Classic power mechanisms at FIFA. England make a point of it. All the other pupils shift nervously and say nothing eager not to upset Blatter and his money. Wait until I get to Germany this year

All fully paid up members of the  'Cap Wringers & Allied Trades' union

I'm fairly certain that Owen mentioned his displeasure at being a bench warmer not too long ago. Funny how money changes people...

I can never see Neil Warnock without thinking of the nickname he got given by Wednesday fans. It's an anagram - Colin Wanker!

I note that they have appointed well known football expert, Henry Kissinger to an important FIFA post.

Didn't know Kia Joorabchian was Mark Hughes' agent

 

 

 

 

 

What an absolute cnut...

I understood him not to be anyone's agent, but merely a business advisor.

Looks like the Swiss have twice the number of players on the pitch!!

Blimey! First Ashley Cole is injured, then the Swiss score!

Jeebus! Are England rattled or what?

Lampard scores! Wow! Strange 5 minutes!

Alot of long ball from England... struggling to break them down. F*ck knows why Milner is always played on the wing, he's a box to box midfielder. Not sure what he was sniffing either when it came to that free kick, the clown just jumped out the way

I'm only just catching up with the w/e papers....... I note that Blatter and the rest of the FIFA top brass have free tickets to the best Olympic events, chauffeur driven cars, and subsidised five star hotels. This includes the people who said that the European press were telling lies about the corruption. The Sunday Times can't let it lie, and neither can I. Meanwhile the scratter papers and their dumb readers discuss the Brian Riggs situation as though it's a major event.

I wouldn't say that I am a regular reader of The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Daily Mirror etc... however, I do look what at they say about my club and the football world. I also discussed the Ryan Giggs story... does that make me a "dumb" reader?

Fulham sign Martin Jol - not a bad move, that.

Do you think it's a major event though meatie? I doubt it.

............ And I wasn't having a go at you meatie. If it came across that way I apologise! But, I have utmost respect for you as a fan and I know that you actually go to games and support a team. You can say what you like! I would have said this earlier but nappy changing duties called.

Is it time for the new season yet? I'm already bored...

Good to see Danny Graham getting his move to the Premier League. He was excellent for us a couple of seasons ago.

He was excellent for us! But like a lot of our promising youngsters was bundled out in favour of the so called finished article.

Jol is going to do a good job at Fulham.

 

Papers claiming United are going to get Ashley Young, he would be a decent squad player but tbh i'd take Nani over him anyday.

 

Gera coming back to the Baggies possibly? woo hoo

Ferdinand putting himself out there again... Oliver Holt (Daily Mail Journo) baited him by the looks of it and Ferdinand took it. Footballers should really stay away from twitter and facebook, he's gone and sent threats to the journo and the journo in question has published the lot in an article.

Phil Jones will be in the England squad from now on then...

Interesting that United and Liverpool are looking at buying Lerkal players rather than the usual bunch of tarts! Speaking of which I notice Tevez made the constructive comment that Manchester was too expensive. I have to agree. He should try Barcelona or Madrid. It's dirt cheap there.

A football player complaining about a place being "too expensive"...  the player in question also happens to be our highest paid player.

 

 

The guy a tw*t... a great player with such a crap attitude. The fans are getting fed up of him aswell now, our club captain aswell

They were discussing him on R5 just now. He'd said some outrageous things about Manchester on some sorta Argentinian prog. Having said all that I would rather watch him in our league than another one. What he does on the pitch counts for more. You don't mind cheating so n so's like Ronaldo going but I hope that they make peace with Tevez, or at least get someone to give him good advice.

Possibly not Darlo, according to the Star tonight, as Martin Jol has become Fulham manager and wanted to sign him when he was Spurs manager, theres a chance he may stay where he is... it depends how much he wants to link up with Roy Hodgson again and obviously if we are prepared to give him the deal he wants.  Personally, I would like to see him back, always liked him as a player and didn't want him to go to Fulham in the first place!

 

Peter Odenwingie is opening contract talks and I really hope he stays, he has been fantastic for us so far.

 

ION, I see that Bryan Robson has resigned from being the Thailand manager, hope this doesn't mean he is still having problems after his cancer treatment earlier this year. Fingers crossed for him.  My favourite player for a very long time

He is rapidly becoming a professional moaner IMO.  He is a fantastic player, don't get me wrong but his attitude stinks.  I can't see what his problem is with Manchester, after all how long was he at Utd before transferring to City.  Here's a radical idea Mr Tevez, try going to a London club or going to Barca, Real or Inter and see how expensive the place is then.  It seems to me, if you are going to play for a club in a large city Manchester (after Brum of course), isn't that bad a place to be.  Maybe he should bring his family over for once and for all and let his talking be done on the pitch.

Rumours of a £5m bid for Cameron Jerome. I'd put that up there with spending £5m on Zat Knight in the 'what the hell are you doing?' stakes.

 

Of course it gets worse because they apparently want £8m, which is the kind of madness that makes me think I've stumbled into an alternate reality where the useless stump didn't go 20+ games without scoring...

Yeah, did see something on SSN about that. Will have to wait and see!

 

Saw the article on the E&S yesterday, great news and he does seem very happy down here.

 

It's definetly nothing to do with his health PB, some internal issue he wasn't happy about apparently. He sometimes does the ambassafor work for Utd though..

I still like Tevez as a player but as a person well things change. He has the cheek to moan after how long he's been there and Manchester City have actually given him time off to see his family and have tried their best to keep him happy.

 

If he's not happy they're best getting rid, can easily get someone else in because the club is biggger.

 

Disley, Pratley has left Swansea so could he be en-route to the Reebok?

 

Martinez to Villa LOL? Don't know what to make of that.

Better than Steve McLaren!

He's come out today to say there was no truth in the story Randy Lerner had cancelled his job interview with him today, after reading what Villa fans thought of the hair-islanded pillock on footie forums.

Yeah, right - bet the stupid sod was already practising talking pidgin Brummie..

Oh yes forgot about him, now that would have been a disaster.

 

Villa need to try and get it done soon as now because in terms of time regarding transfers it's just another distraction...

The prices for English players are getting ridiculous, Andy Carroll for 35 million was shocking, but this week we've got a few more shockers. Phil Jones may be a talent, but £17 million? Please! I know people will say Rooney was transfered for £30million aged 18, but he was proven at international level by then, Jones isn't. He's played well for Blackburn for a season.

£20 million for Jordan Henderson is an even bigger joke, he's worth 5 or 6 million at best.

 

No wonder managers want to look abroad for players.

I agree Crunchy it's a right joke, too inflated. Although abroad they're just as bad with these certain clauses etc.

 

Watford will be getting a nice profit from Ashley Young's sale to United, on top of the Graham sale money that'll come in handy.

 

Not believing the Nasri rumours though, suspect him or the agent are trying to force Arsenal's hand regarding a new contract.

Transfer fees seem to be going up every transfer window... think our biggest bargain since the takeover was Adam Johnson from Middlesbrough for £7 Given for £7mil wasn't bad business either.

Yeah now that was a bargain, glad he got more first team action though as he was wasted on the bench. Saw your M6 tweet earlier, what was that about? LOL.

Oops, was sat on motorway today... police stopped the traffic so we were sat still for an hour. Was trying to find out what was happening by twitter by searching M6, instead I accidently tweeted m6

LMFAO, you can try and tweet the local police account ha ha.

So the transfer season has officially begun! Admittedly don't know too much about Henderson, but look at the stats he seems to produce a lot of goal chances which I hope he can replicate at Anfield. For a young player the price is a lot but the fact he is English seems to bump up the price a lot. Here's hoping it works out!  Finally taking a step in the right direction.