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There's lies and there's damned lies. Of course it's about money. Tapping into a global audience is a betrayal to the fans at home. Scudamore is paying lip service to the greed of the chairman of Premier League football clubs.

Already there is talk that the top teams will be seeded to avoid each other. This smacks of fixture maniplulation and once that happens the league will have no credability because only the rich and powerful clubs will have a chance of winning anything. It's a total sell out.

How is this going to make supporters feel, season ticket holders and the like. Die hard fans who already fork out hugely over-inflated prices for tickets week in, week out some of whom haven't missed a match in 25 years or more? It's an absolute disgrace.

Aston Villa 2 v Newcastle 0

Bolton 1 v Portsmouth 2

Derby 0 v Tottenham 3

Everton 2 v Reading 0

Middlesbrough 2 v Fulham 0

Sunderland 1 v Wigan 1

West Ham 2 v Birmingham 1

Chelsea 1 v Liverpool 2 - Okay, heart not head, but Terry out, and Drogba not back, so you never know... Although losing Torres is a massive blow for us!

Man Utd 3 v Man City 1

Arsenal 2 v Blackburn 1 - This could be interesting after Wenger's comments about Blackburn's physical style last time...

Keef Wrote:

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> Given our current form and the fact Torres has

> gone and done a hamstring, I'd be happy with a 1

> all draw at Chelsea! I just pray Torres was taken

> off as a precaution and has just pulled something

> minor...


Keef you got your wish. If only Crouch had not been so wasteful, you'd have won the game.

Watched it in the pub. A bore draw if ever I've seen one. Second half was really dire. Still, the beer and whiskey was going down a treat so I can't complain too much...apart from the raging hangover I'm suffering right now.

Spurs looked a bit tasty in the second on Saturday against a very poor Derby. It just goes to show how important Berbatov is to us. Darren Bent is just a totally useless waste of space. I find it hard to believe that we got rid of Defoe and kept Bent.

Well I still think he has a good future in front of him, but maybe not at Spurs...


I was chatting to a big spurs fan at work, and he said he'd heard lots of rumours that Defoe is a horrid little git, so maybe it was a personality thing. Just to clarify, am I right in saying that he's only at Pompey on loan for the time being?

Just picked this up from the BBC website regarding Man Ure defeat yesterday and after reading it I thought "Come again?"


"We believe the team was affected by international call-ups," said Queiroz.


"But talking about that would be an excuse. It was not our day. We didn't play well and need to accept that


So either your team were or weren't fatigued, not forgetting that most premiership teams had players involved in mid week internationals and nobody else chose to mention as far as I know.

Newcastle are certainly not out of it, but Derby are doomed I think Fulham will go. It will be a scrap between 3 or 4 clubs at the foot of the table currently. I wnet last night and if we'd had our shooting boots on we could have had a hatful, and Brad Friedel performed heroicly in the Blackburn goal. Bentley was largely anonymous thanks to a great performance from Clichy. Still a long way to go though, but feeling good at the moment.

Kevin Keegan has always struck me as the nearly man of football, especially first time around at Newcastle.

Premier League title? He couldn't quite pull it off. Champions League? He couldn't quite pull it off. Balaclava of cowardly thug who wellied him with baseball bat? He couldn't quite pull it off.

But there are growing fears on Toonside the one thing King Kev CAN pull off this season is relegation.

Newcastle are now just 6-1 to go down, with Keegan's record in his second spell at St James' even more horrific than Head Over Heels, his 1979 chart-bottomer. He couldn't hold a toon even then.

Most pundits warned Toon fans when they celebrated Keegan's return that they were living in the past - on Saturday some were even chanting "Roeder out" - and now it's all threatening to go not so much head over heels as arse over tit on Tyneside.

God knows what prompted Newcastle's appointment of archetypal southerner Dennis Wise, who was told he only had to spend three days a week up north, presumably freeing up the other four for visits to the theatre.

The Geordie nation is more likely to embrace Sharia Law than a dodgy geezer like Wise, especially if Sharia can play wide on the right.

Bookies Ladbrokes are betting who will last longest at St James' - King Kev or Dirty Den - and it's Keegan who is considered most likely to walk first at 1-2, with Wise 6-4.

Newcastle are 33-1 with Hills not to win another Premier League game this season and Keegan is 5-2 to be out of the job before the end of May.

He's 11-2 with Bet365 to sign his dream striker Thierry Henry, although Lenny Henry is a more realistic target the way Toon are playing.

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