Dr Spectrum

He's already done an autobiography There are no words.

Only situation I can imagine where that makes sense is a long throw-in coming to the box, everyone missing it, but the goalie tries to save it (No mention of it not touching a hand) - perhaps thinking someone had touched it, or trying to prevent the corner, or just having a brain spasm - but he ends up just punching it in Sounds like something Andy Dibble would do.

The absolute worst thing about that station - and the worst thing about anything, anywhere, ever, is the newsreader who ends all his buletins with an "And finally..." story, followed by an atrocious pun. He should have followed Sadaam to the gallows for crimes against my brain. Don't bother with Durham, his job is to get people to ring up and its worked.

Its all a load of shite this... quote from "Ben Thatcher" "i am Ben, the lads call me Thatch, me n the bhoys play for man city I am also welsh international with a few caps Ive played for a few clubs like Wimbledon and Millwall. My proudest time was when i was a league cup runner up wi spurs man i was vexed about loosn that At the moment havin a steady time at city, but had some issues with this portsmouth twat called mendes n got arrested man for doing fuck all" " Who I'd like to meet: Robbie Savage so i can elbow him Mendes so i can start what i finished he a twat" Right mental.gif

I'm not into this MySpace shite but curiousity killed the cat and whatnot...Just looking at what is apparently Stuart Pearce's profile...Only 3 City players are his mates (And 2 of them are shite). He also has Freddy Eastwood on there...I wonder. However he is friendly with a strangely high number of scantilly clad young ladies.

Our reject Willo Flood is having a good game too from what I've seen (2nd half). Bit of a laugh watching Blobinson booting it the length of the pitch tho...he must make Jol pull his hair out sometimes, especially on a windy day in a small stadium... For us I'm disappointed we couldn't get thru first time, but we're in nowt else and our injury situation isn't bad so I'm glad to still be in the hat. Nice for George to get another goal, even if it was a pen, hopefully he can get a bit of confidence and score a few more in the 2nd half of the season. PS: Darren Purse is wearing his armband upside down...

Been shite for a couple of years now. Hardly scores now Bergkamp isn't there, and he's lost that burst of pace that got him an extra yard in the box when he was at his most dangerous. Doesn't do much other than whinge these days. Got to wonder, if he can't be an effective attacking player in a team like that, what the fook is he going to be like in an ordinary one. Wouldn't go near him, even on a Bosman - He's finished.

I don't understand it myself. Weaver, while he looked top class (most of the time) in his younger days, has looked pretty ordinary to me since he has come back from 3 or 4 years of constant knee surgery. He is not making any mistakes but he is hardly saving anything other than simple shots (For example, I think most goalies would have kept out the Tom Huddlestone goal). Isaksson was injured at the start of the season but got a chance in the derby when Weaver took a knock and looked absolutely top drawer...I thought that would be the end of it and Isaksson would take over then - He certainly would have if it were up to me. But Weaver was straight back in for the next game - I think Pearce is just showing a bit of loyalty and sentimentality for now. We're not doing that badly so he probably sees no reason to change it - Probably just waiting for a mistake. Personally I think we should be fielding our best 11 to get as high up the table as possible and Isaksson is a much better keeper than Weaver. Give it time, he'll be our #1 by the end of the season I think.

Great fun with the commentary. Alonso takes a dive and the first thing they do is find another name for it. Rosicky scores a great 2nd and you could hear a pin drop. No mention of the superb accuracy of the shot, no mention even of Finnan and Gerrard's shite attempts to stop it. Just shirts back, not sure about the goalie. Poor old Lawro. I hope they get done 10 so I can listen to the twat cry into his bovril for the next 45 mins bluebiggrin.gif

Perfectly reasonable price if you include the 200% Abramovich Tax.

come on,you must have been close to throwing yourselves on the fire when you lost the mighty sibierski ? No. He's shite. bluebiggrin.gif

2nd worst team in the Premiership to follow? Humbug. Not sure what criteria they used? I don't understand what is so bad about us looking at their little snippet. We've been relegated a few times? Yeah, but we've had some great times going back up again. We've had a few managers? So what - at least we've got rid of the shite ones. Worst thing about following City in recent times has been losing to Stockport a couple of times. But we had Ali Benarbia. #92 to me. bluebiggrin.gif

Paul Dickov. Paid nowt - I want our money back. Deitmar Hamann - Totally shot and totally shite. And we paid to nick him off Bolton. At least these other shysters are (occasionally) worth a place in the team.

Seem to remember Dean Ashton getting a "hamstring" "injury" this time last year. Then the non-cup tied coont put us out in the quarter finals blueupset.gif

Are Kevin Thomson and Scott Brown joined at the hip?

Ruud Gullit was right to drop Shearer.

I don't rate Konchesky at all. Very poor user of the ball, he is extremely over-ambitious with his passing and crossing for such a technically limited player. Got lucky with a shite cross in the cup final but he has had a shocking time this year - one of the many West Ham players to have been found out this season. Couldn't pass wind.

Curbishley said he wasn't picking Tevez because he hasn't scored. The mind boggles. I think he's been excellent whenever I've seen him. Either Curbishley is an idiot (Which I wouldn't rule out, he signed Marcus Bent) or their management is stopping him from playing them in case they get injured before they cash in.

Trabelsi is playing on the right hand side of midfield and is ace. Our left back is either Ben Thatcher or Stephen Jordan. Both shite really. I can't help but feel some players are being overblown becuase of a few goals or assists - Taylor, Barry, Shorey...a good left foot does not a good left back make (See Harte, Ian). Not much between most but I always liked Ricardo Gardner and have wanted City to go for him in the past. Decent athlete and wouldn't have cost an arm and a leg but he's got a gimpy knee now so question mark.

So you're saying that Taylor makes as many mistakes now as when he first got into the Newcastle side? Clearly he doesn't, he's improved considerably in that area. Citing one stupid mistake that happened four months ago four England really doesn't prove much. The likes of Tony Adams got sent off for stupid fouls now and then throughout there carears but I don't think you'd claim that Adams was a poor defender. Yes Ramage has looked comfortable during our European games, but then so has the entire side (currently sitting 14th in the league), Titus Bramble has looked great in our European games FFS! I think the problem a lot of people have with Ramage is that he rarely seems to do anything above average. I'm not one to judge a player long term when the majority of his games have been out of position though so I'll give him a chance. But still, if you want to talk about criminal lets talk about his own goal against Bolton "Pavs running towards me.. crap he's almost past me and I'm 5 yards from an open goal... *panic*... I know, I'll head the ball towards goal". I posted that on December 15. On December 13th, you played Chelsea. I seem to remember reading that Taylor gave away a silly free kick near the end of that game, that Ramage got booked for? The own goal was clearly Srnicek's fault. Ramage had an arm in his back, the ball was coming over his shoulder and the goalie had taken up a woeful position without shouting. Srnicek was under no pressure, could see everything - he made the wrong desicion. PS: I'm not trying to make out Ramage is better than Taylor - he isn't. I just think one ain't as good as some would claim and one ain't as bad.

That clip is beyond legendary. Added to my favourite eons ago. Makes me proud to be a bitter blue. Yes, it is Jim Broadbent. The programme was called "The Street". As for the United vs United thing, it might seem like some media conspiracy but really I don't think so. I just think that teams will almost always be referred to in shorthand in an against-the-clock broadcast. They wouldn't refer to yous as United when you play Sheffield United because to most the shorthand for Newcastle United is Newcastle (To yous it might be "the Toon" but while the rest of the country might know that means, its not something thats said a lot and it might not work with Sky's main target audience of Far Eastern internet gamblers).

It probably is local. Its just that these days its pretty easy to discover these things. If I went out tomorrow and asked 100 people who "Blues" were, our servey will probably say...Manchester City, just by assumption. But with the Internet and Talk Radio and whatnot i'm aware of who calls themselves "Blues", and it ain't us. PS: Don't worry, we don't share a City with them. Old Trafford is in Trafford, which is in Greater Manchester, not Manchester, like the mighty City. One team in Manchester mate bluebiggrin.gif

Its all about the "The" or lack of it. Its rare for anyone here refers to City as anything other than City. "The Blues" maybe, if they were trying to differentiate themselves from "The Reds" (boo). But I've heard countless phone-ins, read countless forums, and Birmingham fans all seem to refer to themselves as "Blues" (no "the"). So to me "Blues" means Birmingham City. My point was...Do they refer to themselves as "City" too? If they don't, I don't see how any of them would be annoyed about us being referred to as "City". If they do, I'd hope they would understand that as there is no Birmingham United FC, people are only doing the natural thing and mean no disrespect. Deep down everyone knows they are called Birmingham City Football Club just as everyone knows Newcastle are called Newcastle United Football Club. Its just easier.

No less than 5 MUFC youth team players...you do suprise me Delima bluebiggrin.gif

"Manchester United" is a bit of a mouthful. Everything with a long name gets shortened for convnience, especially in commentary. How often are Tottenham Hotspur referred to as Tottenham Hotspur as opposed to Spurs? QPR? Villa? Unfortunately for yous, we exist so they can't be shortened to Manchester by anyone but the ignorant. I know some people have got their nickers in a twist on here when I've referred to them as United (I remember doing it a gajillion times in one post a while back) but its just the way it is. No-one wants to write an essay every time they make a post and I doubt commentators and cretinous pundits want to want to win any prizes for ellecution when the balls flying all over the place. I just go with whats quick, easy and natural, and I imagine most others do the same. Alan Oliver might refer to yous as "United" but in the rest of the country and god knows where else Sky were broadcasting to, why would someone not use "Newcastle"? There's nothing to differentiate it from...frankly he probably just got to much a journalistic spoon up his arse to write "the Toon". To me its just City, United, Newcastle and its probably the same in most parts. No offense meant, we're just lazy. Birmingham call themselves Blues anyway bluebiggrin.gif