Joey Deacon

Paid for a poor start of the season, but i think he did a good job with two top 6 finishes which Spurs fans shouldnt forget. But Spurs need a world class manager to take them to the next level.

Boney M Rasputin is a classic Must be the best song about a mad russian monk ever :w00t:

FFS, We havent played well since Derby at home, we cant score in a f***in brothel. Only Babel, Yossi and Gerrard gave a decent effort out there in the 2nd half. IF WE DONT QUALIFY FROM THIS c**p GROUP, HANG YOU'RE HEAD'S IN SHAME BOYS Badly need Alonso, Agger and Torres back Now. I'm dreading Sunday <_< And to top it off, my second favourite team Celtic lost way AGAIN FFS i'm watching Heroes on bbc 3 to cheer me up :angry:

Not gonna join in with the usual England lose blame Game :rolleyes: , but yeh we should of at least gotta a point after being 1-0 with 20 mins to go. I havent watched the match as ive been at work but i feel it's the result last year against Macedonia/Croatia that have hurt us.

Russia still have to play Israel away, but i agree thing's look bleak Mourinho for England i'd say :yahoo:

So England Vs France Semi, cant wait :) Think we should get Will Carling and Brian Moore in to tell the boys how to beat France in Paris in a world Cup......like in 1991 ;) Anyway another great match today, i actually hope Scotland can pull off a Shock, would be a great boost for Rugby in Scotland

Pompey are now after beating Foolham, but Rover's have a game in hand. Think the league seem's more competitive this year, wiv Man City, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rover's and Pompey all impressing me, think those teams can challenge the top 4 wiv a bit of luck ;)

Oh well still undefeated in the League i guess ;) But yeh we need to pick up form soon before Manure and Arse become to far away to catch. We need Agger and Alonso back ASAP. Get the feeling Everton Away and Arsenal at home will make or break our season.

Just watched it now, it was an good 1st episode but not a patch on the Brilliant ROME series ^_^

Yeh I used to watch it, what happened to the missing girl? Did they ever find out who killed her?

Well Done Argentina on their Victory today over France :cheer:

Its a concern, but that's modern football, the only answer is allow Sky\Setanta to Televise 3pm K/O. Also you cant expect the teams playing in the UEFA cup to play on Thursday and then Saturday.

Dont think Supergrass were stopped by the Vengaboys, think it was the Outthere Bro's with Boom Boom Boom. This was in July 1995, so a couple of yrs before the Vengaboys

Not sure why everyone hate's Phil Collins? He's a very talented musician and i like his Genesis and Solo stuff

Fair play the Screws They deserve at least a 50% pay rise for what they do. Why isnt Gordon Brown stopping all these yuppies in the city & fat cat directors earning £1,000,000 bonuses for doing f*** all ?l <_< How isnt that bad for inflation?

Who cares??? If the EU ran this country this place would be alot better place to live imo

I believe the above article is well intended but wrong. Much as i hate Thatcher i dont blame her for our current social problems. There is a real blame culture at the moment. Apologists for scumbags will say, "oh, its XYZ " fault, not my fault, I couldn't help it. Articles like the Indy one give the scumbags an excuse to sieze on, and there will be those who know nothing of the working classes who will also think, thats a convenient excuse for doing nothing. And the nightmare goes on.... We cannot have the manufacturing base that we used to have, because everything is made cheaper in China. Unfortunate but true. That does not give the scumbags an excuse. There is plenty of work for them,say in hospitals, plumbing, electricians , painters/decorators, all sorts of work that is well paid. Then they come up with more stupid excuses "oh the immigrants take all the jobs"boll**ks But the truth is that the scumbags are lazy idle good for nothing idiots who get easy money for selling drugs and doing f*** all else but make a nuisance of themselves. They have chosen the easy scrounging option because they are greedy and lazy with no work ethic whatsoever. The middle classes are also to blame. Try building the extra prisons that are desparately needed and they will scream "not in my backyard, think of houseprices" So, we have no deterrents and no fear of authority, so the madness goes on and on, we get more and more laws that no-one can enforce and the suffering continues.

Interesting Article from the Independent by Kevin Sampson As news of Rhys Jones's shooting first began to unfold on Merseyside's local radio stations' news bulletins on Wednesday evening. The inferences were clear. Croxteth. Gun slaying. Pub car park. The only variance – and the thing that had the phone-ins humming with indignation – was the age of the victim. "What must the parents be thinking of?" came the resounding message. "Letting a kid of 11 join a gang – they should go on trial, too." Hard on the heels of 47-year-old Gary Newlove being kicked to death by a teen gang in nearby Warrington, the moral majority were queuing up to have their say: the youth of this country are out of control. The gun kids of Liverpool are now no different from those in City of God. How long before we have a nine or eight-year-old victim? For the past couple of years, young street gangs from Croxteth – the Crockyheads – have fought a bloody turf war with the Strand Crew from neighbouring Norris Green (Nogzy). Exactly a year previously from the night of Rhys's murder, one of the Strand Crew's alleged leaders – Liam "Smigger" Smith – was gunned down outside Altcar Prison, where he'd been visiting another gang member. Those accused of his murder have been standing trial, and the verdict was due that same day. One contributor to an Everton supporters' website speculated that Rhys was a key witness in the Smigger Smith murder trial. Another stated that the membership of ruthless young gun gangs involves an initiation ritual. Then one eloquent posting, from Rhys's uncle, silenced the gossips and turned the tide in favour of the heartbroken Jones family. His tone was restrained, trenchant, reasonable and yet utterly bewildered. He began: "Just to clear up any misunderstanding, this child had no possible need to be involved in gang culture as he had a loving family and unlimited access to his first and greatest love, which was to kick a football." The cyber gangstas ceased with their theories. By Thursday morning, to the surprise and in some cases palpable disappointment of the media, we were not in Dodge City after all, but affluent Croxteth Park. When Rhys's father and mother, Stephen and Melanie, spoke of their grief, it was clear that we were watching and listening to decent, utterly devoted parents whose world had just been blown apart. The slant on the reportage of this tragedy changed. Now the accent was on the horrors of gang culture. How has society in the UK descended to such levels of inhumanity – and why is this part of Liverpool so badly hit? To even get near to the nub of reality in these estates, you'd have to know them as they are now, and as they once were. My mother moved to Norris Green as a small child and remembers it as a happy estate with plenty of green space. Every major conurbation has a Norris Green, built between the wars. These are the estates which, if you look at them on any map, have streets laid out in concentric circles, with a series of boulevards and crescents leading off. When Mum lived there, there was one bad family in their street, and nobody spoke to them. There was a central parade of shops in Scargreen Avenue, serving the community with all the essentials – a baker's, a grocer's, a butcher's, a chandler's. Last September, all the shops on that same parade were closed for the day of Liam Smith's funeral. Local youths had visited them and asked them to stay shut as a mark of respect. Fear of reprisals made sure they did so. A huge floral tribute was erected, reading "Smigger – Soldier". The city council, on police advice, did not remove the tribute from Scargreen Avenue for some weeks after the funeral. Go down Scargreen Ave today and you'll be struck, pretty quickly, by how many young lads there are hanging around. They're all "Lowey'd up" – the uniform is black Lowe Alpine trappers hats and black Lowe Alpine jacket, worn with the hood up over the peak of the hat for added anonymity. Hands are shoved down the front of black trousers, unless otherwise occupied with the restraint of vicious dogs. A fighting dog such as a Staff (Staffordshire bull terrier) is as much a part of the look, and the mentality, as the scowling faces, challenging you to catch their eye. Yet, contrary to urban myth, they don't all carry guns. Whenever one is needed they can be hired for £50 an hour from an underworld figure called the Librarian. I don't know these lads personally, but I meet plenty of them at the football. They act tough – they are tough – but so much of that posturing is integral to a lifestyle that has chosen them. Theirs is the first generation of kids born to Thatcher's Other Children. Much was made of her creation of a generation of youthful millionaires, but her government's accent on the individual to the detriment of the community meant that the close-knit spirit of areas like Norris Green was gradually, if not systematically, eroded. Young men and women who traditionally would have found apprenticeships from Merseyside's huge shipping and manufacturing base found those industries de-nationalised, de-unionised and fighting for survival. Between May 1979 and the next general election in June 1983, unemployment rose from 1.4 million to more than three million – the majority of new claimants aged between 16 and 24. Whereas once, there was one bad family in an entire community, whole tribes of school leavers were turning to drugs to fight boredom, and crime to feed the habit. These same kids are the parents of today's teen gangs. If it is the case that parents like these care little what their children are up to, then it's equally the case that they stopped caring about themselves some time ago. Yesterday, Everton and Blackburn fans and players joined together to pay tribute to a dead child. Someone else's son took Rhys Jones away from his distraught family. If we are to break this cycle of despair, we need to rebuild communities rather than, as initially happened here, leaping to demonise their inhabitants.

Another win for the mighty Reds this weekend Torres is looking sharpe, if he can win number 19 for us then he'll be worth every penny :yahoo:

Well Zero Tolerance wouldnt solve all the problems, but it would help. Free the police from paperwork and let them do there job's. I think some "Gene Hunt" style cops are in order to deal with the Yobs.

My fav Vincent Price film is the Witchfinder General. A quite brilliant movie

Stefan Dennis "tune" was sooooooo bad it's a classic. I rather like Dennis Waterman's "I can be so good for you" from Minder :lol:

Who were those two old comedians who dressed up as John Travolta and Oliver Newton John from Greese Lol? Made an embaressing appearence on TOTP if i recall :w00t:

The guys a nonse. Let him die in prison like ALL Nonse's <_<

Great for the people of Iraq after the misery of recent years