qatar's just trying to raise its profile. people don't even know how to pronounce its name (sounds like "cutter"), but they run al jazeera, are getting the world cup, now have their name on barca's kit.

it's a bit disgusting how all this dirty oil money has spoiled the game.

Fat Man Allardyce has just been sacked. Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella.

LOL. He deserve this

Right out of the blue. Couldn't have happened to a nicer fuckwit!

We should hire Allardicci as an assistant.

We should hire him to shine our boots.

Depends on the circumstance to be honest.

(edit: the suicide)

Captain wrote:

Depends on the circumstance to be honest.

(edit: the suicide)

What circumstances then?

I'm not going to have a debate on psychological issues because I simply am not competent enough to present a good and valid argument.

Can definitely see both sides to this argument. I can only feel sympathy for the lad, and his family though.

James wrote:

Can definitely see both sides to this argument. I can only feel sympathy for the lad, and his family though.

Yup you are right.

To judge a man who is distraught when I'm far from perfect is what's really wrong. Shouldn't judge at all.

Just there's this side to it when you should be facing your problems with family and friends. Secondly the family love him if not his ex anymore and what must they be going through?

But again my condolences.

If your partner is sleeping with someone else something's gone wrong. You can't make any sort of judgement here without knowing the full story - although I do tend to assume Paul Terry's just another prick.

It might just have been that his partner just wasn't the person he thought she was.

That said, I'm not really up for jumping into this either.

This nonsense needs to stop.

Hopefully, the new UEFA rules will mean that they can't just build a super team.

The financial fair play rules couldn't come any sooner.

Benitez was a good manager up until about 3 years ago, then he lost the plot with all the goings on at Liverpool. Inter appointing him was a joke, and was only ever going to end in disaster.

Would like Capello to go to Inter, and Harry to do the dirty on the Scum. Not because I think Redknapp's a particularly good manager, although he's not bad, but more because it would be hilarious to see the reaction form the Scum fans. Hilarious I tells ya.

Dream outcome would be Fat Sam ending up at the Scum! Or Chris Hughton, he's one of there's! 😆

The dream outcome for me is Spurs doing well in the Champions League, making noise about it, and then sobering up to realize they've finished the season in a UEFA Cup place/

The newspapers are mad. How can a player who struggles to get into the starting line-up ahead of an inconsistent Song and an 18 year old be worth 8 figures? There should be logic to rumors. If someone said Steve Bruce would like to stump 5 million pounds for Denilson, I could buy that.

😆 Fat Sam managing Tottenham. That'd be fucking mint.

Lol. That's not happening.

I reckon Sam's best bet is to wait for one of Leeds, Cardiff or QPR to be promoted, and join them. All of the clubs should have sufficient money to allow him to get some decent transfers in. It would give him an opportunity to allow him to re-invent himself. He must know by now that he will not get the England or Real Madrid jobs as long as he is considered a master of medieval football.

I'm in the wrong business, I should be a football manager. I could follow Benitez & Pardew's example and fail upwards. Get a job, get the sack, get the pay-out, get a better job, get the sack, and on, and on...

Ferguson says van der Sar will retire at the end of the season. Another Taibi please!

They've already signed Anders Lindegaard.

Presumably he'll be #1 next year.

That's the #2 to Roy Carroll aint it?

Good stuff.

Is that for real, Capi? It's fuckin mental if it is.

Benitez: "Back me or sack me".
Moratti:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/856929?cc=3436

Roy Hodgson wrote:

When asked if he would have pursued Cole if he had arrived at Anfield earlier, Hodgson replied: "It's a difficult one for me to answer. I was involved in the discussion with him, but the initiative and the desire to take Joe did come from Christian perhaps more so than myself because I wasn't in the position to say these are the players we should be targeting as I hadn't been offered the job at that point.

"I played my part in persuading him it was a good move, but I made it clear I couldn't promise him a certain position. I made it very clear Steven Gerrard was staying, and the competition for the one spot, if it was the one spot he wanted, was going to be very tough.

"He's not so much a player I can really take responsibility for. I'd have to share the responsibility for Joe, less so than for people like [Christian] Poulsen, [Raul] Meireles and [Paul] Konchesky, who are players I was quite happy to bring to the club."

Hodgson needs to stop making excuses (or talking about these issues altogether) and start taking responsibility. This constant buck-passing about how Liverpool is not "his" team is pathetic.