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Nice lineup. Encouraging stuff from Hughton, easy thing to do would have been to start Butt.

You just know he was planning for weeks beforehand to have that exact amount of stubble for the photoshoot.

Really hope Man U don't win the Premiership, just so the little gimp doesn't ever get that medal. Him not being there would be a nice silver lining to England winning the World Cup as well.

Cancelled my Sky Sports package just this minute. Pack of wankers. (Was planning to do so today anyway, regardless of this news. But I feel all the more vindicated now. )

And you were doing so well.

Thanks for that Dave.

Thanks for that Perluigi. My point is that the rule is absolutely stupid, not that I don't understand it.

What does he do then? The thing to do there is to let the ball land and either take it down or play it back to the keeper. However, every single instinct any decent defender has in that situation is telling him not to go messing about with a striker in close proximity, and in such a dangerous part of the field. So what does he do? He has to volley/header the ball back towards midfield, and likely give the ball back to the opposition. The striker is quite clearly "active" in the play there, even if he hasn't touched the ball.

The "interfering with play" rule is wank, needs to be changed. Perfect example was a couple of years ago. Us against Birmingham, think it was that 1-1 game where Owen scored the equaliser. One of our players hoofs an aimless long ball forward. The ball is coming down near Viduka, who was standing about 15 yards offside when the ball was played. The Birmingham defender catches the ball while backtracking cos he knows Viduka is in an offside position. Result? Free kick to Newcastle. Thought it was funny as fuck at the time, obviously, but it's madness that the defender gets punished there IMO.

It's a shame that my foot is gonna miss out on your ass for that comment, bucko.

Wahey.

McShane is so bad it's unbelievable.

No you wouldn't mate, trust me.

The problem with Nolan for me is that he shows no interest at all in getting on the ball in midfield, not that he's unfit. His instinct is to get forward and try and get on the end of knockdowns from long balls, which is a major reason why we've been so "direct" all year. He's quite a clever player and a decent finisher, which is why he'll get you goals, but he's a complete hindrance to any team attempting to play the ball forward on the deck. Allardyce's Bolton was the perfect setup for him. Two central midfielders beside him that allowed him to get forward all the time, big target man CF to help create chances for him. In a 4-4-2, however, he leaves far too much on the plate of his partner in the middle of the park.

Hope Rochdale's season falls apart.

Man U - Rochdale - Swindon - Norwich Fiver returns just under 20. Also had five on Man U, Barca, Rochdale, Grimsby, Bury and a draw in the other CL game. Fiver returns almost 200 on that.

Can't believe Dave was actually beaten to the punch. Has that ever happened before?

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Then you're getting punished for genuinely being hurt, which isn't really fair at all. There are literally no drawbacks whatsoever I can think of to just letting the physios come on to treat an injured player while the play is still ongoing.

It's amazing that physios still have to wait until the ball goes out of play before they can come on to treat an injured player. It would solve this issue immediately if they could just come on immediately when a player goes down, with the added bonus being that playacting dickheads who writhe around on the ground with nothing wrong with them when they don't get a free-kick would only be hurting their own team. It was lunacy that they hadn't changed that rule 10 years ago.

That's probably the worst idea I've heard in my life, to be fair.

Bobby Robson Alan Shearer Jackie Milburn Peter Beardsley Kevin Keegan Joe Harvey Tony Green Bob Moncur Paul Gascoigne Len White Bill McCracken Hughie Gallacher Wyn Davies Des Hamilton.

Slapped a whopping £2.41 on Valencia, Rotherham and Kaiserslautern. Having an odd number in my balance always bothers me for some reason, have to bet as soon as possible to get it rounded off to a nice flat figure.

I always reckoned Quaresma would get kicked to fuck in the Premiership.

How hard can it be to make a jersey with black and white fucking stripes? No stupid little patch on the right shoulder for some reason. No predominantly white/black shoulders. No ugly big patch on the back. Just black and white stripes all the way around.