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I think Erique had been told to stay well deep, he brought Skrtl on to allow Enrique forward. The everton fans were a joke though today, never seen that many flairs, thrown at the back of there own fans heads, & kicking off with the stewards. their songs are just an embarrassment.

So apparently this is how the FA decide how to dole out punishments. South Park - American Economics - YouTube

he's investing a lot of cash in time travel research so she can just got relive those memories! crazy old luis!

it doesnt seem like the outcry has been as bad this time as the racism incident. when arguably this far more clear cut. maybe thats because we've handled it a lot better. You have to wonder if it really in the press's interest to hound the player like theyve done before? he's arguably player of the season and recognized as easily one of the best in world, which wasnt the case last time around. the papers will sell copies if he scores a wonder goal or does something mental, he's far better for the press than boring gareth bale. would they really want to see him leave like balotelli? speaking of balotelli, maybe this is were could do more as fans... that mad bastard did all sorts of crazy shit that was brushed aside because someone said he gave a tramp a million quid or built a school on his day off. why dont we just make up lots of nice crazy stuff about luis, the papers are happy to print any old shite and people might think differantly about a man who looks after sick nuns on a thursday?

It would if he'd killed his 6 kids to try get a season ticket.

Im not defending the mail, but from what i followed of the case he burned the house trying to frame the ex girl friend. And that was done to get custody of his 5 other kids back... from the way he has treated his children i find it hard to believe he was doing that cos he missed them. The prosecution pinned the motive on his lose of benifits, it something i can totally believe with this skum bag. You've all seen him on jeremy kyle?

Poor little Michael - ESPN FC Poor little Michael Stoke City striker Michael Owen announced last week that he was retiring from football at the end of this season. The news prompted gushing tributes from fans of clubs he never played for and derision from some of those he did -- he received a lot of 'I thought you retired a long time ago' messages on Twitter. You would do well to find many fans from the clubs Michael played most often for, Liverpool and Newcastle, who have anything positive to say about him. Some people are bemused by this, including, apparently, Michael himself. What has poor Michael done to be held in such little regard by so many? It's not his fault that he was prone to injury in his Newcastle days, is it? -- Owen clarifies Twitter contract claims I hadn't planned on mentioning Michael's retirement at all -- I have no interest in what he does once his playing days draw to a close and personally I just hope that I don't have to sit and watch him on my TV screen on Match of the Day. Sadly, it looks as if that is a distinct possibility. It was Michael's Tweets from the weekend that brought me to my keyboard. They offer a glimpse into why I and so many others find it hard to warm to a person who was once such a great player. The Tweets Owen's first round came on Saturday after his appearance on BBC's 'Football Focus' prompted a lot of negativity towards him on Twitter -- especially from Newcastle United supporters. Owen obviously felt that he had to respond and so Tweeted (across five Tweets): "Newcastle fans, following my Football Focus interview, plenty of you tweeting me saying you don't blame me for getting injured but for leaving when we got relegated. Despite the club saying they did, they didn't ever offer me a new contract despite them putting it in the press that they did. How could they when they had just been relegated? It would have been financial suicide. I've seen it a million times, a club will blatantly lie to their fans to take the moral high ground leaving the player with no leg to stand on. I've taken the stick for years which is fine but you really don't know half of it. All will be revealed one day" To me, the real interesting points from Owen's Twitter tirade were the claims that Newcastle United "blatantly lie to their fans" and that "they didn't ever offer me a new contract" Didn't ever? As for his promise that "All will be revealed one day" - quite a lot was revealed the very next day when Owen once again took to Twitter: 'Just to clarify. My tweet yesterday referred to no contract offer after Newcastle relegation. Newcastle did make me an offer to extend in 2008 when Joe Kinnear was manager. Apologies to the club if there has been any confusion' A serious amount of 'humble pie' being eaten by Owen, presumably after Newcastle United had been in touch. Either he forgot that Newcastle had offered him a new contract or he was being dishonest in an attempt to win back some support. The damage between Owen and Newcastle fans was done long before the weekend Tweets, though -- and the reason for the intense dislike on supporters' behalf is NOT that Owen suffered injuries as some of the national press would have you believe. The dislike built up over the four years he was at the football club. Owen arrived on Tyneside from Real Madrid for a fee of 17 million pounds, and on a weekly wage well in excess of £100,000 per week. In his first season at the club (2005-06) he managed only 11 games. He scored seven goals, including a hat-trick against West Ham. He broke his foot at Tottenham on New Year's Eve and missed 17 weeks. In fact, he only managed to play one more league game all season and many supporters suspected that his recovery was being timed to leave him as healthy as possible for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Supporters began to refer to him as EMO (England's Michael Owen). As the tournament approached there were doubts surrounding his match fitness, but he was selected and he played in the warmup games and then in the tournament. The season concluded with Owen leaving the field in Cologne on a stretcher four minutes into a game against Sweden -- he might have only managed 11 games for his club, but he managed an impressive 10 appearances for his country that first season. The terrible ACL injury he suffered restricted him to only three appearances for Newcastle the following season. He didn't score. The great news for England fans was that he did manage to make another two appearances for his country, though -- once again taking his not-quite-fit body away to play. Two seasons into his Newcastle career, Owen managed 12 games for England but only 14 for the club who by that point had already shelled out over £27million on him. In terms of appearances the 2007-08 season was Owen's best at the club. He played 33 games and scored 13 goals, including a double in a 2-0 win over Sunderland in the Tyne/Wear Derby. Players have been catapulted into Newcastle United folklore for less, but even this doesn't warm the Tyneside public to him. He managed another seven England games that season, too -- and picked up yet another injury (thigh) on international duty against Austria which kept him out for six weeks. Owen's final season at Newcastle was a disaster. He did OK by his standards in terms of appearances (28 Premier League games) but his uninspiring captaincy and lack of goals (10) weren't enough to prevent a multi-million pound Newcastle squad from being shockingly relegated. His appearances were underwhelming, he still talked England to the press and his reluctance to sign a new contract even when the club were not languishing in the relegation zone added to the uncertainty and negativity. He reminded me of a cruise ship captain who steers his ship into the rocks and then makes sure he is the first to safety as his ship sinks. He confirmed what we all thought when he tweeted 'Prefer playing less often for a top team than every game in a poor team' two years after he left. Before the season ended, Owen announced his intention to leave and before his contract expired he released a brochure aimed at finding him a new club in which he described himself as a brand, as good looking and best of all as fit and healthy! Derek Llambias estimated that Owen cost Newcastle United about £1.3million per goal. Newcastle fans aren't alone in their lack of respect for Owen though -- Liverpool fans feel the same way but for different reasons. Owen once Tweeted that you need to have thick skin in the world of Twitter - he certainly needed it when he decided to host a Q-and-A session on the site last year! Fans of clubs from all over England took potshots at him! Owen, estimated to be worth over £40million, once took to Twitter complaining about having to pay 20p to use a public toilet at a train station. I paid in excess £2000 over four years to watch him turn up for fitness when England were on the horizon and then captain my club towards relegation! No, it's not because of injuries that I don't like Michael Owen, it is for the lack of respect that he showed my football club -- a club who made him a very, very rich man.

I would pay good money to work him over for half an hour with a cricket bad... one with nails in. His face just causes rage to start building!

4 in 39 last season 4 in 13 so far this. so you could say hes still improving! :whistle:

Really hope Sturridge deal is done, he's a young player with a fair bit of experience. Hopefully he settles quickly and we see the best of him. He played really well in that west brom side and he is just what we're missing. i know he's not always looked a team player for Chelsea, but i recon if was only getting played 1 in 6 games I'd be trying my hardest to get on their team sheet before i played in torres! I think he looked decent in the GB team as well. I think he'll play in the middle where Shelveys been playing.

I went to sportsmans dinner on friday with Didi Hamman as the guest. Great bloke, really funny, and happy to answer questions. So someone asked him for his thoughts of the current liverpool team and manager. I was a bit pissed so cant remember word for word, but it was along the lines of... If you took any top team in the prem, gave them £35m to spend on a striker, who they then have to beg West Ham to take on loan a season later, its says it all about how money has been mispent. You've got near £80m worth of suposed talent who cant get passed 18 year olds for a place in the team, not even getting on the bench, and you've lost 3 of the biggest players last season Kuyt Bellemy and Maxi. Rogers was always onto a hiding for this season cos he was paying for the previous managments mistakes. He needs time but money more importanlty, otherwise we'll never what what is possible. this all makes sense to me.

My referral space is full now. Thanks to anyone who helped. If anyone else wants to post there referral code for any future signers feel free.

i should say you also have to install the app, i think its takes you through a tutorial which gives you more free space. then you can get more if you log onto the website.

sweet! thank you! its basically this newfangled "cloud storage" people go on about Melons. anything you put in the dropbox folder is stored on dropboxes servers as well. you can use it as a backup for files, then acess the files from any other pc, or share them with people. its quite handy. My iphone also backs all my photos to it hence needing more space. cheers again.

Thank you. It is a really good site/app. backs all the photos up to it from my phone, and you can set your "my documents" to it and never loose it again. Top 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox

I wonder if i could ask a favour, if people dont have an account already, could you sign up for Dropbox with my link Dropbox We both get extra space for anyone who signs up with it. It a really good service anyway, i use it loads for moving files around or for sharing music with friends. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help.

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If City have jus paid £15m for Rodwell, we've got a bargin.

I think we have finally replaced Alonso, him and Lucas in the middle will be class, and he fits into the British squad Kenny put together. This is a great signing.

From what i remember he was originally heading to Cardiff from City, but jumped at the chance to work with Kenny instead. Great player best of luck to him.

If you come out in the press and say ive got £100m to spend and im going to get a winger or forward, you end up getting bent over the minute you sit down at the table to negotiate, im pretty sure thats what happened last season. Talk the amount of money you've got to spend down and you strengthen your position.

Soz for the duplicate thread, it truely is a class series. To the regiment, i wish i was there.

Just got through the DVDs on nights, totally missed this when it was on tele, thought it was boss though! Really well written and great characters, written by the Royal Family fella, but much preffered this to that. Bit like Phoenix Nights. Early Doors IMDB

Just got back from Old Toilet, paid special attention to Allen tonight and was pretty impressed by how he played, it really did remind me of alonso, always asking for the ball of the back 4, decent range of passing and mostly looking to move it forward. I know £15m seems steep but i think we'd get 2 things for a our money, a very promising talent and a player who already knows Rogers style and can help others adapt to it quicker. Id rather see him the squad then Adam.

yeah i guess so