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Champions League v Arsenal last year???

Newcastle fans sang 'where is your famous support'??? Did they need that large gentleman marching about with a microphone to get them going, or did they actually sing it without a prompt?

Yes. Seeing as this thread is called 'Team for Newcastle,' I see now I was hopelessly misguided in posting team news here, rather than in the thread about the match that has not yet started. I was only trying to help, but I apologise profoundly for the confusion.

The Mail is claiming Torres will be 'rested'. LINK

"But show me a man who's never made a mistake and I'll show you a man who's done nothing". Yes, well, not exactly a sentiment most refs appear to ponder when throwing cards around in the first ten minutes of some matches in order to 'set standards'. If refs behaved with a little more humility DURING games, instead of following in Graham Poll's great tradition of pompous 'go way' gestures and arrogant 'I'm in charge' grins, maybe they'd be treated more sympathetically. It's a bit glib to claim to occupy the peaks of Mount Olympus until you suddenly want some indulgence for your all-too-human failings.

Kamara - who still stares at the camera like a puzzled dog, even though he's been doing this job for years - claimed the mancs were 'in control' before they got the penalty.

I haven't seen a match that suspicious since the bluenoses avoided relegation. Hopefully it'll get so much media coverage the other refs of manc games this season will avoid giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Blimey, Webb looked a 1960s Italian ref when he came off there! Very, very, odd behaviour during the past few games by him.

Did he? Then if he'd been booked before when he deserved to be he'd have been off. Ridiculous.

There really is something dodgy about him. He didn't book Ronaldo for an obvious foul, then he didn't book him for taking off his shirt celebrating his goal (in spite of booking other players in previous matches for that). He has that look about him that's something's up.

I don't think he stopped anything. Keys still launched into his usual absurd zonal marking crap. Stevie, alas, just did his usual smirk as if to say 'I couldn't possibly comment...' which is why, even now, I wouldn't entirely trust him if I was manager, but, yes, otherwise he was all right. I'd be nervous, though, if I was sitting next to Redknapp on a bus - he just jabbers away and then reverses his opinions every five minutes. He's getting odder by the week.

Yes, and that stupid stick insect drag act of a spoiled brat interviewer had not the slightest idea what he was talking about. He's a fine man, though.

Any player today needs bespoke kecks - the upper legs just don't fit off the peg trousers. They've got no idea, these lads. But about Sky last night: 1. The coverage of the great Ray Kennedy's tribute could surely have been a bit more detailed (I just hope LFCTV will do the honours); 2. Tyler and Gray chattered through every bit of play as if it was a DULL game! Can't they EVER just concentrate on the action these days???; 3. Hicks and Gillett were there - couldn't there have been a tiny bit more journalistic coverage of this, and a bit less of Jamie 'My Old Man's a Dustman' Redknapp chuntering on about 'them foreign players can't read newspapers'??

Or if they win tomorrow but lose another match, or draw two and...it all sort of depends on what we can't predict. We won't know until the end. But this team deserves our support and belief until it's impossible.

Exactly. Him and Ginsoak looked like the two most hated kids at school trying to get someone else into trouble. 'Sir, sir, he ate Sam's lunch, Sir, Head Master, Sir, and...and...he whispered that Mr Figgis was a twit during metalwork!'

Yes, it's like that ghastly Digital Spy forum featuring so-and-so from Manchester adding their predictable views. And on ITV's This Morning today, Fern Britton simpered and whispered while she made Jenny Hicks talk her through what happened, adding the odd aside such as 'The pens, I believe, were there because of earlier hooliganism' (not verbatim, but that's what I remember her saying). 20 years on and the average London-based media hack is as badly informed, and as tactless, as ever,

You've done a fine job, but that place is full of psychotics.

If he did get one you know he wouldn't expect everyone to call him 'Sir' like that 'socialist' Ginsoak seems to enjoy so much. (To be fair to Brooking, by the way, he didn't get it so much for his playing career as he did for his work on the sports council, and, to his credit, he was so critical of politicians during his time there that some tried to block his KBE.)

He spoke about Jade Goody, too.

Couldn't give a toss. Well, I could, but my god this place drains out any passion. So, with that caveat (it has loads of pedants, too): I'd rather we kept on winning in the league.

He's lovely. Someone saw him in the flesh. Someone a bit inadequate. But on those terms. Lovely.

Or the third option, you humourless t***, is that you need to go to specsavers.

Maybe she'd just had her annual hair wash.

It's like eavesdropping on a Cabinet Meeting.

Gray finds any goal that doesn't come from a curly-headed, baby-toothed, snarling Scottish bluenose centre forward brutally and blatantly flattening the keeper and then clodhopping the ball clumsily over the line somehow fortuitous.