Big Chief OWL he say: Beware egg-chasing paleface with heap big autobiography to sell.
In fact Spurs (and a few other clubs as far as I know) have tried to get him involved as a motivational coach, but not on the football side. I could see someone taking him on on that basis.
Sir Steve Redgrave does a bit of this - so does Martin Johnson.
both Steve Redgrave and Martin Johnson have already distanced themselves from the Newcastle job.
Paula Radcliffe is still in the running, but no one knows for how long.
sir Clive Woodward has quit his post as Rugger-bugger in chief.
He’s going to have discussions with that idiot Rupert Lowe at Saints.
Maybe they will play the biscuit game together?
Owl - who went to a public school but has never heard of the biscuit game being played in real life, but then we weren’t a rugby school, so maybe that’s it?
And he says he never really liked Rugby that much, he’s always been a football man 
One thing I heard is that the FA are keen for the next England manager to be, you know, English, and that the Newcastle job is probably the biggest one around likely to be occupied by an Englishman any time soon. Which opens up the horrifying prospect of Steve Bruce being the next England manager (although you say he doesn’t want it?) I’d rather have Woodward than him. Hope he gets his coach’s badge ASAP.
Gunners = Arsenal = O2
Knowing is not the same as caring, however, so I have nothing to add here.
Well it looks like Wright-Phillips will get a game, with Smith and Owen up front. Hopefully Defoe will get a run out too.
Wright-Phillips is a real talent (despite having a big fat mum). Hopefully he can make a name for himself today.
Good win for the Boys in Green over Cyprus. Roy Keane and Liam Miller - who needs 'em?
Have to do something about that front line, though. Robbie Keane had a shocker and Clinton Morrison was … Clinton Morrison. C’mon, Brian, surely there’s someone else you can put up there?
Souness quits Blackburn. Speculation is linking him with both Newcastle and the Scottish national team, although apparently he told his players he was quitting to go sort out the Toon Army.
4 games played, 3 clubs in managerial change. who’s next?
My Money is on Man City doing the next manageria heave-ho. But not for a couple of months.
You have to admire the gutter press sometimes for their cynicism.
I mean, talk of Venables going to Newky, ha! its all eerily similar to Leeds situation, they imported some of Leeds problems in the form of Woody and Bowyer(yes Woody now plays abroad - but still) way too much player power here, and the usual directorial inteferance too.
Getting rid of Robbo when they were fifth is also a reflection of what Leeds did too, Newcy had a few months of finacial madness, spending cash everywhere, and even now there was some, not all that serious, linkage of Rooney with Newky.
Not one mention of AFC Wimbledon and the MK Dons, bit surprised, personally I hope the plastic Dons sink without trace and the directors shareholdings become utterly worthless, and in the meantime AFC Wimbledon continue to make good progress, what a soccer parable that would be.
I still can’t get my head around that, MK Dons change their name, their ground and in reality are an entirely new club, yet they got to keep their place in the league without having to start at the bottom.
I think that the seasons sideshow entertainment is likely to come from lowly Boston, its not a bad marketing move they made and will certainly attract more publicity than they’d have got otherwise.
As for Leeds, well maybe we should keep our eyes on one division lower, seems to me that the future is Wednesday.
Not keen on any London club, but Arse are awesome, they play brilliant football, just wish they could use more of it in Europe.
Any bets on when it all goes pear shaped for Chelsea, I think perhaps two more seasons and then the past will catch up with a certain person, one way or another, maybe tax evasion or summat. The crash is going to fill the back pages for weeks when it all falls out.
Another day, another Sven balls-up.
In a just and fair world Calamity would be dropped, never to darken England’s door again and the boy Robinson would start on Wednesday this will not happen of course, as Svennis is too bloody cautious.
Surely anyone watching the game could have seen that Owen was rusty and that Smith wasn’t really doing the business. They would also have seen that what was required against a rather pedestrian team was the raw pace of Defoe and Shaun Fat-Mum.
Having said that it is not time to start panicking as we have surely the easiest group in living memory (what is the opposite of a group of death?). Pyjamastan, Wales an N Ireland aren’t going to cause us problems, and I can’t see the jam-rolls giving us any real problems (famous last words?)
After all if we were going on current form the Irish would be on course to win the World Cup!
Also well done Robbie for being a better striker than Quinn.
And Souness is joining Newcastle. He’ll love Dyer and Bellamy, Bramble and Ambrose.
On the subject of sexpests ANOTHER rapey gooner has been caught being rapey. What is it with these Plumstead travelling folk?
Have you all seen this report? It is about a Kilmarnock guy who punted £45000 on England to win, when they were 2-0 up. He stood to make £450 if he had won. You have to feel sympathy for him on two levels. Financially, obviously. But the kicker is going to be the shite he takes from his friends for backing the Auld Enemy.
AFC Wimbledon are my local club, and I go there fairly often. There’s a good article in this month’s When Saturday Comes about AFC, and the disparity of their league position and fan-base. It’s a good club and my kids love it.
AFC played their first ever FA cup tie this weekend, and won 3-0.
As for the arse-faced ganster and his cronies, the end can’t come soon enough. These oligarchs seem to lead happy, but short, lives. Once Abramovich is out of the picture, or loses interest, then they are utterly doomed.
The Beast is taking over Newcastle? I’d say dodgy Dave Murray will be slipping Blackburn Tourist brochures under McLeish’s door in the hope he applies for Sounesses old job. It’ll probably go to Venables, seeing as he loves a good relegation battle.
Souness isn’t a caretaker manager, so I wonder just how annoyed Shearer is right now. Given the Beasts well publicised ability to start rows with players, and the current Newcastle team has several big egos ripe for a good spat, I see trouble on the Tyne, pet.
Right then, nine and a bit hours to go.
It seems certain that Sven is going to pick an unchanged team (you know the one with the injured skipper, a defender playing on left midfield and with Alan Smith keeping his place because he plays for Man Utd and Sven wants to keep his career options open).
It’s always bloody Poland isn’t it? I’m ancient enough to remember 1973, the games that ended the careers of Sir Alf and Bobby Moore. I’m still scarred by this (and so was English football we didn’t qualify for another eight years). Still, at least this time we’ve got the goalie everyone thinks is a “clown”.
I am increasingly disinterested in this England team, it’s a closed shop, full of people picked on their reputations not their performance and Sven sucks the atmosphere out of the whole thing. At least with the likes of Taylor, Hoddle and Keegan you were guaranteed top-class lunacy and passion. All Sven does is knock-off dorises.
I see that Newcastle were claiming that their job is one of the “top eight” in world football. Even assuming that International posts aren’t included it’s barely in the top eight of British football jobs, and world wide I doubt it would feature in the top 30. That’s why they got such a quality appointment.
I am so looking forward to Souness getting to grips with the roasters, sex-pests, killers and racist thugs that they’ve got there (and for once there is absolutely no need for any “alleged” in this sentence).
Sparks will fly. Great entertainment ahoy! Welcome to Newcastle Steven Carr!
It’s nice to be proved wrong…(and I am quite used to it by now)
Well done Sven for grasping the nettle – I can’t see James getting another game for England, certainly not once Kirkland is available.
Defoe simply proved what Spurs and Hammers fans have known all along – he’s the real deal. A forward line of Defoe and Rooney would scare the bejesus out of most teams. I just hope we can hang on to him.
Bridge and Cole worked well together – so more humble pie here. Beckham still isn’t really firing on all cylinders, but I can see why SGE sticks with him, for the same reason Posh does.
I was also amazed to find out that last night was the first time that Robbie Savage has been sent off.
Wasn’t he sent off in the League Cup Final vs. Spurs? I could have sworn he was.
I thought that too - but wasn’t that two yellows?
The sound you can hear is the sound of a soapbox being pulled up…
**NO! ** He wasn’t - what he did do was fake an injury so that Justin edinburgh got sent off - it’s one (of many) reasons that he’s a hate figure at Spurs.
Didyou know that Robbie Savage has the Armani logo tattooed on his arm (and it’s really big)? Now that is top chavving!
