Interpolic

I agree with it on many levels, but I'd like to think that allowances could be made in exceptional circumstances. Plus a £15k a week wage cap's going to get you nowhere in the Premier League.

What did he say this time? I fancy getting riled up for no reason. 'Don't you listen to him son, you get up and you do it again.' After the ref told off Lee for being aggressive. Sounded like a twat trying to fit in with the lads. Yuck.

What did he say this time? I fancy getting riled up for no reason. He said everyone who is called Neil is GAY. That motherfucker, he's overstepped the mark this time.

What did he say this time? I fancy getting riled up for no reason.

Should be a good game now, this.

Put very simply, because it's been talked about loads, it's because he left in January when we were in the middle of a relegation battle, instead of seeing that out and then leaving in the summer. The way he went about getting a move got a lot of peoples backs up too. Being out with a phantom injury to force the club's hand. The fact that a couple of weeks before the transfer window opened he reckoned he was happy at Newcastle too. On top of plenty big defeats to top 4 clubs in the past aswell, why pick to move then?, hmm £75,000 a week might have something to do with it. Given said after he moved that we could of done more to kep him, you mean something along the lines of the contract extension, pay increase and being made the club captain? Fuck off Given, I hope you and Man City win fuck all. Were you at that match? I was at it, and it was fucking ridiculous. Given put in a top drawer performance and still ended up letting in 5 goals. If that was indeed the last straw for him I can see why. He had been saying for about 5 consecutive transfer windows that we needed to strengthen and we never did. Joe Kinnear was in the fucking dugout ffs. FWIW I think he should have waited til the summer to fuck off, but sometimes enough is enough. He was paid well yeah, but so fuck - no more money than he'd have been paid elsewhere. He was paid the going rate for a top class goalkeeper. I decided to look up the match thread for that game since it was before my time on here: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,58802.30.html Only browsed the first couple of pages but Given put in a fucking excellent performance and was let down by those in front of him. And I reiterate KINNEAR in the fucking dugout man. I can see why he snapped tbh. I wish he'd stayed til the end, therefore he slightly tarnished his reputation in my eyes. But with people on here it's so black and white (no pun intended, etc) - an ex-player is either a God or a cunt. You're either a Solano or a Given. No grey area, is there? It's bollocks. Given went down in my estimation to an extent for leaving when he did but I've still got a lot of respect for him. All these people calling him a Judas and wishing him ill-will for the rest of his career are fucking mental imo.

HB (Happy Birthday) KK (Kevin Keegan), MHR (Many Happy Returns) AT (And That).

The general consensus is that he should have waited until the summer to move rather than going in January. I agree with this I suppose, but I think a lot of the criticism is to do with the fee that we got for him. If we'd got 11 or 12 million for him and invested it in the right players to keep us up then I don't think there'd be quite as much bitterness. That's not Shay Given's fault - it was the idiots at the top that prompted him to request a transfer, and it was them that accepted a stupid transfer fee and spent it on crap and made a profit in the transfer window. Admittedly Given's angling for a transfer restricted our ability to demand a sky-high fee, but are you telling me we had no option other than to accept £6m for Given from Man City, who were spending money like absolute fuckwits at that point in time? Bollocks did we. Some of the vitriol directed towards him on this forum makes me cringe, it's way over the top. I've still got a lot of respect for Shay personally.

Barton gets better with every game he's not in the team. He's played 38 games for us in 2 and a half seasons man. Even ignoring the fact that his performances for us haven't set the world alight, I'd bet on him returning and playing about 3-4 games before he gets injured again. We can't base our season on a player who has hardly played the whole time he's been with us, we've been here before and it doesn't work like that. I'd be amazed if he played 5 or more games for us before the season's out.

Leeds you twats.

Applauded.

Got a fiver on Man City, Villa, Chelsea, Coventry, Boro, Leicester and Leeds.

Fucking hell, all this time you've called me Intersandman and I've been like "What? Doesn't make sense, he's finally flipped". I finally Googled "inter sandman" just then and Enter Sandman came up. Very clever. I actually really like that song as well.

Aye. It's equally about the wider issue that you can't call an English player a cheat but can do it with a foreigner all day long - it's pathetic and it really shows us up.

It would be interesting if someone went through this thread at the end of the season and counted the amount of times Gerrard had dived. Bogsy not me mind.

Thank fuck for that.

the clue is in the word revenue. Negative revenue!

Anderson's saying what I was thinking - hopefully us getting knocked off the top will be the kick up the arse we need. Our form's been patchy as fuck recently with too many draws creeping in. Swansea's massive now of course.

Ah fucking hell man, this is the pits.

"Sublime skill by Fitz Hall".

Been moaning at the ref all game according to John Anderson.

He can play in defence , midfield and attack. He hasn't really found a position really just he can't play on the wings. Cheers.

Pretty happy with that lineup, expected something a lot more negative. Would rather have seen Lovenkrands start mind, and it's strange that Ranger's not on the bench. What positions can Donaldson cover, I've not been paying attention.

What about France and Guivarc'h? He did next to nowt for France in that World Cup they won.

I thought I'd won 70 quid on Birmingham, Chelsea, Mallorca, Inter and Celtic (put a fiver on). Turns out I bet on Celtic's league match against Hearts this coming Wednesday. Gonna be a long wait.