nobby_solano

I really hope that is the case though. But on another thought, he might be Hughton v2.0. or hughton v1.0 of 08/09 with big al to come in in march when it's all but a foregon conclusion?

^ i don't think he does. probably just his agent trying to flush out a better contract for him. i think joey seems to be settled here

definitely. do i remember in the '80's the bar in st james being called 'harvey's'? and if so was that in relation to joe? 'the joe harvey stand' has a nice ring to it like. i do think a statue of sir bobby in his memorial garden would be a nice touch though

very sad to hear RIP

i like the hollywood stars idea. the milburn and shearer statues outside of shearer's would have looked great. hopefully there might be a statue of sir bobby in the memorial garden

Saw steven taylor in kingston park tesco about an hour ago. Some of the instore brass band collared him for a photo before he made a sharp exit. Seems to move faster pushing a shopping trolley...

another patient i think

The payoff he got from us was more than £4m iirc so its more like £6m or £7m. eek! i really thought it was only around £2.5m or so. makes it all the more astonishing

what's really astonishing is that he's probably trousered best part of £5m getting the sack here and at blackburn. malcolm mclaren would be very very proud.

i do honestly think he'd have relegated us that season. the team had as much confidence in it's own ability as it did in the relegation season, something which was only changed when KK came back to the club, even if it did take him a while to get the team winning

i read one of the comments to an article on the chronicle site suggesting a 'BOCOTT'

can imagine jol and or hughton taking over at wham when avram grant gets the bullet

Potential assistant manager ? january marquee signing. 8 cans of tennents super strength and a bag of beefy monster munch

Mike Ashley. Ashley selling up in 2016. I'm 100% convinced of this. I agree with someone's post before - we are all sentenced to jail for 5.5 years then. really does look that way.

sounds worryingly accurate

if he'd been replacing allardyce i'd be fucking ecstatic. i have no idea what pardew will be like, it's a horrible and unnecessary situation to be in though. the situation wasn't broken and didn't need fixing.

http://www.journallive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2010/12/09/alan-pardew-set-to-be-unveiled-as-boss-61634-27793691/ 5 and a half year contract possibly. not that he or anyone will see out a contract that length here

One of the lads met him in Head Of Steam one saturday night...when he said he worked for the Sun, the lad started to pretend vomit right in his face. Everytime he started to speak, he pretend vomited again.The blokes a c*** and an antagonistic WUM.

Yeah, i tried to explain something similar in my post, don't think i managed it as well as you have

it's the lowest. relegation was bad, all doom and gloom, everyone thought we'd 'do a leeds'.... but after all the wasters left and hughton got 'this group of lads' playing for him, each other, for the shirt and for the fans, it felt 'right' the manager and the players cared about the club and showed as much passion as the fans. we came up as champions, having had any 'delusions' knocked right out of us. we knew this season would have ups and downs but overall we were positive because we could see that we were adjusting to the premier league reasonably well and pulling out some great results too, we trusted chris and 'this group of lads' would keep us in the premier league, so we could try to build steadily and sensibly each season, we had no 'ideas above our station' talking about europe seriously etc but ashley fires this bolt out of the blue, shattering any hope we had of building steadily and sensibly in the next coming seasons. he got rid of a manager who the players liked, who the fans liked, who was doing a good job under imposed difficult circumstances and for what reason? because he wasn't 'a big name'? because the fans had taken to him? because he wanted to stay? because he doesn't like sugar in his tea? i don't know why even if pardew comes in and we were to be relegated, if he were to bring the team back up as champions, would we be in this exact scenario in 24mths time? most likely, and this is why this particular moment is the lowest.

could be dodging this bullet http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11781_6559559,00.html http://i52.tinypic.com/2pzmclz.jpg wants the aberdeen job

*joins in the crying and stamping like a 5yr old*

steve coppell waiting for the metro at monument