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"Discussion starts from 35 million" I wonder what their first bid will be.

fantastic.

It's progressing well.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't surprise me, either. Would be a small step up on Carew/Heskey but you lot need a lot better if you're going to continue to push for 4th and higher. surely? Doyle better than Carew? Oh lord. Carew is a perma-crock these days. No he isn't. 42 appearances for us last season, 17 goals. I was waiting for someone to put him in his place on this one. Carew is disgustingly underrated and I blame MONs antics tbh.

My friend actually has the ball, haven't kicked it around yet because we're too afraid to put something so sacred on such dirty ground. Whenever we do get around to it I'm interested to see how it moves. Whether it's dodgy or not, I don't agree with introducing an unfamiliar ball just before the start of the game's biggest tournament. Commercially it may make sense, but I don't think it's fair on the players. It was used in the confeds and has been available for months, they've had plenty of time to practice with it.

Oh my gosh. Apparently there is an Argentinian goalkeeper called Fabian Assmann, and this... is his girlfriend... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nEY5BTaC6rg/S7q6rXESaaI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/F_Q3wTaHmjQ/s320/melina-pitra-09.jpg

You're all cunts. Someone else in it has both Didier Drogba and Humberto Suazo. Both crocked. I've got: Eduardo Rio Heitinga Godin Arbeloa Pirlo Gourcuff Xavi David Silva Higuain Robben (It was a 'draft' fantasy team, we couldn't have duplicate players)

Oh just fuck right off. he's in Milano for treatment right now hmph, he's in my fantasy team. One that can't be changed till after the group stage. As is Rio.

Oh just fuck right off.

Mike Williamson. He's the solution.

Silent?!!?

Personally, I'm happy to have him there as an option, but the same applies for Shola tbh. I think we need a striker to start alongside Carroll, or Frank Lampard could play in behind him I guess.

So what are the odds on MON having a spat with Carew at the start of the season and then refusing to play him properly until about December, when he'll come in the team and start scoring goals. This will of course be followed by Andy Gray saying that he'd been 'off form' for the first half of the season, but now he's really hitting his stride.

The match can't be FIFA sanctioned can it?

Nah

Joma

I dunno. We always 'struggle', we struggled against Mexico, they raped us for possession and we still put them away. I don't see the need to try and change the way we play just because our possession numbers aren't great. Inter Milan, Champions League final possession was about 33%, but they got the job done. I don't see anyone beyond Spain that will walk over us, because they actually have the ability to make and finish their chances. I'm just hoping someone else will knock them out.

They've played in 2 tournaments together!

You know who else haven't won anything together? Pele, Maradona and Geoff Hurst. What a stupid fucking comment.

... http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,34477.msg2347635.html#msg2347635

That was on talk sport last night. He said Parker and Dawson were treated like ghosts. They were there, but they might as well have not been as Capello never had any intentions of playing either of them.

And every other footballing nation have been playing world class football, destroying all opposition by at least 25 goals.

Did it bounce in off his arse from a yard out?

Aye, fuck Walcott, but A.Johnson has had one...

Michael Owen had one good season before he got brought to the World Cup...