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Paddy Power will give you 15/2, Ladbrokes are pretty much the same at 7/1

Best prices are from Bet365 at 10/1 and Premier bet at 11/1

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well, I don't think thompson's tackle was that bad, it happens in most games, but worthy of a yellow. because thompson has lost his game, it makes it worse.

Lennon, should know better, he is the captain, I hope he gets it taken away from him, silly boy.

ik

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And another one slips through the net :(

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According to This Everton failed in a bid to sign Michael Owen. :D :rofl:

I mean, Accrington Stanley have more chance.

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They need him :D

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The trees lost to macclesfield O_O

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Yes, we're ****, why does that not surprise you?

Megson OUT.

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According to this he is going to Newcastle.

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I would disagree with that - when i first saw the tackle, i thought that it was a yellow and not a red, but then i looked at the replays and you can clearly see that he was very late and could have inflicted serious injury.

IMO a red, and nobody on CrapSport SPL disagreed either.

That cost you the game too i think.

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it did cost us the game, but thopmson costs us the game all the bloody time. and lennon is a pain in the **** as well, he gave up very early, not captain material.

still think it should only have been a yellow.

ik

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Talking about Chelsea being expensive..

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:p:

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Chelsea and Liverpool are in the same group.

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Hmmmm,

Rangers get the team that put Celtic out in the group stages.

Wonder what odds you would get of them beating Rangers 5-0? :D

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Yeah, but Jonathan Woodgate has had plenty of free time to learn ;)

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<insult time> beckham can only remember his wifes name because its a train station :dig:

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JosÃÃâ€*’© and his amazing technicolour overcoat

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Roy Keane the album
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.....and that is how you do a half-time team talk!!

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Some good news ;)

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...now some bad news :(
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I would like to see him refereeing in the premiership

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I don't think Everton would.

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Interesting stat from the weekend. Bury FC became the first side to score 1000 goals in all four divisions.:)

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what is going on with Sven.. during the friendly with Denmark Richardson wasn't good enough to bein the squad but for a WC qually game he is

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I imagine The Sun suggested that Richardson should be in the squad.

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A great weekend there in the SPL

Rangers 0 - 3 Hibs
Dunfermline 0 - 4 Celtic

Hail Hail

ik

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true.. it does seem like the sun do more managing of the team than Sven does

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The Magpies get their man link

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And backed up by the beeb.

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was owen worth it though?
probably next season when shearer is manager and souness is sacked

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It must take quite a while to get round Venus, nice to see you are still around.:tu:

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Yep, welcome back Atom, lets hope you stick around this time

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Good job too. Used to be a decent ref, but his refereeing of the Everton game last week left a lot to be desired. Obviously his footballing and business judgement have left him at the same time!
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Did you see Richardson against the USA? I was there and he was by far and away one of the best players on the pitch. I don't think it's by chance that he hasn't gone on loan from Utd again this season. Judging Joe Cole's efforts the other week in Denmark, Richardson would get my vote on the left. He wouldn't go AWOL for long periods on the wing forcing Ashley Cole to hold the left side all on his own.

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Just remembered...

There was a similar thing last year over here, I do not know if it was ever picked up by anyone. The refs in the premiership were sponsored by Emirates who also sponsored (then) Chelsea.

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Yep, I'd noticed that... was surprised that refs should be sponsored at all, and then made the connection with Chelsea as well. I dunno... to me it just seems wrong that refs have financial backing from anyone.

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I hope you were joking when you were being sad about James being dropped. :confused:
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I doubt that they would have any influence, but it would make people worry about it :shrug:

No the good news was that he was dropped, the bad news was that James wasn't retiring ;)

Depends on how much they paid the refs to put that logo on their arms. ;) Influence the whole...

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Thank god for that. I doubted your sanity for a moment. He got a hell of a lot of abuse hurled at him in Copenhagen. I felt slightly sorry for the bloke at the end. :)

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I hope you enjoyed the trip, if not the game.

I am slightly pensive about how England will fair on Saturday, new keeper or not :sleep:

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Spurs sign Jenas.

What does everyone think? Worth the money? Good signing?

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Trip was great. Loved Denmark...especially the women! ;) Bit expensive for my liking, but definitely worth the visit.

I'm off to Cardiff on Saturday. 2nd time in a week. Went for the rugby league final on Saturday. I am pretty confident we'll win this weekend. We always seem to do badly in friendlies under Sven. Probably because he chops and changes so much, but he's done ok in serious matches so far.

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Yes, we get 200k out of it.

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Not sure about the cost, but worth signing. All prices go slightly upwards in the last couple of days. I reckon spurs will do quite well this season.

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How does that work? :confused:

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Sell-on clauses in his last contract presumably.

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He is a trier, and in todays market, just about worth that amount of money in the premiership, lets see how he does.

TBH I think Newcastle have a poor coaching regime, maybe Spurs will get more out of him.

Linked with the import of Michael Owen, I think it is a good peice of business on Freddie Shepherd's part.

Sorry Punky !

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10% of any profit above 5m.

Spurs bought him for 7m, that's 2m profit Newc made hsvign signed for 5m. We get 10% ie 200k.

We have similar deals on the sales of Prutton, Dawson and Reidy but IIRC that's 25% flat on the total fee.

JJ is the first of our academy prospects to make sell-on money.
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He's a good player, naturally talented with energy and a bit of skill to match. I remember when he lined up for (and captained) Forest as a raw 18 y/o :( we had to sell to stave off admin

Under the right regime he'll be coached well and he'll be a decent player. Jol seems about right.

And he'll have Daws and Reidy for company too. We seem to be Spurs' feeder club atm :erm:

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I know, I was being facetious, why not pick him for the friendly only to call him up for the world cup games.

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Martin Jol has improved Spurs steadily since his arrival, I wouldn't be surprised if some silverware will be heading Tottenham's way this season, even if it is the Carling Cup, if it is still called that ?

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i've seen Richardson a few times for United and everytime i've seen him he's never really looked the part when surrounded by quality players..

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thanks for the welcome back people.....orbiting venus was a blast.
jenas is a decent player and i think he will do well at spurs.....price seems a bit high to me though.
as for kieran he is going to be a top player , i hoped he would have stayed on at west brom for another season though to ease his breakthrough into the england team.....his chances at united will be more limited for another year i think.
i am still crossing my fingers and waiting for the return of the legend that is ole

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The prodigal returns
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Goal line technology set for a test
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Possible GB team?

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Sadly i can not see Ole coming back anywhere near his previous talent. :cry:

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we can but hope roy
personally i think he will be back within 2 months , albeit a bit rusty but still a match for any other teams defence

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nffc, have you any opinions on a guy called Craig Westcarr ?

He is a trialist for CUFC and played on Tuesday night and banged in a couple of goals, ex Nottingham Forest apparantly.

If not, then never mind

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Westcarr... hmm... yes he is ex-Forest but he didn't do much for us goal-wise.

To be fair to the lad he didn't get much of a first team chance... and has a slightly risky attitude, but with the right manager he'll definitely do it at that level. He's talented, youngest ever Forest player and that, just got a bit bigheaded I think.

TBH, you could do worse...
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Thanks for that, scoring two goals will not have done his chances of a contract any harm, it will be down to Rob Newman (plus finances) if he is to be given that opportunity, no doubt he will be looked at again prior to that decision being made.

Thanks :tu:

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Another setback

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Reading the Mirror this morning, good to see their usual practise of giving disproportionate coverage to the England team ahead of the game tomorrow, as if it's an "us and them" situation with Wales.

I suppose the fact that I pay as much for the Mirror as someone in England doesn't give me a reason to expect anything different :shrug:

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Just life... although you have a valid point there would be more readers of any national paper in England than Wales so it's a case of catering for the majority, or so I'd think.

One thing though... why the Mirror, I've only bought that once and that was when I knew they'd exposed Alan Rogers et al acting like ***** in Nottm and tarnishing the name of Forest... :erm:

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Is there not a Welsh version of the Mirror? I'm pretty sure there is a Northern Ireland version as they have a Northern Irish football section which I doubt is in the English one.

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Isn't Trinity Mirror the equivalent to the Welsh daily Mirror?

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There is a Northen Ireland version of The Sun as well. There was a copy of Thursdays in the canteen at work, the back page was about Sanchez sending Whitley and Mulryne home while according to their website the back page headline that day was about Defoe.

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the mirror tends to print all sports stories a day after the sun...

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Not even close to being a valid excuse IMO. Although if the paper's price was lowered for readers in Wales because we're the "minority" then I'll be happy with that :)

There used to be a Welsh one up until about 3 years ago. Even in that the English were treated as if they are the only UK nation.

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Not intended... you'll never catch me backing up the chavvy trashy mirror ;)

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Just been out in Chester...In Brannigans. And met some of the England Under 21 squad, spoke to Carson and Welsh, and Jon Stead. Also saw Anton ferdinand on the pull (amusing) and Glen Johnson. Resisted the urge to tell him he's ****. Jon Stead was a nice fella. John Welsh was there too, spoke to him for a bit, really nice fella, although he was downin the Bud like there was no tomorrow! Few others there too, Carlton Cole... Michael Dawson on the pull and succeeding...they're all big *******s. A good night was had by all Just wish I had their cash

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Really can't see wales winning this game at all :) there are a few in there team I’ve never even heard of.

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England were rubbish, which must mean that Wales are absolutely appalling.

There's nothing like a spawny 1-0 win, eh? (Chelsea fans will know what I mean).

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Oh i Wouldn’t say that england played a solid game with Wales getting a few Attacks now and than. well dose to N Ireland for winning there first game in
4 years. :)

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Competitive games. We did manage to win a few friendlies. :)

The last competitive game we won before today was against Iceland, rumours about a game against Tescos proved unfounded. :D

As the chant goes..... We're not Brazil we're Northern Ireland.

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Don't get to use to winning england are going to kill you in midweek :)

edit

Wales where the only homenation to lose today. :cool:

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No sign of Russ tonight then ;)

Just watched the Poland v Austria game - Poland were very lucky winners, I hope they defend like they did tonight when England play them.

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I'm beginning to lose faith in football- we were **** again today by all accounts.

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We dominated the game, but were weak in front of goal but that is usually typical of a 4-5-1 formation, I think we were also nervous due to a stupid press this country has that is hell bent on putting pressure on the best manager we have had for decades. End of the day we won job done. The press need to learn that freindlies results dont mean **** and sven qualifier record is outstanding.

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I wasn't bothered about the Internationals... ;)

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Didn't watch the game then?

Been offline til now!

Something needs to be done about our team. A revival cannot be too difficult surely? After all, our rugby team went from laughing stock to being the dominant force in the UK in the space of about 18 months whereas England made the complete opposite move.

Whatever the case, we won't do it with Toshack.

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Of that I have no doubt.

The fans will still be singing no matter what the score is.

Wish I was going, but I was away for some of the earlier matches and couldn't justify the expense. (The IFA made a smart decision in that if you wanted tickets for the England game you needed to buy tickets for the other 4 home games.)

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That's the good thing about Northern Ireland's fans no matter what the Result
Thay always keep on singing. :tu:

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Well, they don't exactly have much to sing about, do they?

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What did that chant at Old Trafford go like? HHMM something like "Come on England, Shall we sing a song for you". 4 - nil up and the England fans still didn't sing.

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Ironic isn't it... really, you don't appreciate what you have, until it's gone.

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Sixty-Six
**** all since
Sixty-Six
**** all since
Sixty-Six

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Thought this might cheer nffc up ;)

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You're mistaking the people who go to home internationals for proper die-hard singing fans. In the case of Northern Ireland it's different, your ground holds maybe 20k tops, so the majority of the fans there will be hardcore fans that will sing. OT holds over 67k, of which maybe 10k max will be hardcore England fans who will sing. So they get watered down by the silence of the others. The Welsh had the same problem at the weekend. We took 6800 fans there (Actually had 15k apply for tickets) and for the large part we outsang the welsh because their hardcore of fans is a lot smaller and the rest of the crowd only perked up to boo GSTQ.
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As it should be. Small ground and only those who attend regularly should get the tickets. Only the top cappers from the EnglandFans will be going to NI on Wednesday + those lucky in the ballot. We only got 1300 tickets. I didn't apply as I'm off to Florida at the end of the week. I'm sure you could have got a ticket if you really wanted one. I know some Enlgand fans have got tickets in the NI end.

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There is a difference between really wanting one, and being able to afford one. They are going for £150 - £200 on ebay. I can't afford that.

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Beg, borrow, steal. It's one of your few chances to get one over on us. ;)

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And given England's recent performances I'd say victory for N Ireland has never looked more sure! :D

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Watch it, boyo :p:

At least we didn't have to worry about Nobby Savage tripping over thin air and starting a fight with himself this time ;)

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No, you just have the entire Arsenal* contingent to worry about :D









*Arsenal - a team whose supporters only appear on Cable Forum when their teams win something ;) :angel:

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Very good point :D

/Nug reminisces about the days when Villa actually had English internationals in their team.

/Nug then remembers that we sold Vassell, and he still isn't scoring any goals :D

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All french anyway.

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Great game on SS1 right now, England & Germany under 21's :tu:

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I know we had a bit of a bad time Against Wales at the weekend. but i really can not see us haveing any Problems Against Northern Ireland. :)

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So lets have a predicted scoreline then :D

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NI 0 England 2

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I don't know if anyone noticed this from last weekend! :rofl:

I cannot believe everyone involved with the team didnt realise this happened or was going to happen. Surely either the player or the manager would realise :dunce:

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Yes, that does seem a bit of an unfortunate oversight :)
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NI 0 England 4 :disturbd:

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0-3 :tu: :tu: :tu: