PauloBarnesi

I dunno, when you get on that A1 up in the North East, there is bugger all traffic, no police, no cameras and just a straight run more or less, with the Toon the only thing in the way. May could have put his toe down and gone quite a bit faster than the train. The A1 north of Newcastle is full of cameras, and isn’t that fast if you get stuck between the border lorries But the idea was that they were supposed to be ala 1948; they used to run non-stop trains from Kings Cross-Edinburgh which did the trip in 6hours 30 minutes. I doubt a car could do that if it behaved legally at the time, let alone now. A train now can do it in under 4 hours. No car could legally do that, or possibly illegally...

The steam train should have pissed all over the car...

On the most famous Belgian since Tintin, Defour X

On Jenas

On Michael Owen X

On Jenas

I am going in a few weeks to the velodrome next door...

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I am sure they might miss the point of it ‘Villa fans leave club to follow Manchester City’

Back in April

I back Drogba all the way. Thats after Gordon Taylor has said he should be punished...

Probably already been answered; when are they going to launch sat nav software?

Duran Duran’s Rio is a kind of perfect snap shot of a moment and a place. You either love or hate that place....

All hail the mighty Designer1. This man has taste. The Gang of Four Avoid the crap at the beginning....

recommend you do the run/walk thing. Just doing 10 miles walking is a pretty big thing, so running it which is going to take at least 1 1/2 hour (8 minute mile pace) is well something else. You need to get some stamina before you can possibly think of speed.

Spot on. The perfect manager, who doesn't make mistakes, doesn't exist. What I expect from Mon over the coming years is for him to keep improving us and pushing us forward. I also accept though that along the way he will make mistakes and we will have bad results and run of results, has we have recently, but overall I believe he will continue to take us forward. Thats the point - all managers make mistakes, MON has made mistakes The difference is, average managers don't see the mistakes (Mowbray !) Good managers make mistakes and more mistakes and more mistakes Great managers make few mistakes, and very rarely make the same mistake twice ! (perfect example was Fergies replacement for Schmiecal) We will see next season which one of the three MON is. Now spending 30 million quid of Shorey, Davies, Young, Cueller and Knight - and still ending up playing NRC as centre back and Gardner at RB whilst Young is at LB - thats a mistake !. Is he allowed it - yes. If we are still the same next season - then you have gotta ask the question what the hell is he doing. If you actually look at the number of ‘massive’ mistakes even someone like Fergie has made you wonder how he’s survived. The point seems to me that the amount of ‘massive’ right decisions have outweighed them. For every Veron you have a Cantona, Ronaldo, etc, etc... And I doubt very much that he would ever publicly admit he has ever made a mistake! So in the case of MON it seems to me that the positives still outweigh the negatives. Now over the next couple of seasons we will be reaching a critical point; can he take us further, and here’s a galling one maybe the club itself can’t reach the heights it once did....

Who is going to stop him making mistakes? Is Randy going to tell him? Are we?

We won the double. They haven’t.

On the other hand, Liverpool ditched Houliier and Benitez won them the Champions League in his first season, ditto Chelsea with Mourinho. I believe that Chelsea and Liverpool are bigger draws than us; therefore they could ‘upgrade’. I am not sure we can; MON at the present is as good as we can get. I don’t believe someone like Martin Jol (or Dick and Kok) would be an upgrade, rather a side ways move

Liverpool have a 16 point gap over Newcastle, I would suggest that Liverpool are running away with it...

Liverpool have a 16 point gap over Newcastle, I would suggest that Liverpool are running away with it...

Just got back from getting my new shirt done with his name on the back, just about to pop down to the local Tattoo parlour to get his name on my back; should look good next to Bergkamp, Boswinga and Juhninio...

Liverpool still leading over Newcastle

Liverpool running away with it, possibly the first trophy for Benitez this year?

Due to technical issues, I notice that West Brom got left the other poll... Bottom of the table and top of the table