brummie

Isnt he out of contract in the summer? Hence the low price.

I hate this "shit club" stuff (not having a pop at you, just in general). Stoke are the oldest club in the PL, and the second oldest professional club in the world. They're founder members of the Football League (although, obviously, that became a total irrelevance when some marketing cunts in shiny suits and coloured-framed glasses rebranded the league in 1992). What I hate is the dire, anti-football they play at the moment, but that's the current regime there. I have no beef with Stoke City the club, certainly not compared to people like Wigan, or Boro, or MK Dons, or god knows how many other clubs with a fraction of their history. I see your sentiment here Brummie,but surely,even with their history,you'd love Liverpool/Manchester United/Spurs to get relegated.And the vast majority of your lot thoroughly enjoyed our relegation without any aforethought to our history.Case closed. Of course. I don't think that makes them a "shit club", though. I'd love Benitez to achieve his ultimate aim (well, I assume it is) of running Liverpool into the ground and getting them relegated. It wouldn't make them a shit club, though. It'd make him a shit fat-arsed bell-end, mind.

I dont post there, but the friend who sent me that said the poster who put it up is notorious for posting twisted figures which make Spurs out to be the most successful club on god's earth (ie a UEFA Cup win == same as a European Cup / CL win, FAC QF == same as a FAC win and so on).

We're playing Blackburn in the FAC tomorrow and apparently they've sold 315 tickets. I know it'll be a shit crowd all round - as we're playing them in the LC semis this week, too, but even so, that's quite poor. They've apparently only sold 11,000 tickets for the LC semi at their place on Tuesday, too. That's a club in a bad way at the moment. Incidentally, we asked them for 8,000 tickets, Blackburn said yes, but the police objected on the reason of trouble at that away fans pub last year (Fernhurst?) and - more ominously - "persistent standing" when we play there, and only allowed them to give us 5,000. So that's a LC semi final with a half empty ground. That's my prediction for 2010. Away allocations cut regularly to punish standers.

I hate this "shit club" stuff (not having a pop at you, just in general). Stoke are the oldest club in the PL, and the second oldest professional club in the world. They're founder members of the Football League (although, obviously, that became a total irrelevance when some marketing cunts in shiny suits and coloured-framed glasses rebranded the league in 1992). What I hate is the dire, anti-football they play at the moment, but that's the current regime there. I have no beef with Stoke City the club, certainly not compared to people like Wigan, or Boro, or MK Dons, or god knows how many other clubs with a fraction of their history. Fair enough. Tbh, I know next to nowt about their history, and I guess I should have said "shit team". Their main attacking outlet is throw ins for fucks sake I agree. Although against us the other day, they actually tried to play a bit of football. Tuncay was playing most of it, mind. He's an underrated player.

I hate this "s*** club" stuff (not having a pop at you, just in general). Stoke are the oldest club in the PL, and the second oldest professional club in the world. They're founder members of the Football League (although, obviously, that became a total irrelevance when some marketing c***s in shiny suits and coloured-framed glasses rebranded the league in 1992). What I hate is the dire, anti-football they play at the moment, but that's the current regime there. I have no beef with Stoke City the club, certainly not compared to people like Wigan, or Boro, or MK Dons, or god knows how many other clubs with a fraction of their history. I'm the other way to you. I couldn't give a fuck what they did 130 years ago. It's what a club has done the last 5-10 years that shapes how it is now. God bless Wigan Athletic, in that case, then. *wink*

I hate this "shit club" stuff (not having a pop at you, just in general). Stoke are the oldest club in the PL, and the second oldest professional club in the world. They're founder members of the Football League (although, obviously, that became a total irrelevance when some marketing cunts in shiny suits and coloured-framed glasses rebranded the league in 1992). What I hate is the dire, anti-football they play at the moment, but that's the current regime there. I have no beef with Stoke City the club, certainly not compared to people like Wigan, or Boro, or MK Dons, or god knows how many other clubs with a fraction of their history.

Cahill is superb. MON's biggest transfer mistake (and he's made quite a few). That's almost exactly what he isn't. He's composed on the ball, happy to play it out of defence rather than punting it, doesn't panic under pressure, and has a knack of popping up to score at the other end. he's a classy defender rather than a clogger.

Has this been posted? Spurs fan's valuation of their squad. Obviously, with this being the opening of a transfer window, now is the time for Spurs fans to do their thing on the internet frantically for a month. Quite interesting, though. I think Lennon is undervalued, for example, whereas other entries are insane - if anyone, ANYONE would pay 14m for Bentley now, I'm a monkey's uncle. Similarly, Robbie Keane 15m? Pavlyuchenko 12m? Dos Santos (wasn't he on loan at Ipswich?) 8.8m, what they paid for him? Also, I like Huddlestone (I like his languid style, his range of passing, and the way he looks like that bloke out of JLS, the one who looks like a Care in the Community case), but 15 million of your British pounds? And Modric has doubled his value? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/jyarden/86-1.png

That's why I'm surprised Ashley even bothered with the token gesture of naming it as an exercise in putting the rights up for sale. Nobody - nobody - is going to refer to an established, old stadium with a sponsor's name. This only works with new stadiums. I'm just amazed that such an allegedly smart businessman didn't realise this and weigh it up against the hassle of pissing of the fans with the futility of it all.

Another thing from the 70s and 80s - people really caring about the League Cup.

I could understand if they were the same position but they are totally opposite. He's shifting the right side about, he was an option ffs. But he wants to attack, why would you put two fullbacks on to get a goal? Well he's bringing Sidwell on, so I wouldnt rule it out.

I could understand if they were the same position but they are totally opposite. Quite. One is a winger, one a full back.

OMG. A non predictable substitution.

I swear this is true, every single time I see Dirk Kuyt on the telly, a voice in my head refers to "Roeder is still scouting him" I wouldn't mind if i was actually a Newcastle fan. *shakes fist at sky*

I had him 8/1 to score any time. Liverpool iffy from set pieces, Dunne with 3 already.

I spy with my little eye Something beginning with GOALLESS DRA

And right now, I'm so glad I gave the tickets away.

Absolutely well said, Ozzie. Talk about football as if it began in 1992 and you ignore over a century of history whilst buying into a marketing plan.

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS! ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCqcMOB6STc John Hughes (RIP) director of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!

I hate Christmas games. I spend all week driving to Birmingham, so don't really want to do it in me hols. Anyway. Given our 2 STs to a couple of guys who work for me and thereby looking for good karma in return. COME ON YOU LIONS! We'll lose.

Christ, Paul Mariner looks like a provincial accountant these days.

Delfouneso has barely started a game, but as we've only four strikers at the club, he's not going to be getting loaned out. Gary O'Connor is an absolute shithouse of a footballer. Marlon's no great footballing talent, but O'Connor makes him look like Cruyff by comparison.

He quite outrageously put the port bottle down whilst passing the port after dinner.