OzzieMandias

Ha! Then consider the worm Ouroboros!

Why not?

Reading the above few posts, it seems that Ameobi was out to do his best and keep on trying to prove himself while Owen, who feels he's got no need to prove anything at this level, was really just having a run-out.

It really is one tough transfer market. Prices up still further, talent not just concentrated at the top, but positively hoarded. Mido, Chopra, going for six million and up. Mad.

From today's stories it seems like it ought to read MAYBE ON AGAIN.

You don't know any more than he does tbh No, but I don't believe Mort was lying when he said this had been done as a response to dodgy behaviour on their part. yeah, lawyers never lie. What sort of response is upping the price?? in my book, either fucking childish, or stupid. Pull the deal, fair enough, but to turn round and go "nah, we want more now"...that sounds more like a group of people too used to getting their own way, not good business sense. I don't think Ahsley is stupid, not by a long chalk, but i think what he did on taht occasion was very stupid. Yeah, and you don't know what happened either, but go ahead and believe Magnusson/Curbishley and the cockneys rather than our people, if that makes you feel good.

Maybe this'll convince people that it's not just us and Owen who get this treatment. Bet it doesn't. Anyway, I think it's fair enough. I don't care about Man U. I do want England to qualify for Euro 2008.

I'd expect him to keep his big gob shut and let the talking be done on the pitch. Didn't do his club any favours by bad mouthing him, they got played off the pitch. I see your point, though. you really think that him (admitedly stupidly) opening his mouth affected the outcome? Because it didn't. And here WE are, saying Ashley shoudl come out and state his intent, then slaughtering a chairman who comes out and bigs up his existing team and management staff, at the expense of a man who left. Good on him i say, you have to look forward, and support your staff. If only we could all be as positive as you, NM.

Doesn't sound like Sam's about to resume talking to the BBC anytime soon.

Sunderland's obviously not Chopra's ideal choice, but it is his chance -- a chance he didn't get at St James', and a chance he wasn't going to get in Cardiff either. He was lucky to get it and must know that. And while playing for the mackems is clearly a little problematic for him, being back near friends and family must be a compensation. So I've got no problem with the lad. But now I don't want him to succeed.

Aye, the "southern-based press" never do anything but dream up unfair ways to slag us off... http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,2142837,00.html

Allardyce and Mort were already in the area after yesterday's game. Allardyce is a friend of Ferguson's and anyway hardly needs an ulterior motive to go and watch a Premiership game. Mort has probably never been to Old Trafford before and maybe just tagged along to look at the set-up.

Receiving a bid isn't a sign of anything except someone being interested in buying the club. The fact that Ashley considered it is maybe worrying -- probably more a sign of the mess they discovered Shepherd had left behind than anything else -- but he decided not to accept it, so where's the problem?

"it’s important the public realise they have a part to play. One of the things I’ve picked up on is that a lot of the players are finding it increasingly difficult to play at home. “The fans are so demanding, and while we all accept they are the most passionate and supportive of all when things are going well, there is a downside, which is how they single out individuals for criticism in a way that becomes destructive. It doesn’t only affect that one player, it gets to the others too. They all think, ‘When’s it going to be my turn?’ “It was Scott Parker towards the end of last season and Nicky Butt before him. To his credit, Nicky has overcome it. He’s gone through it, come out the other end and now the fans like him, but not everybody will do that. The supporters need to understand we all want to be successful and are all trying all the time. It doesn’t matter whether you like a player’s personality or not, he will try his best. “Sometimes, because of the pressure, it may not look like it. It can get to the stage where they can’t see beyond the end of their noses. Abuse can make you fearful of accepting a pass, let alone making one, and unable to express yourself. We need more of a happy medium. If we’re crap, of course everybody is entitled to say so. That’s fine, but don’t say we’re ‘diabolical’ or ‘it’s an absolute disgrace’ when we’ve been borderline poor. What we don’t want is a knee-jerk ‘This player should never wear a Newcastle shirt again’, because nailing somebody like that won’t make him better, it will make him want to leave.” Well fucking said.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Thanks for that. It's a possible solution, though I'd need to do a bit of system and memory upgrading first.

It's a professional necessity. Nobody uses PCs in the industries where I work.

Already did so. Won't help me enjoy the season, though. Did you try the 'open match console option' as opposed to the 'audio only' option. The audio only option requires IE.5, whereas the match console option doesnt. Not sure if this will make any difference to Mac users though? Match console option wouldn't work either. I just got a different kind of error message (from my system, rather than from their site).

I don't understand your banter.

West Ham having to change their statement about the matter is another clue as to who's the guilty party here.

You don't know any more than he does tbh No, but I don't believe Mort was lying when he said this had been done as a response to dodgy behaviour on their part.

So NE5 would rather believe the cockney twats than our chairman and manager.

Already did so. Won't help me enjoy the season, though.

I've got WMP. And RealPlayer. And Quicktime Player. And VLC. WMP opens when I click on the Newcastle World commentary link, long enough to say it's buffering, and then disappears to be replaced by the message that the service is not available to Macs.

And these are the bastards who have got the commentary on Radio Newcastle and Century blocked to non-UK URLs, so at every turn they are preventing me from listening to the match!