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[Durhamfootman]

In more important matters.......

Ba has gone
Colo wants to go
Remy didn't want to come.......

and now Milan want to buy Krul and Santon

we are screwed!

[Red Devil]

Pep Guardiola will take over as Bayern Munich manager from next season until 2016.

excellent move by him - my respect for him has just increased. It's also a club wher he has a better chance of recreating the 'Barca effect' by bringing through a generation of players. Bayern won't be as trigger happy as English clubs if he has a bad spell.

[Aidan11]

Wesley Sneijder has joined Galatasary.

I always thought he'd end up at Man U as he was always on their radar.

[Durhamfootman]

Is this the chap that caused all the ructions in the France team leading to strikes and walkouts at the last WC?

http://sportinglife.aol.co.uk/football/ ... d-rejected

[Aidan11]

Plenty of activity on Deadline Day.

The big buzz seems to be David Beckham possibly going to PSG.

[sussexpob]

Is this the chap that caused all the ructions in the France team leading to strikes and walkouts at the last WC?

http://sportinglife.aol.co.uk/football/ ... d-rejected

No. The person you are probably confusing is the Lyon Midfielder Yohan Gourcuff, but extremely similar names.

Gourcuff's role in the fiasco just happened to be the fact that his coach rated him quite highly and decided to base the teams tactics on his apparent skill as an advanced playmaker and compared him to Zidane....

Anelka, Toulanan, Evra and Ribery therefore didnt pass to him for the whole of the 0-0 draw with Uruguay and made sure the press could reach the verdict that he was invisible on the field and needed dropping.... after that everything hit the fan!

[Aidan11]

Danny Graham has signed for Sunderland. You will be able to see from the picture below why this is not a popular move for Sunderland fans -

[rich1uk]

fans will take alot of time to forget a player saying things like that about the club


wonder what sort of odds i can get on balotelli getting sent off the first time AC play inter

[sussexpob]

wonder what sort of odds i can get on balotelli getting sent off the first time AC play inter

Betting has probably been suspended already

[Aidan11]

Shame the PL didn't sign this fella.

Could have been an interesting commentator moment like Martin Tyler's AGUEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... -Rod-Fanni

[Alviro Patterson]

Shame the PL didn't sign this fella.

Could have been an interesting commentator moment like Martin Tyler's AGUEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... -Rod-Fanni

Combine Tyler's commentary with Gary Neville's scoregasm

[rich1uk]

wonder how much of a fine odemwingie is going to end up with

west brom turn down repeated bids from qpr and refuse to allow odemwingie to even talk to them but he turns up and is filmed at the qpr training ground anyway

things like that really pi$$ me off when i see players thinking they can get away with anything

[rich1uk]

2240:
Greater Manchester Police Moston Harpurhey on Twitter: "We've just escorted a very special Spanish guest into the Etihad... "

interesting tweet

wonder if there is any substance to it

[Aidan11]

This was posted by a Rangers fan on their forum about Gazza at one of those after dinner events.

Not very pleasant to read -

Unfortunately this is a very sad but very true account of a dinner I attended last night with Paul. It was a fundraising event for Northampton Town and a breast cancer charity and friends of mine had a table. I decided to drive down from aberdeen yesterday and tie it in with the weekend in Newcastle I have planned for the game on Saturday. After what I saw last night, I really wish I hadn't.

There was about 500 in attendance at the dinner and worryingly, minutes after everyone took our seats the compare for the evening introduced himself and announced the plan for the evening, dinner, raffle, auction, Gazza speaking followed by a Q and A and then the comedian.

We began eating and between the starter and main the compare took to the stage again and told us that unfortunately Gazza was very ill. He had taken a funny turn which isn't uncommon due to the medication he takes and he should really be in hospital, not speaking at a dinner but he has insisted on appearing as its a charity event and be will go to hospital immediately afterwards. He asked us all to be understanding towards Gazza and be patient when he appears.

Following the main course it was announced that Gazza was extremely ill so he would be coming out now and speaking so be could get to hospital as soon as her finished and we would get desert once he'd finished.

Gazzas agent then took to the stage and told us Gazza had had 2 pints earlier and taken a funny turn so he would answer a few questions then go straight to hospital. He reiterated Gazza had only had 2 pints and what we were about was not what it looked like so please be patient and remember Gazza for the good times he gave us, not for how he looks today. (It was like a funeral speech to be honest before he'd even come out)

Gazza was then aided onto stage by 2 bouncers. When I say aided, there was no way at all he could walk unaided. He was sat on a sofa on the stage and given a microphone. His agent asked him who the best player he's ever played with was and Gazza said 'Brian Robson. But he's a XXXX. They're all XXXXs. You're all XXXXs.'

His agent apologized to everyone and then Gazza apologized as well. He said as be started crying 'I'm sorry, 3 days on the whiskey, I'm sorry.'

He was shaking uncontrollably for the 5 minutes he was on the stage. It was like a very serious case of Parkinson's. He broke down 3 times in the 5 minutes or so he was on stage apologizing and saying this time he'll get better. Between apologies he struggled to answer questions and just told us that other people were XXXXs.

It was horrible seeing my hero who I drove for 7 hours yesterday to see in that condition. There was a lump in everyone's throat when he left the stage. The room really did have the atmosphere of a funeral and the concensus was certainly that he does not have long left.

[sussexpob]

Its just really really sad.

He is a top bloke, and I hope one day he can beat the horrible mental illness that he is battling.