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Yeah, 'cos of course most footballers are solid upright citizens. Bellamy may well be a prune in the first degree, but it's not like he's a stranger in a strange land. They're all a bunch of brain-dead thickos, substituting true contentment for material wealth and shoving it in the faces of the people who bought it for them. Bellamy is just a cartoon character who stands out from the rest. Take your blinkers off. There's exceptions I presume, but I see nothing to dissuade me that football is populated by a bunch of spoilt morons who don't know the value of anything.

He doesn't sound that much different to David Dunn, and he's still worshipped by some.

Did he get a red card for assaulting Phil Brown then? A moot point maybe, but clearly this dude is talking out of his hat!

Nothing really - just takes 10 mins or so to get used to.

Wonderful journalism. Don't worry about the truth, just spout a load of cack and get people to buy it. For goodness' sakes whatever you do, don't indulge in balanced, measured, informative reportage - that's a cardinal sin of journalism. Pander to the perceived prejudices of your readership and insult their intelligence. Well done. Splendid.

Not ripped off once, but twice with this fellow. If he fails to win anything up there I'll not have an ounce of sympathy. Whoever Rangers played on 3rd April it was on telly and I have to say an awful game.

The FA bow to media pressure to appear hardline then brick it when it comes to the crunch and let people off. More appeals to the FA than on a banana plantation. And why not? 75% of the time they cave in. Because footy clubs weild all the power.

Or scythe the fields at a naturist park ... yoweee! You are a wonder nobbing all those birds whilst being dickless.

Jan, why did such an innocent little joke provoke such a disproportionate response? Chill out.

Brohlin! Dahlin! Brolin! Brohlin! Dahlin! Brolin! Brohlin! Dahlin! Brolin! Brohlin! Dahlin! Brolin! Rawhide! Sorry, couldn't resist!

piddle?

Not seen too much of him this season, but he's always tended to be a bit of a lunger, well since he's slowed down anyway, don't think his injuries have helped in that sense. Can occasionally come out with moments of magic, like that goal at Wimbledon in 2000.

I wouldn't put a team of rookies out, but one or two fresh faces wouldn't go amiss. We've carried one or two passengers this year anyway. Can't be any harm at all in giving say a striker a couple of games, especially with us being so tight at the back.

The charge has been chucked out - see official site. What a bl00dy waste of everyone's time!

You've gottsa laugh you really have!

Bottom line is that no-one should underestimate, or overlook, what he did during his first three years - I for one had abandoned all hope of seeing us go back up before Souness got hold them. Staying with the bottom line, no-one should forget that his last 18 months here were ... regrettable. Personal feuds, regrettable purchases, bewildering tactics ... there wasn't that much that went right (although some of it, eg inhuries to players, wasn't down to him). Graeme Souness - 66% heaven, 33% hell.

But strangely enough Duff was knocking them in from all angles, and went on record as saying that Saunders had helped him. Not necessarily saying that Saunders is a good coach, but I am saying that it isn't as cut-and-dried as you think.

insert :smiley with tongue poking out mocking this statement: Neill was in the top three players on the field I might be losing my faculties, but I'm sure Neill was at fault for the first. Mind you, I didn't have a good view of teh telly in the pub! He lost the man he was marking on the edge of the box to needlessly challenge for a header that would've come to him anyway had he stayed where he was. If the Arsenal player had got a header in then it would've been the fault of the man marking him on the other side. Once all three players contrived to miss the header, it went to an Arsenal man in acres of space, and a goal was pretty much a formality by then. I'm sure others will disagree but for me he is just not good enough, he can't mark properly, at least not consistently. Fair enough I don't see many games, but that is my view.

What the Standard said the day after we beat Spurs in Cardiff was amusing. They jumped right out of their prams!

You really are a lemon, aren't you? "EVERY SINGLE ONE" (apart from one - ooops) "More productive to have ... got hammered" (yep, would do morale the world of good as we strive for the points to take us to safety. Sounds liek Suicide Squad mentality that) Plonker!

Oh for chrissakes, drop the anglo-american @#/? man!

He's really lost it, Newcastle are a joke club at the moment. Shame really, as he was a good manager once. He could've turned Newcastle into a team capable of challenging Man U/ Arsenal/ Chelsea. But that ain't going to happen, is it?!

Unfortunate choice of phrase! Glad I didn't cause offence in the end, none was intended ...

Thought it was ironic that Wenger slated our approach to the game ... this is a guy who has managed the Premiership team with the worst discipllinary record ever. They don't like it when they can't have it all their way, do they?

Ignore 'em. Pundits are always contraversial, trying to make money off the back of footy. Fans buy into it, reputations are made and lo and behold Blackburn are evil. Pile of.