :anguish: :anguish:

If we do anything it will be something ridiculous like bringing a manager in to work alongside McClaren. Someone recommended by McClaren like Hoddle.

Lost all support the moment they put that statement out. Hopefully one of them will stand up and say that the statement doesn't reflect their views.

Hopefully resigns at half time

Why though? Your chief exec had a copy of 834 messages of Johnson grooming and talking about their sexual acts, and knew that Johnson had confessed to kissing the victim and then let him play for almost a year.

Johnson is probably just the tip of the iceberg to be honest, the game past and present is probably awash with mini-Savilles. Depending on the aftermath the floodgates could open for another scandal

I thought he was suspended on full pay? There was no reason for the PFA to get involved like they did.

Didn't the PFA lobby Sunderland to get Johnson reinstated in the first place? The PFA has got too big for its boots. I can't see a normal employment Union banging on about the rights of an employee charged with a serious crime.

Need to see the FA man up and deliver a lifetime ban from all footballing activities for Johnson, then dock Sunderland 3 points for every game he has played in the past year.

Got a fiver on today, West Ham, Leicester, Stoke and Coventry for 10/1

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35664051

Unbelievable claim from Blatter today: He is personally responsible for reducing the death toll at the Paris attacks because terrorists love football because of him.

I would rather keep the replays, but.... If they are scrapped, up to the 5th round, any club drawn against a team two leagues up can chose if they want to play home or away, plus can have a large away fan allocation if they opt to play away.

What has happened to the lad, no one else has been quite Pardewed this bad. It's like he got replaced by a doppelgänger after his first season with us, who can't play football!

Because he used the Sunderland shirt to groom the girl I think it is quite probable that he has brought the game into disrepute. After the trial I would like to see the FA serve him a life ban from all footballing activity.

Footballers have allegedly been doing this for decades. The whistleblower in the Bruce Grobbelaar case wrote a book which includes reference to an un named Liverpool player doing an under age girl on her parents front lawn iirc

Yeah contempt of court is a very serious matter so rtg is sensible to lock any threads down. It is very unlikely that such a series of events would occur, but if a juror decided to look at what the Newcastle fans were saying and something they saw on here prejudiced their decision, and caused problems with the trial, the causant posters and website owners could well be dragged before a judge. Contempt of court might well be why Sunderland were forced to unsuspend him in the first place

Didn't Sunderland suspend him? Then unsuspend him? And now he has only plead guilty after several opportunities to do so, now he has been able to play as many games as possible? It is hard to point fingers at Sunderland as we don't know what they knew. Perhaps the league needs to issue some guidance on when players should and shouldn't be suspended if accused of certain crimes?

Can't see the comparisons with Pardew. No left backs

Presumably if Carr was such an expert in French football we would be picking up players like Mahrez for peanuts...