Karjala

Don't you dare mark him on effort. Smith is exactly the same, he tries hard but is crap. Keegan could sign me, I'd play my heart out, but I'd be crap and out of my depth. Don't you see that skill and ability is more important than guts and effort? To be a good player, you need both of them however, but ability comes first. Barton is not out of his depth, he is just void of confidence. He was one of the best goalscoring midfielders in the league the last couple of seasons. You complaring yourself to Barton sums your statement up I havent checked, but how many league goals has Barton scored in the last 2 seasons?

Hope all of their starting 11 do.

couldnt give a flying fook as long as we get all 3pts.

Never been to Florence, but I'm sure you'll see an English boozer there.

cunts the pair of them, and wankermac.

Looks like Durham City as good as wrapped up the Albany Northern League last night

Gets funnier... Carr and Ramage both have 3 months left on their contracts and supposedly teams are gonna us £2m for the pair. Nice.

league title to Manure...

44-44

good.

More bad writing from The Mirror.

Id like to see Barton up against Ronaldo-in a dark alley. Or in a bar.

Give me Barton ahead of both of them, any day.

I have us finishing 13th on 38pts. Fulham (31), Bolton (30) and Derby (10) getting relegated. Man U winning the title ahead of Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, with Everton getting 5th and Pompey in 6th.

I travelled all the way from Bellingham, WA to Newcastle to see a match during the 2005/2006 season (vs. Birmingham at SJP). We won in like the 70th minute with an Emre goal - game ended 1-0. I still have amazing memories of how the crowd erupted when it went in. For that I'll always have a soft spot for him. I think he is/was a great player, however, I agree the injuries are getting frustrating... Sean Bellingham, WA 'great' really is OTT for Emre.

Hope we stay up and give him 3 years to show us what he can do. We arent the most attractive proposition for the 'world class' managers who are available, so KK was as good as anybody who was realistically interested. If he can get us up to that Top 6 again, and going into Cup competitions feeling we have a chance of winning, he'll have done a great job IMO.

Dunno, probably a calf injury again, its getting annoying now with Emre, one game every other month.. Yep, season almost over and Emre has made a whopping 8 starts and 9 sub appearances, easy money if you can get it. Viduka isnt much better with 13 & 7.

Will Emre ever be fit? Whats his latest 'niggle'?

anyone else not give a fuck about cock-e-knee teams?

I saw Shola, Viduka and Emre sat in a bar just outside of the toon, all are chuffed to be getting paid shit loads for doing fuck all. You heard it here first.

Glad the match has been moved til Sunda, as i would have still been abroad for the Sat KO. Now I can watch it at home. The Calzaghe fight will hopefully start around 4am and I'll flog it up from stansted (land at 11:55pm) and catch that too.

Harper Beye Taylor Faye Enrique Martins Barton Butt N'Zogbia Viduka Owen I can see KK leaving the team the same, except possibly Zoggy coming in for either Martins, Geremi or Barton.

Yeah ive also felt a lot more confident today, after last nights result and second half performance. It will all count for nothing if we dont beat Fulham though, and as said, they wont be easy. Recently drew at Blackburn and beat Everton at home, McBride and Bullard back means they will be dangerous. If we beat them, we are safe as far as I'm concerned, and can see the players getting enough confidence to go on and beat Reading and Scumderland, and possibly pick up a couple of bonus points on the road. Thats an IF we beat Fulham.

Anyone know if Stansted Airport has Setanta?!

I wondered that 5 years ago.