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2-1 Chelsea AET unfortunately.

Please no. Sacha Kljestan could easily take the step over the Championship. There are plenty of others as well.

Not that I ever like making excuses for mackems, but he was probably slightly confused because Carew is hardly ever fit to start so it could seem to someone (who doesn't watch religiously) that is possibly a "third choice striker."

Would love to get one of the sleeveless training tops from last season but the shipping/exchange rate would kill me.

Might be good or getting some young US talent over as well. Carver will know who is good in the MLS and could take a step up to the big show in England.

Wouldn't mind some of those as our actual kit.

I will be, yeah. Broken bottle obviously.

I've only got one local team currently and fortunately for me that's the Magic. The only other sport I really follow is baseball and I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan. http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/31/smitphu008001ozziesmith.jpg fucking legend

I'm still a bit lost why we can't do a Juve and just keep the quality and bounce back. Assuming we have quality.

Didn't think elephants were sharp myself. I'll give it to you.

Can't wear my newest toon top since the neck is really tight to get over my head and I currently have a huge gash from the edge of a trunk being closed directly on it by my lady friend.

Was thinking the same thing. Although I won't get to see any matches here, I still think it will be exciting (granted that we're winning).

If Martins went anywhere, I'd love it to be Everton.

Have you read any of his interviews? It's hard for a footballer to be any more grounded than he is. I've got a good feeling about this dude, I think he could really be something and I wish someone in our club would give him a chance.

There's a great player in Martins, you'd be blind if you couldn't see it. If he had a half-decent squad around him he would've done wonderful here (like most of our other players). He is 100% a confidence player (as are most strikers but Martins in particular). He was flying high when he was here playing in European ties, in the top ten, etc, but when the team started to do shitty, so did he. He lost all confidence and never really got it back due to multiple circumstances. I for one will wish him well because I know he'll go to a good team and come good. Thanks for having a bit of flair in a team that had none.

He would totally rock the Championship, but I am not surprised to see him want out. We only offered him a contract until the end of the season, that hardly shows any ambition on our part to want to keep him. Also, there are no quotes from him so it's probably just a bit of fishing by his agent to see if he can get anyone to bite.

Really interesting. You'd think he'd give it a few years and see if he could get called up to the big boys in France.

This is who I'd like to see if this were all to happen.

Everton and Fulham most likely. I've always liked Everton for some unknown reason and I have liked Fulham for many of the reasons stated before in this thread. Obviously Newcastle is my one and only club (I'll never support anyone else), but since here in the States we only really get the Prem on TV, I'll be watching those two with a particular interest during next season. Outside of England/The Prem I always keep up with the Montreal Impact and I do quite like Fiorentina.

Not at all. He is theorizing for the public rather than personally calling someone out.

He very clearly says "you can say [insert name] hasn't been good enough" and then lists the others, but it is a hypothetical statement - he's not saying it outright.

Would love it if Viduka stayed. If he were fit he would completely rock the CCC. Partner him with Xisco/Ranger and we'll be golden (at least up-front).

It kind of hit me this evening when I was watching Sky Sports and I felt really detached from what was happening on the screen - because it's not our league any more. Shit.

SSN had a bunch of shots from Newcastle and it was very un-mongy. Lots of people that were in just utter disbelief but didn't say anything too rash.

I got a few "sorry dude" text messages from my friends, but they are mostly all Man U/Arsenal fans that don't really follow their teams anyway.