geordieglory

Gabby Logan has just said "What's happened to Villa?" Would've been great if Garth Crooks had said "Well Gabby, have you seen Deliverance..."

What about if we have a net summer investment of exactly £10m?

Upson is fucking shit. Not their biggest fan, but Lescott, Dawson and Shawcross are all clearly better than him IMO.

The transfer window applies to loans for Premier League clubs as well as transfers; if that was proposed they might as well go the whole hog and allow Pompey to make full transfers outside the window, because as the rules currently stand both loans and transfers are not an option at the moment anyway.

I can't stand AFC Wimbledon. Would be a completely different case. AFC Wimbledon were formed when Wimbledon FC were still playing. Wimbledon FC only stopped when the name was changed to MK Dons but they are a continuation rather than a new club. You try telling an AFC Womble fan that his club are a new entity and not the phoenix from the flames of the FA Cup winning Wimbledon FC and they practically explode. Timing schmiming, IMO. What used to be Wimbledon FC might not have been formally finished by the time that AFC Wimbledon started, but it was in the post. What other choice do ex-Wimbledon FC fans have? It's either AFC Wimbledon; follow MK Dons (which, as the most evil/hateable team in England, is not an option for anyone in possession of a soul); or stop watching football. AFC Wimbledon get the from me. You've clearly never met them then. It's only an hour drive from London to MK. It takes that long to get from Ploough Lane to Selhurst Park on a good day. FYI there are plenty of 'old' Wimbledon fans who are now MK Dons fans. I've met a few. The majority of AFC Wimbledon fans are bandwaggoners who have jumped on board as they rise ough the leagues. They have a nasty bunch of fans and believe it is their divine right to get into the football league. I can't stand them. Poppycock of the highest degree. I think I've read from your other posts that you are London-based, and with your kids supporting Chelsea I'm going to assume West / South West London. If Brentford got bought up by Islington would you expect their fans to suck it up and support the 'Islington Bees'? Football is all about community and in London especially that community is a pretty small demographic due to the number of professional clubs in and around the area. Wimbledon is part of London, Milton Keynes is most certainly not (a quick check on trainline shows a 3 train 1.5 hour journey up to the other side of London and out to Milton Keynes). Moving to Selhurst Park was never supposed to be the permanent solution and they always wanted to come back to Wimbledon, so suggesting that a permanent switch to a totally different city with a change of names constitutes anything other than a change of club is not true. I'm friends with a fair few AFC fans, all of whom were avid Wimbledon fans, none of whom could be described as 'bandwagon jumpers'. In their first season playing in the Isthmian League they averaged over 3k for home games! AFC are, without doubt, Wimbledon FC; MK Dons are a franchised football team that stole a league positioning and set a precedent that should never ever be allowed to be actioned again.

I can't stand AFC Wimbledon. Would be a completely different case. AFC Wimbledon were formed when Wimbledon FC were still playing. Wimbledon FC only stopped when the name was changed to MK Dons but they are a continuation rather than a new club. You try telling an AFC Womble fan that his club are a new entity and not the phoenix from the flames of the FA Cup winning Wimbledon FC and they practically explode. Timing schmiming, IMO. What used to be Wimbledon FC might not have been formally finished by the time that AFC Wimbledon started, but it was in the post. What other choice do ex-Wimbledon FC fans have? It's either AFC Wimbledon; follow MK Dons (which, as the most evil/hateable team in England, is not an option for anyone in possession of a soul); or stop watching football. AFC Wimbledon get the from me. You've clearly never met them then. It's only an hour drive from London to MK. It takes that long to get from Ploough Lane to Selhurst Park on a good day. FYI there are plenty of 'old' Wimbledon fans who are now MK Dons fans. I've met a few. The majority of AFC Wimbledon fans are bandwaggoners who have jumped on board as they rise ough the leagues. They have a nasty bunch of fans and believe it is their divine right to get into the football league. I can't stand them. If NUFC moved less than the hour it takes to get from London to MK to Sunderland and renamed themselves to Mackem Toons FC, would you keep supporting them? The idea of a football club moving towns is anathema to me: we might as well bring in a US style franchise system if that is acceptable. For all AFC Wimbledon's flaws, they're still a billion times more legitimate than MK Dons, IMO.

I can't stand AFC Wimbledon. Would be a completely different case. AFC Wimbledon were formed when Wimbledon FC were still playing. Wimbledon FC only stopped when the name was changed to MK Dons but they are a continuation rather than a new club. You try telling an AFC Womble fan that his club are a new entity and not the phoenix from the flames of the FA Cup winning Wimbledon FC and they practically explode. Timing schmiming, IMO. What used to be Wimbledon FC might not have been formally finished by the time that AFC Wimbledon started, but it was in the post. What other choice do ex-Wimbledon FC fans have? It's either AFC Wimbledon; follow MK Dons (which, as the most evil/hateable team in England, is not an option for anyone in possession of a soul); or stop watching football. AFC Wimbledon get the from me.

Total lack of surprise to see it's Samba who's gone, absolute thug of a player (despite being reasonably effective at either end of the pitch).

SSN - Portsmouth can't afford to pay their website developers so their official website is taken down. That's pretty fucking desperate.

Thought we were only a couple of days away from signing him, no? Not in this universe.

Beckford should've scored.

Think that's a league thing only. Pretty sure they've won cup games with him in the starting lineup. Over to KD/any stattos out there...

Is it just my TV/reception, or is the main overhead camera feed for the Tottenham vs Leeds game an appallingly bad quality picture?

I AM REALLY PISSED OFF WITH THIS. Nearly put a tenner on him getting a hat-trick today after a tip. 14/1 Just got his fourth. Would it still have counted? EDIT - he's captain of my Fantasy Football team this week, just for anyone interested...

Rooney hattrick. He is to Man Utd what Darren Bent is to Sunderland (albeit at a higher level), and there would be similar consequences in relative terms for both clubs if they lost their player i.e. a MASSIVE nose-dive.

Why don't we go and play in league 2 where we would never get beat then? How about moving to the SPL? We are Newcastle United, not fuckin Wigan. We should play competitions and attempt to win them. Even if we don't we should give it a good go. Id rather that than just existing like some of the pathetic clubs who's sole aim is to survive in the Prem.

Us: Owen Others: Richardson

Why ? I despise the Spuds as much as the makems. I agree with the feller. I can't see why any NUFC fan would. I respect your right to, but I don't understand it at all.

So you hate Spurs as much as the Mackems? Exactly. Can't believe people are wanting anything other than a thumping Spurs win for even a nanosecond. I hate the SMB a billion times more than I will ever hate Spurs, and so too should every right-thinking Newcastle supporter.