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I'm pretty sure you can. That's not a transfer as such, you're just offering a player a contract.

Wouldn't be my first choice but he has earned a chance at a higher level. I'd rather him than an old injured has been like Hargreaves or Owen.

If you are refering to the racism issue which is apparently preventing the Chamberlain family from Ukraine then it is indeed sad. I'm not entirely sure it's THAT bad though (I'm posing this as a question not as a statement of fact). I'm sure there will be a few racist hooligans chanting offensive songs, but I doubt it's bad enough to force all ethnic minorities out of the country. I can't imagine large gangs burning crosses in the lobby of the Chamberlain's hotel or pelting their car with petrol bombs as they drive through Kiev. I'm not saying they aren't right to have concerns, but with the massive Police presence there I can't envisage any serious trouble. Also there are plenty of South American and African players in the Ukrainian Premier League. Less so with Dynamo Kiev, but the core of Shakhtar's team is Brazilian and Metalist Kharkhiv only has one Ukrainian (the goalie) in the starting 11. They all seem happy enough to live there, let alone staying in a secure 5 star hotel for a few nights.

Liverpool for me, can't stand most of their fans. Second would be Spuds because of old Twitchy Face. Third probably Everton, I think they got very late goals in both fixtures last time in the Prem, we owe them one. The big 4 are all a given for any newly promoted team.

If by great you mean 'score 5 goals and spend most of the time in the treatment room' then yes, he will be. Their squad is going to look pretty thin next season, what could be funnier than them spunking money on a player who wont be available most of the time.

If you can't win a game in over 2 hours of football, you don't really deserve to. The lottery of a shootout may not be entirely fair, but it's as close as you will get. Taking penalties is a legitimate skill, it's not like you're flipping a coin to decide the winner. The other suggestions are all a bit Micky Mouse and would be a lot worse than pens. Possession - Extra time would be the most defensive game of anti-football ever. Just passing around the back 4 trying to keep the ball. Corners - Why should you deserve to win just because you've wasted more corners than the other team? Shots on target - Again extra time would be stupid, players just taking hopeless shots from the halfway line, just to tally up another effort on target. I'm more inclined towards getting rid of extra time personally. In any game but the final, it's not really fair on the away team.

That's a shame, I don't normally get up till about 1030.

I wouldn't want Bosingwa purely because of the monobrow. Kalou would be pretty handy, but bigger clubs will be interested.

I think 'not wanting to leave the NW' really means, 'not wanting to leave the NW.... unless you give me lots and lots and lots of money.' In the world of broadband, skype and email I can't believe anyone would sabotage their career for the sake of moving 4 hours down the motorway. I love stereotyping Northerners as much as the next man, but they don't all go round grandma's house for a nice home made hot pot every night.

I also think he deserves a longer penalty, although I doubt it will make any difference to the family of the victims. 3.5 years, 10 years, life... nothing is going to bring their children back to life. Don't see why he shouldn't go back to playing football either, ruining his own life wont achieve anything. That's the problem with getting behind the wheel drunk and killing people. NOTHING anyone can do will ever bring them back.

155. The only ones I couldn't remember from this century were Stern John, El Khalej and (for some reason) Bale.

A fit Owen Hargreaves is like the Loch Ness Monster. 9 games in 4 years.

As much as I hate being fair to Pompey fans, there are probably c*nts like this supporting every team. It's why I never bother with Saints stickers, air fresheners etc. They're just a really good way of getting a brick through your window.

I think you're just farting in the wind here, it's a none starter. Liverpool and Chelsea will both go for big name managers with European experience, coming 2nd in the Championship just isn't going to excite them. West Brom and Villa are hardly a step forwards either, now that we're in the Premier League.

Lyon would be an outside candidate for one of the lower places, always seem to be in the CL knockout stages. Based on recent European pedigree, I'd go with: Man Utd Chelsea Bayern Inter Milan Barca Real Then pick any 3 from Lyon, Arsenal, Juve, Marseille, PSV, Porto and Ajax. All knockout regulars, but rarely trouble the last 4.

Sorry, but that's all nonesense. Cortese may be a 'funny character' (although he seems straight as an arrow to me) but he is certainly not a completely lunatic. Only a nutcase of Rupert proportions would 'expect' to win a League. Nigel took over when we were the bottom of League 1 and took us to 2nd and automatic promotion then repeated the feat a year later, both times coming within 2 points of the champions. No chairman in the football League would be anything less than delighted with that, even someone like Mike Ashley or the Venkeys. This is just pure media arse gravy in the off season. There is nothing left to talk about in the gap until the Euros, so they're rolling out the old ****** from days gone by, based on sketchy rumours and agents with an axe to grind.

Like Wolves getting rid of McCarthy Like Blackburn getting rid of Allardyce Like Forest getting rid of Billy Davies

Yeah, it pretty much would be.

He's still here because he has a contract to be here. He has a contract because Lowe is a complete muppet. If you have a contract, you can't just cancel it. You either have to pay him off completely or terminate by 'mutual consent'. Clearly Tommy is not going to agree to terminate because a) He wont get anything like the money we pay him from a none league outfit and b) by pretty much every account I've seen of him, he is a complete chopper. Clearly Cortese wont just pay him to leave and why should he. If we're going to pay him, he might as well be here just to cover the reserves games.

I don't have a problem with jokes. It's reading the same 'joke' every time I log on for the last 6 years that kind of isn't funny any more.

Mods, please can we have a sticky announcement thingy explaining the following: Signing Skacel and Messi - It's just not funny any more. The following 'jokes' have been made on this forum every day since the beginning of time. They aren't funny and they barely raised a chuckle the first time we heard them: "Hey Skacel just scored a goal, HCDAJFU" "We need a new LW/LB now that xxxxxx has gone. How about that Czech bloke at Spurs" "We've brought back Chaplow and Cork from the past, how about Skacel, HCDAJFU" "Rudi Skacel has just bought a house in Winchester next door to Martin O'Neil and Karsten Janker" and then there's "No don't sign xxxxxx, we need to sign Messi FFS!" (Apparently sarcasm makes this funny). "Our fans wont be happy unless Messi FFS!" (usually said by a complete mong in response to a perfectly reasonable "I don't rate xxxxxx HCDAJFU" post) "We're going to build a 70,000 seat stadium and sign Messi." and so on. It's like Godwin's law of internet message boards (basically every internet discussion will eventually end up in a silly comparison with Hitler or Nazi Germany. Except it's 'Lionel's law of Saints web discussions; Every conversation will eventually end up with a retarded, sarcastic comparison to Messi.

And there it is.

Blackpool definitely deserve to win this, so I'd bet my house on Wham.

I'm pretty sure it has to be 3 years before their 18th/21st birthday, can't remember which. Fonte definitely doesn't count.