It's allmy fault. I was laughing at the dingles losing yesterday and told the wife I'd better stop it will come back to haunt me well it bloody well did. It will come good...... won't it?

I need to know, how are we going to blame Emerton, he did not play.

And I rode my Harley through the Salt River Canyon with an extremely fit young lady on the back but I still don't feel too much better. ( Well, OK the extremely fit bird was my wifes neice but that's besides the point)

I'm not even going to read the posts on here cos I think I pretty much know how they are going to go. I have a few words, gutted, sadenned, disappointed, hurt, not surprised. It beggars belief, sounds like we have not yets fixed our inability to make the most of our chances. Man U up next L'pool not far behind that it looks like we are back to square one when Hughesy came. Sidenote, I watched the Fulham and W. Ham game this weekend and I noticed Mr Poll let go way more than he did in the Rovers Bolton game. Further proof that it is in fact the media (or the FA) that is influencing the outcome of some games. Another reason the bums aren't going in the seats. Really, looking at the way things have been for us, we have a knack of ending teams negative stats. It was almost written in the stars, Shearer to score (again from a disputed free kick) Owen would grab his FIRST for Newcastle. Newcastle would record their FIRST win and their goal drought would end. It is just all too much to bear, I've had enough of footy for a bit. Well till about Tuesday.

Perhaps your best post ever Sam.

I thought that was a disgraceful challenge by Stelios. Stelios himself went on to whine at the ref on plenty of occasions, as did Campo, as did Davies not stop.

That's funny cos I was thinking if this is a top English Ref then our officiating is in worse shape that I thought. I don't think he did us any favours, whilst managing to do a few for Bolton. I thought he was inconsistent both ways, I was not impressed with his all round game. Add to that the disgraceful booking of Matteo and it sums up his poor performance IMHO. Two more yellows for us just cos Poll had a bad un, does not seem right.

I don't disagree about the touch bit, not at all, neither was I referring to you. The criticism in general is harsh. I think if you think back to the early games and take in his performance at Bolton you may notice his touch and control actually have improved a bit. I think the blokes gonna be a good un.

All of which was about 100 times more than Matt "can do no wrong in some folks eyes" Jansen did in twice the amount of time. I find it bewildering how people on here can defend Jansen yet criticise Kuqi. He had a definate impact. As for the game, I thought we did well, I was not expecting to come away with anything. More teams will come away from the Reebox empty handed than not. The game plan was well executed to suit a stifling Bolton team. As for entertainment well I don't recall seeing an entertaining game with Bolton featuring for quite sometime. We did what we had to do IMHO and we did try to snatch the game, but let's not forget Bolton close you down quickly, it's not easy to play against them, ALL the top teams had trouble with Bolton last year, why not us?

A point I raised on another thread. Seems it is not the carthorse that has the blinkers on. Never mind last season he clearly scared the bejeebers out of the Bolton defence. He put them in bother on several occasions, if he had a strike partner we could have been looking at a comfortable victory. I think it is out of order to call him a carthorse anyway, he has very deceptive speed, thats why Notlob almost got caught out, they thought he was slow too. Obviously some of our fans will not take to him until he's bagged 30 goals even then they'll moan I'm sure.

Now that's a tasty scenario waggy

See may get your wish mum, I can see Kuqi being a bit of a bother for Notlobs defence. Games on Telly over here, PPV though but I plonk down me money and watch it. Fingers crossed for a result.

1, No one deserves this, except perhaps bigots such as yourself. 2,I can not find one ounce of sense in. What are you trying to say? You have only the media to judge events by. A media skewed in it's anti bigger than us"bias" as American Media is in sensationalism and ignoring the good. Let's face it us English have never forgiven the Yanks for throwing our tea in the Ocean and then having that bunch of ragamuffins royally kick our collective arses. 3, Dollar totals, don't be daft it's the English that think in dollar totals. Want proof? Check the Tsunami thread and see who brought up how "little" the yanks are giving. You started it. 4, Your point is mute. Yes there is suffering every day. Which Country is talking of boycotts at fuel suppliers? To protest the high fuel tax, hey how else are you going to support the "Asylum Seekers" and the like while it's own Country's citizens go without. Would you care to state that there are no British companies not doing the same, and prove it. WHo are one of the richest oil companies in the WORLD, ever heard of a little outfit call BRITISH Petroleum. Why do the English clamour for those products that are American Corporate brand then, do you yourself own NOTHING from an American based Corporation, you have NEVER eaten at McDonalds or any other Yankee Doodle franchise. 5, We need to hire the person who awarded the contract for the New Orleans clean up a whole month before the hurricane even developed, he is better than Nostradamus and could do a fantastic job predicting other unforseen disasters. Do you actually understand how this storm developed, I don't think so. 6, You "GENUINELY BELIEVE" from "WHAT YOUV'E READ" that statement sums you up in actuality. First you genuinely believe, then you disassociate yourself from your belief by claiming your beliefs come from text. The Sun would like you to subscribe and do yourself a favour, don't read any Harry Potter books you'll be scared of the dark. Now, A point or two of my own. 1 DO NOT judge America or it's people by what you read, or the media. To know them you have to live amongst them. They have bad and good but I will tell you what, the outpouring of support from the common man over here, the Joe Blows just like me, has brought me to tears on several occasions. I have never experienced anything like it since... well since the Tsunami. You have this country and it's people WELL misjudged. Your comments are political, as are most on here, you show your true colours, one of a narrow minded, judgemental, gullable fool who will take what ever he wants to hear as gospel and ignore the truth. As the good book say he who truly seeks the truth will find it, I fear you would not like what you find. Point 2, I GENUINELY BELIEVE, From WHAT I'VE READ. you're are a pillock of the highest order. Now, I'll say no more on this subject. Until the next disaster of course. Don't cry or get upset I am pointing my finger only at YOU the one who typed the post. I am not judging a WHOLE NATION based on sensationlistic journalism. Try it, it could broadenyour horizons. BTW I am English, born and bred Accy lad.

I would like to put out a question. Given that it is clearly evident that McClaren has designs on the England job, has anyone else given thought to the fact that McClaren may actually be doing a number on Sven. He seems slimey enough to me to pull underhanded stuff.

Post before yours, I did say who. You said so too a few posts later. Trouble is the "old school tie" brigade at the FA would not let that happen. Sven should have been Goran right after the Chelsea thing, not English and clearly not commited to the cause. A spineless git. Yes I think if you pull off the Mr Burns face mask Souness is under there.

I am struggling to think of a time we have not played utterly crap after International breaks. Don't fancy us in this one.

I think we will end up sitting out the World Cup in Germany. I simply don't tink we will get there. I was against the appointment of the Swede from the get go and I've seen nothing to change my mind. OUr team is becoming just like him, emotionless, slow and void of any real passion or fire. We are grace with some real talent, perhaps as fine of a group individually as I have ever seen, pull on the three lions. As a group we are nothing. It is really saddening because we could acheive so much, sack him, give us some fire, someone suggested pyscho not a bad shout that.

Well done Glenn.

Well, I read through this garbage and it was just about as I expected. All Anti American political laundry airing, only American and I think one other actually mentioned anything about the human suffering, no mention of any compassion on here. Perhaps your hearts would go out if New Orleans had been choc full of British Holiday makers a la the Tsunami. As I mentioned during the Tsunami no one cares when there are disasters here. You were all too worried about how much America had or had not given at that time, I wonder where the dollar totals lie now. You are all bloody hypocrites, queueing up to have a go. As for America having enough of it's own resources, is that really the point. I feel a deep sadness for many of you since you do not fully understand humanity, plastic is what you are, plastic.

Not to mention the fact that after a few weeks under Souness and Co. the hamstring pull will be keeping him out of most games.

The way things go with us, ending other teams losing streaks and goal droughts, it seems more likely to go the other way. With Newcastle not having scored or won away it's in the stars they will get their first goals and victory with of course Michael Owen smashing home the winner. Or perhaps an Owen hat trick.

All this media hype about our bully boy stuff will not go away. We could play 20 games without a yellow and then the first one we get the press would be all over it. All because we dared to challenge the two Media darlings, Arse and Chelsea to play a mans game. The game is becoming one for pansys, still that's what a lot of them are isn't it, foreign pansys who flop, whine, and cry and cheat, personally I am growing tired of it.

Knock a zero off each figure and change the dollar sign to a pounds sign and you have it right.

I simply can not pick between either goal, MGP had to hit is at a full run with the ball coming across him, he even had to accelerate a bit to catch up. Tugay was on the spot and only had to wait but hit it with such venom and accuracy I don't know. Both were fine fine goals. FoxSports over here had Toogs as Second and MGP as third in goals of the week. The winner???? Defoes strike against Boro, a fine goal in it's own right but nowhere near our two's on the degree of difficulty chart. Just goes to show what they know here, they even had some rather lame MSL goals in the top ten.

When you are in a hole the best thing to do is stop digging.