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It was never a red but there was absolutely no reason in fucking hell to make that challenge when the game is gone, the opposition player isn't in a dangerous area, and your name is fucking Joey Barton. Stupidity of the highest order.

what. the. fuck.

how the f*** was that foul not given I would be fucking livid if we had any chance of getting something out of this

I just saw Mark Viduka running. Fuck the match, this is like witnessing a minor miracle.

I just got up after getting wasted last night. Would it be worth it to turn this on or not?

Yeah, I've seen that. He plays in the American 4th division and for his college team Apparently he had a 10 day trial here and impressed against the first team in training though, so who knows. There's a little article about it here http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/30/a-life-changing-trip/ We've also got two youngsters coming in the summer- Femi Orenuga, a winger from Southend that Man Utd also offered a contract to, was tied up a while ago. I was reading today we've also got a German U17 lad from Hamburg that yourselves and Man City also wanted. Some people are saying he's a centre half and some are saying he's a defensive midfielder. It's always good to see your club going for youngsters who can develop Given our current predicament, that statement doesn't sound nearly as straightforward as it should be

Hopefully Shearer has learned that it's far less damaging to our overall play to just play four at the back with somebody like Edgar or Ryan Taylor or Duff playing out of position on the left side than it is to try to shoehorn the side into that awful 3-5-2 formation.

All of these Asian minnows seem to have brilliant goalies who make crazy saves whenever they play us. ("us" in this case meaning South Korea) I guess this is why.

Insomnia would've been class if we didn't buy damien duff/play him out of position.

I would like to see Taylor get the armband myself. I don't think he'd make a good captain given that he's thick as mince. Wouldn't command respect. Plus, His injury looks to be a bit worse than we thought so probably won't be back in contention for a while. Dear God, Steven Taylor might have played his last game for us

shocking the lack of leadership and passion in our dressing room considering how many captains/ex-captains/vice-captains we have. Nolan (Bolton) Cacapa (Lyon) Owen (captain) Geremi (ex-captain) Beye (Marseilles) Butt (Vice-captain) Taylor (England U21s) Viduka (Australia)

The thought of him in the Prem on the other hand is quite tasty. Championship though, he'll get raped anally. Surely if he's good enough he can figure out a way to get through the talentless cloggers who try to rough him up? I wouldn't think that the defending in the Norwegian league would be nice and fluffy compared to the Championship either.

Just asking the players to take it easy would probably work just as well and look a lot less suspicious than Beattie, Etherington, Delap, and Faye(s) all suddenly succumbing to "injury"

At the very least, Carroll's already made it, Vukcic looks like he's going to be pretty damn awesome, and Kadar would have probably made the first team by now if he didn't break his leg. And even if only one or two of the others get anywhere near the first team, we'll have done about as well as most of the youth academies in the country. So while there's no sense screaming "play the kids," I wouldn't lose all hope quite yet

well, there goes the "just stick the kids in, they can't possibly be worse" theory.

why did we sell ab faye again? stupid. Because he didn't get along with a manager who was going to walk out of the club 2 weeks later.

I wasn't there but from my experiences at SJP I'm relatively certain that the vast majority of the ground wouldn't have been singing if Danby hadn't got them started like that. It might have been "cringeworthy" or whatever, but it did accomplish its purpose. (Well, at least for about 45 minutes it did) It's an unfortunate reality of out times: the vast majority of home fans are always going to be silent. And if throwing a fat, drunk opera singer out there to get them riled up is the only way to change that, I don't mind it one bit at all.

I remember seeing a Depor game where he plugged in a shot form inside the box pretty much exactly where he was standing for that last volley in Saturday. When he took the shot time just froze for a moment and I was feeling sure that it was going to hit the back of the net. Of course, reality came calling pretty quickly Would have been such a class moment.

The Boro game will pretty much consign one of the two teams to certain relegation, that's for certain. Of course, we could just draw and go for the "both" option.

Can we have some sort of marking put on the title of threads that he's polluted so I don't accidentally walk into them?

If its that easy, you become a pro footballer. Who one of the EPL greatest strikers. I feel like NE5 in regards to this, good fun. Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that you weren't allowed to slag off any of the players unless you were actually a better footballer than them Stop trolling and f*** off back to your hole please. I'm just going to stop biting before s*** hits the fan again.

To be fair, he's just about twice the finisher of our Number Nine (7 goals out of 70 shots!)

If all you can do is tuck the ball into the net when it's given to you on a plate and even then you only get to do it once every 4 times, I'm sorry but you are absolutely fucking shit. There's no other way to put it.

Basically any of the academy players in the first team(Taylor/Carrol/Edgar and downwards)