Beren

London is absolutely buzzing with Germans - great atmosphere around the North-West already. Black and yellow scarves galore! Wish I'd worn my Newcastle top now.

Have to put money on Müller to score tbh. The man for the big occasion.

Oguchi Onyewu didn't score any for us... did he?

Like discussing which nuclear reactor blueprints to give to Ralph Wiggum.

Semtex

4-2-3-23

Mark Hughes has the best agent ever.

Their progress since getting humped by 8 off Chelsea has been quietly sensational. Shame that Benteke will be ripped from them, but he is doing very well with what he has. They have a bright future, Villa - after coming close to the brink with McCleish. I wonder if I'll soon feel envious of Stoke too.

Inevitably going to bleed into every thread, but fuck's sake man. There are genuine football people out there. In fucking spades. And we have him.

Scott SinclAIR

How do Bundesliga wages compare with the Premiership?

Benteke's come and get me quotes to Arsenal are very brazen. Getting in there early! Podolski-Benteke-Walcott would be some front three!

That can't be true. If I told you we had to lose the first five games 3-zip to win the Premiership next season you'd take it. You just, correctly, wouldn't believe there was a correlation between those games and our ability to win the league. Harm in the present can result in greater and sustainable good in the future IMO.

Spot on. Only thing we can do really. Good start to the season and we know Pardew is capable of sustaining a positive atmosphere and promoting team spirit when things are going well. I'd far rather we had a bad start and he got sacked tbh. My view is that a competent manager is crucial to long term progress. Backing someone who relies on wonder goals and bullshit is going to hurt us in the end. Get away man, you should never want us to do badly. I'd love it if Pardew proves me wrong about his ability. If he doesn't, he'll be gone soon enough. In principle, I don't think Tron's position is the horrible one I expect it to be depicted as - to want us to lose a few games so that we can ultimately go on to greater successes seems perfectly reasonable to me. However, given the nadirs they've already tolerated under Pardew's reign, I don't think Pardew would be sacked after a bad start. It'd take half a season for them to have questions him about in being the regime or meaningfully consider the possibility that we might not stay in the division. That's a long time to want us to do badly. Too long maybe.

I wish all of SJP could read the last page.

He didn't?

Looks like something out of Street Fighter. It's good.

Just caught up on the last five page - hilarious.

Pretty smart. No way to independently value Moutinho really, so it'd be difficult for an adjudicator to impose an agreed upon market value price. Knowing how good Porto are at extracting money, they'll just stick an indemnity clause into the deal for Monaco to reimburse any money in excess of £250,000 they have to pass over to Sporting Lisbon.

Market inefficiency.

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/730195/83283128.gif :lol: What film is this? I can't remember and I could do with watching some glass-smashed-over-the-head type violent movie. The Departed, I think.

Would be interested to know how many folk cancel/attempt to cancel their season tickets today/tomorrow.

Llambias simply won't tolerate any ranking lower than 85th next season. Laying down the law.

Skid mark of a man