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When we were at Wembley for the Carling Cup final last season, with five minutes to go, our end was packed still, and the Man United end was practically empty. Couldn't be fucked to hang around for the presentation. The easiness with which glory hunters latch on to success, and the casualness with which they shrug it off again makes me want to vomit. It doesn't mean as much to them - it can't - because they *chose* the easy route, they opted for a pretty much cast iron guarantee of lots of silverware. I would much rather my children grew up to support Birmingham City than Manchester United or Chelsea. The gloryhunter is the lowest specimen of all, no pride for their local region, for their local area, no pride for themselves, no guts and no spine. I absolutely loathe them, and, to be honest, if i start talking to someone with a southern accent and they start telling me they support Liverpool or Man United, quite frankly, I switch off, because their opinions on football are utterly null and void to me.

To be fair I know about half a dozen Chelsea supporters and all of them have been supporting them for years.My next door neighbour used to be a season ticket holder there,but stopped when Roman bought it because he didn't agree with the blanket buying of success.Manchester United and Liverpool are the pld school glory hunting twats tbh. I'm from near nuneaton billy loads of em there. disgusting. That said few toon supporters about because of mining and that too. Whereabouts mate?I'm pretty close to you by the sounds. Atherstone upon tyne...I always have to default to Cov though because nee bugger has heard of it. Full of placker mancs. There's a Cov city bus that pulls up on a saturday and no-one gets on it whilst the pub nearest is full of red shirts of the worst kinds. horrid. I'm in Warwick, and in my five years living here, I've seen about 10 Coventry fans in total, either here or Leamington. Plenty of glory hunters, like everywhere, but the total lack of support for Cov is amazing. I see far, far more Villa fans around here than I do Coventry. In fact, I reckon I see more Leamington fans than Cov fans. Oh, and as for changing team, bollocks to that. You just don't do it.

We played very well tonight, passed excellently, but conceding a goal after 50 seconds at Old Trafford isn't the cleverest thing. Nor is a second on the stroke of half time Still, some decent play, Makoun did very well and Bent scored again. Man United are looking like they're moving to something approaching top gear, though. That's the title won, I reckon.

He moved to us after O'Neill left. There's no getting away from the fact that he joined in pretty unusual circumstances, and he hasn't turned into some talentless chugger, but there is definitely something wrong upstairs with Ireland. Maybe a change of scenery will help, but I can't help but think that it was the change of scenery away from Manchester City that triggered his problems to go into overdrive.

He played up front for us this season a few times. Honestly, don't ask, it's better that way.

This just made me chuckle, spotted on one of our forums. Footballers. Fuck them, they're all the same, self interested cunts, for all that badge kissing and allegiance swearing.

I feel dirty for watching it most of the day. That Jim White is the most punchable cunt on the planet.

My thoughts exactly. I bet they're sat there watching Mock the Week on Dave. You lot deserve better, really, you honestly do.

They've lost an absolutely world class striker in all this, though. As a neutral, if you'd asked me if I would swap Torres for Carroll plus 15m, I'd have laughed in your face, not a chance, not a chance. Carroll might have lots of promise, but Christ Almighty, the seventh most expensive transfer ever? And losing a striker who'd walk into pretty much any team on the planet as part of the deal? Madness. They've bought Suarez who has done very well in Holland, but there are a lot more Kezmans than there are Bergkamps. Their net investment is also close to zero in all this, Babel + Torres = Carroll + Suarez

Trust me, that is the best way to be I've spent almost the entire day watching this shit, and I feel like kicking my telly in the cunt to make it stop.

isn't he the fella out of the 'Goal' movie? Aye, him and Diego Swarfega will save us! *beams with pride* My one meaningful contribution to this board in four years.

I'm actually thinking that Michael Bradley could turn out to be as good a move for us as any of the other three. A good window, on the whole, showing the imagination that MON so often lacked. If he'd been here, I'd have bet every single thing I own that we'd have signed Robbie Keane. And not on a loan, on a big money, multi year contract.

I have to say, as soon as I heard that stuff about the transfer request, my first thought was that it was Ashley trying to make it look more like Carroll had fucked the club over.

Anyone see Arry just now talking about Carroll?

"Gigantic Brainwrong"

I've never seen anyone else manage to speak so long without actually saying a fucking thing as that David Craig

This failed medical thing is doing the rounds down here as well.

philmcnulty Phil McNulty And the comfirmation. Liverpool have agreed a £35m fee for Andy Carroll. Always said the January window is quiet. #fb

Everyone seems to have overlooked that. If you were selling him, it'd happen later on tonight, and no need to cancel a press conference, surely? Far more likely he's working on bringing someone in. I notice, for example, that the Bradley to us deal isn't done yet, which means the Ireland to you one almost certainly isn't.

That's a bit harsh. Every player has a price, if we let Carroll go for upwards of £35m, we're not exactly a 'selling club' There's only one chairman in the league who would not think about doing a deal for that kind of money.

How, you've spent £24M on 1 decent striker for that. No. We've spent 18m which rises to 24 if all add ons are activated. Caroll is a good player, and very promising, but 30 million for a young player with a decent season in the CCC and half a good one in the top flight is an awful lot of money.

30 million pounds is insane money. That's a team building amount of cash. I think you should take it, or at the very, very least, give it serious consideration.

Warnock on loan is the rumoured replacement. Please, God, please

That northern reporter on SSN - the one who always looks a bit bewildered - just said he can "exclusively reveal" that 30m pound bid we're discussing above. I hate SSN

I fucking hate SSN, especially on deadline day, but I can't help watching this shit.