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In awnser to Westandred Ive only ever been to about 7 games. These were usually just games that went on general sale. Ive always been a One United member except for this year, which I dont really know why. But only being 17 and living down south I have had to rely on parents etc for transport. hence only 7 games!

and BBB, I agree about the lack of players signing, debt etc but for some reason Im on middle ground over the Glazers at the moment.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

Mike rolling around on the kitchen floor when a "grenade" goes off icon_biggrin.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

yas \o/ almost as good as when Brian throws the "knife" at time icon_cool.gif.

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Nick OGS20

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by deanb291186:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nick OGS20:

off to sam platts by OT in a minute for a comedy night in aid of the danny wallace foundation, should be good </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Question for when you get back, how was Vince Atta? Saw him at a FCUM do the other week and he was mint, always see him at the games too, seems a sound lad, was gonna go myself tonight but I'm skint icon_frown.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

he was pretty good. in the best possible way he was probably the least good of the four comedians there, but he was still dead funny so that tells you how good a night it was in general.

justin moorhouse was fantastic, the second comedian (steve royle i think) was utterly brilliant and the headline act (john bishop) was ace. should mention now that he's a scouser who went on stage in an LFC shirt which went down as you'd expect. the majority took it in the spirit intended and thoroughly enjoyed a really good act, few dickheads had to prove just how red they were by dishing out some pretty needless stick, and well as he handled the heckling it clearly ruined his flow. shame really.

top night all in all though. choccy was there for a bit but left fairly early (think he was embarrassed at drawing some of the attention away from Danny), the main room was pretty much full which should have raised a decent sum at a tenner a pop. devoed we didn't win the raffle (seemingly usually do at these kind of dos), signed rooney shirt up for grabs :*(

ace night though. battered now, lovely stuff

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">he was pretty good. in the best possible way he was probably the least good of the four comedians there, but he was still dead funny so that tells you how good a night it was in general.

justin moorhouse was fantastic, the second comedian (steve royle i think) was utterly brilliant and the headline act (john bishop) was ace. should mention now that he's a scouser who went on stage in an LFC shirt which went down as you'd expect. the majority took it in the spirit intended and thoroughly enjoyed a really good act, few dickheads had to prove just how red they were by dishing out some pretty needless stick, and well as he handled the heckling it clearly ruined his flow. shame really.

top night all in all though. choccy was there for a bit but left fairly early (think he was embarrassed at drawing some of the attention away from Danny), the main room was pretty much full which should have raised a decent sum at a tenner a pop. devoed we didn't win the raffle (seemingly usually do at these kind of dos), signed rooney shirt up for grabs :*(

ace night though. battered now, lovely stuff </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

gutted i missed tonight. had a ticket but couldn't make it cos of family reasons. icon_frown.gif would have loved to have seen the line up tonight.

happy red days icon_smile.gif

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Nick OGS20

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danny got up at one point to address the crowd, got a standing ovation followed by several minutes of everyone chanting his name, he was clearly dead touched by it. got his autograph and had a quick chat with him as well, top man. love nights like this

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by pjburrage:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Clubbing episode </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

indeed!!! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>possibly the best 3 minutes of a tv show the last bit

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nick OGS20:

i know no-one relevant is online but i'll ask now what the wall plans are for tomorrow and then check in the morning. cunning </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Keith is getting beer. those at the wall

Me

Keith

Jonny

Ryan

Eddie iirc

Acou2000

14alansmithifb

Don't think I've missed anyone out

New RI \o/

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Rcjuk:

oh is this where bbb gives me a tenner and buys me chips? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

he's spending your money on going to rome, disgraceful imo icon13.gif

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Taz & The Devil

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">

Manchester United v Blackburn Rovers

Edwin Van Der Sar

Wesley Brown

Rio Ferdinand

Nemanja Vidic

Gabriel Heinze

Cristiano Ronaldo

Paul Scholes

Michael Carrick

Ji Sung Park

Wayne Rooney

Ryan Giggs ©

Sat in those comfy Bucket Seats:

Tomasz Kuszczak

John O'Shea

Kieran Richardson

Alan Smith

Ole Solskjaer

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If any of you care; Rovers name the expected side.

ROVERS: Friedel, Emerton, Samba, Nelsen ©, Warnock, Dunn, Mokoena, Tugay, Pedersen, McCarthy, Derbyshire. Subs: Enckelman (GK), Nonda, Henchoz, Roberts, Peter

United to win rather comfortably 2-0.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">

Grand old Yorke finds new hunger for game under Keane....

The Times 31/3/07 - Matt Dickinson

“If I was such a playboy, how come I’m still going at my age?†Dwight Yorke asks, which is a fair point for a 35-year-old. He asks, too, how he can be such a dilettante if Roy Keane, the scourge of all big-time charlies, has made him a key component of the Sunderland team who are promising to be perhaps the greatest success story of the English season.

The North East club have climbed from the Coca-Cola Championship’s relegation zone to one point off automatic promotion and the rise is all the more fascinating for having Keane and Yorke at its heart. Scowling Irishman and an easy-going Tobagan make an unlikely pair.

If you believe the tales, Yorke appears to epitomise everything that Keane railed against during his irascible days as Manchester United captain, but the truth is more complex. And Keane knows better than anyone that appearances can be deceptive.

He could be brutally thuggish as a player but was a regular visitor to Bill Beswick, the sports psychologist, during his time at United and showed an open mind to yoga. He is an intelligent man and is proving to have the makings of a brilliant manager. He was bright enough to recognise that an enthused, ambitious Yorke could be a valuable signing, so he picked up the phone.

“There is one reason that I am here and that is purely down to Roy Keane,†Yorke said. “I was playing for Sydney and I had no desire to leave the lifestyle or the weather.

“I had previously been told through my agency that the likes of Cardiff [today’s opponents] were interested, but I didn’t need that. This division had always looked pretty tough and I had just come off the World Cup [where Trinidad & Tobago made their first appearance] and I thought that was the peak at my age.

“The gaffer and I had maybe spoken once since I left United, but then the call came through from him. He just said, ‘I’d love you to come and brighten up the place and bring your experience.’ And because it is Roy Keane, that is very flattering.†Yorke was on the next plane.

He says, only half-joking, that Keane needed someone who was not afraid of sitting down and talking to him. Just about everyone else at Sunderland is too wary of the man whose appearances in the occasional five-a-side can still put the players on edge. “Me and his assistant, we are the ones who cheer him up when he’s depressed,†Yorke said. “He likes that I can banter with him.†Yorke is not sure that anyone else dares.

Keane has been instilling self-belief, but also discipline. He left three players out of his team for missing the bus. “One look with those eyes can control a dressing-room,†Yorke said. “For a manager, that is quite a weapon.

“He has done everything that can be expected of him so far, although things have been going well, which makes his life easier — makes all our lives easier. We’ll see how things are when they don’t go so well.â€

Keane and Yorke were teammates for four seasons at Old Trafford, winning three consecutive titles. Yorke was brilliant in that first, treble-winning campaign, but Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are the ones whose names ring around Old Trafford because of their goals in the Champions League final at the Nou Camp. While he does not make a big deal of it, Yorke feels that his contribution is overlooked. Former teammates do say that he lost some of his enthusiasm after the treble, although Yorke believes that Sir Alex Ferguson judged him on perceptions.

“I was obviously in a very public relationship with Jordan [the model, with whom he had a son, Harvey],†he said. “I would be out on a Wednesday night and that would come out in the paper on Friday. Of course, the gaffer reads it and thinks, ‘He’s been out again.’ He’s, what, 65, and old-fashioned in his ways. He would like everyone to be like Paul Scholes or Gary Neville.â€

Yorke claims to have put in one last big effort, even giving up his international career, but Ferguson had bought Juan Sebastián Verón and Ruud van Nistelrooy and was determined to plough on with a one-man attack. “He wanted to play Scholes behind Van Nistelrooy and, no matter how I tried, he was set in establishing that formation,†Yorke said.

They left on good terms — Yorke leaves everyone on good terms — and Ferguson invited him to train at United when he needed to get fit for the World Cup finals last year. Yorke does admit to having lost his appetite for the game for a couple of years while at Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City. That period followed the loss of his sister, Verline, to cancer.

Yorke’s career was stagnating, although he is still bitter over the ferocious tackle from Graeme Souness, his manager at Blackburn at the time, on the training ground. “It does not surprise me that he’s out of a job because almost every club he’s gone to he’s not done it as a manager,†he said. “He’s f***ed up most of the time.†It is a rare flash of anger from a famously laid-back soul.

Yorke is loving life again and being back in England allows him to visit Harvey, 5, who has various health complications, including blindness. “Only time will tell how much he will be able to see but he’s a very happy young man,†he said.

He has just returned from visiting his good friend, Brian Lara, the West Indies captain, at the cricket World Cup. I suggest that it was brave of his manager to let him out of the country. “The gaffer can trust me,†he said, albeit with a twinkle in his eyes. “I used to be easily led, but I am having to set an example these days.â€

He is managing to hold a place in central midfield, where he uses his comfort on the ball to good effect in a hurly-burly division. He has another 12 months on his contract and desperately hopes to spend it in the Barclays Premiership.

He acknowledges his debt to Keane, whose sense of humour can be as brutal as his tackles. When the United players were counting the days to Ferguson’s departure, none was more eager to usher him into retirement than the exiled Yorke.

Then came the day when the Scot called the players together and announced that he had decided to carry on. “That’s you f***edâ€, Yorkie,†Keane said. He was f***ed then but he is loving every minute of his, and Sunderland’s, renaissance.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cooldude0007:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Got todays game live. \o/

Come on boys. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

how </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

It's on RTE for Irish viewers

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cooldude0007:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Got todays game live. \o/

Come on boys. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

how </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Fox Sports in Australia.

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