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Same with Burnley.

First you call me Alan Oliver, now this. I see no friendship for us. Road-side chicken places in Georgia/Alabama/South Carolina/etc will change your life.

Looks shit. Although I am from the South where chicken reigns supreme.

wtf is Nandos?

Carew has been injury prone as hell hasn't he? Will fit right in at Spurs.

His goal at Man U was a combo of three things: bad defending, bad goalkeeping, and tons of luck. Hardly a game changer when it comes to his level of skill.

Now before I'd experienced London myself, I'd have agreed. Until I went down there in September, out of Heathrow and onto said UNDERGROUND. Five minutes later we were above ground! That's not an Underground at all! I've been on the Underground many times, admittedly more centrally, usually Victoria to Highbury but a couple of times it has happened seems to be the outskirts mainly? It's outside a lot around Wimbeldon is it not? I seem to remember that from what I was over there.

I wonder if any player would ever have the brass to pull a stunt like that - not getting a wanted transfer and then blatantly scoring an own goal.

Always liked him after his weekly blog-type-thing on the bbc a few years back. Seems a genuinely nice guy.

Rafa really is strange. Wouldn't even give Babel a chance upfront while they were missing Torres. Pretty sure he would have done as good a job and likely even better than what N'Gog did. Rafa really has messed him about completely. He still really young though so he should still be okay, but he really should be looking to get out of there. Babel comes across as quite a schmuck so it wouldn't surprise me if Rafa is just icing him on the bench to deflate his ego a bit.

many will say it means we'll sell taylor for 4mill. Not that I want it to happen, but I think we'd cash in Colo before Taylor.

I've seen a few things about him here and he just seems a bit dumb and acts like he's gangsta from time to time which is really off putting.

I wish he wasn't such an idiot, 'cause Dempsey is playing really well and showing great for the US.

Me too, would do wonders here too with our small budget. He has a really long contact list across Europe.

Didn't really need to reply to them because your first post makes a lot of sense, probably too much sense for some. Although, you have made some really good points again with this post.

Would feel really bad for Burnley is Coyle made the switch. I've got a lot of time for Burnley because they play a certain style that is attractive but more importantly they stick to it no matter what. Even when they were getting battered 4-0 by Chelsea they stuck to their guns and kept it on the ground and passed it around like they always do. It's great to watch a team come up that can play some football and not resort to long-ball.

Would love for our midfield to look something like this these days (if everyone were fit): Pancrate - Guthrie - Barton - Jonas Lots of pace, movement, and creativity in that midfield and Guthrie and Barton both have enough engine to track back.

what's her name?

My favorite part of this thread is everyone saying "50k off the wage bill" - how did you figure that out? As far I know we're not privy to how much many, if not all (bar Riise at Liverpool that one time) footballers make a week for sure, especially at our own club.

Would love for some of those teams to start a Euro league and leave the rest to "us" - there really is far too much of a gulf between even the Championship and the Premier League, let alone the "top four" and their CL money. Not really in a state to think about the specifics but having a few of those top teams heading out to where they think they "deserve" to be might be good to knock them down a peg or two. It would also be hilarious to watch teams like Tottenham beg to join in a Euro "super" league.

It has nothing to do with the fact that we're almost certain to go up and if he gets to play he gets to play infront of 50k people in Newcastle rather than sitting on the bench in Blackburn watching some of the worst football this country has to offer? If I had the choice I'd rather sit on the bench for Newcastle rather than Blackburn - lack of drive doesn't play into this at all.

I think you far overestimate our global standing with players.

This is one of the saddest threads I have ever seen on this board - just look at how many people voted Keegan. No wonder the media has a field day with us.

Hasn't Kilgallon already proved he wasn't good enough for the Prem?

A genuine question - do you reckon Muamba is proper midtable Premiership quality ? News flash, we're in the Championship, no where near midtable Premiership quality.