OzzieMandias

it would be fantastic for liverpool. they're the one team in the country who it would disproportionately (and perhaps unfairly) benefit more than anyone else as their cachet far outweights their actual competitive ability as a club. chelsea are the other way around in that as a team they're more competitive than their cachet would suggest, even if their draw has increased ten fold in recent years. same applies for man city. it wouldn't really matter of them anyway, they've got money from other sources and after a few years of being up there they'd start to pull in comparable tv revenue. goes without saying that man utd would get shit tonnes of dosh. would benefit us slightly as we're a bigger draw than our recent poor history suggests, though looking at it in relation to the even bigger clubs, we'd be fucked. Nail on head.

Should put them here: http://www.buchstabenmuseum.de/buchstaben/buchstaben.php

Thank god there's something to moan about, eh?

Keegan's pensioners.

I've got this book of photos about Moscow, and one of them is of a cigarette tester in a cigarette factory, taking a drag of a tab, and the caption says, "Who knows, maybe this puff will launch a new brand of cigarette."

Only puffs say "poof".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/04/clubs-paid-100-change-managers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2011/oct/04/manchester-city-campus-rich-poor

What's the difference? He's basically been kicked sideways -- moved into another job entirely (one they've invented for him) while the owner takes a hands-on role in terms of actually running the club from day to day.

Alas, the idea that Pardew is not simply "a puppet" is still tinged with heresy around here. Reconciling the reality of our excellent start to the season with the notion that everything the Ashley regime does is an unmitigated disaster obviously involves some tricky mental contortions. It's hardly surprising that logic comes a cropper.

Get the fuck in. Third in the table.

On IE6. Edit: got it clicking on page 1 of Jonas thread, and 'new' page alert for Jonas thread. Been getting this on and off today, too. Most recently within the last hour. On Safari, on an iPad, in Turkey.

Excellent post. Good to see you active around here again.

The rest of the western world gets fucking paid for it. Someone pays you to wear your trainers/hoodie/shirt/hat/whatever?

It looks crap but I find it hard to get worked up about it. So the stadium's covered in branding. Just like the rest of the western world, then.

Plus, Leverkusen are wank.

If we're not involved, I don't normally care whether English teams win or not, and unless they're playing the mackems it usually pains me to see Chelsea win in any circumstances. But tonight, hey, come on you fucking cockneys, red or blue! I want to take the piss out of a few people tomorrow!

Oh dear, I seem to have upset the herd.

my problem with this is we "bid" around the 10m euro mark at the start of the window for 2 strikers, then when that all fell apart none, NONE of our other options were worth paying a similar amount of money for?' the "bids" themselves denote the club realise it was a priority (to the fans) position to sign a player in, so they bid early and go public after that, with 8 months of research behind them, you're telling me seriously they couldn't find and sign a striker for around 10m euros that's really what you think you need help man Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the post that you are quoting. Feel free to explain what you don't understand about the sentence "They need to get a lot better at playing their own game, however." i was replying to this as all evidence points to the opposite of what you're saying basically EDIT: what i would say though, in their defence, is that if they could have found another good striker who was cheap or free then they'd have had no hesitation in signing him it's clear to me, as it should now be to everyone, that we will not be spending money over and above what we recoup in fees from sales (unless it's a HBA type signing who is clearly worth more than the fee paid) was it coincidence maiga went on "strike"? personally i don't think so, the only thing preventing his cut price arrival was the reluctance of his club to cave in 2 misconduct allegations in one window, frankly i'm amazed it's so few - it'll become par for the course imo...it's well known ashley likes to throw the rule book away in his business dealings, why would this be different? Well, fine. You carry on believing that we're making player bids for PR reasons alone, and I'll carry on thinking you're two fries short of a Happy Meal. people have already pointed out numerous examples of why you're wrong mate, read the writing, or answer my questions in that last post I put strict limits on the time I spend conversing with people who believe insane things. sorry but what's insane? Read the post you first replied to.

Said after a 5 year non-stop argument with Leazes Mag. Is he insane?

my problem with this is we "bid" around the 10m euro mark at the start of the window for 2 strikers, then when that all fell apart none, NONE of our other options were worth paying a similar amount of money for?' the "bids" themselves denote the club realise it was a priority (to the fans) position to sign a player in, so they bid early and go public after that, with 8 months of research behind them, you're telling me seriously they couldn't find and sign a striker for around 10m euros that's really what you think you need help man Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the post that you are quoting. Feel free to explain what you don't understand about the sentence "They need to get a lot better at playing their own game, however." i was replying to this as all evidence points to the opposite of what you're saying basically EDIT: what i would say though, in their defence, is that if they could have found another good striker who was cheap or free then they'd have had no hesitation in signing him it's clear to me, as it should now be to everyone, that we will not be spending money over and above what we recoup in fees from sales (unless it's a HBA type signing who is clearly worth more than the fee paid) was it coincidence maiga went on "strike"? personally i don't think so, the only thing preventing his cut price arrival was the reluctance of his club to cave in 2 misconduct allegations in one window, frankly i'm amazed it's so few - it'll become par for the course imo...it's well known ashley likes to throw the rule book away in his business dealings, why would this be different? Well, fine. You carry on believing that we're making player bids for PR reasons alone, and I'll carry on thinking you're two fries short of a Happy Meal. people have already pointed out numerous examples of why you're wrong mate, read the writing, or answer my questions in that last post I put strict limits on the time I spend conversing with people who believe insane things.

We fuck about with the nature of the stripes on the shirt all the time.

The vast amounts of cash now in Russian football: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/european-championships-2012/8740731/Russia-v-Republic-of-Ireland-vast-riches-propelling-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-Russian-Premier-League.html

We'll done, you're old . That sign has been at every Newcastle home match I've ever been to, so its part of my heritage as a NUFC fan so to speak. And I'd rather it wasn't replaced with some red and blue wank Aye, well, congratulations on being young.