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yup. Well said. I've not budged from 1 either.

Just been offered a ticket for £10. Dare says I'm having it!

JOSE: I WANT JOB IN ENGLAND Jose Mourinho has told close friends that he wants to quit Italy and return to the Premier League in the summer. Mourinho, whose Inter Milan side take on Manchester United in the Champions League on Tuesday, has privately confessed that he is not a big fan of Italian football. He has often been at war with the Italian media, despite Inter Milan set to finish as Serie A champions for the fourth season running. Mourinho says he misses life in England following his abrupt exit from Chelsea after a fall-out with Stamford Bridge owner Roman Abramovich in September 2007. This revelation is bound to encourage long-standing interest from both Manchester City and Newcastle United. City’s wealthy backer, Sheikh Mansour, has supported current boss Mark Hughes in the transfer market. But he would quickly switch his allegiance to ‘The Special One’ given any encouragement, while Newcastle owner Mike Ashley sounded out Mourinho before appointing Kevin Keegan 13 months ago. The job that Mourinho really wants back in England is to become Sir Alex Ferguson’s eventual successor. The onerous task of stepping into the Scot’s shoes at Old Trafford appeals to Mourinho’s great sense of adventure. But the ambitious Portuguese boss faces a wait, with Ferguson showing no signs of quitting despite 22 years at the helm. Some influential people within Old Trafford also see Mourinho as too maverick for their tastes. Mourinho, though, is loving being back in the English media spotlight as he prepares to pit his wits against Manchester United. It’s something he has badly missed and, according to close associates, is something he intends to put right having already sown the seeds that he would like to return to Chelsea one day. http://www.express.co.uk/football/view/85844/Jose-I-want-job-in-England-

I know this is usually Thespence's job, but I'm up far too early, and there's one ' ' story in there concerning our beloved team... Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will launch a £20m summer bid to sign Valencia forward David Villa. (Mail on Sunday) The Gunners are also keen on Fiorentina's Brazilian midfielder Felipe Melo, who has a £17.9m buy-out clause in his contract. Chelsea, Aston Villa, Juventus and Lyon have also inquired about signing the 25-year-old. (The Observer) Manchester City and Manchester United are fighting it out to sign 17-year-old Brazilian wonderkid Neymar, who has been dubbed the new Robinho, but his club Santos want at least £15m for the teenager. (News of the World) England midfielder Gareth Barry will turn down a summer move to Liverpool to stay with Aston Villa - if Martin O'Neill's side qualify for next season's Champions League. (News of the World) Barcelona are keen on Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra and could capture the French star for £20m. (News of the World) Manchester City have offered highly-rated teenage striker Daniel Sturridge a four-year deal that could be worth up to £30,000 a week but he is willing to accept less money elsewhere to secure regular first-team football in the Premier League. (News of the World) Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez wants to loan French midfielder Damien Plessis to a Championship side so he can gain first-team experience. (News of the World) Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has made a fresh threat to quit his post at Anfield after again failing to agree terms on a new four-year contract. (News of the World) It was the third contract to be offered Benitez in the last few months and had been specially reworded to ensure he had full control over transfers and the club's youth academy. (Mail on Sunday) Or, it was the fifth time Benitez has turned down a new deal and he claims he cannot work in the present structure at the club while co-owner George Gillett Jr and chief executive Rick Parry remain in power. (News of the World) New negotiations with Benitez will not start until after Liverpool's Champions League clash with Real Madrid on Wednesday - at the earliest. (Mail on Sunday) Benitez's failure to commit himself to the Reds has opened the door for another bid from Real Madrid to take him to the Bernabéu but Manchester City and Chelsea are also interested. (Sunday Express) Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho has told close friends he wants to return to the Premier League next season - alerting Newcastle and Manchester City. (Sunday Express) Mourinho has vowed to beat Manchester United in their Champions League last-16 tie and go on to win the competition. Inter host United in the first leg at the San Siro on Tuesday. (Mail on Sunday) Former Chelsea manager Avram Grant has been held back from taking charge at managerless Portsmouth because the Pompey squad want Mexico boss Sven-Goran Eriksson to get the job. (News of the World) Newcastle striker Michael Owen hopes to boost his side's fight against relegation by returning from his ankle injury in time to face Hull City on 14 March. (News of the World) Owen has had a secret operation in Germany on a niggling groin problem but that should not delay his return to fitness. (Various) New Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink insists Blues strikers Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba can play together up front - if they improve their defensive work. (Mail on Sunday) The surgeon who operated on Eduardo's shattered leg initially thought he would have to amputate the Croatian star's limb because of the severity of the injury and is amazed the striker has returned to top-class football just a year later. (News of the World) Bolton want to replace boss Gary Megson with Burnley manager Owen Coyle in the summer. (News of the World) Fifa have made a proposal to increase the length of the half-time interval in matches from 15 to 20 minutes. (The Observer) Crisis club Weymouth - who saw their youth team beaten 9-0 by Rushden & Diamonds in the Blue Square Premier on Saturday after their unpaid first-team squad refused to play because they were not properly insured - look likely to go into administration. (The Non-League Paper) Manchester City defender Micah Richards says he will continue to wear earrings and drive fast cars despite fears his image as football's 'Mr Bling' is behind his slump in form this season. (Mail on Sunday) Newcastle's Liverpool-born defender Ryan Taylor hopes to upset about 20 of his Everton-supporting mates who will be at St James' Park on Sunday for the Magpies' Premier League game against the Toffees. (News of the World) Real Madrid have secured the signing of one of Arsenal's biggest stars - reigning Premier League groundsman of the year Paul Burgess, who is set to leave the Emirates Stadium for the Bernabéu at the start of March. (News of the World) Former Sunderland boss Roy Keane says he was forced out of the Stadium of Light in December because the club's owner Ellis Short did not like his autobiography. (Sunday Express) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/7904204.stm

no no, not the lounge...definately on grey st...name like the lounge The Lodge? What was once upon a time Johnny Ringo's? On Mosley St?

If you're really into your hip-hop/R'n'B, and I mean really into, as in you know songs that aren't commercial (I'm not, therefore I don't!), pretentious posing, wanting to be noticed, holding your drink and not actually drinking it, then this is the place for you. With regards to Wullie calling it expensive, its not on a Monday night. that sounds EXACTLY like a little hovel of a trendy hip-hop club i ended up once in the toon...right at the bottom of grey street on the left, mostly a basement setup if i remember correctly worst night out of my life, ali g-esque asian lad in there sucking a choopa-chups, i walked out at that point laughable, really hope the toon ain't going that way...anyone know the name of it? got me stumped.

Did it as a bairn before it got extended, it was alright then. Only one I've done in recent years was the free one you got when you bought that grey and navy blue away top from the SJP club shop in about 2003/04 I think. Was crap, didn't go pitchside or anything, basically saw the directors boxes and that was it.

If you're really into your hip-hop/R'n'B, and I mean really into, as in you know songs that aren't commercial (I'm not, therefore I don't!), pretentious posing, wanting to be noticed, holding your drink and not actually drinking it, then this is the place for you. With regards to Wullie calling it expensive, its not on a Monday night.

he's got them spot on here.

Which players? Andy Reid is the only one I got told, I'd imagine the rest were the 'usuals', Cisse, Jones etc...

Buy your tickets game by game then, there will be plenty of seats next season. its what I have been/and will continue to do. Until I can afford a ST again, anyway.

mackem players in Tiger Tiger last night again apparantly. Really can't understand why they'd come here for a night out. That 'city' whose team they play for has everything

I know the club depend on ST sales to go towards transfers, but it always fucked me off when I had my ST that they'd ask you to commit weeks after the season had ended, when you had no fucking clue where the club was heading. At 15/16 years old, £460 was a hell of a lot of money (and in fairness still is!) and more often than not, you'd stump up, only to see us fail dismally in the transfer market, and sack our manager 5 games in. If they could somehow work out a deadline around late July/1st August or so, I think more would be likely to commit.

when I was doing vox-pops for Century the other week, we purposely hung about the monument hoping to find and interview him. Alas I wasn't as fortunate as the owner of that video.

I don't think that shirt is real, ladies and gentlemen! (thank fuck). At work last night, I got the unenviable job of stacking pop for a bit, happened to notice that barcode/inky splodge also appears on pepsi bottles, with the chance to collect prizes or points for something. Might just be a pepsi-designed top or something.

My arse is too good to even consider wiping with that god awful England shirt.

I'm like a kid in a toyshop. I want them all. I think we should get a big round table inside SJP (we'll phone up the Spurs ITK's to ask where they got theirs). They (Keegan aside) can put together all their ideas and outline a plan to bring back the players of yesteryear.

I knew Susan reasonably well and she said that he supported us. A few people I know knew/know Justin, who claimed he didn't. No point keep going on about it anyway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/chwaraeon/safle/peldroed_wrecsam/images/brian_little203.jpg saw him milling about on matchdays at SJP quite a few times in the Robson era around 2001/2002, in the Milburn paddocks.

They're playing against the best team in the world Europe. No disgrace at all being outclassed. FYP. They're ranked best in the world, I think that was his reason for saying it. I'd also take them to beat Brazil & Argentina anyway. So would I.

He did support us but I think it was from a distance rather going to the match to watch us, I learned that from his sister who said that he would never play for us at any time and she was right. Ahh right. I was always told he didn't support us by a fair few people I knew, who knew his family.

They're playing against the best team in the world Europe. No disgrace at all being outclassed. FYP. They're ranked best in the world, I think that was his reason for saying it.

He was never interested in playing for us so I'd rather not, he's more plastic than Bruce ever was. c-l-s is orginally where I'm from, thats my only reason for saying it, and it was tongue in cheek. As far as I'm aware he didn't even support us.

ahhhh Chester-le-Streets finest. Therefore I'm all for him. not.

I've always found that argument laughable as f***. If I've arrived 10 minutes late, I'd like to know the score without having to ask people around me. - Don't turn up late. If somebody's scored while I'm off at the bathroom, I'd like to know as well. - This has happened to me, and it was the opposition who scored. I could still tell by the groans. The whole "if you can't pay attention you shouldn't be here!" thing has always seemed like one of the most ridiculous parts of the Geordie soopafan myth to me. Stadiums should have scoreboards. It's not tinpot it's common sense.