Psycrow

Quiet even

I reckon they'll announce Sunday? Its a quite world cup day. Saturday is England. Monday is Germany v Portugal.

If someone at the club decides not to make an announcement for that reason I want them fired because they're too stupid to be in their job.

Ditto

And don't forget he seems completely disinterested!

I'd take him in a heartbeat.

This is what worries me to be honest. These things do happen all the time on a training ground, but clubs suspending their players for these types of incidents doesn't. It must have been very serious if that's the step the club took.

Somebody tell Chicken Licken to stop spreading the bad news to the media then!

He said that 6 months ago when NC sat him down and said "Look, I need a power play, back me up in the press and we'll get money to sign players" I seriously doubt it was meant as a long term statement.

Or the one on the right, maybe.

Very good result. Lovren looks a player.

I'm from Ireland. When I was getting interested in football, MLT was at his pomp.... And it all went from there.

If the shoe was on the other foot, Cardiff had gotten VW and our chairman said that, the reaction wouldn't be "Did Cardiff get screwed?" It would be "Our chairman is such a sore loser". I don't mean that about NC in particular. I just mean that fans of a team tend to pick apart the news about their own club only. News from other clubs is taken at face value and not looked into or thought about very much. Sometimes its good to stand back and look at the bigger picture.

35. Born in Limerick, Ireland. Now living in Tipperary. IT Manager by day, crimefighting photographer by night. Growing up, I only ever really started getting interested in football when MLT was in his pomp. And it all fell into place from there. First game was losing 2-1 at home to Leicester in 2000, when Dean Richards got sent off. I won the tickets in a club competition! Was sitting a couple of rows in front of Beattie in the Dell.

Ahem

I'll be looking for handicap bets once their out. I reckon the bookies will give us a lot of points, and can't see anyone running away with the league. Usually about 15 or 16-1

He certainly wasn't the only one that had a dip in form in that time. The whole team seemed to.

What you have to remember about Rodriguez is that he wasn't just coming to a new league like the rest of the squad, but we has coming to a new team. He had a LOT of adapting to do, twice as much as most of the others. And I think that's why he improved in the second half of the season

Palace are doing well aren't they?

And pull it off successfully? No. They really can't.

Maybe its a musical group. Like Therapy?

Can someone tell me at what point in the match Sturridge had his offside effort? On Sky they placed it before MS's goal while it was still 0-0. But MOTD showed it it as happening after MS's goal when it was 1-0 terrific performance from the team etc etc btw

And this is the important thing. MP had done nothing wrong. He just accepted a job. It sounds like MP is very talented. We know how it finished at Espanyol, but he has to sell 10 of his first team the previous summer. The finances there were a mess. Hell, S****horpe weren't exactly top of the table when NA took over! And I can remember people being in uproar over that. The devil's advocate in me is thinking, what a great way to change a manager! Every other club wait until the team is in a bad run of form, in danger of relegation or whatever failure is for that particular team, fire there manager and then are managerless for a few games until the new guy comes in. And often that new guy is only from a limited available pool of managers. But we have headhunted the man we want, have obviously been in talks with him and players he wants to sign for quite a while, he's brought straight in to succeed a successful manager with a good squad and he has time in the transfer market to bring in players he wants. Logically, that's how all clubs should replace their managers, its just not the done thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm gutted for Nigel. I really feel he could have brought us a hell of a lot further and think he will do that for a different club. But part of me thinks the logic is sound.

At the end of the day, the new guy (I'll get around to spelling his name sometime) has done nothing wrong. He's just accepted a job offer. What's the point in getting on his back? All this talk about him being not wanted and he can **** off is ridiculous and I wonder about some people's cop on. Find a way to protest, but ensure the team and manager know its a protest against the chairman if that's what you want to do.