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Norman Hubbard, a history Norman Hubbard May 12, 2008 "Top 10 worst buys" http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=534468&cc=5901 Norman Hubbard May 6, 2009 "Toon in need of a major clearout" http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=643852&cc=5901 Norman Hubbard April 1, 2010 "Magpies soaring back to the big time" http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=764177&cc=5901

Well he was right about Ben Arfa wasn't he?

The notion that Enrique being poor was a myth propogated by some journalist anxious to wave his prce tag in our faces: NUFC defender ergo flop. Louise Taylor and some clown at ESPN soccernet (Norman Hubbard?) wrote him off as a bust the minute he was signed. This lie held for a long time among fans who didn't see him very often-- maybe the reason (or one of the reasons) he's still with us. Of course, Louise came around and is telling anyone who will listen that he's not as bad as they might remember. But that's about as convincing as reading Ronaldo praise the improvement in Carroll's game.

They should just be happy we don't called them Elfenbenskysten.

Wasn't Babel a striker at Ajax?

Well, Garth Crooks rates him. Perch was named to his Team of the Week along with Williamson, Nolan, and Carroll. Quite an illustrious honor!

Well, what about Adebayor?

Missed it completely. Was on at 5am here in California. I'll be watching this afternoon though. Logged on this morning and saw the score, I was in disbelief, then anguish -- inverting the scoreline, then disbelief again.

Yes. Let's see RTaylor, Sol, Kadar, Tavernier but not Enrique

Candidate for a new smiley? http://images.kosepanda.net/durr.jpg Yes, please.

A little research... couldn't remember much about him from the World Cup. This is what Zonal Marking said about him prior to the tournament. No mention of his name in any of the post match analysises. Ivory Coast’s uphill task just got even steeper And fwiw, here's ZM's analysis of McClaren's FC Twente. The article doesn't mention Tiote by name, but this bit is interesting. What has Steve McClaren been doing right?

Seem to remember way back when some wanting Martinez to come to Newcastle. Then again, there were those that rated Collins John.

Then Spurs will be his last game you reckon?

Home opener against the champions and nobody shows up.

Who is cwarris and why does his word warrant posting?

Along these lines, Joey Barton getting booked for a foul that another player wouldn't get booked for. Nani's reaction on Monday fucked me right off, the commentators acting as if he'd shot Nani in the face, got his cock out and proceded to slap him about with it for a bit. Then, a Man U player made exactly the same challenge and Alan fucking fuck face Smith said "Ah, he's unlucky there" <--- See pic stage left. We'll be seeing Barton's WTF expression a lot this season.

Please elaborate. Tell me more.

Great. So, besides Ben Arfa who else is OM sending our way?

Write a wrong.

Me too. Couldn't find it, assumed the worse-- Ben Arfa had signed for someone else and the mods deleted the entire the thread out of spite. Why make it a sticky? It's been top of the charts for a week!

Remember back when we were discussing the adoption of a 2nd team? Edit: Beat to the obvious.