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If that's true then he seems to be a complete tool. Shouldn't be training after a concussion either. "Eyewitless accounts" btw

Haven't watched it for months. The new French imports have proved helpful, I feel. Keeping my powder dry.

GTFI!! Birtles is such a tool like. I am currently fixated on how tf he gets paid for his shit input. Mata's goal was brill.

Fucking Garry Bastard Birtles again. And Howard Fucking Webb reffing. FFS. This won't end well.

Sigh. What's he done?

Wtf? Le Fondre's played 69 minutes in the last 3 League games. 5 goals.

We have to beat Metalist first, though and they have to beat Hannover...

A natural genius as a player, but flawed as a man, as are we all. He was the best I've ever seen in person, if he'd been able to keep his lifestyle in check I have no idea what he could have achieved. When I was a kid I wanted to be him, he loved to play football, he went on the pitch and was so much better than everyone else he would just take the piss. It didn't matter if defenders kicked him in the air, he was hard as well, he'd get up and take the piss again. Good trainer and hard worker too by all accounts. Probably should have chosen better role models than him and Ozzy like

Left footed players tend to prefer the left naturally, same for the right. If you can use both feet you wouldn't care. Colo who is right footed but can use his left very well, plays left of the centre for us. Williamson who left foot is poor plays right as this helps him. Same with Saylor who is right footed with a weaker left foot. Not that hard to work out is it ? It's not that simple though, is it? John Terry has insisted on playing on the left side his entire career despite being right footed. People seem to be against the idea of us signing a left sided centre half because Colo plays on the left, even though he is more comfortable on his right foot. There'll be more examples, I'm sure. But John Terry is comfortable with his left foot, just as Colo is. Your correct about it not being so simple, i know he wasn't a centre back but Maldini played LB despite being right footed, same with Dennis Irwin. The one thing in common about them all, was they were all comfortable with both feet. The only way you knew what the favoured foot was, when they took a dead ball. Obviously some players will prefer the opposite to what you think would be right, but in most cases a left footed centre half would play left. Tbh it's a rather mute point as there aren't that mean lefty's compared to right footers. I say this as a left footed centre half myself, i had no problem playing either side as i was comfortable with my right foot but usually lined up left side. Mike Williamson played on the left for Watford. Him wearing number 6 is no coincidence, he always played as the left sided centre back prior to NUFC. Obviously in the lower leagues he stood out as a very good player, a poor man's John Terry if you will. Well i'm not having 6 as the left sided, thats 5 god dammit. 9 10 11 4 8 7 3 5 6 2 1 Anything other than that in a 4-4-2 is a crime against humanity. Can't be having that. 6 was left-half in old money, so you can have 6 on the left and 5 on the right, or 5 on the left and 4 (the right-half) on the right. Anything else is Bolshevik nonsense. You Communist bastard. You sir are a crime against everything with that numbering system I didn't invent it, sir, you are trying to change civilisation as we know it! I shall see you with my second and the duelling pistols at dawn. Yours, of course, will not be loaded. Good day.

nah- was well accepted tbh. Yeah, we don't do that small town stuff. He did a great job for us there and so did Barry Venison. It seemed that every time a corner or free kick was cleared he'd be right there on the edge of the box to control it, look up and distribute. No nonsense, essential type of player. Thumbs up from me.

Dude, it's sorted till the summer. His lass is whining on, that's all. He's got some serious earache. BFD. Who hasn't? My current answer is "are you still talking?" I have to point out for legal reasons that I am not a multimillionaire international football player. As if there would be any fucking confusion. And I have also not impregnated a series of charva lasses from fucking Cramlington, as many people haven't. Honestly, I've called my valued workmates worse than shite this week for believing anything they read. Fuck me, what a week.

tended to be done aye- travel to away games must have been more difficult- no net, Tv football, even full radio commentary was rare. I worked with a toon season ticket holder early 90s, who was in his 60s then and he went to joker on our away days,. was In no doubt who he supporeted tho. I went there once to see them play Ipswich with a mate who was Ipswich fan. Aye, it was normal when I were a nipper to "want all the North East teams to do well". We all wanted sunderland to win in 73 and topple nasty Leeds. Hadn't met any mackems at that stage so didn't realise how weirdly bitter and twisted they were, like. A few years later I was left open-mouthed in shock at their rants about the Metro when it was built and the penny dropped that they had this strange village mentality and hated us for being better at everything than they were. Individually they can be OK, my next-door neighbour is one and so is the lad I sit next to at work, you just have to factor it into everything you say and do when you deal with them. It's like dealing with kids.

Ginola was a breath of fresh air when he first arrived, and it lasted about half a season. He scored a couple of cracking goals after that, the Ferencvaros one as mentioned above, and the one in the glorious 5-0, but the lack of productivity in general pissed me off. I was in the minority then and I still clearly am. Me mam bought me a Ginola T-shirt at the time and I put a brave face on and said it was great, but I never wore it after that. If she'd given me a Robert overhead backheel volley v Fulham one I'd still be wearing it now. To work. To bed. In the bath. That was crazy good. Would have loved Ginola to have done that, but he was just too huffy. Really big bloke too, 6'2" and stacked, he should have been knocking defenders over, not falling over. All the skill you could want as well. What a waste. Btw, Robert was more unpredictable. You can decide who was more beautiful I just watch the football

Tbf, I didn't. A dour incomprehensible paranoid supercilious egotist was one of the last things on my list. When I saw the SSN broadcast of Dalglish's appointment I muttered "for fuck's sake", facepalmed and bought a pint. If I'd been younger I would have cried, but you've got to man up. His interview was basically "Ahonta stepasra shemany shays babba sheshaman slacks" but he fluked 2nd and a cup final with Keegan's team and proceeded to destroy that team and make it dour and miserable just like him. And then whine about it. As he might say, "Gaytpair, bahmah".

I think a lot of people assume he's the same kind of player as Liverpool-Sissoko. Or even think it's him, who knows I bet there might be enough to make a Sissoko 11. I thought there might be enough to make an M Sissoko XI.

Ginola gets it for me because of the way he played with the ball before he volleyed it, you would be a cheeky bastard to try that during training yet he pulled it off during a match, I just stood up in disbelief. I couldn't speak, all I could do was stand up and point while laughing like a little lass. I kept turning around to my mates and pointing towards the goal without saying anything. That's how it gets you, isn't it? Jumping up and down like a kid at Christmas, cuddling foul-smelling fat blokes and not giving a shit. You're there, WE'VE SCORED!! You can forget everything else. Man, there's nothing else like it.

It was Gerald Ashby, was it not? He's dead now, anyway. I don't think revenge was being suggested. Does he have any surviving family?

I haven't got a clue but you could see it happen without knowing why, it was as if something just snapped in him. The decision was a shocker and the ref was a disgrace that night as Ginola had chunks kicked out of him every time he was on the ball until he lashed out. Ginola had already been booked for being fouled, yes, he was fouled and yes, he was booked. It wasn't the FA cup, it was the quater final of the league cup and we should have won that game but for the bastard ref as they should have had at least one player sent off. Still angry after all these years. Just like me

That was a cracker, but Shearer's volley v Everton and his sidefoot volley v Villa beat it for me. This is where it becomes more like art than science. I've got a memory bank full of scorchers, shall we reminisce?

Yeah, Lee Fucking Dixon, now a fucking pundit, clattered him from behind every time he got the ball. the ref let him do it, and David eventually reacted and got sent off, shouting as he went down the tunnel "they won't let me play!" - meaning the officials. He was never the same again, Bez is right on that. I was furious, if you can imagine that.

Nowt wrong with French players, it seems.

My point is exactly this. Pretty hair is useless in battle.

Justin Whittle in fact. They can call both of them c***s all they want because one was s*** for blunderland and the other was a no-mark Grimsby thug who hit Shearer with a cheap shot when he wasn't looking. Think I hate Whittle more because he was so proud of his twattishness tbh. It's very close though. I imagine Big Al still bears the scar and would like to settle the score, I certainly would. I'm getting angry on his behalf at the memory, it was so obvious at the time. Oh, damn, beaten to it. Must be less verbose I was there that night, we were s***, Shearer went mental when he scored the winner iirc, smashed the TV microphone thing. He was quite cross about his matchday experience, what with the stitches and the permanent disfigurement, iirc. Haven't heard how Whittle's been since. Hope he's faded into obscurity other than being remembered for being a thuggish shitbag. Maybe he gets free fishguts in the Cleethorpes area. That's about what the coward deserves tbh. He went onto some glory days playing at semi-professional Harrogate then North Ferriby United. The highlight of his career was being a contracted player in the (Scottish) Premier League for Celtic, where he scored no goals in no appearances. Still disappointed someone paid him for existing.

I think his house got done and that pissed him off hugely, which I can't blame him for, and he left with some bad words about us, which I can blame him for, so I was right up for the booing at those two games. The Villa one was fucking great, it really got to him, and he was in such a strop with Gregory, who's an egotistical shit as well, that I couldn't boo any more because I was laughing so much! Every touch, "BOOOOO!!!!", he couldn't handle it. He's always spoken well about us since, but he gets paid for that. Laurent Robert was much better, like. Discuss.