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Wayne Rooney has visited Fabrice Muamba in hospital. "It's great, he can almost string a sentence together," said Fabrice.

Sad but true. Club management was his game. Fair enough but on paper he did well to take that squad almost to a WC final. In reality though, he did well that Bryan Robson's shoulder popped out for the millionth time, as everybody knew it would, and also Crab Wilkins deciding to throw the ball at the ref and getting first use of the soap, in a dismal 0-0 with World giants of the time, Morocco. These events meant he couldn't select his favourites, Robson and Wilkins, and so he stumbled upon a side that with a bit of luck could've won it in 86. In 90, after a miserable Euro finals in 88 where we lost all 3 games, SBR steadfastly refused to change his 4-4-2 system even though we had the players capable of excelling in a 3-5-2 sweeper system. After a dreadful 1-1 draw with Ireland, the players themselves approached SBR, and pleaded for the chance to go 3-5-2 with Mark Wright as the sweeper behind Walker and Butcher, with Parker and Pearce as wing backs. This left SBR unable to select John Barnes, his new favourite, and therefore with a midfield of Waddle, Gazza and Platt behind Beardo and Lineker, we prospered, firstly as underdogs against the European champs, Holland and throughout the tournament. His final error as England boss was in the semi against Germany, in extra time with the Germans dead on their feet, SBR should've brought on Steve Bull to try and finish them off, but didn't and the rest as you say, is history.

SBR wasn't a good England manager. Good campaigns in 86 and 90 were in essence in spite of him not because of.

:mackems: Love this!

Credit to the Mackems for keeping one whole section in the corner just so gingers can sit together.

You say look ahead not back but Redknapp is a good few years older than Hoddle but with no international experience be it as a player or manager. I'd give it to Hoddle, the only man since Euro 96 who you could see a proper pattern of playing and tactics and with proper forward planning. I wouldn't give it to Redknapp and actually could see someone like Shearer or maybe Ince give it a good go too. Let's plan for 2018 from now. Get a younger coach in and give him a 6 year contract with a remit for continual progress and hopefully come 2016 to 2018, a real shout at winning something.

Fuck's sake, I can't get to mine in one spin.

he spins himself inside out to find a down side on us It's definitely a Mackem trait. Horshit saying Ba's playing left back and he's hating it.

Horshit talking some right hoop on the Legends about Demba.

Villa and everton wtf. They've had 2 additional seasons over us . EDIT: Giggsed all owa the fuckin shop!

old hat, man. When we were in the Waffa it was a mickey mouse competition, yet you know they'd be fingering their mams with excitement if they were in it. They do that when they aren't They do that for being in the League.

The front 3 were all superb as were Jonas and Cabaye in the middle of the park , special mention once again for Perchesi ,he has looked a valuable squad member with his versatility of late.

Fucking Williamson with his almost weekly giving a goal away.

nicked that! X 2

What a strange thing to say. How is it aha? He's a premier league footballer. He's pretty much gurantee'd gash regardless of how he looks. Hmmm, He'll be spending most of his time in Sunderland. He can have the gash he gets there with no qualms from me. He won't fit in properly in Sunderland either unless of course he has some close relatives here with him , that he can shag. All joking aside, he's the closest thing I've seen in this country to Franck Ribery. Not as a footballer but as someone who's been smacked in the face with a pick axe type stakes.

Precisely this.

I know. If we had won that game, we would had won the title. And fucking Cantona.. if he'd have been banned for life for jumping in the crowd we'd have won it also....they went on a run winning 1-0 every week with Cantona scoring for what seemed like months as they caught us up.

When I first saw Mcuglycunt, against Peterboro , I thought he was promising but on every occasion since, he's done little or fuck all. Flatters to deceive. And seriously needs to invest in a decent plastic surgeon. His face can turn milk.

They were much better after Barton went off. Surprise that. He gave it away every time he touched the ball as far as I saw... the QPR fans soon saw this and booed his every touch.

Well said HTT. There is a complete lack of respect for KK here, mainly by people who weren't old enough to appreciate him. All I can say is from where he took us from until he left in 1997, from bottom of the second tier of English football with a real danger of slipping to the third, to the top of the top tier was astonishing and furthermore the style and panache of the teams he selected pissed on anything I've seen Newcastle play before or since. Even Sir Bobby's team. Literally streets ahead of Clough disciple ,MO'N , who is in personality and characteristically in his teams, dour as fuck.

don't you mean once, at villa? Villa's really the only real barometer though. His side at Leicester was fairly basic and route one and it's hard to judge his time in Scottish football with it being a sub-standard league. He spent a lot of money at Villa to stand still. leicester weren't great but they certainly weren't hoofball merchants either, lets not forget he won the league cup twice with them as well this is getting out of hand, let's assume there are the following broad categories of manager: shit poor average above average good great o'neill is somewhere between above average and good for me, keegan for a time burned between good and looking great but ultimately he'll never be viewed as anything more than above average imo Leicester under MON weren't a long ball hoof team? Give me a pint of what mojo's on.. Not only were they a hoof it team, they relied on set-pieces an awful lot too.

We must have a game coming up against the pork scratching crunchers.

Mackems sending out one of the worst back 4's Ive seen for quite a while.

Phil Dowd is a blind cunt.