Did he not say when he left, that he would like to return to the club and finish his career here?

Sad news.

Funny and always interesting contributor.

RIP

Horrible news.

Promising manager, nice guy and a huge loss.

RIP

Q. Now which constitutes most racism?

1. Sepp Blatter suggesting that there is no problem with racism in football.

or

2. The Black List Football awards?

or

3. The introduction of a White List Football awards event?

I would suggest 2 and 3 are 'more racist' as they exclude other races.

However, ask now which is the most offensive and problematic, and I would say 1 - easily.

I disagree with black awards, on the grounds that it promotes division, not inclusion, therefore perpetuating the problems. But Blatter is wrong to air these opinions,as they are outdated and send out the wrong messages to impressionables.

Going to see MGMT tomorrow, which will hopefully confirm them as the next big thing (along with Glasvegas!).

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So there you go.

MGMT new album out today - groovy!

Get hm sold, there are lesser palyers out there that will improve the TEAM.

Todd is still our best CH, and should play when fit!

Carlton Palmer, he tries to be eloquent, but just ends up being embarrassing!!!

Give it to Toddy again

And how about the Lucas Neill who has put in quite a few outstanding performances this season even though he wants to leave?

I dont buy this crap about Neill that some people are on about.

I'd love to see the Opta stats for Niell, cos his pass completion rate must be the worst in the history of mankind. The guy's a heart attack waiting to happen!

Cash in!

Just a point for all the sheep.

When have Nike made a decent shirt?

Admirable optimism but I hope the management and players aren't treating our situation that lightly.

Similarly, I hope the management and the players don't have the same laughable pessimism as you Rev...then we would be in trouble!!!

Bentley comes across as being a bit of dimwit! Probably the accent.

We've got Neil,Savage and todd, both not the brightest bulbs. Hell last season with Bellamy Im sure there was no use for a Scrabble board

Brilliant!!!

Get him back!!!

What will help Pardew is the fact that his team are playing Rovers! I've lost count of how many opposing teams' bad runs have come to an end when they play us, and you can include players' bad runs with that as well!

Is it the same injury?

It must just be me then who thinks he has looked fast as ****!!!

Thankfully Grabbi won't be on hand to miss ever chance we create this time round

Nor Jansen

Just want to echo what has already been said, Emo has been a revalation at right back. I can't think of one better at this moment, in the Premiership!

It will be interesting to see the thoughts of Capt. Kayos, 'cos he, along with myself, was one of the first to question Emo's effectiveness (right wing).

After tonight Im sure you still want todd to be first choice. Idiot.

I'd rather have Peacock than Ooh no!

Warning! To anyone who liked the first Kasabian album... the difficult second album is ...er .. difficult (sh*t)!

Special mention to M use for producing a great album. It's (90's)Radiohead meets Queen, and it works in an overblown pompous way!

Amongst the sensible comments, we have the usual (knee)jerks

Bad, bad news. Our best centre half leaving is not good news. If Nelsen gets back to the levels of performances we are used to we might cope, but we will need at least £2m for Todd, the country's most underrated centre half!