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France have made history tonight becoming the first team to reverse a two-goal deficit in a World Cup play-off match. No other country in play-off history has fallen behind by two or more goals and then recovered to qualify. Well Done France hope this keeps our french lads Keen.

Any other club would demand 25 mil for cabs lets see what ashleys asking.

Who Is Bafetimbi Gomis? In a Summer of nothingness came a few whispers that we may sign a player after all. As we speak, a fee has allegedly been agreed for one and as Newcastle United fans, we know that there is still plenty of time for the usual 'cocking' up of deal to happen or the usual trick of changing our 'accepted' offer for a lower one in order to scupper a deal. In what's known around here as pretending to bid for players. Kevin Keegan's words, not mine. Regardless, we may yet end up with a bloke who is supposedly a decent player and with a nickname of 'Baby Drogba', he certainly comes recommended, so who is he? Well, he was born, Bafétimbi Fredius Gomis in France, where else, in August 1985. This makes him 27 years old, although he's got a birthday on Tuesday, so scrub that. A 28 year old striker. Some would say at the peak years of his game. A French international striker with a 1 in 3 strike rate for clubs of the calibre of Lyon, Troyes and St Etienne. A 1 in 3 rate or the French national side as well. He holds the record for the fastest Champions League Hattrick or did, the last time I checked, so apologies if this bit is wrong. As ever, we wait and see if we can get this over the line, that's if the 'line' still exists. Read more: http://www.newcastle.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=327085#ixzz2apBmTwl7

Cheers will remember.

Thanks for that.

Not Twitter m8

Can't see Spurs going after Gomis after splashing the cash on Soldado and already having Ade and Defoe there. Hope not but rumors on Gomis meeting at spurs

Rumors that Gomis and Remy are being chased by spurs, That's what happens when a club dithers on transfers.

So who is going to come in at the last minute and double his wages. watch this space.

Retail chain's 20,000 part-time workforce do not know how many hours they will work each week and have no holiday or sick pay. While 20,000 Sports Direct staff are on zero-hour contracts, 2,000 others are about to receive cash bonuses of up to £100,000. Photograph: Mark Richardson/Alamy Sports Direct's entire 20,000 part-time workforce are employed on zero-hour contracts at a time when 2,000 full-time staff are about to cash in bonuses of up to £100,000. The contracts, handed to 90% of the company's 23,000 employees, leave staff not knowing how many hours they will work from one week to the next, with no sick pay or holiday pay, and no guarantee of regular work. Bosses at Sports Direct, the UK's biggest sports retailer, were this month hailing their bonus policy for full-time staff as that of a model employer. The Guardian has also discovered that the bonus scheme rules give managers the power to exclude a member of staff if they are considered an "unsatisfactory performer", although they do not precisely define this term and it could be subject to abuse, according to employment lawyers. About 20 current staff are known to have been excluded from the scheme already, while others who had been excluded have since left, according to the Unite union. The four biggest supermarkets in Britain, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, said they do not use zero-hour contracts. Other retailers to confirm that they do not employ staff on these terms include Argos, B&Q, Homebase, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer. Politicians have been campaigning to ban the contracts and have called on Mike Ashley, the billionaire owner of Sports Direct, to consider introducing part-time contracts with guaranteed hours. Former and current part-time staff have also spoken out against zero hours, stressing the uncertainty created by the contracts, under which work can be cut with less than a day's notice. Others said regional managers may reduce staff hours if targets are not met. Meanwhile, some staff still entitled to the bonus – which pays out in the form of shares next month – have suggested it has created a culture of fear that they may lose out if they are deemed to be "unsatisfactory". Andy Sawford, the Labour MP for Corby, who has submitted a private member's bill to try to ban the use of zero-hour contracts, said: "It would be much better for Sports Direct to instead of offering bonus gimmicks, they should offer their staff the security of proper contracts. "The zero-hours contracts are highly exploitative and suit the company because it keeps people in a fragile state where they are at the beck and call of their employers." Alison McGovern, the Labour MP for Wirral South, is also campaigning for businesses to offer fewer such contracts. She said: "It seems quite bizarre that a company would on the one hand be awarding bonuses in this way, and treating other staff in a completely different way. "I would want Sports Direct to see if there is a possibility of more fixed term contracts. It appears this has been imposed across the board and is inappropriate. How can there be any investment in employees, or training or progression? "Lots of workers in retail start off part-time on the shop floor and rise to the top, but with zero-hour contracts there is no incentive at all." Some 2,000 permanent full-time staff who have been with Sports Direct since 2008 are to get a bonus paid in shares worth about £75,000 each for hitting profit targets. A similar payout, of shares worth about £17,500, was awarded last year. Sports Direct's chief executive, Dave Forsey, told the Guardian at the time: "The share scheme glues this company together. These schemes are typically only for the executives, but this goes deep into the company. I'm surprised more businesses haven't adopted something like this sooner." The Guardian has seen a copy of the share scheme rules, stating it is "intended to drive group performance and to motivate and retain permanent employees at all levels of the group, and to align the interests of those employees with those of shareholders". However, the document adds that employees can be excluded from the scheme. It says that any "participant who is determined to be an unsatisfactory performer" will not get the shares. "For the purposes of the scheme, an unsatisfactory performer means a participant who at any time during the period between the grand date of his award and any relevant vesting date has been (a) notified in writing that his performance is unsatisfactory, or he has been given a written warning or other sanction under the company's disciplinary policy in place from time to time, or (b) suspended from his employment by reason of suspected gross misconduct." By comparison, John Lewis, which runs one of the best-known employee bonus schemes in the country as part of its partnership structure, pays all employees a bonus regardless of disciplinary warnings against them. Employment lawyers have said the wording is too vague and could be abused. David Cohen, consultant solicitor at Keystone Law, said: "It is unusual under an all-employee share scheme for the directors to have the power to deprive continuing employees, as opposed to 'bad leavers', of their share awards. "If workers generally became aware that the scheme was being operated in a capricious and arbitrary way, the company would risk frittering away the reputational and motivational advantages of putting in place such a generous scheme." Sports Direct declined to comment. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/28/sports-direct-staff-zero-hour-contracts

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/27/article-2379976-1B04385B000005DC-168_634x634.jpg What a knob

Does this mean we can expect Cisse to give us 4600% on the pitch now.

Yes very happy to hear this but you cant please everyone BeloEmre

Newcastle United have made a significant summer signing by hiring performance director Faye Downey as a fitness consultant. Boss Alan Pardew has taken on the strength and conditioning coach to try to stop a repeat of last season’s numerous injuries. Newcastle lost the spine of their squad at crucial points and struggled with a Europa League campaign in which they reached the last eight. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2364653/Newcastle-United-appoint-fitness-guru-Faye-Downey-aid-Alan-Pardews-pre-season-preparations.html#ixzz2ZEJiNYI5 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2364653/Newcastle-United-appoint-fitness-guru-Faye-Downey-aid-Alan-Pardews-pre-season-preparations.html

Absolute garbage and look at the size of the wanka add. Also whats with the blue pinstripes awfull This shirt must have been designed by cashley. Now buying up all virgin money strips to tide me over the next four years.

Rumor is graham carr is next one to resign this is getting serious.

I can see an exodus of french players when they realise what a nut job Kinnear is. He already has form in pissing the french off Charles Insomnia.

Not sure if serious No would JK Lie.

I am trying to look at the plus points bringing in JK. Only one I can think of he did bring krul to the club, We can only hope and hold on to this one positive.

Joe Kinnear's rant. Press officer: Let's get on to football. Let's have an agreement that everything said so far, if anyone has got their tapes on, it's wiped off and we're not discussing it. typical monty python Sketch.

These Bas***d money lenders such as wanka have had there leaflets and Advertising thrown out of northumbria university this week. I refuse to buy the shirt for myself and especially wont let the kids have this shirt. We need to make a stand against this shirt,No shirt sales and ashley will change his sponsers in the future,No money lenders advertisement.

We should all stand up and refuse to wear the crap Wonga shirts, As Bolton supporters did, I would rather have no sponsorship than advertise these criminal money lenders.

AP The most tactically inept manager in the premier league.

Rumor going around pardews to sign off against arsenal and bruce coming.

Still one of the best Macdonald-Tudor partnership wish we had that today.