ChrisJbarnes

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,13866_4498318,00.html Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association. The charge follows Drogba's actions after scoring the opening goal in Wednesday's Carling Cup tie with Burnley when he made an offensive gesture and threw a coin back at the visiting fans after being struck by objects hurled from the crowd. The Ivory Coast international issued an apology immediately after the match which Burnley went on to win 5-4 on penalties. Drogba has until 6pm on Monday to respond to the charge and a regulatory commission will hear the case on Tuesday. Referee Keith Stroud informed the FA that he booked Drogba for celebrating in front of the away supporters, but did not see the coin-throwing incident. Missiles The FA have requested further information from both Chelsea and Burnley and are liaising with the Metropolitan Police, who have launched their own investigation into the incident. The game's governing body have condemned the actions of the visiting supporters who threw coins at Drogba and have warned the culprits they face a possible life ban from attending football matches. An FA spokesman said: "Players should be able to play football without fearing for their personal safety. It is totally unacceptable for players to be put in danger by supporters throwing missiles onto the pitch. "The priority now is to work with the clubs and the police to identify the individuals involved. The FA wants anyone found guilty of throwing missiles to face the strongest possible action. "That includes life bans from attending football matches."

274.26 miles to NUFC other than that, 20 miles away is Gillingham, then palace, charlton, millwall, dagenham and redbridge, west ham, chelsea, brighton and hove, leyton orient, fulham out of interest, i think gillingham is the only league football team in kent!

have the club agreed to put up any banner that you buy, firstly and foremostly?

im in P7, so id guess its P4, 5,6 and 7 for away fans.

ask a fulham fan, and theyll say bullard has been underperforming recently. johnson though got 2 goals in his last game, and is in good form. on reflection, its their general attacking momentum which is quite good, although they will probably struggle to stick it in the back of the net, whereas their defence is terrible, which we can exploit.

really? maybe optimistic thinking, but i was reckoning on an entertaining encounter, as fulham play good stuff at home, and we are in good form.

NUFC and LFC aside, in my opinion the "best fans" award, and all that bollocks could never go to anyone who watches premiership football in state of the art stadia. think of people who are in the bottom of league 2, or the ryman league or whatever, who travel up and down the country and watch awful teams in shitholes when its pissing down all day.

classy!

i reckon bollocks

any takers for 17th after this result? certainly not!

clearly im on my own then!

fulham wont go down, as we will see on sunday. they are better than you think at home. bear in mind a win against villa puts us 14th, so its hardly as if we are "doomed to the championship"

sorry to piss on anyones fires, but is another thread slagging off one of our players really a good idea?

It is but come seconds before kick off I will be looking at our players who can hurt them, that is what gives me hope so youll be supplying joey barton with a cigar before the game?

1) it would have to be Ranger, after winning us the league, scoring the equalisre and winning the golden boot. 2) Victor Moses, because he will be a good player 3) We'd have to have beaten Man United, or maybe Barnsley 4) Ameobi was sent off Now, give me my free away ticket

no it can't yes it can. can it? can it really?

why wouldnt it be? The possibility of match fixing. The possibility of match fixing would be no different whether he was his brother or not to be honest. i tend to agree, i mean you might as well ban ashley from buying a club because he was mates with the spurs owners

why wouldnt it be?

haha there truly is with nufc only 2 levels you can be. either: ruler of the high heavens, or hated beyond belief.

i think we should change the title of the thread to "NUFC sold to man city owners brother- official (according to 3 sources)

nothing on sky sports website

...whilst shitting all over the mackem twats

permananent, no thanks. but, im much less hurried to get the new board in when we were losing under hughton. what i will say is, even when we do get them in, ill be hoping they take their time to appoint the new manager, rather than appointing someone straight away. if the takeover doesnt happen until the end of the season, ill have confidence in results. actually that rasies a point: if the takeover didnt happen until the end of the season, and kinnear won us the FA cup, what do you think (and want) would happen?

sell it to a tout mate

make that 4