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Embarassing how little they care, tbh. I know they have bigger things in mind, but that really is just a disgrace. Hope they lose by twice as much as the Bernabeu.

St. James Park as presented by Newcastle Brown Ale.

I think probaly 70-80 percent at all levels of football spit profusely. It's part of the game. Will be hard to implement that one.

If it saves us selling anyone else in January it will be a start tbh. Do you believe that will be the case? So why not accept the £60m up front from Moat with £20m to be paid next year. He would rather "invest" a further £20m than take £20m less!! As always it does not make sense and just implies that he was never serious about selling the club. Oh and if he is going to do his "best" to achieve success for Newcastle, he would not be appointing Hughton as manager. Next time you're buying property, offer 75% of the price, and say you'll pay the rest in a year's time. See what happens. Money today is always worth more than money tommorow. The two offers are in no way the same.

If he's putting money into the club, then it's only a good thing. It is my personal opinion that any sale or transaction involving the club should really wait until the offseason period. I think any talk of a sale is just massively disruptive to what the club needs to achieve.

This shouldn't be a problem. The principle of the action is rubbish, but that's football these days. It will always be St. James Park. Just because Tesco or some other disgusting company owns the naming rights doesn't change that. The only way Newcastle United's stadium will ever be known as anything other than St. James Park is if we move to a new one.

I'm actually very much in favor of this, but lord, the thread title is depressing. "Hughton manager until 2011" Have to admit my heart sunk a little when I read that.

King Kanu back on the score sheet. :colo:

Feel bad for Ramos. Tottenham didn't work out, but he's been a success everywhere else. Did a brilliant job rescuing Madrid's season last year and didn't even get a chance to start his last job. Insane overreaction to sack a manager this early into his tenure.

The whole of last season after Arsenal away was insanely chaotic and if you want to give Hughton the West Brom game then he won 1 in 9 and drew 2. Shearer won 1 in 8 and drew 2, not that I'm trying to big his results up anyway. Points taken man, and no one deserves to have anything "bigged" from that awful season. I said that about Hughton because he had to manage us in the crazy aftermath of the Keegan quitting/Fans protesting/Ashley deciding to sell games before Kinnear. Also, he had to come in when our manager had a heart attack.

I wonder if Hughton would have had the balls to drop Owen or to take on Joey Barton? I doubt it. At least Shearer didn't pick by reputation. Also, we were playing in a much tougher league last season. I'm sure Hughton had a record last season which read 8 games played, 6 games lost, 2 drawn and didn't look as if he'd get a win in that division if we played 100 games under him, he had a worse record than Shearer. I'm almost certain Hughton won at West Brom. (also tbf, Hughton was around during the most insanely chaotic parts of our insanely chaotic season) Pretty sure Shearer won 1 in 8 last year as well.

True. However, the point should also stand that Mr. Shearer has not even proven himself to be an average manager at this point and there is no reason that anything should be brought over from his short and ill-fated regime.

Can't understand the appeal of match-worn shirts. I really can't fathom the idea that someone is about to pay for a shirt that was worn by Nicky Butt.

The ESPN announcer mentioned that they had gone three or four matches without scoring three or more goals. Which is more than they had ever done last year. Almeria did the other week. I've never seen a better man marking performance than that of one of Almeria's players against Xavi, just followed him for the whole 90 minutes. The whole ream were very organised and ran all day, closing them down at every occasion, attempting to score on the break and only lost 1-0. Tbf, It was unfair to generalise all La Liga sides. I've just noticed that a decent proportion of teams just seem to roll over, to Barca especially.

Think Jonas is a very good player who could walk into a lot of sides better than this one and nt look out of place. He's clearly not "great" though. Disagree with the notion that "great players score goals" as posed by NJS.

Even with that luck, he'll be lucky if his team finishes fourth this term.

I feel like these La Liga sides don't even show any resistance to humiliation against Barca. They sit in their own half. yet they don't really pressure or close down to any great degree and they don't break in numbers. They don't really do anything.

It is biggest match in France. Not a true derby in English sense, actually. French equivalent of Madrid-Barca or Man U-Liverpool. Please say you didn't compare Madrid-Barca to Manu-Liverpool..... What would you compare it to in England? Ligue 1 has quite a few good teams to be quite honest. PSG aren't bad. They're talented, but not talented enough to challenge for the title.

and then needlessly take on three men, ending up on his arse and losing the ball Or getting us a freekick in a good area.. remind me when we last scored from a free-kick this season? Why don't you post this in the Ryan Taylor thread. Actually, I think him and Guthrie are the only two players boring enough to not have threads.

It is biggest match in France. Not a true derby in English sense, actually. French equivalent of Madrid-Barca or Man U-Liverpool.

The Marseille-PSG derby tonight has been cancelled due to H1N1 outbreak.

I could swear everyone thought he was a DM 2 or 3 years ago, despite the fact that he is about 5 foot 7 and skinny.

What exactly are us foreign supporters supposed to do? My hometown club are Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan. While I still try to follow them and hope they do well, it doesn't make for an interesting life as a football supporter if you exclusively follow a team that most have never heard of and whose matches aren't televised for the most part. European football is brilliant and I don't see why us third-worlders shouldn't be allowed to take interest in the highest level of the sport in the world. *He's still an idiot for supporting Man U though.

Losing to a goal by Glen Whelan has got to be depressing.

Probably, but you've got Ballack, Lampard, Deco, etc. But he could really pull strings in there. Deco doesn't really need to play. He's been very rubbish for them. It's fairly easy for teams to defend against him in this league. If you put any sort of pressure on him he doesn't get the time to influence a game like he likes to. Shame because I think technically he also is a cracking player, the game just passes him by all too easily. You're forgetting the part where he doesn't close down, tackle or generally show any effort other than we he has the ball. Whatever legs he once had have departed him.