brummie

I agree For our fans as well as yours.

Spurs are definitely the team looking best equipped to do things. Villa have a pathetically small squad which MON has allowed to disintegrate, and a terminal inability to conclude deals without fuss, Newcastle seem to be gripped by stasis, Everton haven't got a pot to piss in, West Ham have had their financial rug pulled from beneath them and are lumbered with a squad of high-earning, injury prone wasters. Hate Redknapp though I do, he has done pretty well this window. So Portsmouth and Spurs seem to be switched on.

It was quite clear at the time. Although, I admit, he could have provided written confirmation, or perhaps have got his agent to call TalkSport and report that, actually, yes, there he was.

THat made me laugh. 2013 for Dawson. Mellberg scoring then turning to wave at Dawson who was supposed to be marking him, and shouting "here I am" was one of my favourite moments of last season. I'd love to see that. Think Brummie imagined it. I can't post video, but this is shortly after. Observe Mellberg, arms outstretched, plus hapless Dawson (nearest Spurs player). http://d.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp/empics/20080101/18/1254537127-soccer-barclays-premier-league-aston-villa-v-tottenham-hotspur-villa.jpg

THat made me laugh. 2013 for Dawson. Mellberg scoring then turning to wave at Dawson who was supposed to be marking him, and shouting "here I am" was one of my favourite moments of last season. I'd love to see that. Ditto. I'll try to find footage on a well known video website, but what happened was Dawson was pulling Mellberg all over the place, Mellberg lost him, scored, then turned to face Dawson, rooted to the spot, arms spread out wide and nodded his head to say "here I am" whilst grinning his big, beardy smile. He's on a downward spiral now, but fucking hell, I'm going to miss Mellberg. He got us.

THat made me laugh. 2013 for Dawson. Mellberg scoring then turning to wave at Dawson who was supposed to be marking him, and shouting "here I am" was one of my favourite moments of last season.

I was driving home and listening to TwatSport when Arshavin's agent came on, and I honestly thought I'd need to pull over and puke up a large part of my colonic innards.

Not desperate for the deal to come back to life at all, just for it to be resolved one way or the other. We want to keep the player. Liverpool want him so much they've offered way off what we want, but then spunk more on Robbie Keane without batting an eyelid. Barry wanted the move so much he wouldn't put in a trasnfer request (which Keane did). We don't need the cash, but we do need to know where we stand in terms of planning for the season. That's the important thing.

Strictly speaking, it hasn't been called off, as calling it off implies that it was on. We had a price, they didn't offer it, end of.

We're going to turn them down - we don't need the money - the difference is that Barry needs to say he wants to stay.

Did you get your cock out again? I already had it out. Something about the thud of boot on leather gives me the right fucking horn.

Uh oh. People in "taking anything, ANYTHING heard on TalkSport seriously" fatal error.

I was a couple of rows from the front, in perfect line with it when it happened. Heard him scream, then saw him holding his leg in the air. Everyone around us gasped, a girl next to me said "i feel sick" and the place went very quiet.

Bouma was fantastic last season, a real contender for player of the year. He's a top pro, and it is gutting that this should happen. I was a couple of rows from the front and had a very good view of what happened. It was one of those moments when everyone gasps and the place goes deadly quiet. Dislocated, apparently that can be worse than an actual break.

Can you do that anyway? It sounds weirdly intriguing I'm not your performing bitch. I've got standards, you know

Bet they won't get the media backlash like we have at times. I agree with them though, fuck him. Hope Barry is straight on the phone to Benitez and Gerrard tonight though. You can't treat a club like Villa the way they have done. They've helped to make his position untenable at Villa now and he'll get pelters home and away for the foreseeable. Good. I'm going to watch our Intertoto match against Odense tomorrow (I expect us to go out, incidentally). Here's a few predictions. 1. Barry will play. 2. Barry will get booed by about 30 percent of the crowd. 3. He'll play well and the booing will stop. 4. Sunday morning, the press will be full of "OMG! Barry Boo Hell!!!" nonsense, when nothing of the sort has happened.

And another thing. Why does "He's a Spurs fan !!!111!!!!" always crop up in this kind of discussion?

Honestly, Barry to Spurs ... Jesus Christ. That suggestion was posted on glory-glory this afternoon and all of a sudden it has become "OMFG! Barry for Kaboul and some cash!!!!" Barry wants to leave for CL football. He's made that quite clear. He wants to play with Gerrard. Why on earth would he then wash up at Spurs? If he goes to Spurs, I will film myself gnawing off my own arm and swallowing it whole, then post it here.

Please. God. No.

It is insane, though isn't it, the very concept of these "loyalty" clauses. I do feel that football is eventually going to eat itself and then choke to death. It must surely end in tears at some point relatively soon?

Afar I scrolled past both of your posts. Just so you know. x

Thanks, Spence, I forgot about that bit. That sticks in my craw. "This is my dream move, don't deny me it", well ask for a transfer, you money grabbing twat, or isn't it really your dream? Footballers all over, that.

Right, I've calmed down a bit now, so on to Barry. I wasn't there last night, but I know a few people who were there. The general consensus was that 40 percent booed him at the start, 40 percent clapped him, and 20 percent did nothing. The booing totally stopped towards the end of his shift when he'd played a few good passes, and you could see he was geeing up the kids (it was practically a youth team) he was playing with. My take on Barry is that he's a very good player I'd prefer to keep. My take on the loyalty thing is that his agents have been hawking him around since the end of last year. In fact, he was widely considered to be on his way to Chelsea until relatively recently. He's been with us 10 years, but those years include a decent spell of time where he hardly got a look in. He also asked to leave twice before, incidentally. MON persuaded him to stay, said he'd get him in the England team. We called for him to get the call up for a long, long time. Then he does, and lo and behold, MON was right, he got it, and is practically a regular. So what happens then? He demands his move the first chance he gets, slags the manager off in the press, throws his toys out of the pram and acts like a primadonna. Can any of you say you'd really feel any different if he were a Newcastle player acting like that? I don't think you would. Not even Afar. There's been very little surprising about the whole affair, really. He wants to go, he can go. But he goes on our terms. SOme people arent happy about it, some are less bothered. Simple as that, really.

Selling Johnson and buying Bent for not much more = excellent bit of business, I reckon

You're a very, very silly man indeed, mate. I'm in my late 30s and have been supporting us since I was 5. In that time I've seen us win one European Cup, one league title, one European Super Cup, and four league cups. Your turn. How many trophies have Liverpool won in the same time? As much as I hate Liverpool, if it was a choice of Villa or them, I'd join them every time. Guaranteed top 4 finish every year, and a real push at trying to win the league. Villa have no chance of that I'm afraid. I'm not passing comment on his desire to go to Liverpool, or on Liverpool's history in the same time. I'm passing comment on that tit afar's description of Villa as a "nothing club". He's said a few times he has a problem with me being here, and he's doing it specifically to wind me up, get me to react and get me banned. I've pointed out the irony of him describing Villa as a "nothing club". If calling him a tit gets me banned, then fair enough, he's won. And here we go once again - Afar, you're a tit. A brainless, witless tit, in fact.