Pilko

Are Hull attempting to form the shittest PL team in history? Bids accepted for Zamora and Daryl Murphy, and they also have interests in Whitehead, Boa Morte and Kevin Nolan.

Yeah, just been on SSN as well, terrible news. Best of luck to John.

Burnley sign Richard Eckersley from Man U on a 4-year deal. Another defender?!?!? How many do they want?

If true, that sounds class - someone who knows that things need to be done quickly.

It's only twenty past eleven, you hit the bottle already?

Downing is decent enough but he is a very over-rated player.

MoN has an obsession with playing people out of position though.

£6m player value £6m because he's english

Thank god, just seen Craig on SSN saying its bollocks. Was worried when I saw the thread title!

If JT goes to City, what would any self-respecting journo title an interview from Onuoha/Kompany/Dunne about competition for places?

They will not get top 6 with Hughes there.

By the way, my dads mate's son is a physio at the club (a Mr Beach I think) and apparently Shearer has been at the training ground, although he said it was nothing to do with the takeover, that he knows very little and that he's there to do some fitness training before the SBR charity game.

join the club mate, fed up with all this s****! It's like waiting for christmas. You know how long you have to wait for Christmas though... We'll end up with a lump of coal fwiw.

Is he not at the U19 championships like Ranger? Not sure if his country actually got there btw, that might be why though?

Portsmouth. Southampton.

Aye, do love that, cup of tea in a polystyrene cup! Everywhere I've lived I've checked out the local team, Maidenhead Utd were class (also called The Magpies). Standing amongst shrill-voiced kiddies, wizened old blokes making notes in little pads and the stalwarts of the sport, with disgruntled wives in tow. No matter how disillusioned you can get with the game, go and watch a local/non league game and you will still enjoy it, and your pockets will be heavier for it too. My uncle actually got so sick of Newcastle he bought a Whitley Bay season ticket for about £85 and got into all their games bar the final three cup games in the run for that price. Even adding on all the teas, pies, raffle tickets, programmes (only £1!) and a pint or two in The Seahorse after the game or whatever, it's probably under half of what you'd pay to watch Newcastle for a season without any food, programmes, drinks etc. He says this season he's going to pick and choose weekly which matches he goes to, which seems to me like he's fallen back in love with the sport. Obviously he still followed Newcastle last season, but it was limited to Match of the Day, watching the live games on TV or listening on the radio and going to the two home cup matches on a mates spare ticket.

Will probably end up going to watch Newcastle reserves play Whitley Bay as well if I'm free that day.

Going to watch your local non league team. For a tenner you get a ticket, a pie and a hot drink, packet of sweets and still have change to get the bus home. You witness an honest game of football in muddy, windy, wet and freezing cold conditions, go home and have a lovely hot bath and feel like a proper bloke.

Mind, I can't blame him for being a bit upset. As well as all the shite going on at the club, his lass has been playing the field behind his back:

Going fucking mental when your team scores a late equaliser or winner.

Parky is basically ITV News in poster form. Lets exaggerate EVERYTHING and make people worry about stuff, doom mongering so fun!

Yep, I agree with Yorkie here. Enrique doesn't seem to be the mercenary type imo.

Shocked they didn't say something like "The Magpies have been taken over... Notts County that is!"

HTT. well, maybe not.

"potential" No way he'd go straight into the first team of a PL club tbh. Nailed on he'd spend a season starting in the league cup, making the odd sub appearance in the PL before being loaned out the year after. Thats if he does get bought by a PL team ofc.