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Anyway, breaking news in Norway is that the corporate group Aker is to sell their ownership in Molde and pull funding. Aker is controlled by Kjell Inge Røkke (some of you nerds may remember that this is the guy who owned Wimbledon some years ago). If this is true, the chances of Sunny Rock in the Water coming to Villa has just increased substantially. Without the Aker/Røkke money, Molde is fuuuuucked.

Kjell Inge Røkke's private jet

If this is planned into BHX this weekend, I am going to start laying.....

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Why would you start laying?

it is now.

i was being flippant, that Røkke might send his jet to grab his man back.

Phew!

Please refrain from such comments in future trees. They can cause vast panic/hysteria..

So he is being unveiled tomorrow, or he is arriving for talks tomorrow?

This could just be the first candidate, of a few, that RL is interviewing, no?

Has it been mentioned how Hodgson was impressed by Chamberlain doing well against AC Milan duo Ambrosini and Pirlo?

Even though Ambrosini wasn't playing and Pirlo doesn't even play for them!

My word. That is some blooper

Don't understand all this "the next man has to be English" bollocks.

The next manager needs to be the best man available to do the job. End of. His nationality is irrelevent.

This is international football.

We are England.

We have English players.

We have English fans.

We should have an English manager.

(Some) Polish built our stadium.

(Some) Indians made our shirt.

(Some) Chinese make the merchandise

Basically, as an England fan you are screwed.

Lol true but you can't do anything about that.

The players and manger should always be English.

We are too big a footballing nation to have a foreign manager.

I could understand us having a foreign manager at handball in the Olympics - it is not a major sport for us so we probably lack expertise in the sport.

But to have a foreign manager in our no.1 sport is embarrassing.

Can you imagine Brazil having a foreign manager?

Or can you imagine the USA having a foreign basketball coach?

Or New Zealand having a foreign rugby coach?

Or India having a foreign cricket coach?

etc

India's South African coach led them to World Cup glory one year ago

Panasonic DMC-GF3 has caught my eye, any one got this camera?

Thanks Rev but I may have had a change of heart. The image quality of some of these compact system cameras look amazing. Are these worth the money?

Hi all,

Can someone recommend me a good digital camera, ideally in the range of £0-150?

Obviously something with high quality pictures and good video recording ideally full HD (not sure if that's realistic within this price range) but I'm sure there are some technology experts on here who can assist

The simple fact is there is no true number one team in test cricket.

Sad times, MON is an exceptional motivator and man-manager and that's exactly what you need at clubs like Villa, Sunderland, etc.

MON at it again.

To be fair, these were the sort of performances we were expecting from us under McLesih, defend for your lives and then grab a winner. We're yet to get them.

No.

McLeish Out NOW.

I cannot stand this shambolic, negative football any longer.

Protests please.

Al Habsi's save was special.

And Alcaraz's spitting antics will land him in hot water I hope. Disgusting.

So is the love surely?

When he managed us, we believed we could win most games. We beat top teams. We scored goals.

So yes MON was the MAN.

This series defeat may not mean much to England fans who only watch the Ashes but the worrying thing for them is despite their heroics in the summer over here and claims that this is a new winning England team, they just cannot find a way to win in the subcontinent. In the last 6 years they have won one...yes one ODI in India.

Meh, It's only pyjama cricket.

The same pyjama cricket that Flower and co are desperate to well in.

Nevertheless the performances suggest that England will continue to struggle in the longer format in the subcontinent and hamper their number one status.

Bump.

England getting their asses handed to them in India.

And in the process proving that all the top teams are tigers at home and pussycats in alien conditions.

To be honest that was totally predictable, I think most would have called all 4.

Delph again, FFS.

Collins again? Hutton again? FFS :winkold:

This site is becoming like talkshite! Mcleish is not responsible for the teams bad performance, Gabby, Albrighton, bannan and the fonz (Villa youth) plus that waster Ireland need to stand up and account for that dire performance. The manager was wrong!!!!! but at the end of the day "THE TEAM PLAYED SHITE"

Sorry, when the team is playing shite week in week out then it is reasonable to assume the manager is incompetent.

Sack this clown already.

Dire football, lucky results up until today and unsurprisingly attendances getting lower and lower.

Put your hands up if you'd have taken the other Mc now i.e. McLaren.

Wouldn't be any worse that's for sure.

Forget this, back to the Scuba Steve thread

Urghh...that is some sick shit.

Epic thread, just epic.