Rich

Just read the article posted on the last page man It explains it, to an extent.

Wasn't getting in the squad and his contract was up in the summer anyway. I know what you mean, but it might simply have been a gesture of goodwill and he may not have asked for the entire remaining value of his contract to be paid up. He makes it sound like he just wanted to play football somewhere, so that may be the case. It is a rarity though.

Great article, can only wish him all the best as he sounds like a cracking bloke who really wants to be here. Would be a great story if he did the business.

I'd take a draw like, as it'd strengthen Villa's grip on a CL place, but an Arsenal win would be delightful - especially looking at Tottenham's run-in, which is both difficult and packed with the CC final and the UEFA Cup resuming very soon.

Fair enough! I think it would certainly be interesting.

Think Agbonlahor/Heskey/Barry will be enough as Milner and Young would potentially get shown up against a team as technically good as Spain, Milner in particular. Luke Young is simply not that good and hasn't even been playing right-back for Villa, although I appreciate that Johnson and Portsmouth are hardly having a great time of it at the back.

James Johnson Ferdinand Terry A. Cole Beckham Carrick Lampard Barry Agbonlahor Heskey Bit pedestrian in midfield, but then Spain are hardly rapid either. I think there'll be a fair few injuries before the game though, as always, which will see things shuffled about a fair bit.

GET THE FUCK IN!!!

Btw, someone needs to bring back the Beardsley shuffle.

Brilliant player. Agree he's the best to have played for us in my lifetime.

It seemed that the journo had broken an agreement like from his reaction. You could tell he didn't quite know how to handle it. Should have called him a cunt like all the best managers do.

Looked ready to cry to me.

Howay man, just the one!

I like how he's talking to the media more, makes it appear though he cares to us lot. Hopefully he can build on the Sunderland game because I thought he was excellent. I like him.

If it wins we might be able to edit some stuff on there, like the Milburn/Leazes of SJP peaking out over the top somewhere for example. The vote is for the concept as much as the image itself I suppose.

No, no it wasn't. Done by someone who's been a member for about 2 1/2 years without any blemishes on their record as far as I know. For anyone wondering; we've deliberately omitted the names from the entries so that they are judged purely on their quality. Although if people were desperate to know who did what then they'd easily be able to do so by looking in the thread we set-up asking for entries. All of the entries are legitimate and from good sources as far as we're aware.

You're probably right like as it's long overdue. Over 8 years since you scored more than 2 goals against us and even then we had 9 men..

I tend to like fullbacks these days. I think Habib Beye is definitely up there despite his brief time here. Prior to that it has to be obvious ones like Pedro, Shearer, Ferdinand, Ginola, Albert, Robert and Bellamy. A fit Woodgate as well, like poetry in motion at the back that lad when he was here. Outside of the Toon I think Patrice Evra and Jose Bosingwa are good to watch. Think van Nistelrooy is a fantastic, fantastic footballer (not just goalscorer), Vieira was monstrous at Arsenal as well. Not too keen on many non-NUFC players like, there's none I'd follow a team specifically for.

Those three fit, even under Kinnear, and we'd be safe no bother. Unfortunately two of them are made of paper and the other seems to be losing his invincibility the longer he spends here as well.

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