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By the time the other clubs have their game in hand I'll have players from those clubs transferred in anyway though. So anyone who played game week 2 with only 8 players, 3 of whom were their crap subs, aint gonna catch up as much as they hope.

Be aware that unless you've looked at the fixtures it's likely half your team aren't playing in the second week.

Campbell was cracking last season. Wish we'd got him but that oaf Roeder said he was "Too old" when he said he'd love to come to Newcastle on a free, what a fuckwit. Then he bought Sibierski.

Load of idiots. The Celtic fans are no better mind, they behaved like animals in newcastle the other week, walking the streets gloating and screaming about he IRA, September the 11th, 7/7 (to women and little un's mostly), audible "Al Quaeda! (clap clap clap clap clap) Al Quaeda!! chants in the ground nd trashed about 4 or 5 bars rioting. Dunno why we keep inviting them back. All this sectarian shite needs to be kicked out the game up there, but it's so ingrained in it I fear it's never going to be removed completely. The Rangers fans are usually canny to us lot because of the whole British loving fetish, but they're still odious little ***** to their rivials, taking it well beyond football. EDIT: I should stress some of the Celtic fans. Some of them did stick "Celtic fans against racism and sectarianism" stickers around, quite a numebr of their contingent didn't seem to pay much attention to that though.

Sorry, force of habit - I'm from somewhere where people support their local club.

All people in this thread support and love their club and have a biased view of it. How come it's the same common demoninator of the same two scouse fans who are always in a flame war with someone or other? Now I'm sure on some PlayStation or Xbox board in a parrallel cyber universe there are some Chelsea fans, or Man U fan or Toon fans swanning around like a dog with two cocks and getting right up everyone's nose. But here it happens to be the scousers. I think Fields is a bad influence on you to be honest, if I was teaching you I'd make one sit at the front and the other at the back.

You bring this on yourself mate by the way you go on. Why do you think this entire thread degenerates into Liverpool vs the World? Before I came on this forum i had a genuine soft spot for liverpool, I've got a good mate from uni who's a scouser and I'd go and watch Liverpool games on Sky with him whenever they were on. I've had nothing but good experiences going to Anfeild, and I could never imagine watching Man U playing Liverpool and wanting anything else but a Liverpool victory. But after listening to you two bairns sqwark on and on and on and on about how great you are and taking huge offense at anyone who suggests otherwise really starts to get thoroughly annoying after a while. Give it a rest.

And you said that was OK by Shearer at the time, that these things happen in football, that Lennon probably deserved it did you? I never said no-one in a black and white shirt has ever done anythign wrong, or that anyone who's played for Newcastle has escaped punishment for it, nor have I ever defended them when they were clearly in the wrong. Stop supporting your club like they were a boy band and you're a teenage girl, your fans and players are not infallible, they're not perfect and they're not incapable of doing wrong - and when they do, it's not always someone else's fault. You know fine well if a player of another club did that same thing to one of your lot you wouldn't be so forgiving.

Funnily enough, that was exactly the message of my post. Come on, if it'd been gerrard who'd been slapped it'd be black arm bands, "Justice 4 Stevie" t-shirts and outraged letters to UEFA, FIFA, the FA and the Pope all round, you can't pretend you'd accept any excuses of "He deserved it".

Looks like the Baines deal is still on after all. Reading the metro on my way to work and it said he was a lifelong everton fan - I thought he was a Liverpool fan when he was a kid? Anyway, Moyes looks happy about it EDIT: Our promising young striker Andy Carroll has been loaned to Sheff Wed, should be really good for them. Looked really promising in the pre-season friendlies, hopefully getting regular games should see him come good.

Excellent, I think you're a complete cock stain as well. Would you like to meet for a pint to discuss it, assuming you can get into a pub? You are still in Durham aren't you?

I heard it's going to be so big once they add the extension to accomodate Jamie Carraghers monsterous cock that it's going to be declared as a new country and Liverpool are going to win the World Cup. Just to give you an idea of the scale of the size of how immense it is and just why it is going to be bigger and have more people in it than China, if you printed out every post Ant has made on it, scrumpled them up and threw them into the stadium you could nearly fit them all inside.

News of the Baines transfer has vanished off Wigan's official site, rumour is he failed the medical.

If I understand this right Heinze has a release clause of ~£7m, Liverpool have offered and Man U don't want to sell to them. Why don't Man U whisper in the ear of another club, get them to bid £7.1m and then immediately accept that offer? It'll be Liverpool's special dispensation again, like wanting to be able to sign heinze after the transfer window closes, wanting to be in the Champs League without qualifying for it, being allowed to break the rules by signing Mascherano when he wasn't eligable to play for them... I assume the same argument was used for Gerrard not being sent off as for all of the above, ie "But we're Liverpool..." Of course there's similar 'allowances' for Man U as well, like the fudge over the Tevez deal when it's still clearly fucking dodgy. Just a bit of a "Cough cough, yeah if he moves to Man U that solves all the serious legal issues over his ownership, say no more about it."

Makes him a good fantasy signing for only 4.5 *touches nose*

Everton have signed Leighton Baines for £5m. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_2643417,00.html

Looks like we've finally got Enrique http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_2643304,00.html

Why are they without Arteta? They've got some canny players, Cahill's out for just the start of the season, Lescott and Yobo are solid, Jagielka's versitile and a good grafter. Think they could surprise people this season. Don't think they're going to be top 6, but maybe 7th-11th. Top two are still going to be Chelsea and Man U, although I think there's definite potential for a surprise package int he top four depending on how Liverpool and Arsenal do. Really hope someone (anyone) manages to bridge the gap ebcause it's making the premiership really dull. the suits won't like it though, they don't want anyone else to get a look in because of all the Man U/Chelsea/Liverpool/Arsenal "fans" and bookies in the far and middle east.

Ameobi plays football like an octopus falling out of a tree, he's nowhere near premiership level. If he wasn't a geordie he'd have been shipped off to Norwich ages ago.

Alan Smith may convert me to thinking he's a good buy after all, cracking man of the match performance against Sampdoria, great headed goal and a goal wrongly disallowed for offside. Didn't look great upfront with Viduka first half, but dropped back and played deep later on and looked much better.

Oh no, people worrying more about their jobs, families and the future of the royal mail than if some spotty oik of a school kid gets bad feedback for the cheapo phone covers and second hand xbox games he's flogging on ebay. How inconsiderate.

Correct, you got in there just before I replied.

Yeah, because sacking lots of people and cutting their wages so less people want to be postmen is all about making the service better, not about saving money so they can award directors obscene bonuses. You've been taken in by the word "streamlining", which is not surprising - from your spelling I'm guessing (hoping) you're about 12/13, so it would be quite a big and impressive word for you.

Good on them, you need trade unions and workers to fuck shit up every now and again to keep in check the clueless oafs in middle management who have no idea what goes on in the actual day to day running of the business by the people who have to do the work. As some people in this thread will find when they leave school and (maybe) get a job.

The best and worst of Alan Smith: Villa Real's official site says we've signed Jose Enrique, the Chronicle, Lancashire Evening Post, & Mirror say we're back in for Baines and apparently we've just signed Dragutinovic! Finally all kicking off on the transfer front EDIT: Caçapa has now signed a two year deal