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Lucky escape there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7578597.stm Shay's save.

Milner nearly....................

Owen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on we can win this

Come on Shay

Taylor off?

Bolton fans singing "Cheer Up Kevin Keegan".....

Martins apparently has a groin injury.

Martins off for Owen.

Mackems!

This is eerily similar to our last home game with them. Hope it won't be the same result.

He's bluffing. He has to be!

HT - no boos ........yet!

Senderos, Inler and Derdiyok? Argie recruitment temporarily stopped for a triumvirate of Swiss?

From the Geordie Beano (apologies if already posted): KK also revealed he is still aiming to make more additions to his squad and says he is looking to cover three different positions. He said: "I'm looking to bring in three new players. "We need one more defender, one more midifielder and perhaps another forward. "We have Fabricio Coloccini who can play right-back, left-back or the holding role in midfield. "If somebody gets injured that gives us some great cover options as well."

Is that true?

Bagpuss blows out blubber boy: Bruce quells Carr rumours Boss unlikely to make further moves in transfer window By James Dall Last updated: 20th August 2008 Wigan Athletic manager Steve Bruce has rubbished reports linking former Newcastle United full-back Stephen Carr with a transfer to the club. Carr ended his four-year stay at St James' Park when he was released by the Magpies at the end of last season. Recent speculation has claimed Wigan could be set to move for the 31-year-old Irishman. However, Bruce has rejected the rumours, and also quashed lingering suggestions Michael Brown could leave the JJB Stadium before the close of the transfer window. Bruce said in the Wigan Evening Post: "I don't know where the Carr story has come from. I can categorically say no to that one. "I keep hearing the Brown rumour but there's nothing in it. In fact, I don't see us doing anything before the transfer window shuts. "We need a good squad and I've only got three central midfield players."

He'll probably be living in Newcastle though like the rest of them.

It pains me to say this but they look a much stronger team than last year or any other year for that matter. Guess it will just make our twin Derby victories sweeter.

Virtually confirmed - from the BBC: Cisse close to Sunderland switch Dijbril Cisse Cisse suffered a broken leg twice in three years earlier in his career Marseille say they have negotiated an "agreement in principle" for former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse to join Sunderland on a season-long loan. Black Cats boss Roy Keane has made several summer signings but after his side lost their opening game to Liverpool he said he hoped to add more. Cisse, 27, joined Liverpool in 2004 but only scored 15 goals in two injury-plagued seasons. In July 2007 he joined Marseille on a permanent move after a loan spell. Cisse, who was a member of Liverpool's Champions League-winning team in 2006, broke both legs during his time at Anfield, missing the 2006 World Cup because of the second injury. But he seems to have made a full recovery, scoring 16 goals for Marseilles last season, and has been keen to return to playing in the Premier League. Keane has already signed Tottenham trio Teemu Tainio, Steed Malbranque, Pascal Chimbonda and El Hadji Diouf this summer.

http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=107704 The bastions of honest internet journalism strike again.

Kompany is class and ticks all the right boxes. I think Hamburg got him for only a couple of million Euros.

Cisse is actually a Lord in Cheshire believe it or not. He might want to come back so he's closer to his minions.

Cisse to the Mackems: http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2008/20080820_134533_d-cisse-a-sunderland_Dev.html