James

What?!... Babayaro is an absolutely awful defender! Depends whether you class ability on set piece skills and long shots, in which case Bale is better, or whether you class ability on defensive skills, in which case Babayaro is better. Doesn't necessarily mean Bale wont be better, but from what I've seen in the flesh, he has a hell of a lot to learn. There is still a very strong posibility that he's going to be convertedt to a left-winger rather than a left back when he develops. Definitely something we dont need.

Personally, from my own experience of living down here in Southampton for almost three years, I'd have to say that this £10m bid has Portsmouth written all over it.

Kieron Dyer was away being interrogated by Jack Bauer, who was trying to find out just exactly what Dyer had done to Kim. The interrogation didn't last too long, but it took Dyer quite a while to recover.

Ian Harte looks great on youtube.

Could be Portsmouth actually. Southampton always like to keep their dealings with Portsmouth quiet until the last minute for obvious reasons.

Not worth more than £5m at the moment. Would say that Babayaro currently has more ability.

You have got things right about Southampton before. I'll buy the Daily Echo later, see what it says.

Unless Shepherd has gone completely psycho and decided to buy us a new £35m back four.

Definitely don't want the Sheikh here, he is anti-semetic.

I received two PM's earlier (although I was lucky to have found them, as with having apparently 90 unread (I never did), it was difficult to notice), and both have now dissappeared. in fact. My total number of messages has decreased from 121 to 119.

You would have a point, but I think it is starting to get to a time when inferior players are being played at centre back in preference to superior players because the superior player is younger, and Roeder wants to protect the youngster. The example I refer to, is of course Ramage being selected over Edgar who appears quicker and more composed, and better on the ball.

Paul Dalglish is Kelly Dalglish's brother, is he not?

You see, I find it impossible to believe that a Newcastle fan would join a Newcastle fan with the explicit purpose of talking about Massimo Maccarone. If you are a fan, you should have no problem answering the following three questions: 1)Who is Sir John's son? 2) What was the last trophy Newcastle won? 3) Who were the last club to beat us in Europe?

Probably the strongest link so far. May have been recommended by Martins, and I'm sure Mancini would prefer to send him off to a club where Andreolli has a friend about to help him settle. As for homing the player, Andreolli could live in Mancini's house for six months.

Someone claiming to be a real Newcastle fan wouldn't really care about Middlesborough team selection and what a Middlesborough fan on the radio has to say about it. Are you actually a fan of Massimo Maccarone? Rather that a Newcastle fan?

Few teething troubles going on at the moment as you can see. When you get onto the error screen, try pressing the back button, and then click on refresh. You should be logged in hopefully. Also, try doing the same when you want to post something.

Warnock is OK, but I think he is shot of confidence right now.

I think you really do have to listen to your heart over your head as to who to support. Sounds like you never really had much passion for football when younger so chose a team to fit in. Would sound like you are a kind of reversed version of Lee Stewart. Lee Stewart is a guy who was a Newcastle fan, but switched to Manchester United when his head decided that newcastle were never going to win anything. I think if you switch allegiances to Newcastle for the right reasons, ie you never had any real passion for those clubs which you claimed to support, and you then feel much more passionate about following Newcastle United. Sounds from your description of your Grandad, you are a Newcastle fan at heart, but perhaps this feeling was supressed a few years back to try and fit with the 'in' crowd. In the end of the day, it is up to you who you support, and not down to us Newcastle fans.

Watching the match at the stadium then going home to watch the highlights is my preference.

Still don't know what you're on about. I do know athletes from all over the world failed drugs tests at the last Olympics though and not (as you suggested) only ones from the US, China and Britain. Don't know why when I pointed that out you said the ones who weren't from those countries only came from poor countries (they don't btw) with high stakes. Don't see how any of that supports your previous assertion drug testing is useless either. It is all a very complex issue, and if you keep dragging the issue of drugs in sport in one particular direction, arguments become less and less plausible. Give me a second and I'll try to summarise it all. 1) There is circumstantial evidence that footballers are taking performance enhancing drugs, and this has not been investigated into by FIFA. 2) It is possible that FIFA and the Spanish police are not acting on this evidence because a prosecution cannot be obtained without either a positive drugs test, a confession, or by discovering that athletes are keeping drugs in there house/car/hotel. It is highly probable that the big sporting figures involved could sue in retaliation. 3) New variants of drugs are always being created. These drugs are undetectable until the authorities gain a specimen of these new drugs. 4) By the time the authorities have discovered a new testing procedure, the athletes are all on different drugs. Frozen samples can sometimes provide evidence, but sporting lawyers can usually find a loophole here to get the sportsmen off the hook. It could now be said that drugs testing is useless. 5) However people do get caught testing positive for drugs. 6) In the US an UK, people get caught because the authorities are highly competent and technologically advanced, and most positive tests are discovered by the US and UK authorities while the international authorities have either not tested these individuals thoroughly enough due to technological constraints, or have failed to prosecute due to their less efficient or competent systems have left several loopholes for the lawyers to exploit. 7) Countries containing poorer individuals, but with high stakes and rewards such as China, Greece, Iran and Eastern European countries, have athletes who will take risks and use drugs which more widely available and therefore easier to discover during testing. 8 ) Meanwhile, it is generally the Spanish, French, and Italians who find themselves free from prosecution as they prefer to support the less competent international authorites rather than invest heavily on their own domestic testing procedures. And at the same time, the athletes from these countries are able to afford these undetectable drugs. That is why drug doctors from all over the world move to the Western european countries - to make lots of money with a much smaller chance of being caught.

Most of the UK and US like I just said fail drugs tests carried out by the world class drug testing facilities used by UK and US authorities.

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At the last Olympics there were people from all over the world who failed drugs tests tbh - from Eastern Europe, Iran, Greece, etc. etc. (easily the worst games ever for it). See here if you don't believe me: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/3610830.stm ie poor countries with high stakes.

FourFourTwo seemed pretty insistent that all except Taylor's were real.

Reading the full article, the Taylor one was put in there as a fake one, but the rest are real.