British football gossip

Jewell's just jacked it in:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...tic/6653185.stm

In the words of the late great Mary Millington, "FUCK ME!".

City is being touted as his destination, but my moneys on Sven to take that job.

Finally, the perfect club for Sven-Goran Eriksson

Well, love him or hate him, England were certainly not doing any worse under his leadership than they are now

The problem is, we are still under his leadership in the shape of his sidekick.

We've got a new manager?

I thought he'd just put a ginger wig on to decieve the press.

Pearce has just been sacked. Coincidence? I think not.

So is it Big Sam, Jewell or Sven?

Bye bye Psycho.

Jewell, Sven to Newcastle and Big Sam to Bulgaria to become a drug baron.

Jewell to City, after being conviced it will not affect his health, Big Sam to the Toon (Press conference already booked!)
And how can anybody actually think Sven would get a half decent job in England?
That would be the easiest way to kill Season ticket sales and alienate most of your fans, never mind making it impossible to hire any secretaries within a club!
One thing for sure Sven won't be taking over at Wigan,


Whelan is not a big fan, maybe Psycho is on his way there!

I think Psycho needs a well earned rest. I feel sorry for him.

Big Sam, defo to Toon. Jewell to Bolton?

You got to be a complete idiot to take over the reigns at City. 18 managers in 26 years should warn any serious contenders off. The problem is at board level.

I agree, City is a poisoned chalice but i think The Toon falls under the same heading. Both big clubs starved of success.

Newcastle has very "active" fans who turn on their managers incredibly quickly. They seem to organise more protests than any other club out there.

Manchester City wants it all but does not know how to get it. How on earth they ever imagined they would achieve whatever it is they want with a novice manager in charge and within a short timeframe is beyond me. Pearce needed a couple of seasons to learn the ropes but, to be honest, he should have started with a smaller team and worked up

He tried his hand at Forest a few years ago but it didn't go too well there either if i remember correctly.

The Tevez/West Ham saga goes on, FIFA have now stepped in to investigate the FA's decision.

just a short interim spell as player-manager

I really do think City should go for Sven.

What have we ever done to you?

Hahahahahahahahaha

Sleeping giants. If I had a pound for every City/Toon fan I heard say that I'd have, well, at least £2.

Sorry Jimbo, you were saying ?

Team Total Attendance Average Attendance

Just because you have bigger stadiums in the virtually unpopulated North, doesn't actually mean you're any good though

Ooo! That was a bit below the belt.

Er... Jimbo, me old fruit. Can you help me with a really difficult question? I'm wrackin' me brains, but I can't remember the last time Spurs actually won anything. Maybe the old memory ain't what it was, eh?

Mourinho 'arrested after dog row'

Pissin' meself larfin' 'ere.

Joey Barton arrested also.

BBC - Barton in the nick

Distin's pissed off

One of our few decent players

That was severe naivity on Psycho's behalf. If a player has still not signed a new contract with a year to go, its best to cash in quickly.

I told ya!

Sven interested in the City job!

I hear they're also after Gordon Strachan.

Houllier quits Lyon. The thick plottens

I thunk I've worked this out: Houllier, Sven and Strachan are going to fight Barton for the right to be City manager. Me money's on the little Scottish bantam then.

Houllier to Man City? So that is where all the random African strikers whose names you cannot pronounce are going in the summer then.. Interesting.

On the other hand, you don't need to that much. They seldom see the ball and rarely ever score...

Sadly the link just dissappeared, but the BBC are also quoting it.


Arcelik and Koc Holding

Only Becks' brain can come up with beauties like this:


So, that's a lot fitter, as fit, and maybe more fit. Got it?

It had to be us!! It had to be us!!

Oldham sign Lee Hughes!

To help the people who dont know who this guy is, he was jailed 3 years ago for killing someone whilst driving his car. He fled the scene and lied to Police at the time saying he wasnt driving, but was found out and was given 6 years. Well he's up for parole in August and it seems we're snapping him up early.

I had a feeling when he was jailed that we might just go for him when he was released.

Do the maths - Fink Tank has already.
Every premiership player rated using a multivariate Poisson log-normal model (i.e. via sums).

Ranieri linked, in The Times at least, with the City job.

Man Utd swoop for Anderson & Nani

Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira? The 19-year old mega-tackler Brazilian left sided creative midfielder from Porto?

Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha (Nani)? The 20-year old Portuguese left winger they're saying is like a cross between Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs?

This should be good to watch. Roll on August.

I wanted spurs to get old Nani. With these two plus Hargreaves and more to follow, the other big teams could be in a spot of bother. Gareth Bale will be able to stop all of these players though! C'mon the mighty Spurs!

Well said DJ JG - the mighty Bale will win us the league on his own. We've also been linked to Peter Crouch - hurrah! We will be unbeatable next year with him onboard as well.

You cannot but admire a Tottenham Hotspur fan's hopeless optimism.

At least he has some, unlike us at the moment

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

No! Stop!

HOHOHOHOHO!

Well I've got to be a little more optimistic for next season as we do actually now have a striker with a real killer instinct, he'll strike fear in to defences all over the country with the way he drives in to the box...

Sepp Blatter re-elected as FIFA PresidentHe is like Big Brother - everybody hates him but he just keeps coming back for more. A sad day for world football

Shit, the George Dubya Bush of footie just got a turd term. About as bleedin' incompentant. Bollocks is what it is. Why is is that only muppets seem to be in charge of our sport? Do we not like that?

Ranieri resigns at Parma. Looks like our new manager is decided then. I think we could do a lot worse to be fair.

I think Paul Ince is the man for City he's got ambition and experience and who knows maybe even Europe!