Was it mutual?

Sturrock only had 13 games, for fuck's sake. Hardly enough time to fare badly.

Apparently the players didn't like his training regime or something. Pussies.

Rupert Lowe is a cock sucker, too. Always has been. He talks about media pressure, the stupid fucking cunt encouraged it by basically admitting Sturrock would be gone if he lost the match on Saturday.

Sturrock probably left because he got fed up being treated like shit by an arrogant cock of a chairman.

Daft thing is, if he stayed with Plymouth he might have been in the Premiership next season. Plymouth look like the suprise package of Division 1 this season.

*stands up*

i couldnt believe that game, we were shit 1st half then got back into on half time. scored two fantastic goals then let bergkamp walk through us while we back off. then a daft minute lost us game. always had hope though, it was always going to have another goal before the end - just wished we'd scored the bloody thing.

it would have been good if parlours shot from half way line had gone in to make it 5-4 !

good game to watch for the neutral

Di Canio? He signed for Lazio, who are 'his' club, so to speak.

Let's not forget Lowe also sacked Dave Jones when he was accused of whatever it was (child molesting was it? :$ ) - not just saying this cause he's now our manager but I couldn't believe that when it happened, particularly since Jones got them to 10th or so one season, which as far as I'm aware is the highest they had finished in the top flight in years until Strachan came along.

Oh yeah, Blackburn are attempting to sign Morten Gamst Pederson, who is the man in Champ Man.

And Robbie Savage has been charged with elbowing Kezman :love:

Yeah as soon as Jones was accused of kiddy fiddling he was sacked, they didn't even wait to see if he was guilty or not, which is pretty out of order.

Glad Savage got the ban, he is a cunt, and anyone who says "you only hate him because he is good" is wrong, I hate him because he is a cheating cunt and deserves to be punished more often, he is not better then average.

And wee Gooner, that Mutu and Henry song is shit, Mutu had to be mentioned in the last line.

correct me if i'm wrong, i think when they took the stance of sacking jones, it was to do with child molesting and was in the wake of what happened with greham rix at chelsea. I think jones was cleared of all charges, however soton sacked him for it thinking they were doing the right thing.

Pederson is apparently a bag of wank. Our scouts have been watching him and he hasn't impressed

He looked class when I saw him. Only the once, mind you. Certainly worth a try.

Andy Reid is far better though.

I think they actually suspended him indefinitely pending the result of the investigation, with Jones eventually leaving through mutual consent.

I am sure he never left by mutual consent.

Yeah I checked. He was suspended for 12 months pending the case, then he took Southampton to a tribunal for the suspension, but the tribunal found in favour of the club.

The club had a right to suspend him, but they were kind of transparent in the way that they obviously had no intention of bringing him back whatever the outcome.

boro have had him on trial 3 times and were not impressed by him

Doesn't mean anything. He's a full Norwegian international and he has done enough to garner attention from around Europe.

If someone like Blackburn are willing to give him a go, they will deservedly reap the rewards.

Look at how well Blackburn did with John Stead, they know their shit. (Forgets Yorke and Cole)

Sky Sports are reporting a £20 million bid for Wayne Rooney from Newcastle.

http://www.skysports.com/skysports/a...148673,00.html

Sturrock definately won't be giving me back my Skynyrd CD now.

Yeah the papers mentioned that yesteday, I heard 18 million though.

yeah i know it means nothing, a few years ago we had a young centre back on our books and let him go as he wasnt good enough, that same person has just joined real madrid for £13.4m!

he may have been injured while on trial, he may have been best player out there, who knows what goes on behind the scenes at clubs. ive only heard good reports though about him so all the best to the lad if he does move to blackburn.

2-1, Ince's one long-range goal per season quota is already up.

Not particularly bothered, but it's pretty shocking how bad some of the twats we've got playing are.

Comeback of the year ;)

LOL at us bidding for Rooney.

Must be all that talk of hookers and brothels that got Newcastle interested in him.

He'l fit right in.

Seems like its just to appease the fans with little thought about our actual current situ - ie we have no defence with Ameobi and Kluivert on the bench.

Unless we play Rooney in defence or ship some strikers out soon its utterly pointless.

Should throw Dyer into the deal - he'd love that.

The whole Rooney to Newcastle thing proves once again that Fredy Sheppard knows fu</>ck all about football.

Mind you, that pretty much covers all chairmans, managing directors, board members etc...

Freddy Sheppard is a dickhead.

Yeah its best that Dyer went the other way, or he'd "look after" rooney.

from what i've been reading i dont think rooney needs looking after!

i even read that with one of the prostitutes he gave her a £50 note and waited for his £5 change :rofl: what does that say about her performance ?

Chelsea 1-0 up, Drogba off the mark

Is it me or does Lampard seem jaded so far this season? :-\

No, Lampard is as good as ever, people just expect too much of him now, it was his pass out wide to Baba, and it was a good un. He is still the man.

Joe Cole might as well fuck off if he doesn't realise that they are ten other people on his team. Granted he has skill, but not as much as he thinks.

P.S Check your rep sheet

Well I was certainly glad to see the back of Joe Cole, dunno why he put on Eidur, and Drogba got injured :'(. Tiago did fuck all but scored a good goal so I guess I can't be mad at him, I can be mad at our fans for creating the worst song ever:

" TIIIIIIIAAAAAGOOOOOOO, OOOOOOHHHHHHHH,
He came from Portugal,
He hates the Arsenal,
TTIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAGGGGGOOOOOOO" :|

That was Kezman's pass :o

And yeah, I saw that thing :cool:

They look the same from the back and the number looked more of an eight :$

You can use all three, not just the one, I have two of them now, get the third tomorrow :cool:

There's one per day, so there'll be 2 more after tomorrow :y:

I thought there were three overall, and two have been, you have got two so far right?

Boring Boring Chelsea.

I put this in the Olympic thread but...Iraq were robbed :mad:

Of their freedom? :(

Dazz - Dunno, I could swear I saw someone post there was one per day *shrug*

Also, WTF are Norwich doing on Sky THREE times in one week :|

One what?

I WANNA KNOW :cry:

Nice to know Leeds won a game at home against Huddersfield Town... stupid jobbers!!

ANOTHER win for the mighty Gas

Away to Brighton.

The Gas are gonna win the cup. :D

i had to look twice when i saw the leeds goal, ricketts wins a header, the header was on target, hit the bar for someone to follow up and score.

what ricketts playing :?: ricketts jumping for and winning a header :wtf: there must be something in the water in leeds.


did anyone see the darlington goals yesterday? how unlucky was there keeper sam russell ? he makes a good penalty save and then the ref makes barnsley retake it for no apparent reason !

was i right in hearing that one of the players playing against liverpool yesterday was booked twice but not sent off (saw it on itv) what the hell is going on with refs at the moment?

good sports manship, same thing happened a few years ago but cant remember who between. i stil thought it was good when di canio caught the ball when evertons keeper injured himself clearing it!

Juninho has signed for Celtic

True, I nearly fell asleep watching the first half, then Drogba scored :cool:

and MMM, I thought it was a three day promotion, this being the third day.

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

:love: Juninho :love:

:wavesad: :'(

i went for a meal with my g/f for her b'day last night and positioned myself so i could watch the match over her shoulder :naughty: she didnt notice and then pointed the screen out b4 we left saying i could have watched the match if id wanted.

:lol: little did she know i already had !

Man United have bid £20 million for Wayne Rooney

Apparently you bid £25million in the summer. :?:

Hairy Keys said before Newcastle kicked off that Man U have bid, then Newcastle have upped theirs to £23.5m

I think its been rejected according to ITV

"fuckin play it forward, for fucks sake!"

nice one smith :love:

LOL :D

Something seriously wrong with Newcastle.

Awful bar Bellamy and Butt.

Fuck Rooney, Kluivert didn't even get off the bench why don't we just get 11 strikers on there.

Plus Bellamy saying that he would leave when he was the best player by a mile.

Milner looks like a turd and seriously Kieron Dyer *shakes head* was he even playing?! no wonder no one wants him.

Oh yeah and why the fuck would Rooney move to us when Man U are interested.

Unless he wants to be colder.

Get some defenders already.

Made £115 tonight thanks to Reading and Man U not bothering to score until the 2nd half :cool:

John O'Shea was rumoured this morning. He played his best game in ages today though for Man U.

Yeah O'shea would be good.

Dunno why you would let him go to be honest.

Probably need two centre backs in all honesty too.

WTF Bobby talking so much bullshit.

"fighting till the end" we played like fucking shit and created nothing after they equalised.

"rub of the green" what a load of shit.

QPR away to Villa. Bastards

Oh yeah congrats Arsenal :y: great achievement.

Leeds are playing Swindon at home for second year running in the second round... to think Leeds only won by penalties in that game last year. And they only got to penalties because Paul Robinson scored a 90th minute goal!

WE ARE THE NORTH BANK HIGHBURY etc

:cool:

im loving the way bill kenwright at everton is trying to say it's up to david moyles if rooney leaves.

what a load of bollocks, if they accept a bid moyles wont have a say in it. i just hope the everton fans dont believe this crack of shit and turn on moyles if rooney does go!

I don't think Everton fans are stupid enough to believe that it's down to either Moyes or the board.

It's down to Wayne Rooney, in the end. He should do the decent thing and either request a transfer and forfeit his loyalty bonus, or come out and pledge his loyalty.

He's had all summer to do it. Now he's left Everton in a position where they'll have no time to re-invest his transfer fee.

i just didnt like the way kenwright was saying it was up to moyles, it was almost as tho he's trying to shift the blame away from himself

Moyes has said over and over that not only doesn't he want to see Rooney, he'd rather sell players to raise money if it meant keeping him. So you know if Rooney leaves, it wasn't due to Moyes.

Champions League group drawing

Group A
Olympiakos
Liverpool
AS Monaco
Deportivo La Coruna

Group B
Real Madrid
AS Roma
Bayer Leverkusen
Dinamo Kiev

Group C
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Ajax
Maccabi Tel Aviv

Group D
Manchester United
Lyon
Sparta Prague
Fenerbahce

Group E
Arsenal
Panathinaikos
PSV Eindhoven
Rosenborg

Group F
Barcelona
AC Milan
Celtic
Shakhtar Donetsk

Group G
Valencia
Inter Milan
Anderlecht
Werder Bremen

Group H
FC Porto
Chelsea
Paris St Germain
CSKA Moscow

Pretty good draw for Liverpool, Monaco won't be the same without Morientes (though still a good team) and Deportivo had to struggle against Shelbourne to get through. If they play to their potential they should go through.

Real vs Roma, Walter Samuel back against his former club :eek:

Bayern, Juve and Ajax in the same group :eek: At least one big team will be out by the end of the group stages.

Pretty straightforward group for Man United and Arsenal, can't see too many problems there.

Tough break for Celtic, though they did beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp last year, and Milan aren't invincible either. Larsson playing against his old club :eek:

Valencia and Inter should get out of G pretty easily

Mourinho going back against Porto :D

Abramovic owns Chelsea and CSKA Moscow and they are in the same group.

Porto are now shit, they are not going past the group stage, and thats a garundamntee.

I swear their must be some unknown law from UEFA that either Panathonikos or Olympiakos must play an English team in the group stages, its always the case. (Unless I have a bad memory)

Balls. Porto are still a quality outfit. Made a couple of great signings this summer. Carvalho is a big loss, but the guts of that team still remains, plus they now have Diego.

Deigo as in the Brazilian? Fuck me I am well behind with the times.

I don't think Carvalho was a big loss, I didn't think he was that good in Euro 2004, Andrelade is MUCH better, he made Carvalho look better then he is. Ferrairia is better then Carvalho. And they have lost Deco too, and if you don't think that Mourinho was a huge factor in Porto winning the Champions League then you are wrong. They wont amount to shit without him.

Carvalho is fucking brilliant. Best signing Chelsea made. I've been a fan of Carvalho's for a couple of seasons now. He is in the elite of the world's defenders. Andrade is great too, alright, but Carvalho has it all.

And Porto pulled off the signing of Diego from Santos. I think he'll turn out better than Deco. I don't think Porto will challenge for the tournament again, but they'll be tough to beat.

Yeah me and Mask often look out for Deigo when he played for Santos, and he was pretty good whenever I saw him. He will be the man.

Cavenaghi signed for Spartak Moscow, apparently. About a month ago. Only just read about it yesterday.

:eek: I didn't know that, he was River Plate's best player. He looks a right gayboy...

http://www.cariverplate.com.ar/img/l...ertad_g/42.jpg

UEFA are to investigate possible links between Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Russian side CSKA Moscow after both clubs were drawn in the same group of the Champions League.

European football's governing body will look into a £30million three-year sponsorship deal with CSKA announced earlier this year by Sibneft, the Russian oil giant in which Abramovich holds the majority shareholding.

UEFA communications director William Gaillard told the Press Association: "We are going to look into it and see whether there is a controlling interest by Mr Abramovich with two teams in the same group."

He added: "We have to find out whether it is a controlling interest or not. We may already have the facts to decide to dismiss it as a problem but it has to be looked into thoroughly."

Abramovich is a close friend of CSKA president Yevgeny Giner and was a guest in his personal VIP box in Moscow on two occasions earlier this year.

Under current regulations, no person is allowed a controlling interest in two clubs playing in the same competition but UEFA will have to decide whether the sponsorship deal counts as any conflict of interest.

Chelsea issued a statement in a bid to refute any suggestion of a conflict of interest for Abramovich.

"Chelsea is certain that UEFA and any other clubs in the Champions League should be completely unconcerned by this matter," the statement read.

"The situation is very clear. Mr. Abramovich is the owner of Chelsea Football Club while Sibneft, a company in which he is one of many shareholders, is the shirt sponsor of CSKA Moscow.

"Mr Abramovich has no equity stake or any direct financial interest in CSKA."

apparently bellion might be a makeshift in the rooney deal :eek:

it's strange being a united fan, one minute you're down in the dumps, and the next they sell forlan, and swap bellion avec cash for rooney.

Now we just need a better midfield.

It's a shame really, cause giggs keane scholes and beckham a few years ago was the best midfield in the world, and I always thought that. Swap Beckham for Ronaldo and it'd still be great minus the creativity. Only thing is Keane's winding down now and he isn't the player he once was, and Giggs doesn't seem to give a fuck half the time.

Rooney has agreed terms for 50 grans a week

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Rooney demands transfer.

Guess he'l be a Man U player by the weekend with apparently either Kleberson or Bellion going the other way.

What Ferguson ever saw in Bellion is beyond me. I remember he came on when we beat Sunderland at home which i was at and was the worst player I'd ever seen. We cheered his every touch.

Then Man U were interested :|

He wouldn't get in the current Sunderland side I swear.

United don't need Rooney what they need are 4 non-carthorse/crackhead defenders.

Ferguson can't play Rooney, Smith, Saha and Van Nistelrooy in the same line up. United will (if they sign Rooney) end up like Real Madrid last season.

They'll also have two of the most hypocritical players in the league in their team in Rooney and Smith. I hate all this badge-kissing I love the club bullshit.

I think United will be more like the 98/99 season, when they had Cole, Yorke, Solskjaer and Sheringham. Top teams need 4 world class strikers, not to mention that Rooney is 18 anyway, so if they let him get away now, they may not get an opportunity to sign him in the future. See Alan Shearer scenario.

Besides, Newcastle have even more strikers: Ameobi, Bellamy, Kluivert, Shearer

And they really need a couple of defenders.

And the interest in Bellion came from him going to the same football academy as Anelka, Henry, Saha etc. which is well known for producing class players.

Full UEFA draw:

Graz AK v Litex Lovech
Lazio v Metalurg Donetsk
Bodo/Glimt v Besiktas
Shelbourne v Lille
Hearts v Braga
Austria Vienna v Legia Warsaw
Banska Bystrica v Benfica
Partizan Belgrade v Dinamo Bucharest
Parma v Maribor
Real Zaragoza v Sigma Olomouc
Sporting Lisbon v Rapid Vienna
Newcastle v Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin
Steaua Bucharest v CSKA Sofia
Wisla Krakow v Dinamo Tblisi
Utrecht v Djurgardens
Millwall v Ferencvaros
Schalke v Liepajas Metalurgs
Maccabi Haifa v Dnipr Dnipropetrovsk
Terek Grozny v Basel
Odd Grenland v Feyenoord
Aalborg v Auxerre
Sevilla v Nacional Madeira
NK Gorica v AEK Athens
Standard Liege v Bochum
Crvena Zvezda v Zenit St Petersburg
Trabzonspor v Athletic Bilbao
Ujpest v Stuttgart
Maccabi Petach Tikva v Heerenveen
Panionios v Udinese
Levski Sofia v Beveren
Dinamo Zagreb v Elfsborg
Hafnarfjordur v Aachen
Middlesbrough v Banik Ostrava
Club Brugge v Chateauroux
PAOK v AZ Alkmaar
Ventspils v Amica Wronki
Sochaux v Stabaek
Egaleo v Genclerbirligi
Rangers v Maritimo
Villarreal v Hammarby


Middlesbrough face a tough test against Banik Ostrava, a Czech Republic side with a fine tradition, so the Carling Cup winners will need to be on their guard in their first European fixtures. :eek:

return tickets £180 so tempting to go!!!!

Some more transfers and rumours doing the rounds:

-Everton to sign Djimi Traore from Liverpool for £1.5m (I'm sure Sid is laughing his ass off at that one)

-Arsenal said to be interested in signing Valencia's Migel Angulo

-Citeh said to be interested in signing Mido from Marseille after Wanchope completes his move to Malaga

-Celtic have apparently failed in a loan bid for Saviola :eek:

Saviola's off to Monaco

So much for Rooney loving Everton. I really don't see the point in wasting 25 million pounds on a player who is far from the finished article. Smith, Saha and Ruud are all much better players plus Solskjaer who is one of the most natural finishers in the game. The only way I see this working is if Fergie tries to develop Smith into a midfielder.

haha the tribunal for Gareth Williams ordered us to pay £500,000 with some add ons about promotion and the like.We offered them £750,000 in the summer but they turned it down :o Mind you he has been crap so far.

:( @ Wolves probably having Lescott and Murray back tomorrow. They could also be getting this South Korean forward.

Mind you with Rooney, Smith and Keane the red cards should keep on coming.

I guess you do need 4 strikers if 2 of them are going to spend most of their time suspended/being sucked off by skanky Scouse whores.

How is Smith a hypocrite? He did everything he could for Leeds and openingly admitted he was leaving if they went down. He never said who he was or wasn't signing for and since he came to United, he hasn't kissed our badge.

If he loved the club as much as he says he does then why did he not stay and try to help the club win promotion? He didn't, he left as soon as he could in search of a big fat pay day.