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Well, they're all saying that in London - so if your surrounded by that mentality....mind - the football press have been barking that trash for long enough and not needing to explain just WHY (never forgave us for Shearer signing for us not their team) Phil K, did some London journalist steal away your wife, or something? You've been banging this drum for years.

Yeah, fair enough. Anyhoo, some serious rumours that Adebayor might be on the way to QPR. Possible loan-to-buy. , except that we're supposedly making (yet another) push to get Leandro Damiao. God, I hate the transfer window. Did Ade take a massive pay cut (I assume he was on loads at City) or are City still paying him parts of his wages? Supposedly we paid Ade a big signing-on fee to cover the wage drop...which was taken out of the transfer fee, so effectively paid by Man City.

FYP.

Yeah, fair enough. Anyhoo, some serious rumours that Adebayor might be on the way to QPR. Possible loan-to-buy. , except that we're supposedly making (yet another) push to get Leandro Damiao. God, I hate the transfer window.

I think he'd do well for a lot of reasons. Problem is, there's absolutely zero chance of you meeting Levy's transfer fee demands.

Did anyone on here actually welcome what he said?

We could have an amazing manager, good squad, owner everyone loves, but when clubs can go and do this and spend £80m in a year or whatever, makes you realise the chances of winning the league are nil, and even the FA Cup unless you get a jammy cup run and a few upsets elsewhere, are minimal. Disheartening and sickening that the only way we'll ever win anything of note is with oil money or whatever. Nah I don't agree, the cups are very winnable. Yeah you need a favourable draw but that's no different from any other time in history. We can hardly complain about draws - in the last five years we've played Hull, Stevenage, Brighton (twice) and West Brom, and been binned out by all of them. cups are arguably more winnable than they've ever been if you ask me, we have some awful luck in the draws to be fair but everytime a draw has gone our way we've committed suicide through nothing but our own ineptitude couldn't agree more with this It's difficult to say that when Chelsea have won four of the last six. The only interlopers are that freakish Portsmouth win v Cardiff, and those other underdogs, Man City. What a beautiful encapsulation of the changes in the game, right there. The "amazing manager, good squad, owner everyone loves" is essentially what we've been for a bit. I completely agree with Nut - you really do wonder what the point is sometimes. When the team that's just finished fourth, fifth, fourth is saying that, there's something seriously wrong. Still, nothing new here, carry on everyone.

Fat Sam is a bit of a dick, but he's never been a fool.

Nope. I'm waiting for one thing before he goes. First five minutes, textbook Scholes appalling tackle. Ref wanders over with a smile, they chat about this and that, "Scholesy" pats him on the back "Yeah, sorry ref, won't do that again. Red card.

The pretend word "cupset", that the BBC live text commentators have absolutely flogged to death today.

Someone posted the last 36 (or something) Man U games - all of which were televised. I presume they get money for being televised too? If so, then good job it went to them, and not some club that might actually need it. I'm really beginning to hate Man U. Never used to - when I was a kid it was Arsenal (of course) and Liverpool. You could add Chelsea and Man City as soon as they got infinite money. I could always tolerate Man U as being "none of the above", but no longer.

Managed 20 seconds.

Agreed, to an extent. I think Arsenal's systematic poaching of young Spanish players is more obviously problematic, yet also more straightforward. I worry about the specific precedent that the Fryers case sets, and the fact that it's just another way to keep the same clubs at the top. That said, if Fergie had either (a) given a realistic valuation of Fryers or (b) given a better contract to Fryers, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

But they won. Ricky Villa's mazy run and all that. If that was us it'd be my screensaver/wallpaper/ringtone/gravestone. Sigh. This isn't helping. I meant the one a couple of years ago when they were 3-0 up and lost 4-3. I don't even mind Spurs and I'm tired of the Ricky Villa goal. It's not even that good... Best moment of my life at the time - and my first trophy supporting Spurs (I was 8) I get more pain from the 87 Final tbh, and there's been enough of that on the Beeb already in the run-up to tomorrow's game.

Nothing confirmed at our end, but we presume so. Fergie was apparently asking for 6M from us, to which we politely said no. Or something like that. It looks like Fergie said we did nothing wrong, but it was a blatant manipulation of the rules. Like I said, by the book but not entirely ethical. Unlike his systematic undermining of officials over the years of course - outside the rules and unethical, yet largely unpunished.

I'm not comfortable with what we've done, but (1) apparently it's legit on paper, if not morally (2) if I ever get a lecture on morality in football from that cunt, I'll vomit. All over him. There's a lot of people who view the deal as revenge for Man U's tapping up of Berba etc, but I'm more concerned about the implications for smaller clubs and their youth players. That said, all we need is for Wenger to weigh in, and the circle of hypocrisy will be complete.

Ah, man. I'd forgotten about that. Again. They won't though. Football Focus clashes anyway - do ITV have the rights too? Fuckers would probably pay a premium to get them, like. You're quite well located to remember the last time a non-League team beat a top division team, don't think I've clapped eyes on that since 1989 They won the f***ing thing 18 months earlier too. It's quite hard to convince myself the media don't have an agenda sometimes. I doubt if anyone on here remembers Tony Rains and Matthew Hanlan, and I'm sure there is no annual w*** Holiday over them. f***ing 41 years and they will not let it go. What a shower of shits. I'm getting angry in advance now. While I get where you're coming from, I think you're just very unlucky. It really isn't that it's Newcastle Utd, it's that the Ronnie Radford goal is one of the best, most evocative pieces of football film ever. It has always sent goosebumps down my spine from when I was young - and when I was young, Newcastle Utd weren't even on my radar. I couldn't have given a monkeys who it was against, just that it was all amazing.

Cheese and pineapple on a stick at parties is fantastic. Pineapple and pepperoni pizza ftw.

I hope you've read the book. Scintillating.

Hang on a minute. MON still there??!!

Those might be my new favorite reaction shots.

Before he got injured at end of last season he was lightning, i mean Walcott lightning. That injury might have effected his speed( i haven't seen him this year) who knows but lets hope not. He mainly plays wide right or center but i have seen him play wide left too, he's also very good in the air as well( attacks the ball exceedingly well) as well as being very fast. The main reason i'm excited about this is quite frankly he provides something we haven't had since Bellamy left.... Raw pace. This is genuinely not an attempt to troll, but wasn't pace the main reason you brought in Obertan?

f*** off You know there's a little bit of you thinking it .

So that's Remy and Cissé either side of Shola in a front three?

Pretty confident Ben Arfa and Cabaye will both be back for Feb 9th. We tend to have that effect on people. It always works with Man U - just like yourselves if I'm not mistaken.