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Would be interesting because two lads I know at Uni went to school with him and would (hopefully) be able to provide me with some ITK.

By the looks of it we might have already seen Ba being lined up for that one, if he's still here. complete and utter load of shit, both of you. Most people in here are saying he was shit and responsible for one/two goals going in or whatever. Where exactly are they blaming him for the performances of the other players, or the team as a whole? I've been saying since the win at West Brom that Ba looks absolutely shagged after 60 minutes, pretty much every single week. Were we blessed with options that came anywhere near his quality, we could definitely do with giving him a rest for one or two games.

Draw or win, imo. Our recent record at Stamford Bridge is pretty good. Even under Allardyce we were completely robbed of a point by the most offside goal you'll ever see and by some miracle Kinnear got us a 0-0 here too.

Starting to see if there's any value in the Manchester derby now. I quite like the idea of a Scholes/Man U wincast.

I'm basing my criticism over the course of the last season, which for the vast majority of he's been irritatingly poor. I agree with you in that his form over the last month, before today's horror show, was relatively good, but he's a very poor footballer and we can do so much better, particularly now we've secured some sort of European place.

We have a large amount of alternative right-back options; Perch, Tavernier, Ryan Taylor, Steven Taylor (when fit), Santon, and even Gosling - and yet we've persisted with this useless fucker all bloody season. I really cannot wait until we sell the cunt to Aston Villa or whoever else is stupid enough to pay him more wages than us.

Smith looked areet in the Championship for a few games and did play a part, but when he was dropped and we went with Nolan and Guthrie in the centre of the park we looked about a million times better and started to totally take the piss out of teams at home, instead of edging it by one goal. He's an absolutely shambolic footballer and I can count the number of useful games he's had in our shirt probably on one hand. Arsenal at home under Fat Head, Villa at home under Hughton, a couple in the Championship. Utter shite.

I honestly think Chelsea will be fucking shattered from that semi-final, and if QPR can manage to not concede in the first 15-20 they might be in for a frustrating afternoon. Plus, it's a London derby, form goes out the window etc apparently.

Any radio coverage of this game outside Radio Newcastle? And whatever station Wigan have, obviously.

http://www.readytogo.net/archives/002365.html

FYP.

Just downloaded the Excel spreadsheet, going to take some getting used to but looks very interesting.

excellent.

I don't think Pardew would want to go to Spurs (his recent comments about the grass being greener etc), and plus, I think Spurs would go for a bigger name candidate than him anyway.

Cisse playing against Gary Caldwell simply has to end in annihilation.

Couldn't you just upload it to megaupload or similar and PM it to folk who want it? I'll have it, please.

From a Facebook page discussion about Manager of the season: 'Martin O Neill, he turned a bunch of overpaid primadonnas who couldn't string two passes together under the reign of Steve Bruce, into a team that's even worse, there's not many managers with the experience and know how who can do that'

Fantastic, please do!

I've designed a spreadsheet which analyses the long range and short range form of two teams, using an algorithm to generate a win probability. It then compares the results to the bookies odds to generate a bet value co-efficient, enabling me to select the the best value from a range of potential bets. It doesn't work, obviously, but it looks f**king great. Can you make this available for download, please?

Went in play on Palermo/Parma and Siena/Bologna draws to try and salvage summat

I've still never found out why O'Neill wears those '31' coats and jumpers.

Udinese throw away their 1-0 lead to trail 1-2 after half an hour. Fan-fucking-tastic!

..but Napoli and Udinese have scored early have those three and AC Milan. I would assume these are the games that were postponed when the Italian footballer who's name escapes me died.

Fantastic, Roma have conceded at home within 2 minutes. Pricks.