My favourite: "ha ha ha alex , sunderland"

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Is this a joke? Having the rug pulled out from under our feet like that with no clue. He sold Andy Cole because he didn't get along with him. If you sell off a decent striker for such a reason, that means you've made a serious commitment to the club. And buying players like Boothroyd recently...what was the point if you decide to abandon ship like that. No doubt the geordie faithful will test his pacemaker. Will he be in charge against us then?

Newcastle 3 Blackburn 5 The referee tries in vain to give Newcastle more penalties but Friedal is equal to the referee.

Why have you got a picture of Stan Collymore in his younger years on this thread?

Flew back from Nice on sunday to get a text with the result: Blackburn 1 ManU 1 Great I thought, a point against them is always good. then I saw what happened. I do believe the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell"... COME ON ROVERS!! BASH THOSE MAGPIES TO A PULP. NEVER GIVE IN!! We're in danger of becoming a team that likes to sit back on a 1-0 lead and soak up the pressure when really we should take confidence from that lead and go for the throat. Had we scored again, it would probably have been over. ManU did have 3 or 4 hits of the woodwork and Rovers rode their luck but a 2-0 lead would have been welcome at that stage. Am actually very encouraged by our start to this season. Rovers were much the better team at Soton and should have WON that one. The ref conspired against us in that game as well. The penalty NEVER was one, our attitude was spot on and we took the game to them over the whole match. This actually spurred them into a battle. The very least we deserved was a 2-2 draw, even this would have been unjust. At Highbury the Soton match confidence carried through and we really troubled Arsenal for 45 minutes. The only difference is that we didn't score, luck against us once again. The Gunners back 4 were broken down on more than 5 occasions. To be fair we should have been 2-0 up at the 30 mins marker, this would have been a fair reflection. In the 2nd half they went mad and were ruthless, they completely swept us aside, and it could have been a massacre. I have been really impressed with the fight & attitude, we need a finisher (some pace) to compliment Stead. Dickov is doing what he did for leicester and man city......a terrier in the mid of the opposing defence. Better luck WILL follow. Come on rovers!!!!

Even the smallest person can shape the course of the world. Old boy Dickov stuns Highbury with his goal in a 1-0 win over Arsenal.

A 1-1 draw with West Brom. *sigh* ..here we go again...

Blackburn 0 West Brom 1 at half time before we finish 3-1 winners with Thompson, De Pedro and Dickov on the score sheet. Somebody get's sent off to prison

How come we can take God's name in vain but not mr blasphemy's?

God

that's blasphemy

Plus, of course, we should remember that Souness used to have a moustache. You know, like Hitler. Jeez... Coupled with the fact that he manages a team called "Blackburn". Says it all really doesn't it? I'm outta here...

Will find out the grid reference (GIS) for that address and forward onto the Royal Navy. They can deal with it in a manner they find suitable. Surely it'd be more efficient to use the airforce to blow up some house in Switzerland? Too many witnesses. You can't really miss a plane swooping low to drop a bomb. A battleship in the mediteranean...

Will find out the grid reference (GIS) for that address and forward onto the Royal Navy. They can deal with it in a manner they find suitable.

Loading my shotgun at the moment.

But will it go to pots? Hopefully England 1 Portugal 0

Have you been spending too much time watching Italy's Greatest Hits video or something? Denmark - Denmark were 2-1 up against Sweden. That's all they needed to go through. Did they become a defensive side? Did they hell! They went at it and tried to kill Sweden off. What a match that was - thoroughly entertaining and in particular the very lively (and animated) Gronkjaer. Sweden - Lathund's post on page 4 is an excellent summary of what this team is about. A team full of hunger always on the attack. A victory over this team would be quite an achievement for Holland or any other country. With Czech, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Italy to choose from I think we all know which one of those teams is the more defensively minded and least entertaining one

Sweden notched up 8 goals in 3 games. Larsson's goals against Bulgaria were pure class. A fantastic header from a super cross and a sliding/stretching touch to lift the ball in. Exciting and deserving of a place in the quarter-finals. To say that one would rather watch an italian team (who apart from the desperate all-attack approach in the bulgaria game played rather defensively in this tournament) due to their past histroy making them a "big" team with "big" players does smack of ignorance and nothing more. Personally, I can't wait to see the boys in yellow take on the dutch. Denmark? Possibly the goal of the tournament so far and were the better team against Italy. Denmark-Czech looks like a match not to be missed!

I have to say that 3-0 was a mugging. And of course we can always rely on scousers for that. The commentary for the match was absolutely hilarious. Robson showing his senility grabbing any opportunity to talk about Kieron Dyer. "Well Dyer would have passed the ball to the left..." "you know if Dyer was on the pitch, he'd have run at the defenders instead of..." "...he reminds me of the way Dyer plays..." That made up the entertainment for all those times we simply lost possession. Make no mistake, if we lose possession so cheaply like we did against the swiss, we will get punished by other teams and even lady luck will decide to go home.

Exactly. A choice between listening to your inspirational skipper or David James... Ah well, stranger things have happened in tournies. Czech lost their opening game in euro 96 and look where they ended up. Italy did too in world cup 94. Ok they didn't have david james in goal but at least there's some inspiration there for the lads.

May have been mentioned already but when Zidane placed the ball for the free kick, Beckham allegedly told Ashley Cole to cover the far post. Ashley Cole left the wall to go there but James then told him to return to the wall. Liability?

Went to see the match near Broad St in Brum. Twas quite a healthy atmosphere as there were 2 screens close to each other and groups of lads, lasses and even families turned out to cheer Engerland. However when Zidane scored the penalty things did turn ugly here. And I had an amazing escape. A rather ignorant friggin emotional english "fan" behind me picked up his half finished can of beer and chucked it into the crowd. It just whizzed past my ear and I walked away very quickly a bit dazed as to how close that came to hitting me on the head when I realised that he had succeeded in hitting a child on the head. Congrats to that brummie. Broad st was later closed for more than an hour as people were playing footie around the traffic on the road itself. I don't know what happened in Broad St later but I gather it sounded serious. No wonder there was hardly any violence in Portugal. These chaps couldn't leave Brum.

stop the madness...