James

Sessegnon scored though in that match - surely that warrants some praise? Not for a defender.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2008/05/19/top-toon-duo-on-french-talent-watch-72703-20931038/

Didn't Oliver say that Wise and Hughton watched Le Mans on Saturday, but the player they came to see didn't impress so they are going to have to look again?

Give 40,000 seats to the Toon Army, and Wembley would have much higher regard amongst TV viewers in my opinion.

Walking up the drab, grey, cheap and shitty concrete staircases to the gods is an absoloute nightmare. For the money it cost and the more than half a decade we had to wait for it I want the stairs fucking carpet finished for fucks sake! I was on the lower tier so didn't have to worry about stairs. One other thing I did notice though is how dry the place is in terms of licensed premises. Don't think I saw a noticeable drunk when I was there. Oh, and the white horses intimidated the fuck out of me, I think the riding police thought it was Bolton 1924 or whatever all over again.

Best stadium I've been to in the way you arrive at Wembley Park, walk down Wembley Way, get through the turnstiles really quickly, and walk through the tunnel into the light and the wall of noise. The best parts crowdwise are in the higher tiers and at the back of the lower tier especially in the corners and behind the goal. I spent a bit of time prematch towards the front though, and you feel really out in the open and on your own. Its therefore quieter close to the microphones, while the cameras point at the deadest parts of the stand.

The actual .cock says its got to be the reported initial fee only. Think that takes Milner off the list.

Don't think Keegan has had much time, what with trying to save the club from relegation. To be honest, I think that assuming we could beat the likes of Everton to anyone is thekind of arrogance that will lead to splattenned faces and kneejerk disappointment.

Gomis?

Aye but he's not exactl;y massively rich in comparison to say Ashley although his family probably are. Ashley's richer, but it is tied down in his businesses. Gaydamak earns a more steady amount of hard cash each year.

Gaydamak doesn't run Pompey as a business so doesn't worry too much about wage bills and the like.

Think we signed Emre subject to work permit, and although it was inevitable, some of the knee jerkers got freaked out by 'lack of news'

Turan looks like some sort of NUFC football cloning experiment using Edgar and Taylor.

What did these Englishmen look like?

Why? Just out of interest. That is a good question, tbf. With Chez living in/near Paris and Gomis just having a game in St. Etienne yesterday. With the sighting on Sunday, and the game on Sunday, would be easy for Gomis to go places.

Average league position over five years prior to Shepherd becoming chairman: 6.8 Average league position over five years prior to Shepherd departing as chairman: 8.6 During his time, he took us backwards, not forwards.

I doubt there are any insiders, our own interest in Gomis has had a lot of press. It does all remindme though of when Abramovich bought all Robsons targets when he arrived, and we kept losing out becausewe didn't back our manager to the same level.

what did these Englishmen look like? are you sure it wasn't Vetere or Jimenez?

The press would never print that However when it's Owen & release clauses............. Brilliant!!! Where is your "I get the feeling that most of that is made up" or does what James type suit your viewpoint? Forgot who it was, but someone claiming to be ITK through Peter Harrison (and got a few tidbits of info correct to be fair) also mentioned third party info. I'm just recycling hearsay though, I'm not denying that.

Take this all with a pinch of salt, think I posted it at the time but is worth regurgitating as it is probably just as likely as anything the press cook up: I heard that the Mamic brothers made Modric go to Spurs instead of us because we refused to agree to some clauses. The deal we wanted was the removal of third party control, as the Mamic brothers controlled all of Modric's decisions. We wanted the transfer to involve a buyout that would break Modric's contractual obligations to Mamic, passing on agent responsibilities to Peter Harrison. Mamics weren't happy with this, they wanted to move Modric onto a bigger club in a couple of years and pocket more money. The Spurs deal came about with a minimum release clause and a hefty next sale clause.

Exeter City back into the Football League.

Exeter 1 - 0 Cambridge

I deleted all my posts because I just don't want ot post anymore. You know that Admin can put them back up? What's the point no one likes me. The amazing thing about internet forums is that no-one knows whether you are white or black, male or female, old or young, able or handicapped etc. All people can judge you on is what is written in black and white on the screen. If people had turned on me with such ferocity, I would have wanted to look back and try to learn from my mistakes.

I deleted all my posts because I just don't want ot post anymore. You know that Admin can put them back up?

Is it me, or has Deep deleted all of his incriminating posts? shame they have all been quoted by others