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They must have had a fall-out then (big surprise there) as Dunphy normally backs Keane to the absolute hilt. And ghost wrote the infamous autobiography, of course. Interesting to read his new thoughts.

I've got no problem with people doubting him, I think I doubted him for 15 minutes today after taking Martins off. Oh aye, not particularly directed at you, at all. Just I think some might end up talking at cross purposes - ONut thinking HTT was looking down on him for having reservations pre-Fulham, when most of the ire is aimed those who were saying 'fuck off back to Glasgow' and all that. Have to say, I was quite satisfied with the Martins decision - felt he had his least effective match for us for a while. Plainly, I am loyaler than you

I think Keegan deserved a lot more respect that some gave him, even when we were struggling, if only for what he's done here in the past. Sorry, but he deserved better than some gave and they should be embarrassed and I'm not on about you. I agree. Some of the criticism he got from Newcastle fans even before he'd managed a game was disgraceful. Very much a case of people believing media stereotypes imo. I think the thing to divide here is those who had doubts - of whom I was one (I still have doubts, too... just less so than before) - and those who directed abuse at him. The latter were out of order. I found the idea of having to criticise him in the future very difficult, there were a handful who took to the task like a duck to water.

That would make a change from the Freddy Shepherd school of transfers where you save money on wages but pay an inflated transfer fee by not buying anyone until transfer deadline day That and the inflation of players playing in the championships this summer. I think it was Miguel we were chasing 4 years ago who's price rocketed after a the Euro's and ended up having an asking price of £8m when I think going on reports we where going to offer no more than £4m. And if you sign a player pre-Euros for £4m and they do shit? What then? They would have cost less after the tournament. Presumably you're hoping to sign a player of enough quality that you can expect them to enjoy a good tournament.

.com still say it was rubbish, I believe. They backed down and then piped up when they had it confirmed from within the club that it was untrue. All very odd.

Why do you have such an intense dislike of Faye? Isn't he quite well known for being an open racist (Northern Monkey)? No.

Are Glaswegian blokes harder like? Dunno about that, but there definitely are a lot of them in Glasgow, I've found.

More like Ally did. I don't understand

Was watching SSN earlier, had some 'Man U fans' on talking about the match and saw this chap... http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7633/dsc0000322rn4.jpg Edit: Re-halved for those with piddling monitors.

Definitely.

TODAYs CHRON Watch him have an accident with a game of darts. Twice.

Jumpers for goalposts...

Oh yes. Would've seemed incredible to me back then that he'd be where he is now - i.e. nowhere. "Same old Eyeties, always cheating..."

http://theducks.org/pictures/this-will-not-end-well-cat.jpg

well if you lived anywhere near newcastle you'd know. for years the club had a tradirtion of making the weeks worst trainer wear the yellow top as you can see.(im sure it's spelt wrong,should be 2 "t"s That would make it make it 'shitter' as in sh-it-er. But it's meant to be shiter as in sh-aye-ter Well he never has been the same since Harewood.

I have seen it said by one or two on here - "the signs were there". Can't remember who.

I agree with much of what has been said on both sides. To keep my own input brief, I think he should have been backed or sacked at the end of 03/04 - in the end, neither happened. Things were as handled as badly as I can conceive of from then on.

Well now you say it like that, it sounds silly.

He'll come out with a hypocritical view of how we should have give him more time, especially considering he appointed him in the first place. My money's on something about it showing how tough a task running NUFC is.

Betting suspensions normally just means a lot of money is going on someone. Whether it's good money or not doesn't matter much.

Only if it's likely we appoint a bad manager.

Wasn't paying attention and missed Ferdinand..! Aside from that, I was torn between Bellamy and Nobby. Made the same decision as you, we may never have had the Bellamy situation had the strange treatment and eventual departure of Solano not taken place.

Interesting idea - there's been talk of increasing the reward for winning the Cup from a UEFA Cup spot to a place in the CL. How's about guaranteeing a team's place in the league (if needed, it's traded for the CL spot)? That could lead to some exciting days.

Certainly wasn't fantastic, in my view. Not bad - he gave us a few new options and some energy - but he made more than one bad decision in his time on the pitch, wasting initiative and possession.