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Dont understand this one, i am a big Beckham fan, i think he is a smashing bloke and have played for three of the world biggest clubs and he has been a great, if over rated player for England. The reality is though as a footballer has he achieved anymore than say Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes or for that matter Gary Neville. If in years to come he has been a great ambassador for football, raises load of cash for charity etc after a great career as a player, like Bobby Charlton, then fair play, but so far, IMO he doesn't deserve it just yet.

He is one tedious c*nt. Mcintyre annoys me as well.

Hi Sue. What i found odd about preseason was Pardew said he had deliberately set it up like that, so we played tough first so the players realised the situation we were in, i guess by that he meant despite the tag of favourites tag we are still not a great side, then playing the easier games later on. I've never heard of this before, all other preseaons have been start with a few games just to blow out the cobwebs, bit of fitness with them slowly getting tougher.

Who are these people like Macintyre? No one i know likes him, no one on here likes him, yet we keep being told he is this genius comedian by the media.

turn it in.

I dunno really but given he was available for nowt and has played his whole career at a higher level thought he'd be worth a punt. I mean it's not like he'd be the first player that was crap in the PL but did okay in L1 would it.

his recent show with Rob Brydon where they go around resturants was chringworthingly bad. The only funny part of it was at the start of one of the programmes some fella comes up to him and shows him a paper which says "'Coogan is a c*nt, says Dad'".

As i say like everyone of these so called conditions, there are genuine cases where it is indeed a mental problem. Far too many people though use bad things happening to them as an exucse to wallow in self pity then claim it's stress or depression. I've known dozens of people who claim to have depresion and i can only honestly say i have ever met one person who i consider genuine.(Although i am sure the PC crowd will say i am not qualified to judge this) All the others were just delicate, self indulgent little flowers unable to cope with knock backs, problems or anything out of their comfort zone that life threw at them. They concentrate on what they haven't got rather than what they have. The bottom line is that EVERYONE has something they could get depressed about. Accidents happen, things go wrong, people lose jobs, relationships end, family & friends die. It's happened to me it probably happened to everyone on this board at some point and it's life. But is the answer sitting on your arse not leaving the house being self indulgent with a woe is me attitude, dwelling on how unlucky and terrible your life is or cracking on with life and doing something about it? The modern society has created a culture in this country where people are firstly allowed to behave like this because the country has gone soft and also where people are not responsible for their actions because of all these modern coniditons mean they can blame their behaviour on an illness or conditon which in reality they dont actually have.

Jamie, We all know O'Neill was waiting for Cortese to give him a call. FFS.

He could do a job as a squad player in League One though surely. I mean look at Bradley Wright Phillips, terrible for us in the CCC unless he was coming on as a sub but top scorer in L1. Although if he wants £10k a week then he can jog on!

It's about as Saints related as man United and Chelsea chasing Wesley Schnider.

What a f*cking stupid quiz.

Or it could just mean Richardson & Barnard will be fit again and Fonte suspension free.

I am amazed that no one has comein for these two. Both could do a decent job at this level, must be some reason for it.

pleasure. I take it you still haven't had your fiver back.

thats why, you are one of them that whatever you've done there is always some c*nt that will brag they've done it bigger and better.

that is debatable.

and i am sure if an Exter fan had seen Hammonds performance against Peterborough he'd be saying Hammond is far better than Harely. You cant compare the two based on seeing one player once and the other over the course of a season and a half.

That is not how i remember it, I remember loads complaining about him always being offside and not understanding the rule. His stock has risen dramaticaly since he left. Nostalga is a great thing, but quite simply he was not as good as most on here think.

Apparantly HUll have had a bid for Charlie Austin turned down.

I have know it for ages.

Yes Jamie, i quite agree. Also add Fonte to this if he doesn't go in January.

If you seriously think any player will turn down a move to the premier league now because there is a small chance they might be in a the premier league in 2 years time with a current midtable league one side, you are mental.

Unfortunately that is the problem with being outside the PL. Look at Fabian Delph, 40 odd games for Leeds over 3 years and as soon as he established himself in the first team all the PL clubs were sniffing around and he was gone. The top top youngesters like Walcott and Bale will always end up at one of the bigger clubs eventually but any talented youngester playing in the lower leagues will get picked up. Depsite people thinking a player would be better off staying here and playing first team football you are deluding yourself thinking if a top 4 club come in and offer £15k a week to play in the youth team and reserves and learn your trade off of international players then its going to turn any young players head.