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Wonder if he's more likely to step back and become an assistant to a really good manager?

More surprising that they evidently didn't take the chance to show Terry make a "hero" block/tackle as Remy pulled the trigger We were scintillating for a fifteen minute spell there - from Sissoko's acute angle shot through to that move. Four really good chances, some excellent pass-and-move football. That fifteen minute spell was as good as we've looked for a very long time...

So incredibly bad. Although at least he didn't give the ball away in the build-up to the goal, unlike every other time he touched it...

See my sig This is a thread where the likes to Kieth Gillespie are described a crap - and Archie Thompson is really crap. Forgive me tendancy to add a little mayo when telling a story (ref my handle )

In 2001, the record for most goals scored in a competitive international match was set. The victims were the powerhouse that is American Samoa - and the fact that they've never cracked the FIFA top 100 ranked nations shouldn't obscure the fact that the record holder is an impossibly crap player who had the definition of a stormer: a record that most likely will stand the test of time. The record is 13 goals in the one match. The scorer was the stupidly shite Archie Thompson. The fact that he has a single cap shames my country. The fact that he has such a record shames America Samoa. But this amazing event proves that even the most talentless hack can have a stormer.

Of course they're doing it out of self-interest, and of course if/when things are patched off they'll stop. It's a business decision for them: either be on good terms with the only football club in town, or not - except that's no real choice at all, hence decades of syncophantic reporting. Except the choice has been made for them, and they've chosen the path of campaigning against the club instead of being even more submissive in the hope of patching things up. That's the real surprise here. Except we don't (or shouldn't) care about that at all. The papers don't care about the club, but we sure do, and so we need to sieze this moment because it's a rare opportunity to have a loud voice on our side. The papers aren't going to campaign against Ashley for long, and so now is the moment to harness their energy while it lasts. Who knows how long that will be - another week, a month, until Pardew walks/is sacked, who knows? We can't count on it lasting any real length of time, because the media is a business and at some point a business decision will be made that results in Ryder, Douglas et al toning down their rhetoric and all the anger from Thompson House dissipating. "Strike while the iron is hot" is an old cliche, but a very true one for the supporters right now...

I've heard that too - the club apparently delayed releasing the minutes 24 hours after they said they would, but NUST released them when they had planned to (i.e. after the club was scheduled to, but before they actually did). Again - not sure if true...

Yeah, but dull as fuck with 70% possession and five times the number of shots on target...

Not that I'm advocating it, but you'd think Do Canio would get a better response from his methods with our depressed professionals than the alcoholic hacks of the dark place...

how do the Chronicle know that? Ikon's post, nine higher than yours

No mention of blow?

Do we call out a journalist for his grammar on Twitter? What about when it uses more characters to be wrong?

Imagine having to put your name to that fucking letter And you can talk about integrity as much as you like, but she's a PR person and that's the job. The PR person who walks out over a principle never works in the industry again.

Pretty excited for such a minor derby. Cunt...

Any follow up to this in the Monday papers?

Can see half a dozen flying past the Dilsh - Citeh reserves will be itching for a chance to play well and shine.

How much longer can those players who are just below the truly elite level keep doing that?

I hate to say it, but those quotes indicate to me that he thinks of himself as "France's Loic Remy" - he wants to be in the Les Bleus team, he wants to make the World Cup and he wants to dominate there. He's forthright in saying he has no real attachment to our club (unsaid, but also QPR you'd think), so I think he's waiting until he's in the "ultimate" shop window in Brazil. Option 1) Maybe he'll get "lucky" and be purchased by a big club before having a shit World Cup (but that's never happened to French strikers in the past), or Option 2) maybe he'll smash Just Fontaine's record and win himself a move to Madrid or Barca. Option 3) sees him having a mediocre World Cup/not making it - in which case he'll be happy to go to whatever club offers the biggest wedge. Simply cannot see option 1 coming to fruition.

Did very well indeed to keep his feet

Why, though? There was a (brief) time when we were their closest rivals - and one of his earlier patented Jedi mind tricks was making KK explode live on air. It stands to reason that he does give us more than a passing thought...?

From the Daily Fail, but still: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2470452/Tony-Mowbray-leaves-Middlesbrough-difficult-start-Championship-season.html#ixzz2iOieOveV Oh God, let it be

Came on to post that - he might fancy himself as a modern-day philosopher, but he makes a good point. I mean, it's funny and all, but what Joey says is true. Would be funny to see Clattermole perform a "reducer" on the journalist

2/10 Must try harder

But we already had Troisi - in fact, I'm reasonably sure we disposed of him around the same time we acquired Obertan... EDIT: Okay, maybe not - Troisi left in 2008, Obertan arrived in 2011. But still!