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You a Lillywhites fan too? Yes, an awesome result. Thank you Setanta for bringing a ray of sunshine into my house on such a wet day...

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It was a great morning in the Oink household. A bunch of lads came round, the sun was shinning and we had a breakfast of proper sausages, Danish smoked bacon, fried eggs, proper beans, toast and mugs of tea. No beer as I have work to complete this afternoon. But I am very happy. "North London is ours, North London is ours, eff off back to Woolwich, North London is ours."

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I watched the game with two "cradle" Arsenal "fans" who spent a year in London.

They were astonished when I pointed out to them that Andy Townsend did in fact play the game at one stage.

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hi to all epl supporters,
l am new to this forum looking forward to some soccer banter,
looking for 3 points at the bridge on saturday,
regards,
c f c.:thumbsup:

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Dunno bout that, EFC have lost only 1 of last 5 visits to the bridge......:sneaky:

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Who will you be cheering for?

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hi,jamesm
who will l be cheering for,has to be?
chelsea:rofl:

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hi,general tojo
l still say 3 points for the bridge boys;)

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We might nick a point if Cahill is in form & Toerag starts for you chavs up front.

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general togo,
the games with everton always seem to be close,l hope the drog plays upfront with sturridge are we chavs general?chelsea to edge it;)regards c f c.:thumbsup:

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Apart from north americans who says EPL?

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I had to google that. Are you sure north americans say it?

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Who else would use such a dopey acronym? We just say the Premier League or the Premiership, it stands to reason we don' t need to qualify it by mentioning the country its played in as we are English. It sort of like Chinese people going out for a meal, they're not going to go "lets go and get some Chinese" are they?

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not for much longer if your board get their way and invade our patch in the east. Mind you as far as i and many other hammers fans that i know are concernd you can bloody well have the place

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Gobby Karen Brady and the Porno brothers have made that Bingo Club a laughing stock. And, as if renting in a half-full athletics stadium in the championship for the next ten seasons will change that.

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that reply sounds to me like youre getting worried about us bouncing back up :confused: the biggest north London club .......in the east end..... laughable

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Hong Kongers, except that now it's BPL....

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Yeah I noticed they were calling it BPL on Rogers. Very disrespectful to the SPL.......

Anyway if Liverpool get their way the Premier League is only going to last one more TV agreement.

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Or Ice Hockey :)

Although when we lived in Vancouver we had a Japanese kid staying with us for 3 weeks - he spent the whole time going to Japanese restaurants.

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I'm sorry, but this thread has stayed on track for more than 3 years, likely a first in the history of BE. The mention of Iced Hockey is inappropriate, utterly uncalled for and grounds for immediate banishment to the expatcanucks forum on usenet.

You'd find much to chat about over there.

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Can't complain about the result to day. The lads did well to come from behind twice against very decent side.

Still unbeaten, still in fourth place.

It's all downhill from here.

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All in all probably a fair result although we were rather naive in the last 20 mins and should have held on for the win.

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They've some good players up there at Newcastle. Tiote, Coloccini and Guteirrez really put themselves about. I'm not convinced Shola Ameobi would do that with a football again.......

The worry is Ledley King. When we finished 4th in 2010 we got a reasonable percentage of league games out of him. I was hoping for similar this term.....

We really need Gallas back now. I'm not a big fan of Dawson, Bassong or Kaboul- they all seem to need that more experienced head next to them.

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Don't forget Steven Taylor ,who's playing as well as he ever has (and that's very well). Cabaye is a revelation while Ba has been scoring at a goal a start now that Ramadan is over and he can have a pie on matchdays again. Then there's Hatem Ben Arfa who might be the best of the lot (possibly).

I agree though that Ameobi isn't quite up to the premiership in a starting role.

This is prolly a classic hex but Wigan in Toon, Blackburn & Stoke away followed by Everton at home is all looking doable.

Then of course three weeks with visits to both Manchester clubs and then Chelsea at home will be a very different challenge.

I'm not daft enough to expect much from those games.

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There is also the impact those fixtures could potentially have on the confidence of the squad going into the games after.

Craig Forest think's Newcastle are good for the top half. I think so too.

Pardew has done a resonable job despite the controversial circumstances that he entered the position.

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I agree with all three points you make. But suppose (just suppose) they win both home games and scrape 2 draws away. They have 26 points from 12 games going in to the trifecta of gloom. That's over half of target one (40 points for survival) in less than a third of the season. Anything from those 3 would be a triumph, but e.g. a draw in one of the 2 Manc matches and a jammy win over Chelsea would give 30 points out of 15 games.

From there a top half would be probable and the top 6 achievable.

Of course they'll probably lose 7 in a row from here on: normal service resumed and all that.

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I'll back the Toon to hit 50 points.

I think 6th is possible but I expect Arsenal to start making some head way soon (as much as I dislike them).

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Without Vanpussy they'd well and truly naffed. Did you see Gazza on the telly. Didn't look very well at all. :(

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Looks like some owners didn't factor the risk of relegation into their purchase price.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...elegation.html

If they want to own a club that can't be relegated they are welcome to sell up and go to north america.

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Hear hear. Relegation / promotion is what sets football apart from almost every other sport. Without it the hopes of tens of thousands of supporters of clubs like Leeds, Accrington Stanley, Oxford United, Carlisle etc. etc. etc. would
be pointless and the game would be pointless too.

A pox on North American professional sports.

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All we need to do now is add quarters. Rotate the team every two minutes and constantly disrupt the game with commercials.

Let's hope the government approves licenses and this restore's some power to the Football Association.

They need to stop these stupid Yank ideas once and for all.

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Yes, the whole world is waiting.

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All this with Pardew as manager - that's the real mystery.
It was a good game against Spurs last weekend. I reckon Newcastle will be safe this year. They have a good defence and a decent striker upfront.

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All perfectly plausible, up until the bit highlighted in red.:)

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I'd have thought you would've chosen blue highlights; perhaps you couldn't find any.

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http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMx6is6OW_c

For your viewing pleasure


Bloody link don't work. You could be right and it was a Dennis wise wondergoal

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damn, I cost the team 2 points today, made a mistake with the time (in the middle of moving so not thinking straight), so missed 60 minutes of the game.

By the time I started watching we were 2-0 up against Wolves and looking at our first Prem away win.

2-2, I can't help thinking if I missed the whole game we would have won!! :frown:

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I know what you mean. I've been wandering all over Quebec City today and just logged on to find the Toon won 1-0: Still unbeaten, still 4th. Wahey.

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http://chanfeed.com/7763/watch-manch...chester-city-4

This feed is working for me...it appears to be the same video feed etc that Setanta...er Sportsnet World use with Andy Townsend etc doing the half time punditry.

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There was a lot of Oil Money laundered.

But nice to see the blue half triumph in that format.

Welcome to Manchester.