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It was actually the old division 3 we were close to slipping into when KK was appointed. Great read nonetheless.

Nah, he 'butted Shearer's foot. Real coward's move.

Well fucking obviously, but there aren't buyers out there like there perhaps once was. A buyer for Villa hasn't been found (Bank of America Merrill Lynch) and they're valued considerably less.

Especially now with financial fair play. Football clubs just aren't being bought speculatively any longer.

What's almost as 'unreal' is the fact there's still a defence for Colo on here despite the fact he's been awful as a captain and a defender for well over 18 months now.

Shaka was a good keeper who had confidence issues, not helped by Keegan's tendency to drop and swap. If Shaka had been in goal throughout 95-96 we'd have won the league. Pavel was a lovely bloke but a really bad goalkeeper whose career predictably went to hell when he left us the first time.

Good, it'll get him out and money spent in January.

Take him in a second. Comedy value, better football and he'll be dead soon anyway.

I don't believe a word of that. As far as I know we were actually approached by the corrupt bloke who ended up owning Portsmouth for a few months.

He finished playing for us over a decade before most of us on here were born. Probably has something to do with it.

Never saw him.

I'd like to think I know a little about the position and honestly I've not seen an NUFC keeper start for us I have less confidence in than Rob Elliot.

Nowt's up at all. Other than the fact money is being taken out of the club. And people criticised Shepherd for paying himself a decent wage every year.

Not his biggest, but the most symbolic of his failings both inside the dressing room and his relationship with the fans. Part of me thinks it's him begging to be sacked/forced out.

It was 4-1 and Ketsbaia won the game on his own. Georgiadis' goal was probably the least important goal by anyone ever, stupid Ron. Call the burns unit. Well no, we were drawing 1-1 in a tight game and he made it 2-1, subsequently we scored twice more to win 4-1. Shit player but that contribution alone makes him better than some.

Hats off.

I'm sorry but if you're talking like a coward because of Alan Pardew, you're an even bigger coward than him.

In fact wasn't he briefly our captain after Geremi and (possibly before) Smith?

Cacapa was a classy defender and a good attacker of the ball who unfortunately happened to be really weak and really slow.

Georgiadis scored an important goal in our '99 cup run, so he maybe gets a pass. There's frankly loads of midfield shite to pick from.

100%.

Yeah, it was. First ever PL point and it was at OT.

Failing to score and not being physically capable of running mincing around for an hour doesn't sound anything like him, to be fair.

Nikos actually looked pretty good, laid on the ball for Cole to score our first ever PL goal, in the 1-1 at Manure. Then he just disappeared from the first team, I think there was a falling out with KK, much like Imre Varadi back in the day, if you believed the rumours. It was our second.

Just out of curiosity were you saying that when Shearer got the manager's job here?