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Yeah we had 4 games in ten days. Give your head a shake son.
Well yes, but two of them were away now, weren't they.
Anyway, anyone heard anythign about this Stoke fan critically injured/killed by Birmingham fans? Not seen anything about it on the news but supposedly they bashed his head in with bricks and fractured his skull, rumours that he'd died. I know Stoke and Birmingham have a long history of violence and revenge attacks each time they meet.
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Oh dear. I see the mags are still clutching at straws. (And you say we are obsessed with your lot.) It was a mid-week game - mere days after our previous game and we had ONLY 6,000 empty seats yet still got a turn out of around 30,000+. Only the Geordies would compare that to their status.
Ours was also a mid-week game, the difference is that our game was against Sheffield Wednesday, in the Championship, with no manager, an owner dismantling the club, and our players leaving in droves and yours was against one of the biggest teams in the world, in the best league in the world. Your lot seem quite disappointed with your attendances, anyroad, particularly compared to ours.
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=433965
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=434179
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=434927
Main reason I point it out is that I've been reading people on forums and in the media gloating about how I'd be sitting alongside 20,000 empty seats this season.
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Of course it wouldn't be as simple as I stated in my post. My point was that the main reason the death penalty was gotten rid of, at least in Canada, was because people were hung who were latter found to be innocent. So if it had to be brought back, there would need to be a way to avoid that.
There isn't a way to avoid that. If you have the death penalty, sooner or later innocent people will be killed by the state. If the death penalty is going to be brought back, you have to be willing to make that trade off. We already try not to convict people wrongly, it doesn't always work.
Another thing to consider - juries are less likely to convict someone if they think they may have the danger of an innocent man being put to death on their concious later if new evidence comes to light. So it's quite possible that bringing back hanging will result in more criminals walking free. In a similar vien, people talk about bringing back hanging for child abuse without taking into account that most abuse is carried out by family members and thinking about what a powerful tool is it for an abuser to say "If you say anything they'll kill me" or how much less likely a wife is to voice her suspicions about her husband if he may be put to death.
As for "We'll only kill them if they definitely did it", punishments are given based on the severity of the crime, not the likelyhood you did it. You'd end up putting someone to death for one murder because there was a lot of compelling evidence and then giving a serial killer who murdered 10 people a lfie sentence because there was a bit of a fuck up with the DNA evidence which was later rectified. Where does that continue to? You might have been involved in this armed robbery, so you just get six months. You were in the area of this mugging, so serve a week in the nick. It's unworkable.
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I think if we do bring back the death penalty, it should only be used on people who were "caught red handed", if you will (To avoid innocent people getting killed by accident).
We don't have "definitely guilty" as a verdict though, we only have guilty and not guilty. If you have that system you're going to have a lot of people appealing (understandably) on the grounds of "You're obviously not sure you've got the right person because I didn't get the death penalty. So why am I locked up when you obviously doubt the verdict?"
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Was at St James' s tonight, alongside a crowd of 43,904. Bear in mind that's in the championship, against Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland had 6,000 empty seats in the premier league against Chelsea.
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My dingoo arrived today, been snapping some pics
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Seems like they sell them here. At $100, I think I'll pass.
It's a dingoo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoo
I paid $83 for it delivered, which is pretty much bang on 50 notes in real money.
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Get in Shloa, Fenham pele gets a hattrick.
EDIT: In spite of having no manager and being in the championship we still had a higher attendance than Villa today, for what it's worth.
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Shipped yesterday, should be here in about a week.
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It was proved beyond reasonable doubt that he was involved. But the question is how involved as they think the regime in Libya had a much larger role and he was a bit of a scape goat.
I thought it was more a case of Iran possibly being behind it as an act of revenge for the US blowing up an Iranian passenger plane and Libya agreeing to take the rap for them and sending some patsy over to do the time.
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Newcastle have signed Danny Simpson from Man U on a six-month loan deal. Can't say I've seen him play, wasn't he on loan to Blackburn and Sunderland?
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I like in-flight food.
Me too. Gin and tonic, mini tub of pringles and packet of olives.
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So we signed Cattermole today.
How many career-enders will he put in thsi season then?
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Sat'day random drinks n' antics LOLZ
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Ashley C can't find his fone, can some1 give it a buzz for us?
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Steven Gerrard hopes his 'groin' injury clears in time for Sunday lolz
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Ben Foster: Ditto lolz
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Frank Lampard is LOLing at Stevie G - 3 hours ago 3 comments
-Steven Gerrard: f**k off Lamps lol
-Rio Ferdinand: oi oi epic banter lads
-Steven Gerrard: did he dedicate the banter to his Mum lol
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Glen Johnson is looking at new toilet seats in B&Q
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Yeah, funny story for Grant. Probably thought some scary Geordie lasses were in the car!
Anyway, enjoy your season mate, wish you were in the PL though, we seem to be finally getting a decent team together and you go and do a runner from us! Gonna miss the derbies tbh.
Well, if Ashley pulls his finger out and packs his bags we can start making progress towards that. I have a feeling he's going to massively under estimate the task and think he can just appoint O'Leary and cruise back intot he Prem where he'll get more money for us though.
I was talking to a Tottenham fan at work today and apparently they held off on the paperwork until the final whistle was blown for Newcastle's game. So whilst everything had been agreed to he was technically still a Newcastle player, therefore finished serving his ban.Doesn't look that way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/8194412.stm
Bassong has served ban, say SpursSebastien Bassong is set to make his debut for Tottenham against Liverpool on Sunday despite appearing to serve only one game of a two-match ban.
Bassong, 23, was sent off for Newcastle at the end of last season and missed their final match of the campaign.
Spurs say he has completed his ban by missing Newcastle's match against West Brom on Saturday, even though he signed for the Londoners before that match.
Tottenham insist the ban continued to apply to Newcastle games.
"Sebastien Bassong will be available for selection for our Premier League season opener against Liverpool on Sunday," read a Spurs statement.
"Given he served the first game of his ban against Aston Villa on the final day of the previous campaign as a Newcastle player, it meant the suspension continued to apply to Newcastle games.
"It was therefore satisfied when his former club visited West Brom on the opening day of the Championship season on Saturday."
Bassong is set to partner Ledley King on Sunday.
If I were a Spurs fan I'd be slightly worried about getting docked points.
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I was talking to a Tottenham fan at work today and apparently they held off on the paperwork until the final whistle was blown for Newcastle's game. So whilst everything had been agreed to he was technically still a Newcastle player, therefore finished serving his ban.
Why don't they say that then, rather than saying it's because he'd served one game of the ban for us?
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Horse games are big in Japan. Not like Horse games are popular in Western Europe, ie Ponyz, My Riding Stablez and Imagine Horsez, but proper indepth sims where you preside over racing seasons and arcade games like these
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"112mph Sunderland star feared Newcastle fans were chasing him"
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/112mph-Sunderland-star-feared-Newcastle.5541780.jp
OK, Grant
Sunderland players can't be that scared of Geordies, otherwise they wouldn't all live, drink and eat in Newcastle.
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So, can anyone explain how this works then?
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/sebreadyforliverpool100809.html
Never heard of that rule before. Looks a little bit like they've just invented it because Spurs have a bit of a defensive injury crisis. Anyone remember their club signing a player and having to wait for a ban they started at a previous club to expire?
How on earth can you serve a ban by not playing in a game which doesn't even involve your club? What kind of punishment's that?
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Tim Krul made a few decent saves, we were dodgy at the back but looked the better team going forward. Could have gone either way to be honest.
Canny article in The Times yesterday on the Top 10 teams of the last 25 years:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6789124.ece
1: Arsenal 2001-04The 2002 team were superb, but the “Invincibles”, who went through the season undefeated two years later, were truly exceptional. Thierry Henry and others were at the peak of their powers, but the main difference between this and subsequent Arsenal sides was in their indomitable spirit and physical strength. No European Cup, but what a team.
2: Manchester United 2006-09
Even Ryan Giggs has questioned whether this is a truly great team, rather than merely a successful one, but their three consecutive titles and two Champions League final appearances have come at a time when the Premier League’s elite is more powerful than ever. The question is whether they can still flourish without Cristiano Ronaldo.
3. Chelsea 2004-2009
We are talking here about the side fashioned by José Mourinho, which still, at its best, bears his hallmark. They are not quite the force they were when they won the Premier League with a record points tally in 2005, but two league titles and a series of near-misses in the Champions League do scant justice to the team that José built.
4: Manchester United 1995-2001
Over six years that yielded five league titles and a long-awaited Champions League success in 1999, United were truly dominant. Four and five-goal victories were ritual, but so too were the comebacks that drew on the character and spirit of Roy Keane, David Beckham and a team for whom winning was second nature.
5: Liverpool 1987-90
The football that Liverpool played in 1987-88, with John Barnes a mesmerising presence on the left wing, was simply irresistible. They would surely have been higher up this list had the ban on English clubs’ from European competition not denied them the chance to measure themselves against the great AC Milan team of the same era.
6: Everton 1984-87
In a heady three-year spell, Howard Kendall led Everton from mediocrity to two league titles, three FA Cup Finals (one victory) and the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Class ran right through this cheaply assembled team, from Neville Southall to the wonderful midfield quartet of Trevor Steven, Paul Bracewell, Peter Reid and Kevin Sheedy.
7: Manchester United 1992-94
Yes they flopped in the Champions League, but Sir Alex Ferguson is not alone in regarding this as his favourite United team. With characters such as Peter Schmeichel, Bryan Robson, Paul Ince, Roy Keane and Mark Hughes, they were a fearsome lot, but they also played some marvellous stuff, with Eric Cantona a talismanic presence up front.
8: Arsenal 1997-99
Not quite as successful in trophy-winning terms as George Graham’s Arsenal, but their double triumph in their first full season under Arsène Wenger was as spectacular as it was unexpected. Wenger built on the foundations of Graham’s celebrated back four, with Marc Overmars, Dennis Bergkamp and a young Nicolas Anelka bringing flair to Highbury at last.
9: Blackburn Rovers 1994-95
Nothing like as eye-catching as Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle but, backed by the wealth of Jack Walker and managed by Kenny Dalglish, they won the title with 89 points in 1995. They relied heavily on the goals of Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton, but this unglamorous team also had an incredible work ethic and, crucially, perfect balance.
10: Newcastle United 1994-96
The only trophy-less team on the list, but Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle will live longer in the memory than Leeds United’s champions of 1992 or Liverpool’s cup treble winners of 2001. Epitomised by the flair of David Ginola, they captivated audiences across the country. Nor was their defensive record as bad as people seem to think.
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Some good photos from the memorial day at SJP
http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,63574.660.html
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Hows he dodgy dirty and a diver?
I've already explained it. He puts some nasty tackles in, he goes to ground very easily (sometimes with no contact at all) and screams blue murder at the referee when he wants free kicks, his mates elbow people in the face and then he follows it up with a flurry of uppercuts, his dad's down with scouse gangsters and his lass bottles people
I dont see many people complain about Gerrard.Exactly my point, I'm saying if it was someone else a bigger deal would be made of his off the pitch indescresions and his... what do they call it now, simulation? That's from watching games in the flesh or in full on TV and seeing his dives for myself, which are then stragely absent from match of the day and the post-match analysis - as is critism for it from officials and commentators.
As an example, he dived blatenty here to win a pen
Then when asked about it he claimed he hadn't dived, but admitted that he'd have been "furious" if that pen had been given against Liverpool. Work that one out if you can.
And evidently I'm not the only person to think Gerrard dives a lot
http://soccerlens.com/diver-gerrard-is-a-hypocrite/513/
Although you'll see most of the videos showing his dives have been removed from youtube
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Ok i think you may be slightly bitter about something because your way off the mark.
I've got nothing to be bitter about, I just call it how I see it. He's a bit dodgy, a bit dirty and dives a lot. Is he the worst player in football? No, not at all. But he gets a really easy ride from the media etc and he's got another one here. There's no way in the world any normal person would have got away with that "self defense" bollocks if they'd been caught on camera joining in a beating like that.
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Are you serious?
Of course I'm serious. He's cut down on the trademark "Stevie Lunge" that he used to cripple people with on a regular basis when he got frustrated, but he still dives all over the pitch at every possible opportunity - he's on a par with Ronaldo and Drogba in those stakes and if he was foreign he'd get crucified for it. Watch for how many time this season he walks to his favourite spot to take free kicks from, about 5 yards away from the right side of the box, kicks his legs up and goes to ground. Lots of other footballers who'd punched someone in the face while off their tits in a club would have had headlines about how they were out of control arrogant bling-boys, but not Stevie. If it'd been Joey Barton he'd have been taken into the town square and hung on the spot. Yet in spite of the fact Gerrard and his dad hang around with a load of crooks and gangsters, that his wife smashes lasses over the heads with bottles (and sucks off bouncers behind his back) he's still England hero and ambassador for the game good old Stevie G.
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Mag Kid for the DS, a weird japanese game with an add-on which attaches to the base of the DS and lets you control the game by moving the DS around on a table.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-70-21px.html
Was $58, now $9.90 + shipping.
Mine arrived today with about $20 of other stuff, no customs charges or anything.
Football Season 2009/2010
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Hope if Everton come after Taylor we take into account their recent windfall when negotiating a price. We let ourselves get absolutely stiffed on the Given deal, which was apparently only about £5.5 million, when Man City were going round and paying basically whatever anyone asked. Then we waited for the deal to go through before asking if we could buy Johnson off them and getting turned down.