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Pennant gone to Portsmouth on loan till end of season - confirmed on SSN

I don't think trialists can partake in any fixtures beyond friendlies. Yes they can, I seem to remember Whitley Bay's Lee Kerr taking part in a reserve clash against Bolton when Roeder was here. It ended 0-0, and his strike partner was? Luque.

The most important signing City will make this season will be Nigel de Jong. They are crying out for another defensive midfielder, they only have Kompany (used at CB sometimes) and Hamann who is too old and injured at the minute.

Michael Ricketts.

Ah, fair enough never knew about that.

Gordon Bennett.

How could it backfire? Johnson was getting comparisons to Colin Bell as recently as about 12 months ago. He is an excellent box to box midfielder who scores quite a few as well. As long as we don't pay obscene money he'd be a brilliant signing.

Michael Johnson would be fb, skysports saying we 'lead the chase'

Cahill and Gerrard. Now there's two people that I'd choose to punch in the face.

Prick.

Unlikely. She never did when she was with Steve McDonald, so why would she for us?

Any team news for the bin dippers? [/Wullie].

I hope he gets injured on his debut. I mean, part of the Jeff Stelling Soccer Saturday Drinking Game is to drink 2 Jager whenever he gets booked, sent off, gets injured, misses an open goal or scores an o.g.

And yet we haven't lost as many games as last year. Too many wins turned into late draws.

Except Boumsong. I'm pretty sure he did the same to Drogba for another match that season. Was that the 0-0 game at home when he crocked Ballack? He was awesome that day. I remember going mental when Carroll almost won it in stoppage time.

cp40 has a new home.

I swear to god, that Role Model and cp40 are getting almost as bad as NE5 now. Every bloody thread, Keegan this, Keegan that.

Why would we loan out a CM when we only have four, and at least one always seems to be injured or suspended?

Nile Ranger is what Willis was talkin' about. EDIT: what a great page topper

Well, the last time Kinnear went to a friendly looking for players it just didn't work out, did it? All he saw was 20 people in red and blue tops running/waddling around, a man in a black jumper taking photos and some other guy smoking a tab on the sidelines. It could have easily been Croatia vs England, but it was actually the N-O match.

WHAT'CHOO TALKIN ABOUT WILLIS? http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/jchavez4am/gary-coleman.jpg

Zokora a bit of a naff example. A better one would be Makelele when he was at Chelsea, or for those a bit older, Dieter Eilts for Germany in the early 90's (I think).

Militant Black Guy \o/ pedro with such great taste.

Agree with what Jon just said there.

Racist. I bet Jesse Jackson's creaming his pants reading this. How is what I said there any more or less racist than what everyone else has said, especially the OP? The OP reckons black players are the dogs danglies, well Pompey have a team full, and they are shit. hth