zolton Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 :lol: i dont get it From reliable source. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Can't believe that: 1. The squad would have had enough already, before a single competitive game. 2. Leaving a dinner unannounced would piss the board off enough to want to sack him. 3. They could afford to bin him and go through the laborious and expensive process of getting someone else, this close to the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shearer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolton Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Can't believe that: 1. The squad would have had enough already, before a single competitive game. 2. Leaving a dinner unannounced would p*ss the board off enough to want to sack him. 3. They could afford to bin him and go through the laborious and expensive process of getting someone else, this close to the season. Only passing on, if true, thats one relegation place taken! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Didn't like the way he left us but he was a top class keeper back in the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 16 years and 125 caps, hes earned that retirement going to be strange not to have him in goal from now on though and our next in line Westwood doesn't play, a worry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Didn't like the way he left us but he was a top class keeper back in the day. Detested the way he left us - it was like a general leaving his troops to fend for themselves (silly analogy I know). His departure definitely left a bitter taste in the mouth but these days I feel sorry for him more than anything - so he did get his medal at City but that was for sitting on the bench really and to see him now at Villa is a sorry sight tbh. Shame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Didn't like the way he left us but he was a top class keeper back in the day. Detested the way he left us - it was like a general leaving his troops to fend for themselves (silly analogy I know). His departure definitely left a bitter taste in the mouth but these days I feel sorry for him more than anything - he did get his medal at City but that was for sitting on the bench and his career has now led him to Villa. Shame. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24133683.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Didn't like the way he left us but he was a top class keeper back in the day. Detested the way he left us - it was like a general leaving his troops to fend for themselves (silly analogy I know). His departure definitely left a bitter taste in the mouth but these days I feel sorry for him more than anything - he did get his medal at City but that was for sitting on the bench and his career has now led him to Villa. Shame. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24133683.jpg Nah this is the one transfer we really failed to get the most out of. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Led to the emergence of Krul though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Led to the emergence of Krul though That it did Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Didn't like the way he left us but he was a top class keeper back in the day. Detested the way he left us - it was like a general leaving his troops to fend for themselves (silly analogy I know). His departure definitely left a bitter taste in the mouth but these days I feel sorry for him more than anything - he did get his medal at City but that was for sitting on the bench and his career has now led him to Villa. Shame. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24133683.jpg Nah this is the one transfer we really failed to get the most out of. The Given money might well have paid for every transfer we did until Ben Arfa. Possibly. Either way that £7/8 million went a very long way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Love Krul, looks like some overgrown overexcited kid in goal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Realist Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Shay's retired from International football. Got to say, he was pretty much all over the place during the Euros but guess you could put that down to fitness issues. Didn't like the way he left us but he was a top class keeper back in the day. Detested the way he left us - it was like a general leaving his troops to fend for themselves (silly analogy I know). His departure definitely left a bitter taste in the mouth but these days I feel sorry for him more than anything - he did get his medal at City but that was for sitting on the bench and his career has now led him to Villa. Shame. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24133683.jpg Nah this is the one transfer we really failed to get the most out of. In what way? I think we got the best out of an ugly situation. Most sources say we got between 6.5m and 8m, in 2009 pounds, for a keeper who wanted to flee and who everyone knew wanted out. Was relatively highly rated, has since faded sharply. I really think it's worked out well quite honestly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Nah still think we got a lot less than we could, considering he money they were throwing around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 In hindsight I do wonder how good he actually was. Individually he was consistently brilliant, but I wonder how much of our poor defense was him.....Actually...Bramble. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Last season when we played Villa away he was top draw, don't think he's lost it just yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shaun Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Given got me into goalkeeping, I even got the official gloves he worse. Cost like 80 quid... fingersave or something. I can rememeber the advert in the magazine. 'these gloves make the difference between a goal or a save' something like that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Colossus Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Given got me into goalkeeping, I even got the official gloves he worse. Cost like 80 quid... fingersave or something. I can rememeber the advert in the magazine. 'these gloves make the difference between a goal or a save' something like that. THESE GLOVES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE http://www.radarmusic.com.au/resources/imgdetail/wayne_coyne_big_hands_646.jpg BETWEEN A GOAL AND A SAVE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Curls Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Given got me into goalkeeping, I even got the official gloves he worse. Cost like 80 quid... fingersave or something. I can rememeber the advert in the magazine. 'these gloves make the difference between a goal or a save' something like that. Likewise, i went straight out and got my fingersaves and loved them, until some dick snapped them at football Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby_solano Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 http://en.eufo.de/football/squad/newcastle-united didn't really know where else to put this but it's handy for tracing squad numbers and such, goes back as far as 98-99 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11674/7990365/Chainrai-withdraws-Pompey-bid Balu Chainrai has confirmed he is withdrawing his bid to buy Portsmouth to leave the troubled League One club in danger of liquidation. Portsmouth administrator Trevor Birch has spent the past few weeks desperately trying to offload first-team players from the club's wage bill in order to push through a sale of the club. Birch had succeeded in that aim, but Chainrai will not be pushing ahead with a takeover after citing a number of reasons for withdrawing his interest. Chainrai released a statement to Sky Sports News which read: "Portpin Ltd regrets to announce that it is withdrawing its bid for Portsmouth Football Club. Safety net "Unfortunately, our efforts to save the club once more from extinction have hit a wall of rejection and lacking co-operation from the administrator and other interested parties. "Unfortunately, our efforts to save the club once more from extinction have hit a wall of rejection and lacking co-operation from the administrator and other interested parties." "As history has recorded, we sold the club over a year ago after saving it from liquidation and unfortunately found ourselves again fighting to try and save the club from another liquidation. "Through this administration process over the last six months we have always had the club's best interest in mind - unlike many parties who were involved in the process. "We repeatedly encouraged the administrator to find a new, willing and able buyer to take over the club - unfortunately he was unsuccessful in this job and couldn't find a buyer despite his promises!! "Later he approached us to be his safety net to save the club as he couldn't find a buyer. We agreed in the effort to avoid liquidation of the club. Lack of support "At this moment in time, we feel that: - the negative criticism and lack of support for our takeover by the fans of this club. - the fact that the administrators do not want to compromise on their unrealistic fees. - the fact that suddenly the club has received additional huge football creditors' claims from former players and management such as Hughes, Brown, Kanu, and Lampitt and more. - the fact that all the money from the parachute payment which were supposed to carry the club for the next two seasons was spent and committed by the administrator on players' compromises and fees : total £12million. - the fact that the Football League has decided to deduct 10 points for no reasonable reason and by its decisions didn't show any willingness to help in saving this troubled club. - the fact that the supporters' trust which we met and we voiced our support for their takeover bid could not raise the funds to satisfy the administrator or the Football League and the loan that was promised them by the council had unrealistic terms. - the fact that the club did not get any real support from any official they were all very good at creating headlines. - and finally the last straw yesterday afternoon the manager told the press before the season starts that he is sure of another relegation. "All of these facts have left us in a position that we no longer want to fight this battle, we have zero support to save the club therefore we formally withdraw our bid and our honest attempt at saving the club. We will sleep well knowing we did our utmost to save the club. "We welcome and will assist anyone, including the supporters trust to try and save the club in the coming days." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 is this the first Premier league season without a team starting with B in it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 quite weird seeing us so high up the list too, cant recall us being in the top half Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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