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aye supposedly WHL is definately getting knocked down and Spurs will play at either Wembley or the Emirates while it is being rebuilt, they should have to pay for it imo you think they would be getting it free? come on. i meant pay for the stadium Eh, thats what Vic meant, that they'd have to pay for using the stadium.

Pompey getting beat at the moment too.

Portsmouth may still yet apply if they finish outside of the europe qualifying league positions, so we'll probably have to finish above them if they don't. Good points but we've still to play pompey next week, so we can close it down to 3 points. A lot will probably boil down to that game.

This time last year we beat boro 2-1 at the riverside to reach 10th in the premiership. Last year we went on to finish 7th could we do it again?

Probably reading too much into it. Seems to me Nufc.com seem to have a real problem with Parker at the moment nad will take any opportunity to have a go. Because of how well they are regarded by toon fans I believe this has contributed to the abuse Parker gets on this forum and in the stands. Their match report says he got lots of abuse yesterday. "Parker and Carr took the brunt of the crowd's anger" - nufc.com Yet from the BBC report it sounds like he was probably our best player. Newcastle, inspired by Scott Parker, looked dangerous in patches with Kieron Dyer and Damien Duff the main threat. - bbc.co.uk

2006 The club confirmed that tests performed on midfielder Scott Parker had led to a diagnosis that he was suffering from glandular fever. Glenn Roeder admitted that it would be "difficult" for Parker to play again that season. It was and he didn't.... Little bit taken from Nufc.com. What are they trying to get at about Scott Parker?

Only 3 points off the 40 point mark, but looking at the table we're only 10 points off the relegation zone. A couple more winless games and i think we'd be in danger of getting sucked right in there.

Thing is it's hard enough as it is for young reserve players to make the jump to the 1st team yet we fucking play them out of position just to make it that little bit harder. Done it with Taylor, Ramage and now Huntington.

Where are the numpties saying he's just a poor man's LuaLua?

Not disagreeing or ought, just interested what gives you this impression TT?

It's within the match report: http://www.nufc.com/2006-07html/2007-01-20westham-h.html So it is. Noticed dot.com has started to get on Parker's back recently, this is their assessment of him in recent games: - "Marco's match prediction was for Scott Parker to find the net - perhaps finding a colleague with a pass may have been more realistic..." "especially with the variable contribution of Parker alongside him - who can only partly be excused for his disappointing display by returning from injury. In this current time we're looking for big players to lead by example and try to exert a calming influence - sad to say there was precious little of that from the captain - and numerous examples of abdicating responsibility and playing less experienced non-international players into trouble." "Despite the former Chelsea man's international stock rising, he still doesn't set our paces racing when on the field and seems to exhibit little of what could be called captain-like behaviour. Were we to be using a similar lead by example rationale to that which gave Shearer the armband, Butt would currently be the natural choice - proof of the complete turnaround in his career since July. "

Why is this article no longer on dot.com?

When it comes to Souness or Bruce though, I'd have to go for Bruce, just. We'll never know of course but I doubt Bruce would have fallen out with Robert or Bellamy and with those 2 in the side things might have gone very differently in the uefa semi against Lisbon.

Don't be so bloody daft. How the hell can the lad tackle a problem like this BY HIMSELF ? He's done the right thing in bringing it up. I dont agree with him 100% but I'm bang on behind him in bringing it up. Censuring those concerned, yes. But not banning. Would the lad complaining for instance make a stand against someone gloating about 7/7 at his mosque ? I doubt it. Yet they are the ones RESPONSIBLE for people doing the "town full of pakis" that caused him so much anger. What goes around comes around. Here is another example of overreaction making the problem greater. This is a "thought police" mentality - You can only say things we allow you to say. Ever heard of freedom of speech ? It used to be popular before the PC brigade started their subservience to fanatics. This kind of tugging forelocks revolts me. :wullie: Bullshit. Its the same problem - someone offended by chants/shouts from opposition. You ARE taking up cudgels. As a matter of fact I bloody would. Thankfully there are no instances of this happening at either the mosque in benwell I go to or the university mosque I attend in Manchester. In fact after the mosque in Benwell were very quick to condemn 7/7 at Jumma prayers on the 1st friday after the bombings. There were speeches given in both urdu and english so that the elders and British born lads like myself could understand. There were also calls for calls for parents to be vigilant of their childrens actions and full co-operation with the police to aid their investigation and prevent further attacks.

I would hope TT's not doubting your right to raise this without having officially reported it, this is discussion forum after all. Ideally you (or someone who witnessed it) would have made a complaint though, I would think that would be the best way to get some proper action taken. I can understand his need to get evidence though, this is the internet. Sure he wasn't trying to accuse you of making it up. OK, peacemaking over! This about sums it up. I dont like to think we've a racist element to us, i hate the idea, but im not going to take a storey like this for gospel without proof. I don't know the OP, for all i know he could be a mackem WUM. The youtube video proved him right, and now am of the opinion something needs to be done about this, more than just talk about it on a NUFC forum. Fair enough. At the time of making the original post though I knew nothing about the youtube clip, so essentially all I had was my word. All i had was your word, and for me it wasn't enough. Don't feel offended by that, its just the internet isnt a place i trust. Now, back to business, i still think you should complain. The club will take it seriously imo, and i think everyone would give you backing for doing it. But really it has to be you, or someone who was there. Well like I say I never planned to originally, but with this youtube clip I think I will. I'm in the uni library at the moment but I will look into it later.

I would hope TT's not doubting your right to raise this without having officially reported it, this is discussion forum after all. Ideally you (or someone who witnessed it) would have made a complaint though, I would think that would be the best way to get some proper action taken. I can understand his need to get evidence though, this is the internet. Sure he wasn't trying to accuse you of making it up. OK, peacemaking over! This about sums it up. I dont like to think we've a racist element to us, i hate the idea, but im not going to take a storey like this for gospel without proof. I don't know the OP, for all i know he could be a mackem WUM. The youtube video proved him right, and now am of the opinion something needs to be done about this, more than just talk about it on a NUFC forum. Fair enough. At the time of making the original post though I knew nothing about the youtube clip, so essentially all I had was my word.

Nope, that was never on my agenda. If you read my original post you will see that I actually referred to the away support , in the main as fantastic. I simply wished to state that I heard this being sung at Blackburn and was offended by it. Now the majority N.O faithful have agreed that it is not a nice thing to hear and are quick to condemn those responsible. You on the other hand tried to make it out that I was making it up until you had proof. Others such as Phil K have unbelievably tried to say that this somehow isn't racist and I shouldn't be offended at all. :roll: So i don't believe what someone on the internet tells me without proof. Most people would say i was right to do so, considering not one single person apart from you heard it. If you've got a problem with that then fuking sue me, if you've got a problem with the chants do something about it instead of coming on here whinging about it, next time it might not happen, if you want to tackle racism here's your chance, if i felt offended by it, I would do something, but i wasn't there, and its not my place. (although am in the opinion you should send this video to NUFC, its should be reported) So now I'm whinging for bringing this up, unbelievable!

Nope, that was never on my agenda. If you read my original post you will see that I actually referred to the away support , in the main as fantastic. I simply wished to state that I heard this being sung at Blackburn and was offended by it. Now the majority N.O faithful have agreed that it is not a nice thing to hear and are quick to condemn those responsible. You on the other hand tried to make it out that I was making it up until you had proof. Others such as Phil K have unbelievably tried to say that this somehow isn't racist and I shouldn't be offended at all. :roll:

iklgizmo has heard it being sung before, haven't been to any away games in the Birmingham area so I can't confirm this but I'm sure others there yesterday will be able to confirm it was being sung. Here you go Nobby, listen to that youtube link.

Hell no, it wasn't. Taylor's goal was pure luck, Essiens shot was simply brilliant. Pure luck, ok. Guess it was also pure luck when he scored a similar (albeit not quite as spectacular) effort against the mackems last year.

Great goal, but Taylor's (Matty) this weekend was better.

There you go ToonTaylor here's your proof. As you can see from my opening post I mentioned it was being sung at half-time.

What could I possibly wish to gain from making this up? Like Omardinho has mentioned this hardly does our reputation as Newcastle fans any good and being a toon fan through and through why would I want to damage this rep? This wasn't a full blown chant, like the Oba chants, etc. but it was being sung by a portion of the newcastle fans below me, for a couple of minutes. I was on row 20 of the lower tier of the Darwen end.

Yeah Blackburn (and the North West in general) has a high number of asians, in particular pakistani muslims.

Yes but used in a derogatory way it is. Just like referring to someone's skin colour as black isn't racist but calling them a black bastard is. They didn't (allegedly) say paki bastard though. It would be the same as saying 'your just a town full of blacks' don't twist things. Not trying to twist things just merely illustrating that the term "Paki" was used in an insulting manner to Pakistan's. Something which you can't deny surely?