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Your second place does count. Actually, no it doesn't, I've just looked. Still, see above post for other evidence. Although I failed to count up the league finishes correctly, we finished above you 6 out of the 10 years.

We finished 5th in 96-7 and 6th 3 times in the last 10 years. You finished higher than us 5 times, we finished higher than you 5 times. Over the last 10 years, we finished outside the top 1- on two occasions, you did on 5 occasions. But your highest finish was 2nd against our 5th. That's how it balances out.

Of course, another way of looking at it would be to say Newcastle and Villa are joint fifth behind the big four, which sounds far more "impressive" if that is the appropriate word. Look on the bright side, at least its better than Spurs.

I'm sure he was at the match, but it makes no sense - if he'd actually watched the game last night, there's no way he could not pick Gareth Barry. If i was him, I'd tell McLaren to stick it up his cunt.

Blimey, that is mental money for such a young kid with to Prem experience. And I say that as the supporter of a club which paid upto 9.65m for Ashley Young, although at least he had played in the Premiership and wasn't a teenager.

Not this season he hasn't. He's played just about everywhere on the pitch if you include previous seasons, mind. where is he best in your opinion I'd prefer to see him left side of our midfield, but that's based on the set up at our club. He is equally as good in central midfield. In fact, the last few games of the season he was - and I'm cringeing whilst i write this word - imperious in central midfield. That's his downfall as far as England is concerned. He's too versatile.

talking of Pompey, strong rumours down here that we're talking to Matty Taylor. As a squad-boosting signing, I'd be happy with that.

Not this season he hasn't. He's played just about everywhere on the pitch if you include previous seasons, mind.

No he hasn't, only the last few games, until then he'd been left back and left side midfield all season.

Barry did play in central midfield for the last few games of the season. You're right, the lad is absolute quality 38 games a season. Incidentally, hes 26, so not really a kid any more.

I wouldn't be smiling if i earned my living at that shitty dump either. who is he? Looks like Fabrice Muamba, might not be though. It is Muamba. Give them their due, him, Larsson and McSheffrey are all players who could cut it in the Prem. I hope they don't, mind.

I wouldn't be smiling if i earned my living at that shitty dump either.

FUCKIN CUNT? I was thinking Fucking Crap, but Fucking Cunts is possibly more appropriate. don't like all the umbro badges all over these tops like, 4 on the shoulders, 5 on the shorts, 2 on the arms, one on the front In fairness, the big white stripe down the front is reminiscent of the last half decent team they had in the 70s, when Trevor Francis was there, but the execution of that one is awful.

FUCKIN CUNT? I was thinking Fucking Crap, but Fucking Cunts is possibly more appropriate.

On the subject of new kits, our lot have been laughing at the effort of our vile local "rivals", and especially the first thing that comes to mind when you see the initials of their new sponsor http://i19.tinypic.com/6gnol05.jpg

A few weeks ago, and very. "Prepared", so is mustard. Almost as bad as the change of Spurs to that Pelican standing on a Volleyball. "Prepared" has been the club's motto since the 19th century. I think the meaning (back then) would have been "prepared to face all adversity", which was a cunning foreseeing of the beginning of the Ellis era 70 years later.

Fucking hell. They who made it must of been drunk while using illustrator or whatever program they use... Sounds like it was a team effort by Brummies, probably drunk link If only 42% of fans voted to replace the striped background shouldn't they have kept it? so 58% said keep it and they said no? No, the questionnaire wasnt quite as clear as that. General response to the badge is that we fucking hate it. But we're more interested in what the new shirts are like, to be honest. Although we wont see them till July as the deal was signed late.

I think with some clubs there is still potential to make money. It isn't that long since the Glazers bought Man United, and they're still going to make money out of it. I think there are certain clubs out there which have long been run, shall we say, with a small time, provincial businessman mentality (Villa, Man City, Newcastle - although to a smaller degree, Everton) - mainly because the traditional chairman WAS a provincial businessman. You'd have to be daft to think that as a billionaire you couldn't make some money out of them. You're maybe not going to make your second fortune, and even if you don't make a profit out of them, you get a cool hobby which is almost self funding. I'm not imagining that is how all these new owners are looking at it, all will have their own individual motives, but you can bet that's how a lot of them are seeing it.

That's a somewhat risky thing to venture on a public forum.

Nope. Subject of much bitterness with the new regime is the fact that Ellis' negotiation of the last sponsorship deal (last year was the first of two years) was awful, undersold massively. Incidentally, a few of my friends work for Mansion in Gibraltar. The gist of what they tell me is that the company spends money like it is going out of fashion. Which might explain that deal.

But the sheer bittrnesss towards Spurs shown here don't make you sick? Took the words right out of my mouth. I feel justified in anything negative I say about Spurs, half my mates are spurs fans and although I obviously like them in general (as they are my mates) when it comes to football they are a deluded bunch of twats! I'm not commenting on whether the bitterness is justified or not, just pointing out that it seems to be there from both sides.

But the sheer bittrnesss towards Spurs shown here don't make you sick? Took the words right out of my mouth.

My boyhood hero. From your part of the world, too.

That's absolute bollocks. That's good to know. I don't know what perturbed me most, the fact that Bramble could be on that kind of money, or the fleeting thought that I actually believed it briefly.

Talking of overpaid defenders, I was listening to a local sports phone-in down here, and the presenter was talking about the rumoured interest of Birmingham's least evolved football club, Birmingham City, in the legend they know as Lord Titus of Bramble. Presenter said the main sticking point would be his wages, rumoured to be *67k* a week at Newcastle. Now, said presenter is known around these parts as being a moron, so he could have got it wrong, but even so, had I been drinking at the time, I'd have expelled it at high speed through my nostrils. That can't be right, can it? 67k?