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Erm, we've got a game tomorrow night, people. Everyone accepting defeat already?

Benin's national football team was dissolved. Undissolved and finished bottom of their qualifying group.

Anyone got any idea why all the media are determined that our goal was an Agger og? Thought the rule was if it was going in anyway the last player on the scoring team got the credit? Got to be R Taylor, Cabaye or Ba then, surely? This s*** only bothers me because I still hold a grudge about Shearer's 24th of the season 10 years ago being given as a Wes Brown og and Thierry Henry being given a Stuart Ripley og when his original shot was heading for the corner flag and ending up undeserved top scorer that season as a result. I know, I should let it go, right? I will, just as soon as everyone admits it and changes the record books.

He slipped and I think to be fair he admitted as such straight away. Ref had already blown his whistle for the 'dive' but seeing Klasnic's reaction he made absolutely 100% the right decision. Good refereeing. Yup.

I think that's what happened. I don't think he actually dived from the replays mind, just lost his footing. Didn't look like he appealed. Yeah, he slipped and wasn't looking for owt, fair play. Had to at Osman, like, thumping the ground in anger, I have to believe he felt he was caught by Clattermole as he was going to shoot, just a tap is enough. Moyes did him no favours, like, saying it wasn't a pen. "Thanks, boss."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16274066.stm It's like he's in the room.

That challenge on Silva by Meireles was much worse than the Gosling one - waist-high, studs up, knew he would catch the follow-through - no cries from the "experts" for the obvious red, then he scores seconds later. Then a pwoppa nawty one seconds later again. Yup, only yellow. Whither consistency? Discuss. Two straight reds and a goal in between. Ffs.

I thought Shola was better than usual. He seemed to be up for it, arguing with the ref a couple of times, and turned into a bit of a playmaker when we were down to 10. As others have probably said, how come when he got clattered clearing the ball it was yellow for whatsisname but the "experts" agree Gosling's was a straight red? Actually, even the Sky commentator said Gosling's yellow was a cheap one to keep the baying crowd happy, so two wrongs making a big wrong there. I'm always glass-half-full (and if it's not I'll refill it) so I'll posit that we have the makings of a decent team here if we keep them. I can only hope I imagined a long-haired Alan Smith wandering onto the pitch at the death, but if I didn't then at least he managed not to make his usual impression by getting booked or sent off with his first contribution. And while my glass is overflowing, that Cabaye impressed me yet again. He put me in mind of an NFL quarterback in that he can take one glance, see where everyone is, where they're going, and where the ball needs to go. I'd like to keep him but I increasingly feel that we are in constant selling mode. S**t, my glass just fell off the table. S**t.

MotD reckon no yellows for Norwich. Hmmmm. Disparity with reality... Still think the red was at worst a second yellow for Gosling, but I haven't got a clue, apparently. I thought he was just trying to block the clearance, he stayed on his feet, we would have been disappointed back in the day if he hadn't done that. Players are so soft these days, everything was better in black and white (of course) etc.

charlie hurley and ambrose fogerty (sp?) Wtf? Both from the RoI, not NI. So much I don't get about that. Exactly. It's almost as if Ireland was a divided country because of an occupying force, if he was a Catholic living NI it might make some sense that he supported Sunderland because of Hurley and Fogerty, but what are the chances of that? My post reads wrong I mean't there IS so much he doesn't get about it, i.e. he hasn't a clue. Yeah, sorry for not being sectarian enough. My bad.

charlie hurley and ambrose fogerty (sp?) Wtf? Both from the RoI, not NI. So much I don't get about that. Like me supporting a random mid-table French team as a kid because they've got a couple of Welsh players. And then getting a tatt. And then keeping that whole thing going until I'm nearly a pensioner. Seriously, wtf? Still, at last the messiah they've been hankering after for years has arrived and when it all ends in tears and recriminations they won't have any more straws to grasp at.

Jeff Stelling sticking to St James' Park but the graphics have the other name...

Those bits instantly reminded me of Big Fat Sam. Four years on it's still our fault despite the fact he was inevitably going to take us down, and I know that if he had he wouldn't have been to blame somehow. I'd like to hear the journo meetings where they decide which managers to deify and which to denigrate and why. Poxy gets. Oh, and for the last seven words, welcome aboard!

Been totally in pieces today. To think such a lovely guy and such a total professional has been struggling against this every day of his life is horrible. To me it just highlights that you cannot tell how someone is inside, you HAVE to be compassionate all the time; also, how much the macho locker-room atmosphere means that you can't show any "weakness" mentally or physically. Football, and indeed society, needs to look at itself. The poor soul clearly had problems no-one was aware of and felt he couldn't ask for help. I'm not thinking straight here. I think I need a cry. Sorry. I still can't get my head around this. God, his poor wife and family.

'Kin 'ell double whammy - no goal for Chicharito, Wigan get a last minute winner. I've got to change my pants. :celb:

You'll get that with maverick geniuseses though. I remember him making 4 against Breda, the two goals against Tottenham, and the overhead backheel volley against Fulham as particular favourites. I could forgive his Gallic shrugs for those moments.

Much more productive than Daveed.

Given Nattrass Woodgate Coloccini Jose Enrique Solano Bracewell Gascoigne Robert Beardsley Shearer Subs Krul, Alan Kennedy, Moncur, Tommy Craig, Waddle, Ferdinand, Macdonald Old git, me, like, but I just missed Tony Green who everybody raved about, although I don't think he could have been better than Gazza. Went to his testimonial - Bobby Charlton played for us! Irving Nattrass was a proper class right back, the best in England at the time, but too far north for the national team to even consider, three days by horse to London in them days. Macdonald might not have been technically excellent but he was as fast as f**k and built like a bull - pure excitement every time he went on the rampage. Tommy Craig had a sweet left peg so he just keeps Jimmy Smith in the stands. I can't allow Ginola or Cole near my lads because they slagged us off when they left. My players are better anyway. Mind with the massive squad at my disposal I'd be rotating like fury.

Man, I was p*ssing meself - it was like RTG Radio, mackems fighting amongst themselves over who was their sh*ttest ever manager! Funniest thing to me was the call was originally to put us down cos we'd had less top 3 finishes than them but they couldn't help themselves. The owld bloke's frequently on with his latest history trawl like, nowt better to do I guess. I usually wander off muttering "oh, here we gan again, 9-1" and come back 10 minutes later and he's still reading it out ffs. This one was funny like, pleased I had nowt better to do.

ITV Player is sh*t like, but you're not missing much. I thought G8, hee hee, was a slurring shadow of his former self. I hate Piers f*cking Morgan with a vengeance but he was a bit gentle with the guy who should have been our Maradona/Messi/CRonaldo but spunked it, the daft get. His best year iirc was 1991 when he got Spurs to the Cup Final and then knacked himself at the second attempt (after trying to kick Garry Parker's heart out) when he went for Gary Charles's knee. Just don't sound like you're called Gary in his vicinity. I really want to feel sorry for him, and he may have many redeeming factors, but he's a f**king headcase. He was a brilliant footballer though. I just wonder how much damage he's done to himself. And I think he's not through it yet. Jeez.

BTW he did it again repeatedly last night and Slaven went along this time. What a stupid, bitter worthless little gobsh*te. Oh, and they're going to win their next four games, right, and we'll lose ours, right, and then they'll only be 3 points behind! So when they win their fifth in a row and we lose our fifth in a row, right, they'll go above us on goal difference! So there! We are so deluded thinking we're doing better than they are.

Seriously? f***ing hell "It's in the 'istory bewks, Malcolm"

Mackem on The Legends singing "9-1, 9-1"...

But, but, no-one has explained who was on the horse and what it has to do with the story. There must be some significance! Please don't leave them hanging! I think we might have a mare against Stoke. Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=639878&page=2#ixzz1c6bWrXMK Stoke have a tendency to hoof the ball up the pitch. Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=639878&page=3#ixzz1c6bk00gf No, I think He'll be back in the saddle. Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=639878&page=3#ixzz1c6bwzBK4 Why are you trying to stirrup trouble man Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=639878&page=3#ixzz1c6c4NVnF Was laughing so hard I nearly fell over, man! I propose a medal for that spaghettios dude.

No idea if anyone's said this before - I've been watching Sky - but how come David Ginola's English is better than Dwight Yorke's? He can't do his plurals in the French fashion and his tenses are all to c*ck. Is it a Caribbean ting? I can't understand why he's on there as a pundit at all.