im a Newcastle fan, so have to put up with far too much ridiculous crap, things that shouldnt even be an issue get turned into colossal cluster#59###s on the tyne.
getting relegated was a good thing, clearing out the deadwood and giving hughton the job was a good thing. then we sacked him, i thought it was a bad move then. pardew has done no worse, but he hasnt really done any better either. selling carrol - one one hand, we sold one of only 2 guys in our team scoring any goals, on the other hand we got 35 million for a player worth about 15 tops. who we get in this summer will determine if the carrol deal was good business. we were left woefully short up front for the last half of the season, though its not like carrol played much anyway after january.
more worrying is the monumental cock-up were making or re-signing nolan and barton. our 2 best players last year, and the board wont pull their fingers out to resign them. what a joke. enrique seems to be on the way out, another of our best performers. we have just brought a newly capped french international from Lille, who won the french league last year, but for the last 10 years newcastle have ignored the area they're weakest - defence. Taylor hasnt turned into the england CB he could have been, and despite being an argentinian international, coloccini looks suspect a lot of the time. if enrique goes, we'll have a weak defence. we signed ben arfa while his leg was broken, and i think he could have made a big difference to our season had that dirty man city player not crippled him. even if we re-sign barton and nolan, and keep enrique, we still need 2 forwards, a RB, and a CB minimum. but still, the new french guy is a midfielder, i think.
as for the rest of the league, im in norfolk so norwich are my local team, i shall be trying to get down to carrow road to watch what i can, but Norwich's games are sell out every matchday, regardless of what league they're in. the season ticket waiting list is years long, and a large majority of the stadium is season ticket only. i will at least definitely see newcastle there, my mate gives me his season ticket when he cant go, or when newcastle play down here. i will be trying to get in the away stand though.
i predict arsenal will crumble again, like they always do. they will lose at least one big player this year, and if they're lucky bendtner will go, hes crap. torres will come good, but chelsea will have to rethink the way they play to revolve around him rather then drogba. getting a new manager in is a good way to do this. if youre lucky, mourinho will still keep trying to sign lampard and get him, so i dont have to watch him on motd anymore. man city will spend loads of money on players that cant play together, and sell the ones that have been there long enough to have a team bond. they are the new graveyard for players, go to man city as a youngster and guarantee yourself years of bench sitting as more expensive players are brought every transfer window. i hope man city fail miserably.
man utd will win the league again, they managed to win with a crap team this year, next year they will be better. its about time they cleared out some crap players. im looking forward to smalling and jones devloping the future england CB pairing. ive been very impressed with smalling since watching the england U21's at carrow road last year, he was phenomenal. the stand out player. liverpool, its great that they want to buy young english, but you have to spend far too much money for what you're getting, and keep buying young and you risk turning into the nearly men, like arsenal. will be nice to see Stevie G kick a ball again.
harder to predict the relegated teams than champions, i hope norwich stay up, but they still have largely the same team they won league 1 with 2 years ago, so i dont think it would be embarrasing for them.
quite a long post i know, i have quite a lot to say about football. particuarly the deluded owner of newcastle.
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I play occasionally, myself. Every weekend or whenever they need me. I own 17 Caps. Yes 17! -Don't get jealous-..It gets trickier, each and every-time, I play! When I do run down the wing, they seem to fall off..And thats when the alarm bell goes off 
its just that city could afford somebody of the quality i mentioned above, but either dont want it, or havnt been able to persuade the top tier players to join. tevez is head and shoulders above the rest of the squad as their stand out player, hes phenomenal. maybe now they have CL football the 'proper superstar' players will join.
