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Butt thinks he's got medial ligament damage to his knee according to the Chronicle, 6 weeks out if it is the case. Having said that I've no idea of Butt's ability as a doctor. So err...Smith and Geremi in midfield Ryan on the right, Jonas on the left. Wouldn't be too shocked for him to leave Lovelyhands on the right and Taylor in the centre, which will at least mean no Smith. Martins and Viduka (more likely Shola?) up front. Urgh. Only positive I can see is that Scholes played 120 minutes on Sunday and will hopefully be too knackered to score his obligatory hat trick.

Yeah good one. I'd rather stay up like.

May aswell let Spurs win in injury time and complete the weekend from hell. Fuck off football

Is Van der Sar's record still going? If so I fucking hope Shola or Smith break it, just for the comedy value.

Play it like an away match and set up as we did at Chelsea and we might get a point. Probably not though.

Reminds me of the Upton Park camera, and that's not a good thing

Terry via a Boyce deflection

Cattermole booked, what the fuck so undeserved, he's such a nice boy.

Ryandonkulous

My decision to fill my team with Baines, Cahill and Jo has 2/3 paid off

No Jonas meant we had nobody to carry the ball in the first half, not that it would have changed our "lump it to Shola" gameplan.

Get in Pompey

Getting really sick of Arsenal messing up my accumulators, I keep saying "they can't possibly mess up at home again" and yet here we are. For fuck sake.

The kid is a f***ing animal, plain and simple. No doubt he's gotten away with it again as well? It was a fair challenge apparently, just "full blooded." Bollocks.

Cattermole cripples Digard.

Bolton 2 - 0 West Ham, bad news for us but I fancied Bolton to win today so not exactly shocked. One of those weekends where I don't mind too much what the other teams do as long as we fucking win.

Nile Ranger and Samuel Adjei are now friends. Fitting in well

Think of the compensation they'd get. We got £10m for Owen hurting his Knee for a few months, they'd get more than enough to strengthen adequately.

I would laugh at Spurs but they blatantly aren't bothered.

Good to see Chimbonda wearing his weekly wage (thousands) on the back of his shirt

no no, not the lounge...definately on grey st...name like the lounge The Lodge? What was once upon a time Johnny Ringo's? On Mosley St? That's Ant & Dec's bar isn't it?

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,58790.0.html That thread was bumped on the same day, what were the chances.

Consider us half-won then because Cahill is suspended

Aaron Hughes clearing the crossbar in the Champions League Qualifier (not to mention Shearer, Dyer and Woodgate all missing if I'm not mistaken) Dyer limping off in Lisbon. Bridges missing the one-on-one late on at home to Marseille first leg of the semi final.

Nolan has 10 yellows but isn't on the suspension list, so who knows if he'll be involved. Assuming he is involved and there are no training injuries, I expect: Harper, S Taylor, Colo, Bassong, Enrique, R Taylor, Butt, Nolan, Duff, Shola, Lovenkrands Subs: Jonas, Martins, Viduka, Smith, Geremi, Cacapa, Krul/Forster. Reasons: Hughton will spout something about not wanting to change a winning team, so Jonas will get stuck on the bench. He can say Martins/Viduka (& Smith..) lack match fitness Duff & Butt are the coaching staff's love children S Taylor is a Geordie, y'na Only change from that I can see happening is R Taylor for Enrique and Jonas in on the right. Which is ridiculous on Enrique. I'd prefer we went for the sensible option of Ryan at right back, Jonas right wing (swapping with Duff after 5 minutes as usual) and Steven Taylor on the bench, but there's an argument that S Taylor has done well enough at right back to keep his place. But I'd also prefer it if Duff wasn't undroppable, ho-hum.