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You'd be just as well supporting Rangers tbh. The only people who go to watch Airdrie are people whose giro won't stretch to a season-ticket at Ibrox.

Or it may have started like this - "Orange bastard" "Fenian bastard" Fight

They can boycott it if they want. It'll still be heaving on match days.

London - West Ham (a few of my mates support them) Birmingham - Villa (no real reason, I just dislike the others more) Liverpool - Everton (their fans are slightly more bearable than the other lot) Manchester - United (they've got a winning mentality and my favourite manager - no coincidence) Sheffield - Wednesday (Dundee Utd legend Paul Sturrock used to manage there) Glasgow - Partick Thistle (their fans are a good laugh and don't take themselves too seriously) Wild Card - Preston (I have family there)

We've got no easy games left. France and Italy still have to play the Faroes so we've got to beat Ukraine and Georgia. If we can do that then a point against Italy will be enough. If we lose to Italy, and France don't win in Kiev in their last game, we'll qualify anyway. It's no gonna be easy but if i'd been offered this scenario when the group was drawn i'd have bitten your hand off. We've been dreadful for years and nobody (myself included) gave us a chance in this group. What a turnaround.

Woohoo!! Charles de Gaulle, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joan of Arc, Rene from 'Allo 'Allo, your boys took one hell of a beating!!

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That's my view on it aswell. Don't get me wrong, teams of Bolton's standard would have given us a problem last season so progress is being made. But we've had a pretty easy start to the season compared to some other teams so I feel our current league position might be artificially high.

Did Crouch not get away with climbing all over the back of a defender to score a header in one of the group games at the World Cup?

The "posession of the jersey" philisophy is all very noble and admirable but I still think the manager should pick his best players and Given is a better keeper imo. All very well saying that Harper hasn't done anything to deserve losing his place but neither has Given - it's not his fault he got injured.

Well that's an easy one for me because I like Newcastle but i'm Scottish I've had similar discussions though about if I had to choose between Dundee Utd and Scotland who would it be? I go to watch the national team occasionally at home but I just can't get excited about it in the same way that I get excited about my club. I think international football feels a bit manufactured in the sense that it's a group of guys who don't usually play in the same team but are cobbled together for a few games a year. A club has more of a soul in my opinion.

Newcastle 37-0 Wigan I'd settle for 1-0 though

He seems to be pretty highly rated but I hope people don't use his price tag to expect too much from him. He's a young lad moving to a new country so it may be next season before we see the best of him. I reckon he'll get his chances this season but he'll be used as a squad player unless he makes himself undroppable.

The Uefa Cup is easy. Sevilla won it twice on the trot and they did f*** all in the Carling Cup.

Probably because we don't kill people So they behave like animals because they're successful? That's a good excuse. Must remember that one.

was that a dig at me? cos i was taking the piss mate... nah it wasnt, I havent even read what you said. My point was just part of what BB is moaning about is the amount weve spent, when imo it means nothing when you consider souness spent 50million If spending money means nothing (i.e. doesn't increase the chances of success), do you believe that Chelsea would have been champions twice in the last three seasons without Abramovic's oil dollars? Do you believe Chelsea would have been able to attract the kind of players required to win titles if they weren't already in the Champions League when Abramovich took over? You're not comparing like with like imo. I'm not saying spending money means nothing but it is only one factor among many others.

Out of interest, does anybody know why they're doing this?

Martins for me. He did pretty well last season despite playing up front on his own sometimes. I don't think we should be playing him out wide though. He's a striker.

It's a tough one Bob. There have been a lot of Premiership clubs bought over by very rich men. They can't all qualify for Europe. It's one thing wanting the club to spend money but it has to be on players who would improve the squad/team and they would obviously have to want to sign for us. The alternative is to spunk £millions on average players like what West Ham are doing. I have no desire to see Newcastle go down that road because I simply don't believe that it would get us anywhere.

I entered a team a while ago but didn't realise you guys had your own league aswell. Hope you don't mind me gatecrashing

I think we'll win 2-1 I notice the bookies are covering their back-sides after last week. Newcastle are only 5/6 this week

They've only made one good signing (Gordon) and they paid to much for him. Keiran Richardson is stinking. Derby and Wigan are pretty much nailed on to go down but there will be a big rammy to avoid the 3rd relegation spot. I hope they go down. Because I don't like them.

I say, i'm ever so excited chaps I think we'll win 3-1

There's been loads of discussion in Scotland about this sort of thing this week. Racism and sectarianism should be dealt with in the same way. How to approach it? I know where people are coming from by saying there's only so much the clubs can do and, in all fairness, both Rangers and Celtic have made huge strides to eradicate the problem of sectarianism. It has worked at their home matches but their travelling support still persist with their inappropriate behaviour. However, I believe that the best way to deal with it IS to punish the clubs. Fine them, ban them from competitions, dock them points. Supporters like to support a successful team and by pinning the clubs success to the behaviour of the fans in this way the so-called silent majority will be more inclined to root out the trouble makers and sort it out themselves. This is the only way in my opinion - we have to force home the message that if you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem.

Good to see that old experienced warhorse Martins taking a youngster under his wing