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Fingers crossed for an improved second half performance and a broken leg for Mido.

The midfield 3 have been poor for about 120 straight minutes now. They are only ever involved in our own third, their distribution has been poor and there doesn't seem to be much of an understanding between them. Hurry back Barton!

Casper almost scores!

Bolton 3 Reading 0 Jol could well win the sack race if Spurs lose tomorrow.

1-1

Fairly poor one for me seeing as Sven decided to keep Bianchi on the bench until the last 15 minutes.

penalty to arsenal

Harper Solano Rozehnal Cacapa Zoggy Geremi Butt Emre Milner Viduka Martins Subs: Forster, Taylor, Ameobi, Owen, Smith That gives the England contingent a rest and might be a bit more creative than the the side against Bolton & Villa. Worth a try.

So long as Man Utd aren't winning, he will continue to get angrier, redder and more unintelligible.

I really hope that Luque looks like a player whose value has dropped from £9.5m to zero when he turns out for Ajax. He had better be absolutely useless (when we finally get a chance to see him), because if he looks half decent then it makes us look like fools.

"Luque moaned: (...)" Give that man a Pulitzer.

It's a shame we have Adidas because Nike are a lot better at coming out with simple designs. Better quality too.

Its bad but not that bad. I'm struggling to think of a worse away kit since away kits changed regularly... Last years first away kit, that bright neon blue one from ten or so years ago and the awful brown and green with the orange collar.

http://shop.nufc.co.uk/sites/newcastle/images/departments/home/ad1.jpg[br]http://shop.nufc.co.uk/sites/newcastle/images/departments/home/ad2.jpg[br]http://shop.nufc.co.uk/sites/newcastle/images/departments/home/ad3.jpg The short sleeve version looks better.

Not a huge fan of England, but to say they have a "very poor team" is a bloody stupid thing to say. They don't get the results, they don't play attractive football, they struggle against "inferior" opposition (and I'm not just talking about the German reserves), they lack leadership, they lack pride. By my definition, that is very poor. They have good players at club level, but on how many occasions have they looked like a decent team in recent memory? Maybe they don't work well together, maybe the don't give a damn, maybe they are poorly managed. For whatever reasons, they are very poor. It gets tedious and boring to hear it all explained as some big mystery to figure out - as if they can just drop Keegan, Shearer, Sven, Beckham, McSven, Lampard, Gerrard, Robinson etc. and the quality will show itself. Bollocks. At some point, you have to consider the fact that they might not be that good after all. So in fact not a poor team but a poor manager? Ok. A "very poor team" would be a result of poor management and poor individuals, England aren't that. A good team witherd down to a poor one via a very poor manager would of been more correct I'm not convinced that McClaren or Sven is the biggest problem. There isn't a quick fix, because it has been a problem for a long time. On paper, the team selection wasn't that bad. After 20 minutes, the players just stopped doing their job. They all play under good managers in the Premiership, they don't need anyone holding their hand at international level. Maybe motivation is the big weakness, but that really shouldn't be that difficult playing Germany at Wembley. He was. He just went on way too long.

Not a huge fan of England, but to say they have a "very poor team" is a bloody stupid thing to say. They don't get the results, they don't play attractive football, they struggle against "inferior" opposition (and I'm not just talking about the German reserves), they lack leadership, they lack pride. By my definition, that is very poor. They have good players at club level, but on how many occasions have they looked like a decent team in recent memory? Maybe they don't work well together, maybe the don't give a damn, maybe they are poorly managed. For whatever reasons, they are very poor. It gets tedious and boring to hear it all explained as some big mystery to figure out - as if they can just drop Keegan, Shearer, Sven, Beckham, McSven, Lampard, Gerrard, Robinson etc. and the quality will show itself. Bollocks. At some point, you have to consider the fact that they might not be that good after all.

England are a very poor team. Simple as that.

They're English, top-flight strikers, not presently injured and willing. That puts them in a fairly small group. This gives me some incentive to watch the match, and it will be great to see England's no. 9 & no. 10 from Newcastle (especially when neither of them are first choice forwards at the moment in Sam's 4-3-3) Just please don't either of them get injured.

Keegan as DoF, Ashley selling up to Chinamen or maybe Icelandic businessmen (with Shearer somehow figuring), Allardyce frustrated, Oba to Arsenal, Oba to Man Utd, N'Zogbia to Fulham, Owen to wherever. I wish someone would start a media watch because this summer has been ridiculous. The British football media are amateurs and liars.

It doesn't make sense on any level and you can only conclude that it isn't true. What I am interested in is how these stories get started.

Fair enough. I think most of the foreign supporters on here are probably ex-pats anyway and most of us have probably been to SJP (after all, Newcastle isn't the most obvious choice for glory hunters). But if the booing 15 year olds embarrass you when you stand next to them on a Saturday afternoon, then they annoy you when you hear them on TV.

If you had been in America this weekend and watched the match would you be entitled to criticize booing at the end of a 0-0 draw? I can understand being annoyed if some foreigner tells someone going to matches that they are being loud enough, but I don't think that was the point being made.

I can't understand why two people voted for Fulham. Is it because they are a London club?

DECO!

Pennant is useless.