David28

Every player would have went after relegation if a decent chance would have been there. Joey and Nolan as well.

Depends on if he'll be first choice next season. If he will and does well it'll happen in January. (Considering we'll still have Ashley in charge that time) Are you being serious? Not really, but if (and that's a big if) he does as well in the PL as Carroll did last season, he'll be gone in January.

Imagine a NUFC without Nolan and Barton. Zog, Ben Arfa, Gervinho, Gameiro - as talented as they might be, they aren't as important as those two. If we sign them, they would be much more important. Nolan and Barton are only important because we don't have better players in their positions. No, they're more important because they aren't like Zog, like Ben Arfa, like Gervinho, like Gameiro (and also like Owen and Martins in the past) who would just fuck off and stop caring if things aren't going right - they'll try to put things right because they do care.

Depends on if he'll be first choice next season. If he will and does well it'll happen in January. (Considering we'll still have Ashley in charge that time)

Imagine a NUFC without Nolan and Barton. Zog, Ben Arfa, Gervinho, Gameiro - as talented as they might be, they aren't as important as those two.

How long till he 'does a Carroll'?

Don't know if those Pardew quotes have been posted before but, reading them makes me think Joey will be away after the current summer. from .com

He isn't. We should take the risk, though. Give him the Nr. 1 for next season and we'll be better off long term.

Oh ok, then. Reminds me of the reaction on here I got when I asked why Hughton was wearing the poppy.

Not always. Krul tends to have an error rather than Harper. On the other side, Krul tends to have the odd world class save in him that Harper won't have.

Eh, had that something to do with me (because you were posting it after my last post ) ?

First time ever I've ever heard of them was today in this thread. Listening to a song of them now. Great.

Hope Pardew won't make the mistake of giving Harper the Nr. 1 shirt next season. I don't really care if it's Krul or Forster (I would prefer Krul) but giving it to Harper again would be a mistake. We have to look into the future and Krul/Forster are the future.

so alves, busquets & pedro playacting is what prevented madrid from creating and scoring goals over 180 minutes of football is it? f*** off man there's another way to look at it for me, madrid approached the game in a very attritional manner right? dig in, defend deep and defend hard...it'd be interesting to see what the actual foul count for madrid was that night (or indeed in any of the big CL games vs barca recently) because fouling people is also against the rules you know? stopping a superior team by kicking and blocking them is no better than diving or feigning s*** in my opinion, just different ways of doing the same thing except for some reason you're on your high horse about one not the other Silly man, Alves play acting reduced Madrid to 10 men and turned the game from a tight game of 0-0 to a game which Barcelona hugely exploited and won 2-0. If you can't even understand that point, then never mind People asked how I can 'hate' a club like Barcelona. They have great players like Villa, Xavi and of course - Messi. You have to love the way they are playing. But, players like Busquets and Alves don't deserve to play in such a great team let alone to play in such a great final like it'll be tomorrow. Those players, and the way they 'play' are one of the reasons I hate Barca.

One of the very best post-match interview I've seen that day: (that one after LIverpool)

This.

The funny thing (for me) about this is that I did buy him in FIFA 10 in the first January transfer window.

http://twitter.com/#!/joey7barton Barton has a twitter account? This will be a my new homepage.

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Controversial. He has too much power that no manager could work well under him. Anyway very good news for Mourinho. And for Real Madrid.

Yeah. Let's buy non-league players as they probably 'manage' themselves and don't have any agents. Because Willie McKay manages everyone in the football league? In the end the fans are only really interested in what is happening on the pitch. It will never interest me which agent a player has as long as the player performes on the pitch. All those off-the-field-matters are to complicated for most people to understand, anyway. (Because we never get 100 % of the truth)

FYP. There's no way it's going to extra time IMO. Normally, there's also absolutely no way Man Utd are going to win this. But, the fact it's in London, the fact that it's probably Fergies, Giggs and Van der Sar's last CL final and the fact that they lost in 2009 makes me confident about them winning.

Yeah. Let's buy non-league players as they probably 'manage' themselves and don't have any agents.

Prediction: Think Barca will be up 2-0 at half time. After a typical Fergie-team-talk and probably Berbatov coming on, Man Utd will be the better team 2nd half and will score a goal around the hour mark. In the last 5 minutes or so it will be (because it has to be) Giggs to score. Game will end in a penalty shoot out which will be won by Man Utd. I'll be a Man Utd 'fan' for those 90 minutes btw because I've got quite a lot of money on them and because of the fact that I hate Barca.