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It looks likely. Just checked that our game that day will be on TV. Don't know which one to watch, Jonas beating Germany or us beating Bristol... Seriously, we shouldn't let Jonas go for a unimportant friendly game as he's our only decent left winger. I'm not prepared to see Guthrie there again. Chances are he'll be desperate to play in that though. I know Maradona has guarenteed him a place pretty much, he'll probably want to make sure he plays in all the friendlies to confirm his place.

Really enjoyable game that - it's amazing how contrasting the styles and attitudes of both teams were. Milan were pretty unlucky I thought.

I was always under the impression Milan had bigger attendances than Inter? So much for this 'bigger club' argument.

The Napoletani are football crazy like. Utter s***-tip of a place, but they absolutely love their Calcio. pretentious, moi? Reading that back, it did sound a bit twatish.

The Napoletani are football crazy like. Utter shit-tip of a place, but they absolutely love their Calcio.

What a prat.

On the bright side he's not Boumsong-bad... he's young and there's a chance we can work on his weaknesses (i.e. jumping in when he shouldn't and backing off when he shouldn't). I haven't given up on him completely. The fact he's young is the biggest positive, he'll never get the coaching to iron out them aspects of his game while he's at this club though.

I made the earlier post about who we could get to improve the right back spot simply because I don't think we could - good full backs are hard to come by and it would cost a good few million to upgrade on Simpson, which just isn't gonna happen. He's certainly seen as our long-term RB

I'd be very surprised if we buy a RB now we have Simpson permanently. I agree. We've given him a long term contract for a reason.

Who are we realistically gonna buy next season that will improve the RB spot though?

By lord does that post sound familiar. 'Where would we be without his goals?' - lost count of the number of times I've heard that. It's just a ridiculously narrow minded way of looking at it, maybe if he wasn't in the side and we had a competent proper central midfielder the likelyhood is that while we have been without his goals the performances would have been far better overrall and maybe goals would have came from other areas of the team instead? Too much to comprehend I guess, the fact that people can't see past his scoring record is mind numbingly infuriating.

Funny, I was just saying on Saturday that I generally think Colo would cope better in midfield than any of Nolan, Butt or Smith. Obviously it's never gonna happen because it's vital we have him at CB.

I'm pretty sure the Eredivisie (Dutch) had play-off systems for all their European qualification but scrapped it either last season or the season before.

Pompey for the Cup.

He was very highly rated in Korea I think. Not that much of a coup, but still a very good signing aye.

Every time I see highlights of Xerez's games that pitch is truly woeful.

Montpellier won again I see. Surely they can't really win the title?

Xerez 0-0 Real Madrid at half time, surerly Madrid will break down Xerez?

Geet in fucking Donny.

I gave Nolan a 1. It's the first time I've seen a performance that justifies such a rating.

Harper 7 - Pretty solid, very little he could do about the goal Simpson 5 - Half hearted in the challenge, let Cotteril run at him time and time again, but still managed to be one of our better players. Coloccini 7 - Won nearly everything thrown at him, probably a better passer of a ball than anybody else we have in midfield. Hall 6 - Unspectacular, but again fairly solid. Van Aanholt 4 - Looks defensively naive, didn't show for the ball enough when he's the only left sided player out there. Routledge 6 - The only midfielder to actively try to create anything, starved of the ball but looked more dangerous than anybody else we had. Nolan 1 - No fucking hyperbole at all - worst performance in a Newcastle shirt, can't pass, no brain whatsoever. His wild punting of the ball into the air the highlight of his shitness. Smith 2 - Fucking rank aswell, gets a slightly better rating than Nolan due to being moderately less frustrating. Guthrie 3 - Left wing? Fuck off Hughton, he's a right footed central midfielder. Anyway, ponderous on the ball, poor passing but looked slightly better when he got fed up and came central. Lovenkrands 4 - Didn't see him all game, but how's a player of his kind gonna cope with that midfield behind him? Carroll 4 - Good header, shame he was positively disgraceful the rest of the time. Would have been a 2 if he hadn't of scored. Best 6 - Set up the goal with a delicious cross. Overall though, what an absolute fucking mess of a performance that was. Our midfield is the absolute worst. Yet we're still top the league, unbelievable.

What a pile of utter, utter wank. Why can't they pass a ball?

This game: 1. Swansea have possession - Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. 2. We get it, fuck it up. Repeat.

Lovenkrands on the wing then. Urgh.