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The bit about the Hitzfeld portfolio was the best for me.

Nah. They should go for Torres or else buy a truly world class CM in all honesty.

Can you imagine? The lectures that would be administered every time someone even dared question something Shepherd did would be epic.

Hope it's true. Was glad to see the back of him and he's far from ideal as chairmen go, but he was/is immeasureably better than that useless cunt Ashley.

Camera wasn't looking across the line though, it was comfortably over in all fairness.

Really sounds like there's a swarm of angry bees lurking above the stadium.

When did they start having games at 3 on a Saturday?

Great goal tbf. I fear the support of Mike will be too much to overcome for the US in the second half.

It's purely because Americans have grown up with their own sports to be honest. They have baseball, basketball, American football and even hockey which are all considered far more important. Same exact reason why the NFL will never be particularly popular in the UK, we've grown up with football, rugby and cricket (or GAA in Ireland) as the main sports, people have to really go out of their way to get into sports from the other side of the pond and very few bother to do so. Your entire post is more or less guff tbh, from the few American sports fans I know most of them seem to have at least one team they follow with real intensity, just as we do with NUFC. They pick up their other local teams in the playoffs I'm sure, but the notion that Americans don't get into their sports until the playoffs is pretty much hilarious. Teams are allowed move city but very few ever do. Nobody has moved an NFL franchise this decade for instance, and its only happened six times in over forty years since the current league setup came into being. Most teams have no reason to move, and never have and never will. Players quite commonly play their whole careers at one team as well btw, most players have one team they'll spend most of their career at before going somewhere else for the last year or two for a bit of a payday. You make it sound like it's just one big merry-go-round of players signing with random teams, when that's clearly not the case. Shearer played for Southampton and Blackburn btw. Well as I happen to live in the states, I think first hand experience is a bit better than a few fans you know. While they may be a few die hard fans, the majority don't give a shit. At least one team moves or is created every few years. Saying that most players remain at one team is completely false. Look in baseball, its common for most players to play for 4-5 teams in their career Was talking about the NFL, I don't really know much about baseball. Point is that very few footballers over here stay at one club either, I'd wager it's at least as common in the NFL if not moreso. The teams that move tend to do so because the local fanbase doesn't give a shit about them, which is hardly a bad thing in all honesty. Don't see teams like the Bears, Packers or Steelers going anywhere anytime soon.

It's purely because Americans have grown up with their own sports to be honest. They have baseball, basketball, American football and even hockey which are all considered far more important. Same exact reason why the NFL will never be particularly popular in the UK, we've grown up with football, rugby and cricket (or GAA in Ireland) as the main sports, people have to really go out of their way to get into sports from the other side of the pond and very few bother to do so. Your entire post is more or less guff tbh, from the few American sports fans I know most of them seem to have at least one team they follow with real intensity, just as we do with NUFC. They pick up their other local teams in the playoffs I'm sure, but the notion that Americans don't get into their sports until the playoffs is pretty much hilarious. Teams are allowed move city but very few ever do. Nobody has moved an NFL franchise this decade for instance, and its only happened six times in over forty years since the current league setup came into being. Most teams have no reason to move, and never have and never will. Players quite commonly play their whole careers at one team as well btw, most players have one team they'll spend most of their career at before going somewhere else for the last year or two for a bit of a payday. You make it sound like it's just one big merry-go-round of players signing with random teams, when that's clearly not the case. Shearer played for Southampton and Blackburn btw.

Honestly?

33 people, fucking hell. Can only hope a load of mackems have signed up to take the piss, cos any man who actually likes this abomination needs to have a serious look in the mirror, followed by a hearty bumming of some fellas.

My exact initial reaction was that it looked like a Solero that someone had taken a bite out of.

http://www.forumammo.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10063/ThisThreadSucks.jpg

Still play with more urgency than our central midfield last year. Favourite bit was when the guy handballed and the opposition player tried to gesture at the ref and fell over.

A statue of Bottled Dog's avatar is the way to go if this ever goes ahead tbh.

Fireworks going off when the ball crosses the line would be about the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Does he really think people are gonna read it and go "Fucking hell, this lad's the business. Get him signed!" Be brilliant if he can't find a club this summer and ends up on a meager, pay-as-you-play, type of deal at Hull or something.

The opposite of not giving him a fresh start is giving him a fresh start. To out-Dave Dave the real opposite would be giving him a stale finish.Or even selling him one. Sounds like something you'd get for 2 euro in Amsterdam.

Ah yeah why not... fuck it. I'd not expect much from him, but if he makes the right moves then he should be backed. Same as anyone, really.

An inexperienced manager with a crap set of players?Again...trying to dispel the legend so to speak...why is he now supposedly advising prospective buyers not to appoint him? The point is that Shearer's appointment could easily have re-invigorated the players and seen us drag ourselves to safety. Daft move if he wanted to relegate us, and not one that would be in keeping with evil genius persona you seem to be building for Fat Mike.

Why appoint Shearer? We were gone with Hughton running the show, Shearer might well have worked out.

New hero? http://blueprint.freedomblogging.com/files/2007/11/welcome-to-the-party-pal.jpg

Xisco. Would prefer to keep Enrique, but I can't say I'd be gutted if he left. I'd probably keep Jonas if he was arsed, but judging by the last few games of the season he's not that pushed about being at the club.