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most likely to have been a buffet. Coincides best with Ashley's "stack it high, sell it cheap" business idea

MACKEM SCUM!

Kalou

Another Krul clean sheet? nah 1-1

Carl Finnigan (remember him?) scores for Falkirk

Sinclair on, Bollock off. More boo's from the Cheww-see lot

jesus wept, here comes the fragile one...

"I'll tell you what today's shown....we need a left back". - John Anderson

how I love that old double negative. If we've never won fuck all, that means we've won something. If they sang "You've won fuck all", then fair enough, but of course, I'd respond with "one time, one time, oneeee tiiii-iiiiiiime, the intertoto, we've won it one time".

the BBC are being knobs and trying to deny the ginger ninja his goal.... 1611: GOAL Chelsea 1-1 Newcastle The visitors equalise in bizarre fashion. Charles N'Zogbia's cross is flicked on by Obafemi Martins and although Nicky Butt tried to force the ball home from close range, it was actually Wayne Bridge who got the last touch - backheeling the ball over the line.

NANANANANANANANAAAAAAAAAAAA NICKY NICKY BUTT NICKY BUTT, NICKY NICKY BUTT

1-0 Essien

at least my dream of seeing Big Abdoulaye snap the little twats Essien and Mikel could happen

well its wrong in one respect, 'cos Mick Lowes has just said Ballack captains Chelsea, not Essien.

I've just had this image of a prison officer peering through the little slot on a cell door to check on the inmate. And the inmate looking up, and saying in a whiny scouse accent, "fancy keeping me updated on the score?"

I respect James Milner after seeing him with his lass in Greggs on Northumberland St. The lad knows quality cuisine when he see's it.

I had a dream last night that as a Mag, I was at my wits end with the club, sick to death of players being played out of position and no gameplan. Imagine my horror when I awoke and realised it wasn't a dream, it was reality.

Football Focus......... Fatty Pearce:- "Today has no bearing on Sam's future." "If they lose at Stoke next week, that could be it" "Barton's behaviour is his own fault, not Sam's" "Ashley's silence is deafening, and Sam must be wary". and finally, "If they record a win against weakened Chelsea, Sam will be a hero tonight" Lawrenson:- "Its like a soap opera, Ashley is a recluse, but he sits in the crowd and goes back with the fans on the bus. That's a strange kind of recluse!".

we have one. Calls himself Enrique or something.

Well you can't knock his immense powers of observation there, can you? Though not sure about his prediction on the result. More accurate would surely be: "Even though Chelsea have nearly a full team missing, I still expect Newcastle to get bummed in the face today. Prediction: 5-0" It would be fucking brilliant if Lawrenson actually said those words. Oh the irony.

can't believe you're saying that when we've spent YEARS reading s**** from Alan Oliver Stopped reading anything that t*** wrote many years ago! glad you overcame the urge! I tell myself not to, but I still lash out the 42p or whatever it is on a Ronny every night!

can't believe you're saying that when we've spent YEARS reading shite from Alan Oliver

surely there isn't anywhere in the town?, with foreign channels being illegal and all that.

Yeah, I'm gonna count any backpasses by their players as shots on target for us though. I mean, you just never know - That ball just might take a nasty bobble over the goalie's foot. It's happened before. Actually, maybe that's Sam's master plan away from home - Keep a clean sheet and hope one of their players get's so frustrated that he overhits a backpass and sticks it in his own net? Maybe Viduka isn't really just standing there imobile in the opposition box for 90 minutes, maybe he's got secret instructions to dig divots in their penalty area while everyone else is chasing the ball so that backpasses might hit them and get deflected in? Bonkers I know, but it still makes more sense than our current 'tactics'. What was it Sherlock Homes said? "When you've ruled out all the probable options, then whatever's left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Nah, I think Sam is much wiser than that. The idea is that we play so s****, the opposition, in this case Chelsea, become confused that we are somehow a Premier League team. As a result, both fans and players become disillusioned and think they are in some sort of warped dream as they can't believe they are watching such s*** football from one team on the pitch. He therefore hopes that they become dizzy with thought, and thus their own game falters as a result of this bewilderness that has hit them. If this happens, then he will encourage his left back to attack whilst the opposition are weak and perhaps sneak a goal. If not, it's a hard-earned 0-0 draw. It all makes perfect sense, as Derby and Wigan have rattled us, not falling for Sam's devious shenanigans, having experienced such shiteness when playing against Colchester, Walsall and the likes in the fizzy pop leagues.

not worthy of a new thread, but an update. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/28122007/58/championship-ipswich-want-former-magpie-robert.html repeatedly on SSN, but not on skysports.com