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I totally forgot who played for Villa TBH... I forgot Downing was on the pitch as well. It was only when I checked the internet I realised they had put a young lad up against Carroll as well. Face palm!

Being a CB is actually a very doable job if you have the basics right, the right attitude and decent athleticism. Mike's done good so far, no doubt.

Let's just love the man!

Not so easy for people in Saudi Arabia to learn the Korean word for South Korea and stuff like that though.

We've been here before though, haven't we? He seems perpetually about to move to a German club. I think we're now at the stage where nobody in the media knows anything and they're just rewriting the same stuff.

I don't disagree that he looked like he might flop, but that was because of the state of the club and the dubious way he was treated by Big Sam.

Someone else watch Ricky Gervais last night? Ha, no, just remembered it from the DVD!

Big Sam really is a mong.

Nah, it's not delusional, it's a matter of opinion. FWIW I never criticised Enrique, he wasn't as good as he is now but he never deserved much stick.

Unfortunately there's no such thing as time travel.

The criticism of him when he joined was always totally wrong IMO, he was never 'bad' and joined the club as a young foreign player at a terrible time under a shite manager who was replaced by a worse one.

never never never.. not that bigoted fuckwit Nah, I know, I nicked that line from Ricky Gervais anyway.

Careful Skirge, one false move and you're Jim Davidson.

If the Fer rumours are true then it's probably OK not to get BA really. Fer seems to be more the like the kind of player we are looking at right now, one who would fit into the team ethos rather than potentially disrupt it. I'd still be very happy with getting him mind.

Young players in Holland sometimes don't really have a position anyway... or at least they don't settle on one until later.

Surely not now we've got Tiote? But Fer is supposed to be more of a creative midfielder right? Vieira-type DM according to Wikipedia.

I narrowly avoided that myself. But is it pronounced 'shake'? I would've thought 'sheek' or 'cheek'.

Just had a vision of him dialling a number to complete the transfer and then keeling over before he can answer, whilst a voice cries "hello? hello! HELLO!" on the end of the phone. It would've been like the scene in Alan Partridge where the BBC guy dies before he signs off on the second series.

Date: 31 oct 2010 Victim: Cattermole I'd have no problem with that at all.

Good news for anyone who's playing them I suppose.

I had John Barnes on my Newcastle top back in the day.

You're probably right, but we're in no position to be getting results against the Man Utds anyway, that's for some unspecified time in the future.

You not seen the goals mush? Aye aye, just missed MOTD on Saturday and didn't see the Midge Ure game Apparently they put it on the Tuesday after broadcast this season... search me why it's that specific day.

You're totally correct, it's just the worst kind of sensationalism. I read the Guardian, Times and Independent just now, and all of them mention the salute in the headline then say it was nothing in the body of the article. Typical really.