Anything post October is likely to see me be unavailable. I would also rule myself out of playing on the mackems day purely due to solidarity with my NFL brethren. Anything before then is fine.
Try London, getting smashed, NFL at Wembley. Big weekend.
As much as I love NFL, Toon v Mackems comes first.
Apart from, it doesn't, because NFL tickets were on sale months before the mackems game was announced.
It's not like he didn't have a choice.
Anyway, it's fairly commonplace as it's one of the few advantages the British market has over European markets.
Macheda is probably the most recent high-profile example of this, non?
Agree.
Sol coming in on a 1 year contract and being given captaincy straight away is a bad idea.
Giving the captaincy to Alan Smith or Kevin Nolan is borderline insanity.