Best of luck for Oldham. I can see you’ve set up a Supporters Trust - these are brilliant (and I am very biased being involved with Supporters Direct - the parent organisation).
THis is what happens when people with no real love for a club become involved - are you watching Chelsea?
The sooner the FA/UEFA/FIFA introduce a rule regarding the fitness of those involved with football clubs the better. There are people who own football clubs who wouldn’t get a licence to run a pub.
Bloody pointless international friendlies. Two bob games that tell no one anything.
That’s Keane and Carr crocked, Keane badly.
Davies to get crocked tonight?
What is the point of these pointless games?
I don’t think you can call the Welsh game “pointless” owlstretchingtime, it’s a Euro qualifier.
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Fair enough, and it’s a shame that Wales didn’t win, still they should be OK for qualification.
England’s friendly was the usual Sven substitute-a-thon, but some good points in Lampard and J Cole.
However it is now apparent that A cole is not an international left back, and never will be. He should give Bridge a run.
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Having had a butchers through the postings I am amazed and deeply saddened that there is no mention of Gods own team, Manchester City!!!
Have you lot overlooked the fact that we beat the footballing superpower TNS by 5-0 in the UEFA cup and then went on to wallop Charlton 3-0.
If you have any sense (and money) get it on Man City to win the premiership this season…I do not jest here.
Surely referring to Chelsea as Chelski is wrong, this has a Polish, as in Poland, ring to it.
Chelskov?
I’ll get my coat 
What is the point of these pointless games?
Leeds will take any consolation they can this season.
Keane crocked, that’ll do nicely sir.
**Psst, wanna slightly second hand Bridges[/sub]
Will Keegan last the season though? Someone will upset him and he’ll throw his toys away and resign
I heard that City scored 5 lucky goals against TNS.
V
Vetch You are mistaken, good ole Kev is at (nearly typed Maine Rd) The City of Manchester Stadium for a long long time.
The glory shall be ours, yea and the mould trafford shall be smitten and cast down sarf where they belong.
I think I’ve just gone Tharn 
Boy was I confused when I clicked on this title. I was wondering how on earth “footies” (tennis type socks that only go to the ankle and usually have little puff balls at the back) were demanding so much support, and what the 25 day countdown was all about.
Sorry CASDAVE but your boys took a hell of a beating.
We were good, at times very good, but Leeds were pretty ordinary.
Still I had a fiver on smith to score first and us to win 2-1, so £125 for me. This cheered me up no end.
And Man City are top of the league. Its a mad mad world…
Good weekend: Sir Mod Jock was acting true to type (again) by being sent orf and the Ashburton Grovellers got off to their usual flyer. Great football, can’t keep it up. I await the usual decline in early November as Henry and co get ‘tired’.
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[li]Interesting that there’s only a year difference between ex-Chelski Graham le Saux and the new owner. Odd, actually. Almost as odd as them spending only £3.5 million this weekend. I presume he’s saving up for Crespo on Tuesday . . . .[/li]
[li]Wolves already look like West Brom with knobs on.[/li]
[li]So, Oldham are even further around the U bend than they thought (sooy, Matt). I suppose Roeder’s long-overdue red card is just what Oldham don’t need. Dowie was the one reason for being optimistic . . .still, he, hasn’t got the Hammered job yet. Another thing that came to light was the (apparent) fact that 15 Football League clubs have gone into Administration since the ITV deal went west, and they all came out of it healthier – something to cheers you up, perhaps . . . looking sad for Oldham, though.[/li][li]I’ve decided all this first-manager-for-the-chop malarkey is just me buying into the self-serving media crap and is entirely negative. Mind you, odds on Herr Houllier meeting his guillotine if Spurs win up there on Wednesday . . . a draw at least in my book, with a win for each side about equal. Just don’t like the idea of Owen running at our large and not-so-agile back three. Could Glenda have one of them sweep . . . ?[/li]
Anyway, will Houllier retire “due to health reasons”. I think so . . . .
[li]Spurs are now 34 points from probable safety after seeing off the ugly mob and Glenda is a mighty relieved (and employed) little soldier. Everything I read about the game suggested dominance and good crowd support – actually the match stats read remarkably similar to Chelski vs. Leicester, except for the £70 million.[/li][/ul]
Owl - saw this on another message board. WhayYaThink;
With numerous Spurs managers having injury nightmares, I’ve selected my chosen eleven injury prone players to wear the Spurs shirt in recent times:
Anyone missed?
How goes it for the rest of yee - I see Chelski are playing again tonight . . . ?
OWL: What exactly is wrong with Gods team being top of the prem might I ask. You know it, I know it and so does any footie fan that we are up there right where we belong:D
As a matter of interest I’m a postman and deliver to van thistleboy and boy does he get some torn mail :D:D:D childish I know but what the hell!!
Cundy? CUNDY? Surey, surely even Spurs have had a better player than goddamn CUNDY in recent years. Yegads.
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kabbes, you crazy money launderer, you.
It clearly says (above) it’s our best team of much-injured. You know, the infamous Spurs injury list that predates the Doomsday Book . . .
Kabbes: It’s not about being good, it’s about being injured. Cundy wasn’t injured often enough for my liking. He did score that brilliant fluke goal from our half though.
LC I would pretty much agree with that team (but would add Moussa Saib - remember him?)
I feel sorry for Korsten, who had to retire. The little we saw of him looked pretty good.
Other observations:
It’s going to be a long long season for Wolves - will Jack put his money in his pocket? because if you’re relying on Iversen to keep you up - you’re stuffed.
Man Utd look the team to beat.
Man city’s new stadium loked pretty darned good on the telly.
A lot could hinge on tomorrow’s Spurs V Bindippers game. My understanding (from “sources close to the spurs board”) is that they are ready to act and get rid of Glenn at the first wobble. Alex McLeish is lined up as replacement, but a lot also depends on Rangers Euro adventure. Houllier is hardly on solid ground either.
I really want us to sign this here brazillian wunderkind - but it looks unlikely at present - we may go back in January.
Also you can’t buy wagon wheels at WHL this year. Footie without wagon wheels. It’s not right I tells you. I never forgave them, for getting rid of the police dog displays and the Dagenham Girl Pipers.
In my day, we used to get those two terrribly confused.
Yep, I did hear there was a Board crisis meeting in the summer. and, as a result, Glenda’s in a not dissimilar position to Roeder, as best I understand.
Nice comments recently (somewhere) by Ricketts about how much Glenda’s helped his game since his move from the unspeakable’s - I still think he’s great with the kids.
I hope he has a good run of success.
It was easy to tell them apart. One lot were fierce, fearsome, ugly critters that were trained to bite blokes in the nads. Then would roll onto their backs to have their tummies tickled and would do anything for a biscuit.
Then there were the police dogs. BOOM TISH
What I really want to bring back is the half time scoreboard that was on the side of the East Stand by the enclosure (the most dangerous place in London).
Do you remember the little fat chap that put the scores by the letters? He always wore a suit. I like a man who takes pride in his work.
No memory of Mr JobsWorth - probably because for much of my time I was on the Shelf (hence, it seems, he was below me) - but I do remember the numbers next to letter malarkey at the foot of the old West Stand.
Never understood why they didn’t cut short the mincey, half-time tinned music and just announce the half-times.
One thing I do remember (for no reason at all) is a black policeman standing at the back of the Shelf week after week and youngsters occasionally going up to him (at half time) for an autograph! Black coppers were so rare then, I suppose.
Also, I remember those ‘first goal’ tickets. Never got within half-an-hour of one of those . . .ahhh, thems were the days . . . . got to stop now, getting misty-eyed . . .
Because even in those less commercial times they were being paid for it! There was always a feature on the programme telling you what would be played, and that it, and a range of other quality gramophone records, together with stereophonic radiograms, were available from Rumbelows in Enfield High St.
On my bedroom wall I have a signed copy of the famous Mackay/Bremmner picture (the wife loves it - but if I have to put up with poofy pink pillowcases she can put up with Mr MacKay (who now runs a tie shop in Enfield)).
The most noticable thing about it is that there isn’t an advert in sight. Not on the shirts, not on the perimeter boards, nowhere.
Those were the days. jumpers for goalposts…