This Charming Man

I've all but given up attending test matches in this country. The last 4 test matches that I've attended have all been heavily affected by rain, though they always seem to get just enough overs in so you don't get a penny of your £50-£80 back.

I reckon he'll go off to somewhere in the UAE. Pick up a monster wage and combine it with his love of horse racing.

I wonder what odds Adkins was to take over here, the day after Pardew sacking? Cotteril was the initial favourite. They're not always right.

Everyone knows that Cortese identifies and signs the players that he wants.

Someone tweeted a picture of them with Adkins to that fake Nigel Adkins Twitter account yesterday. They were at an airport. He could've been flying to America to enter discussions with Liverpool's owners?

Think he's quite happy at Lille. Saw an interview recently and he stated how much he loves it over there.

Or just don't read it? Just a thought...

It's the pre-season, there's nothing much going on. So naturally people will speculate, as this is a forum people will respond to that speculation and add their opinion to it. The main gripe I have is the sheer arrogance that some of our fans show and their inability to take a step back and look at us from an outsider's perspective.

This forum would be a little dull if everyone kept their opinions to themselves...

Luton also took 50k there. Carlisle also brought around 18,000 when we played them there. Which is more than we would've taken if the game was played at Newcastle.

MLG has been posting drivel again and trying to prove how we're a bigger club than Villa because they averaged 4k more than us this season, or something like that. He's received quite a lot of abuse for it and has finally taken the hint that nobody cares and has put a sock in it at last.

Let's hope this card system will make it easier for him to get a Chicken Balti at HT...

Did he score that screamer of theirs? Did they score a screamer or did I imagine that?

But if they're any good they'd leave. Only WHU and Newcastle have kept some of their better players when relegated and that was because they were being financed by someone with a few bob.

I'm bed ridden, the pain of my ulcer is intolerable.

We haven't got enough decent players to fill out a 32 man preliminary squad. When a 'keeper from Chelmsford and Jordan Henderson are on the reserve list, you know you have problems with depth. For some reason the training camp in Spain has been cancelled, leaving us with only 2 games before the Euros. May as well use those games to have a look at your main XI, rather than messing about.

Must be a typo. He probably can't see the keys properly in his dingy bedsit.

So to summarise; Adkins is going to reject Villa because they're smaller than us and MLG has been posting unrelated garbage for the last 3 pages? Right, now I'm up to speed, let's carry on.

But a smaller catchment area.

Sky have Gerrard priced at 40/1. LOL.

He's taking a break from football, so unless they leave Steve Clarke in charge for a season, it won't be him.

They brought in one of the biggest names Anfield has ever known in King Kenny and that failed. Apparently this time they're looking for someone more low-key and that can really build something there. Plus Nige speaks Scouse so will be able to understand what Jamie Carragher says as nobody else can.

Thought you'd be at the vigil for King Kenny?Is there a book of condolences yet?

I thought Adkins was going to Villa?

I would just like to be the first person to congratulate Stewart Downing on winning the Nestles 'Win a place at the Euros with the England team' competition.