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Alright people, time to pray to whatever Gods you believe in.

It honestly shocks me that it only took 45 minutes of non-terrible football to make everyone forget exactly what kind of "player" Alan Smith is. I'd bet my life that we'll all be screaming our heads off at him within ten minutes after kickoff. Its 45 minutes more than Nolan has shown. Thats not a compliment, but I'd have started him if Barton and Guthrie aren't fully up to speed. This logic flabbergasts me. Smith has shown about 10 hours more of absolute shit across the entirety of last season.

It honestly shocks me that it only took 45 minutes of non-terrible football to make everyone forget exactly what kind of "player" Alan Smith is. I'd bet my life that we'll all be screaming our heads off at him within ten minutes after kickoff.

If we win a game with Butt, Duff, and Smith in midfield, it will be the biggest fucking miracle in Premiership history. Absolutely bricking this. Where the fuck is Guthrie.

You should try listening to the Icelandic ones. It's just like commentary for the blind, a 100% accurate commentary of what is happening at any given time. "Martins passes down to Owen, Owen gets the ball, Owen turns and crosses over to Gutierrez, Gutierrez runs with the ball and shoots way over." *camera turns to fans* "There we have some Newcastle fans singing" *camera turns to the goalkeeper* "Here comes Van Der Saar, the Man U goalkeeper, and he kicks the ball upfield" etc. you never have any analysis of any kind. Listening to Sky commentators is like listening to Gods compared to the Icelandic ones. I actually know a family of die hard Man U fans that always watches the footy muted and honestly I can't blame them. Some of my favorite words of wisdom this season: "No no no, if you are going to shoot from that range you'll have to go much closer" Yorke is preparing to come on as a sub and the commentator, having nothing useful to say, goes "Dwight Yorke is coming on, he sure knows his way around the ladies" Then everyone of them is biased as f***. The other day we had a Liverpool fan commentating a Liverpool game so in the warm-up he goes "Oh, I hope we get to hear You Never Walk Alone, that magnificent song" then of course a minute later they play it "Ok people, turn up the volume on your televisions because here it comes" , then for the whole time they were playing it he didn't utter a word, probably leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed hugging a Liverpool scarf. The Icelandic MOTD is even worse. Like everyone in the studio agreed that the penalty given in the Man U - Tottenham game was probably the right decision The Norwegian MOTD for both the Norwegian league, and the Premier League, are actually quite enjoyable. With the exception of two-three biased people from time to time. Some of the pundits actually know football as well. One of South Korea's most frequently heard casters is a Sunderland fan for some God forsaken reason. The giddiness in his voice is audible whenever we get a bad result.

Surprised that Fulham are now considered a step up from Monaco. from what I've seenof him he's pretty decent. Quick and will run all day. Not a tremendous goal threat but still good. Also I'm sure his name has always been Park Chu Young. Is yours the proper translation. . It's the phonetically correct one, but people generally just use whatever they're comfortable with. I think you're right and he's registered himself as Chu-Young Way off-topic here, but exactly how popular is Starcraft in Korea? In comparison to other sports? Was watching this mini-documentary the other day and seeing all those live events with thousands of people watching the games live and probably a million more watching it on TV it made me wonder. Those pro gamers are pretty crazy, like these clans lock themselves up in this little rooms with just tables and computers and practice 14 hours a day (and when they practice there is no time for msn/facebook etc. you actually play for 14 hours straight), 6 days of the week, it's a bloody 10 year old rts game ffs! Taken from wiki "Boxer), is one of the most successful players of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft to date. Dubbed The Emperor by his legions of admirers, he is the most popular Starcraft player with a fan club of more than 600,000 members and a DVD compilation of his greatest games released in South Korea." Seeing how dedicated Koreans get can when it comes to computer games ya have to wonder why they don't have more world class athletes. It's got a very devoted and large group of fans (I'd say it's the third most popular "professional sport" in Korea after Baseball and Football,) but it's a bit different from other sports in that its cultural relevance outside that group is basically nil. For example, Koreans who've never watched a match in their life will still know who Park Ji-sung is, I don't think anyone over the age of 35 would notice Boxer if he passed by them on the street.

Good news?

Surprised that Fulham are now considered a step up from Monaco. from what I've seenof him he's pretty decent. Quick and will run all day. Not a tremendous goal threat but still good. Also I'm sure his name has always been Park Chu Young. Is yours the proper translation. . It's the phonetically correct one, but people generally just use whatever they're comfortable with. I think you're right and he's registered himself as Chu-Young

Fulham (who are looking to be quite active in the summer it seems) are apparently having a look at Park Joo-Young from Monaco. Would hate to see him take a step up at the wrong time and fail when he's doing pretty decently over there.

you're a newcastle fan, surely you jest.

We should look at this in a positive light and consider how it hugely demoralizes Liverpool ahead of our meeting next week. The title race is effectively over.

Well, I know what I'm doing for the next 30 minutes now. (goes off to read Spurs boards)

A decision like that could easily send us down. A big reason why we're even in this position in the first place is an absolute metric fuckton of bad decisions.

I can follow this match just by listening to the sound of the glory hunters squealing.

what the f***s he got to smile about? Perhaps he's just been told about the 50k a week Tottenham Hotspur are offering him next year.

As opposed to who ...? Guthrie Barton Jonas Owen Viduka Martins ? Not bad but I wouldn't want either Guthrie or Jonas to be responsible for the supply lines in a 4-3-3. I wouldn't want Geremi to be responsible for any sort of physically taxing activity period. For pete's sake, we're talking about him like he's Beckham. His distribution's not even that good, I'd be surprised if it was any better than Guthrie's at this point.

I'd still like to see him out on loan if we stayed up and had adequate cover while he was away... not that it's at all viable or likely now. I think he definitely has the quality and potential, it's just getting in hours at a higher level than reserves to prove it in my opinion. Hopefully he'll stick with us even if we go down and turn some head in the Championship next season.

To be fair I think Shola was just as bewildered as Hart was

The one that'll keep us up

because West Ham has been somehow magically able to pay for all of their shit, Southampton haven't. it's kind of sad how there's been all this talk of them being bankrupt, yet they still manage to outspend us in the transfer market.

I'm relatively confident we'll win this because if nothing else, this horrible club will want to prolong our suffering as long as possible and won't be quite ready to let us off the hook just yet.

I think it was more the high profile he had, and the fact the manager didn't seem to know why he was there that was the problem. I was and am far from sure about Milne's role, but so long as the manager knows what's going on, why they're there and most importantly wants them there then there shouldn't be an issue. This is really the crux of the issue. If the guy's name wasn't Dennis Wise honestly nobody would have cared about him. Completely disagree with that. He never talked to the media, was barely visible in public, just went on with his job quietly, which was probably precisely what Ashley wanted him to do. If he was just another random Spanish bloke like Jimenez or Vertre nowhere near the same amount of vitriol would have been aimed at him.

oooh now you've done it...

I think it was more the high profile he had, and the fact the manager didn't seem to know why he was there that was the problem. I was and am far from sure about Milne's role, but so long as the manager knows what's going on, why they're there and most importantly wants them there then there shouldn't be an issue. This is really the crux of the issue. If the guy's name wasn't Dennis Wise honestly nobody would have cared about him.

Guys seriously, no. I know it's hard to believe but Geremi is honest to god MORE immobile and unfit than Butt or Nolan. Moreover, his delivery has long since regressed to Ryan Taylor levels. Remember West Ham at home? I do, because I almost spit in disgust when he hit the first man from corners every fucking time.