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Just watched him on skysports ,the biggest smile on his face when his dream club was mentioned ,if that is newcastle I'll lose faith with humanity as a whole.

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http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1850967,00.html "Kuyt telling the Feyenoord hierarchy he is only prepared to move to Liverpool" - well thats always nice to hear.

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The Magpies are hoping for a hostile atmosphere for the visit of Paul Jewell's men and in an effort to recreate the scenes at Alan Shearer's testimonial will give a scarf to every spectator as they arrive at St James' Park. Shepherd: 'When the fans at Alan's testimonial started waving the scarves it was one of those moments that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. It was the talk of football and even now, people still bring it up in conversation. 'I hope the scarf waving will become a tradition at home games. When St James's Park is buzzing, there's no better ground in the world for atmosphere. 'That's why we have decided to start the new season by giving a black and white scarf to every Newcastle fan coming to the Wigan game. We want them to wave the scarves during the game and help Glenn Roeder and the team get off to a winning start. 'And the message is clear: We want the fans to bring the scarves to every game and help us keep St. James's as a fortress that no visiting team will fancy coming to.' Was quite funny I remember reading a newcastle forum after that shearer game ,newcastle-online and there were people on there adament that they had made this scarf thing up

I'll be really upset if we don't sign this young fella I have never heard of from river plate .

These books just grab cheap headlines and 'exlusives' and create unnecessary controversy and attention. Its a purely money grabbing exercise ,it should be left at least untill they have retired .Rooney is supposed to be bringing out 5 books god help us ,a must have on any bookshelf I'm sure.

thought this quite funny off youtube,fowler with a fan when he was at city

Sounds about right.

"A mass protest will take place outside the ground for the Champions League qualifier on Wednesday and organisers hope it will also continue inside." f*** that ..oh look they are israeli lets go and protest .

Anti-Israel protest plan at Anfield clash with HaifaAug 5 2006 MERSEYSIDE campaigners will protest against Israeli action in the Middle East at Liverpool's clash with Maccabi Haifa at Anfield next week. A mass protest will take place outside the ground for the Champions League qualifier on Wednesday and organisers hope it will also continue inside. Placards and banners will call for peace in Lebanon while leaflets will be handed around the stadium calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. The protest was called for by Liverpool Friends of Palestine and is supported by Merseyside's Stop The War Coalition (STWC) and Trade Union Council (TUC). Mark Holt, of STWC, said: "We are hoping this event will be noticed by Israeli television, and Israelis will see there are millions of people out there who are disgusted by what is going on. http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liv...-name_page.html

He does and it comes out on 1st september .

He's s**** that xabi Alonso ..

http://www.cfcnet.co.uk/content/default.asp REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL - PART ONE I never thought that Chelsea could upset the bad and the ugly on Merseyside so much, but it seems that despite having no history we have managed to drive the little thieving scroats mad. Take a look at the following link: http://www.lfconline.com/news/loadroll.asp...6&id=288755 It?s a shining example of the many rumours doing the rounds on the net, namely that the red robbers are going to win the forthcoming Premiership. They cite 10 reasons to justify this. Let?s pull them apart: 1. Rick Parry insightful leader: (ex-Premier chief executive, accountant and former pupil of Whitby high school ? fancy a prawn sandwich Ricky?). His inspired appointment was nicking the great Buddha, Rafa Benitez from Valencia, to build on Houiller?s legacy. After Rafa had won the title in Spain, he repeated his tactic of having no recognised strikers (Morientes, robot freak, Mellor one hit wonder etc) and ten men behind the ball. I never liked tricky Ricky and always wondered why he scarpered from the Premier to take up the Liverpool job. Perhaps the prawn sandwiches are better in the executive lounge. 2) Gerrard: World class player, difference between us and them, blah blah. ?Exahhhctley? as the little Scouser would say, he is Mr Liverpool. At times they are a one man team. Without him they struggle, yet Gerrard is just a big fish in a mediocre pond. The only player worthy of a berth in Chelsea?s 24 man squad. He?d be number 25, behind Lamps, Essien, Ballack, Robben and Cole. 3) Carragher: the heart of the defence. Don?t make me laugh! For England he showed what an ordinary one-trick pony he is. Play our Chelsea boys across the back line and they perform wherever they are played. Carragher goes to the World Cup to take penalties, comes on in the 89th minute and two minutes later knocks England out of the World Cup along with Gerraaaaad. It?s enough to put Frank off taking his penalty. Who are these people kidding??? 4) Alonso: the best £10Mill Liverpool ever spent!! Blimey they paid that much? I thought it was Garcia, the thumb-sucking opportunist, who scores great goals by taking advantage of defensive c**k-ups to nip in and score. Alonso?s passing is a joy to behold!! Yeah right when it flies into the stand behind the intended recipient! 5) The marvellous spion Kop fans: The same fans that f****d it up for everybody in Europe and then over here at Hillsborough which lead to all-seater stadiums and the high ticket prices. Those same fans who teach their kids to throw rocks, coins and excrement for fun. Yeah right!!! Chels ain?t angels but there is a limit. 6) Brazil Left Back?s for Liverpool? They are welcome to Roberto Carlos. I?d look forward to Robben trashing him game after game. 7) Coaching: Ah yes the most interesting point. Apparently Rafa has the edge over other coaches, He maintains an aloof posture only speaking to the players when they need to be spoken to and only about footie. This I think will be their undoing. Gerrard nearly left because of it, Michael left after a month not knowing what was going on and I suspect players won?t go to Liverpool either because of it. So rather than the psychological approach of getting into the players heads like Fergie, Arsene and Jose, Rafa prefers the cold aloof approach. Perhaps that?s why he struggles over 38 games. Rafa is a lucky git. His team selection was all wrong for the champs final, 3-0 down, yet some dodgy refereeing saw them get back to win on cheating pens. Losing to West Ham in the FA Cup Final and somehow through luck they scrape in and win it. Hardly the invincible Liverpool of old. Rafa won?t win the Premier title - his teams are just not consistent enough. 8) Little and Large: the robot freak knocking down those aimless high balls for lickle Bellamy to slam into the side netting. Yeah right!! It worked for Quinny and Phillips for a while then teams worked out how to stop it and the goals dried up. I think if they get Kuyt it?ll be Kuyt and Bellamy with the freak and Fowler on the bench. That?s why we could do with adding Kuyt to the squad for additional firepower for a couple of years and then sell him on to Newcastle. 9) Hunger - they are starving for success: They?re gonna be f***ing anorexic after we?ve finished with them. Our boys know how to win for fun. The first year we won it we were firing on all cylinders. Last year we knew how to win by just doing enough and then we could sit back for the rest of the game and dream of going to the World Cup. Not pretty to watch but effective. This year we?ll be pretty and effective. 10) Wrecking ball player: Whilst acknowledging that all the best teams have one and we have Makelele (why thank you so much for that) they have wait for it?Sissoko. Sissoko! Yeah the same two-footed thug who kicks fouls and gets away with murder on the pitch. The difference is that Makelele does it by conceding the minimum number of fouls on opposing players ? even then, on replay, it?s often shown that he?s played the ball and has gotten penalised unfairly. No, all in all I think its fantastic that we have got under their skin like this. I can?t wait to hang a blue banner up reminding them that this is what the Premier trophy looks like, cos they aint got a hope in hell chance of ever winning it whilst Roman and Jose are involved with our beloved Chelsea. Cmon Chelsea!!!! PS. Many thanks to Jamie Ellis without whom this article wouldn?t have been possible - dream on son!! PSS The only time the Scousers will have a chance to see the Premiership trophy will be to come to the Megastore and have their photo taken with the little silver beauty. bitter!

It would be a bit weird if we went for the cheaper right wing option only to find out we couldn't afford a striker anyway we might as well have just bought alves .

Don't know if its been posted somewhere but I thought the article on wayne rooney in yesterdays mirror by brian reade was worth a mention. Quote of the year in there.

I'm kind of hoping that rafa stays at Liverpool a long time and then eventually take the spanish national job ,but for a fella who has gone right through the real madrid set up as a player and a coach I think its probably hoping too much for him to resist real madrid one day when the opportunity arrives.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1831015,00.html few extracts from some new chelsea book where he goes on about himself and his place in history oh yeah and Liverpool . "the disappointing FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool at Old Trafford - was that for once Mourinho's strategy and tactics were criticised. For a manager who has frequently gambled shrewdly and won, and who successfully introduced a diamond midfield at the end of the season to win games, this was a novelty "Well, first of all, I'm happy with the critics," Mourinho said. "I won so many times and people routinely see my team win and win, and when we lose they have to go for something and I'm happy they go for my strategy. "On the day of our champions parade, it was all Liverpool and Liverpool parade, and a Chelsea photo in the corner of page 34 or 28. It's absolutely amazing. It's absolutely amazing. So I think we are fighting the establishment and I am quite happy with it. I always used to say that the media can manipulate the people ... That's obvious. Media goes to your house every day through television, through newspapers, through the Internet, through public opinion. "I think Chelsea, with the effort of the last years ... Roman bought the club, changed the club, brought Peter Kenyon, changed the manager, changed players, does a lot for English football, does a lot for kids, does a lot for society, does a lot for charity, does a lot in many, many different areas, I think Chelsea deserves much more than it gets. Another club would be already on the moon, and Chelsea is still far from being on the moon." "I think I saw it in the champions parade," he said. "I think it was a parade without the real emotion, because parades, all over the world, are usually on the same day or the day after you win the title. So when you have to do a parade nearly one month later it means 10% of the reality. You can imagine: Chelsea beat Man United 3-0 and after the game - parade! There would have been maybe 500,000 people there. " Its not our fault or a media conspiracy that chelsea had their parade on the same day as Liverpool's , Anyway the fella is seriously deluded chelsea couldn't even get 500 thousand people out on the streets after winning the first title after half a century so it wouldn't matter when they had their parade, its their own fault for clashing their s***ty parade with ours.

"There are payments due to other parties than banks and not all 'debt' is the accounting debt of unfulfilled obligations. A little tip. Player transfers." what about the transfers? expand please.

I remember an article from this person on newcastles finances as well.

Sounded a bit strange to me as well ,not heard that particular rumour about JP Mcmanus it just sounds totally made up. The only rumour I heard which I posted on RAWK was that there could be a big decision made on Thursday apparently (I assume this thursday?) and that not long after something would be put out to the press . Don't know if anyone else has heard anythign even vaguely similar ,got a few replies on RAWK saying there might just be a little inkling in it but nothing more than that. so just found the timing of this article quite interesting.I never really want to mention any rumours on the stadium cos you look like a nob when nothing happens anyway as per usual.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtm...27/sfnbo228.xml "By Mihir Bose Everton might get one over on their Merseyside rivals Liverpool by moving into a brand new stadium before them. Liverpool's plans for a new ground have become so bogged down that they are in danger of losing up to £20 million of European funding, which has been earmarked for stadium infrastructure work. The clock on this European funding, which comes via the north-west regional development agencies, is ticking and the club has been told that as this money is coming from this year's budget Liverpool must convice them that they are serious about this new stadium by the July 31, or the money will be allocated elsewhere. However, progress on the new stadium has been so slow that costs have risen inexorably. Having started with an original estimate of £70 million the stadium could cost £190 million. One of the main problems has been finding an investor. On Tuesday rumours swept Merseyside of yet another consortium bid, which would be Liverpool's seventh potential bidder in the last year. The latest rumoured bidder consists of Dermot Desmond, Celtic's largest shareholder, with John Magnier and JP McManus, once friends of Sir Alex Ferguson and investors in Manchester United. Everton, in contrast, have no potential investors and a long-term stand-off in their boardroom between chairman Bill Kenwright and director Paul Gregg to deal with. Despite this, the club is looking at three sites and confident they could build a 50,000-stadium, with an option to increase the capacity to 70,000, for around £100 million, at a cost of £1,500 a seat. There are three potential sites, the first is near Aintree, which Peel Holdings, a major property developer of the region, may help to build. The other sites include one near Speke airport and another in Kirby, which will involve a Tesco development, the company's chief executive Sir Terry Leahy being a keen Everton supporter. Everton's income of £60 million may be half that of Liverpool's, but their debt of £27 million is also a third of Liverpool's debt which is nearly £80 million. But Goodison sources are confident that if all goes well they could be in their new home by 2009, unlike Liverpool who have said that even in a best-case scenario their new stadium will not be ready until 2010." would appreciate someone explaining where that 80 million figure has come from ,cos I have seen that a few times now and never understand it.

martin samuel for me and if not him then rod liddel will do just fine .

the price keeps going up and up

if he steps out of line I'm sure bellamy won't stand for it either.