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Stone cold fact remains that if he can't get a buyer veey very soon, then he really has to go for broke to pull things back from the brink and invest to save the club's nominal Premiership status and its resale value for the medium term. What we have now though is the football equivalent of a slum landlord...

So Martin Jol stopped posting around the time Keegan left...

Ex-Wimbledon player...and I'm thinking maybe Joe Kinnear's next move could be to QPR.

Craig Burley. Utter cunt.

Giorgi Kinkladze...

El-Hadj Diouf. Spitting.

Equally, however, holding him (or indeed anyone) in unquestioning awe and respect, is utterly moronic to the point of being brain-dead.

They are re-naming Shearers! RIOT! I'd heard they were going to rename it WISEY's WINEHOLE

Agree with this - particularly the point you allude to about the ridiculous deification of Keegan as highlighted in bold above.

You were asked to back up your claims, which you never did. Which I will not do on an internet message board. Care to inform us a bit about what the truth of the situation actually is, then? I don't know what is happening, just what isn't. Only know that talk of compensation and the figures being bandied around aren't true. Are you related to Chemical Ali?

Think so. The Dalglish era showed so much promise, yet was so frustrating and fruitless.

I distinctly remember getting rather overexcited at the prospect of Dalglish trailing the young Robert Pires and Gio van Bronckhorst...only for Pires to head to Arsenal. Fair to say I was completely gutted.

Surprised nobody's yet had a quick spunkathon about Citeh's Elano or Hull's Giovanni.

Very droll.

I love the fact that I got no fucking credit at all for calling Pires. It's fan-fucking-tastic being taken for granted round here, I can tell you. Oh, now you're just taking the piss. I mentioned him as well.

What a load of Belleecks from Decky, there.

Past: Bergkamp, Henry, Di Canio Overmars, Vieira and Pires Present: Gerrard, Kranjcar, Agbonlahor

Lee Bowyer, Joey Barton Roy Keane, Dennis Wise, Gustavo Poyet

Spennymoor, Gosforth, Percy Main, West London, Kent, Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Edinburgh again... ...no idea how to answer this question properly, tbh.

Scrabster.

Absolutely no point trying to second guess what will happen to us now, probably...but from that article it seems pretty clear we'll have to work within the current framework in terms of team, coach, staffing etc until the economy has reecovered sufficiently for Ashley to realise the price he wants. Grim, when you think about it. No squad strengthening in January, stuck with Kinnear, Wise etc. We're becoming the Aston Villa of old...if we're lucky.

Top post, actually...booze induced or not. The shape of the game currently is morphing daily into something alien to us all...it's losing touch with its grassroots, tradition, history and the communities it grew out of. Nobody wants to look this stubborn truth in the eye though. Too obsessed by Fantasy Football and Big Money. And it's a fucking shame.

How very prescient of you Parky. Well the bit about the start of a comedown anyway. Oh, and we since found out the answer to the second question: No.

I've tried that one before: the old "try and recoup your position by claiming you were being ironic" routine.

Still gives me a good old chuckle does that one. No it doesn't. It actually makes you cry. Which is fair enough. I just think you should own up to it.