I have faith that we will stay up, Taarabt will stay and he will be unstoppable from next season. He'll be more mature and used to premier league life. Just wait and see.
Depends who in England you are talking about. They have a very small fan group, most fans despise them, but the press is generally fond of them.
Ten year ago NUFC played MUFC at SJP in Mar 96. Sir Les, Ginola, Asprilla, Beardsley...all in their pomp. For 45 minutes, we fucking smashed Man Utd. Sir Les hit the bar, then the post and the red nosed cunt made save after save after save. Second half, fucking Cantona ran up the other end and scored with Man Ure's only shot of the night. That game won them the title. That's what a proper keeper can do. He won the title for them that night. You want us to apologise for having a great keeper? Not a fucking chance. MTF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWI5iP6pdXc Bear in mind that 6 months later we beat these cunts five nap. Just ONE goal in this game wins us the title and changes English football forever. Ignore the SKY shite about the 4-3 at Anfield- score ONE goal in this game and we win the lot. That is what a big nosed, fucking legendary red-nosed cunt will do for you. MTF
Krul is an excellent keeper, no doubt. Albert hit the bar that night from a free kick and Asprilla blasted an effort after that free kick miles over the bar from only a few yards out. Who on Earth was marking Cantona before he scored? Not a soul.
I'm a big fan of Benjamin Arthur. Cracking goal today. I hope he stays at Newcastle, I'd like to see the Geordies back up the top again :bears:
it'd be great if N'castle grabbed the CL pot of cash from the point of view of making the league more competitive
Hatem Ben Beardsley + Papiss Cole = real chance. Lets not forget that NUFC have 300% more appearances in the CL than Harry's 'can't read or write' mob' have. They are NOT a bigger club than we are are. Relegated three years ago: CL challenge now. Mark of a proper club. MTF
Feebles probably feels both ways on that. Ostensibly, its a massive success for them. Realistically, FCB spends the money getting Fatter.
You are getting your wish...one centre half, one left back and one midfielder away from competing again. We are three points better off than Sir Bob's last season here :Thumbs: Pardew and his scouting team :bears: MTF
If it ain't for that red-nosed cunt, it matters not a shekel. Six months later we showed what happened when you take a miracle GK performance out. I'd have swapped that Oct 96 hammering for a scabby one nowt six months earlier... MTF
I'd love it if Newcastle made fourth. Are the qualifiers seeded now? Or is it an open draw? I'd hope they could make it through to the actual group stage.
If Newcastle get fourth spot they'll enter the playoff round which will consist of 10 non champion teams - 5 non champion teams who win their third qualifying round tie plus 5 non champion teams who enter the playoff round (possibly Newcastle, + fourth placed team from Spain, fourth placed team from Germany, fourth placed team from Italy and fourth placed team from France). If Newcastle do get fourth they could end up facing the runners up from Scotland (if they get through their respected third qualifying fixture, but not Rangers who are not allowed to enter), so possibly Newcastle could play Motherwell.
Would Motherwell get the spot? Wouldn't they just give the team who were due to play Rangers a walkover?
Strange game for LFC tonight - up against a Blackburn side who are fighting for their lives, does King Kenneth risk resting certain players with one eye on the semi? He must know that yet another defeat would not only increase scrutiny on the club and himself, but may also leave them in a fragile state of mind entering into the semi on Saturday. Should be a good game on Saturday, i hope.
Actually, you may be right. It says that "Runners-up of 2011–12 Scottish Premier League (unless the runners-up are Rangers, who have been denied a UEFA license due to them entering administration".
Monarch Moyesy vs King Kenneth, its a no lose situation for the plebs in the dailies. As for tonights game, meh, probably a draw, with Maxi Rodriguez starting and scoring, which means he'll be left out for Saturday, despite easily being Liverpools 2nd best available midfielder. More Benitez rubbish you see. Saturday? That game will be close and cagey. Its rare any one side whitwashes the other in any season where they play more than twice. In 2006/2007 Arsenal beat Liverpool three times but then got tonked at Anfield in the League. In 2008/2009 Liverpool beat Chelsea twice in the league, then got beat at Anfield in the CL and drew in London in the 2nd leg. Liverpool have already beaten Everton twice this season so on that "logic" I would give Everton a good shout but it is a cup game so who knows.
Part of the problem when "Comment is Free" is that morons are free to comment. The Gerrard thing has been done to death. Towards the end of the 2003/2004 season, he was too good to be at Liverpool. Then he won a European Cup and he was really too good to be at Liverpool. When Benitez stuck him on the right in the 2005/2006 season, he scored 25 goals and won an FA Cup as captain, and now you see he was really really really too good to be at Liverpool. Then Liverpool got to another European Cup Final and it was finally decided that Benitez was not good enough for Liverpool. Fuck Gerrard. I have been saying it for years. Big Mr Large. He's like a pyromaniac and a fireman all rolled into one. He starts the fires, then he puts them out, then he gets lauded as a hero. Case Study: Liverpool vs West Ham, Anfield, Monday December 8th 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/7748435.stm "Robbie Keane had endured another night of frustration, and he once again suffered the indignity of being substituted when he was replaced by youngster David Ngog with 25 minutes left The final whistle was met with a chorus of jeers, evidence that while Liverpool may have gone top of the league, the mood at Anfield is one of disappointment." Really? I wonder who was to blame for that shit. Right on the 69th minute Keane was lurking inside the box and all Gerrard had to do was slip him in with a pass. Instead Gerrard, infuriated by the absence of his fuck buddy Torres, decided to, yes, once again, rescue the situation, as Michael Owen had vs Arsenal in 2001 "all by his-self" <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rTjw_LK5b4I?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rTjw_LK5b4I?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> Who got booed at the end? Lucas Leiva. Morons. Pat Dolan said it best on Irish TV during the early days of the Hodgson reign {also known as the Hodgson reign} that what Hodgson had to do was consider geting rid of Gerrard ...."but he'd be lynched, and that's the dilemma now" You mark my words. If Gerrard goes missing this Saturday and Liverpool find themselves in a hole, Gerrard will be lauded as the guy who kept trying right to the death all the while surrounded by players "Not good enough to wear the Liverpool shirt". :wack: :shit:
I was shocked when Newcastle signed ben arfa he was a huge talent back then, when he came back form injury I thought maybe this guy was hype all along. Delighted to see him back on top of his game
Well, for me, its just common sense. Murdoch and his minions know their trade. They've got the fans living vicariously through "their" clubs. Ferguson is a sage. Wenger is deluded. Mancini is insane. Sam Allardyce is a mental genius. Argue against the Party Line, and you too are nuts. We've got Martin Atkinson apologizing to Roberto Martinez for what happened at Chelsea, but Sean Derry's appeal against his red card was denied. Who does Derry play for? QPR. Who did they last play? Figure it out. Now, this was OK when it was just SKY, but it has metastasized now, and don't we just have a brain tumour, which could be tolerated, instead we also have malignancy in the heart and lungs of common sense. The BBC are at it too, you see. When you see an assortment of drunkards, reformed wife-beaters, under-achievers, reformed smack heads etc invited to get suited up and comment on the "big issues" of the day, its all a bit redolent of a 5'2", one-balled Austrian Corporal with a comb-over talking about a "Master Race". The fact that the BBC has "retained" the "services" of Robbie Savage says a lot. They've raced to the bottom. They should have stayed out on the fringes with their chin in the air. In any event, their own flagship show, MOTD, is hosted by a distinctly tangerine fellow called Lineker whose dislike of the forrin manager is in its incandescence only exceeded by his own peculiar Ultra-Violet derived glow. Too bad, really.