changingman2000

Aye pretty much mate, certainly the players in the top bracket anyway. When Abramovich came in, there was talk abot him wanting Raul from Real Madrid, and if, I remember right, his buy out clause was 114,000,000. which seemingly he was up paying.

As Hunter explained last night, Most of the top spanish players have release clause's in their contract. It suits the players current club too as if someone comes in with a ridiculous amount of money that match's the clause then there isnt a thing that the club can do. By the same token, the fans cant give them dogs abuse for selling because all they need to say is the truth, plus a wee bit of spin, a la: "We didnt want to sell him but they matched the clause so we were powerless to stop him moving" Suits both parties. For what its worth, given the fact that he's just 20, I think Messi is an outstanding talent, and would love to see him in a Chelsea shirt, Who know's, in time, he may turn out to be even better than Pat Nevin

Graham Hunter (Spanish Football expert) said on talkSPORT last night that Messi has a buy out clause of 150,000,000 euro's and it's rumoured that Abramovich is going to put up the wonga. Barca would be slaughtered if they sold him, but if his buy out clause is met, there is nothing they can do to stop him leaving.

Wigan are playing very, very well over the last few weeks. Trouble is, Its practically next door to Manchester and will be teaming with Man Ure. More or less like a home game to them. I think it'll be a case of what might have been come Sunday night. A very commendable effort by the players over the last couple of weeks but we'll be left to look back on the disgraceful, needless points dropped with last minute goals against Wigan and Rottenham. If it does go United's way on Sunday then Ferguson would do well to send a bottle of Champagne to Robbie Keane and Emile Heskey, Its them that gave them the title

LOL did you notice. This insomnia is leaving me knackered , I'm going to take up meditation, well, apparently its better than sitting about doing nothing

Fuck, Thats an improvement!

I know, I know, But you have to say its quality.......... A history of Scottish International Football Highs, and Lows

Hair's on the back of the neck job this:

Lucky Guy. I didnt get tickets for the Motherwell gig this month, Long since sold out and strange venue give Glasgow is just 7 miles on the Motorway. But am booked up for the Glasgow SECC in November

Paul Weller showed once again that age and money haven't blunted his beliefs: From latest "MOJO" Magazine interview with the man himself: MOJO: After The Brits it seems as if everyone wants to honour you these days: yet you apparently turned dwn the offer of a CBE last year. WELLER; "Yeah, Some knighthood, a CBE, I'm not sure what it was. Someone approached Polly (Weller's press officer). I said, "Your joking ain'tcha?" I got a letter through, saying, "Blah, Blah - and the Prime Minister would like to have his photograph taken with you." Fucking hell, I don't want my photograph taken with a war criminal,Know what I mean?, Its weird. Top Man in my book

Will he? Fuck I dearly hope not. Couldnt stand another year of seeing his dribbling, salmon like features on the box for another year. I reckon Sunthorpe may take a chance on him next season

Completely agree

My views certainly wont change. There was a couple of different aspects to these games against the bin dippers that differs from the previous two efforts. As "badboy" said, the obvious thing is that we were away first - And that was a massive, massive diference. Our crowd last night was on par with anything I've heard at the Bin dippers landfill site. Second, was the simple fact that the stupendous own goal by Riise effectively put us through in the end as they would have had the away goals. We were going nowhere until the Viking had a brainstorm. I've seen the pictures of Terry and Lamps hugging Grant and I've really no problem with that. I'm just adamant that he is entirely undeserving of such a job that he ONLY got because he was "friendly" with Roman. He's also very fortunate that we have, In general, a very strong willed group of players, JT, Lamps, Ballack, Drogba, Carvalho, Essien are all leaders and that has certainly helped us through a very testing season.

Watched the game in a boozer called the Iron Horse in Hope Street in the centre of Glasgow with a few like inded friends. Never, EVER been so nervous in my life when the bin dippers pulled it back to 2-3 but blinding, I would have to say that the majority of fans in the bar were willing on Chels. End of the game I taught the fuckers "Celery", which drew both amusing and aghast looks from the bar staff and regulars, then I looked on the juke box for inspiration.......and found Primal Scream's "Give out but dont give up" album, I put every fucking song on and the place was leaping. Blinding

Yup, I agree, blinding night though.

Scouser who have been going for a while will remember the 4-2 cup game at the Bridge in 97 when we were 0-2 down at half time. REALLY got behind the team in the second half and urged them on to a fantastic come back. All that when there was no shed end at the time either. More of the same on Weds will do the job. Also, I wouldnt like to advocate violence , But I hope any bin dippers found in home area's are dealt with severly

I think thats now ten games against us that Ronaldo has played in and he is yet to shine. Think back to the Cup Final last season, He was totally invisible. I pissed myself laughing at Fergie yesterday, Never seen him so red faced with anger. Whinging like fuck about the penalty when he knows full fucking well that, if the tables had been turned he'd have been claiming it. The wheels have come off United's wagon the last few weeks, he knows it and, at present, he seems to be unable to do anything about it. Its ridiculous really as they have been light years ahead of us this season in terms of confidence, flair, etc but all credit to our players who, to a man, yesterday were outstanding. Utd, lost the plot yesterday, Ferdinand kicking a lady steward, the team ending out fighting with groundstaff, whining about decision's. Let me tell you, If Barca score on Tuesday then they are out, They just wont come back from it. The Happy Hammers as well have been pony recently but always seem to do something against Man Ure. You never know, you just never know

You lot horsing us 9 - 3 and 5 - 1 :ballack: and us becoming unofficial World Champions after the 3-2 slaughter at Wembley in 67. Not to mention the 2-1 annilalation again at Wembley in 77' when the Pitch, Goalposts and burger vans headed north. Great times, sadly cant see it being the same again. The originals are still the greatest

Risse was told, Another performance like at' and we'll send the guv'nor round to see you

From Football365: CAPELLO KEEN ON ENGLAND v SCOTLAND Posted 25/04/08 11:12EmailPrintSave England manager Fabio Capello is keen on a friendly against Scotland but has ruled it out until at least 2010. Capello held a fixtures meeting with Football Association officials last week to draw up his plans for next year - crucial for England in their qualification campaign for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa - and a Scotland game was not on the agenda. The Italian coach had been prepared to play a friendly at Wembley next month but that fell through after his Scotland counterpart George Burley decided it was not the right time. There is still an appetite for the game to take place however in the future, and Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith said a friendly is still "definitely back on". FA director of communications Adrian Bevington said: "I don't envisage us playing Scotland over the next year but as Gordon Smith has said there is certainly a desire on our part to find a suitable date to arrange a fixture with Scotland in the future. "However we won't be in a position to do so for quite some time. "We were of course ready to host Scotland next month following previous positive conversations but unfortunately Scotland were unable to take up that fixture. "We fully appreciate the level of interest that an England-Scotland fixture would generate and of course it's something we will be discussing further with Gordon Smith and the Scottish FA." Scotland and England have not played each other since their Euro 2000 play-off in 1999, but Smith has held fresh talks with FA counterpart Brian Barwick. Smith told The Sun: "I've had discussions with Brian Barwick about resurrecting the Scotland v England games and it's definitely back on. "It might be 2010 before we get a game. The idea would be to establish some sort of relationship for one-off games or even have them bi-annually."

Well, Lets face it, the old Bin dippers are a strange breed anyway mate.

Well, I mean, IF he is a pooh miner then what blokes going to want to give him a portion? Lets face it, Ginger hair and a face like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle? Mind you, there's always Avram, Knew he'd come in handy for something

cock stash eh??? I mean, he aint a Marmite Valley warrior is he?, One can only wonder! Riise the worshipper of the chocolate starfish eh?!

I thought Lampard was very, very poor on Tuesday, Possibly he had other things on his mind, and who wouldnt understand that? Trouble is, If he thought that he was maybe going to struggle against the bin dippers then maybe he shouldnt have played. I commend him for making the effort but he was poor.

Couldnt agree more with Henry Winter. The Likes of Hughes and Moyes are putting in the effort, the groundwork, to build their careers. Whereas Grunt simply gets a little lift up from his "chum" The more I think about it, The more I would love it if Abramovich swallowed hispride, fucked Grunt off, and offered the job to Hughes. I think Hughes would walk over broken glass for it. Top Man