http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7179847.stm

The club, currently 11th in the Premier League, said the decision had been
reached "by mutual agreement".

Allardyce, who was in charge for 24 games, said: "I'm disappointed but I
wish them all the best for the future. It was a shock, I didn't expect it."

Doesn't sound very mutual to me.


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Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

"Joe Horowitz" <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey> wrote in message 
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7179847.stm
>
> The club, currently 11th in the Premier League, said the decision had been
> reached "by mutual agreement".

Does anyone want me to fax our CV to Newcastle?

If you'll recall, they really do have an excellent record for progressive,
forward-thinking managerial appointments.  Remember the time they
pretended they had given Glenn Roeder the job?


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Mike

"Michael Cunningham"  wrote in message 
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> "Joe Horowitz" <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey> wrote in message 
> news:DMehj.164459$cJ3.3024@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7179847.stm
>>
>> The club, currently 11th in the Premier League, said the decision had 
>> been
>> reached "by mutual agreement".
>
> Does anyone want me to fax our CV to Newcastle?

That's not a bad idea actually.  I'm bored of managing Bolton now, and their 
upturn in Premiership fortunes of late suggests the rest of you are too. 
It's he only explanation.  Last week, I asked Kevin Nolan to write some more 
haiku poems, the next day I found out he hadn't done them at all and had 
been practising football instead.

I hate to say it, but I think we've lost the dressing room.  Maybe our work 
here is done.

> If you'll recall, they really do have an excellent record for progressive,
> forward-thinking managerial appointments.  Remember the time they
> pretended they had given Glenn Roeder the job?

AWTWP.  Although, it has to be said, they might as well have done for all 
the good alt.fan.scarecrow did in their time there.  I'm sure we could do 
better than that.  Also, there'd be a nice symmetry to the whole thing, what 
with being the second time this season we've sorted out Allardyce's mess.


-- 
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

According to <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey>:
>> Does anyone want me to fax our CV to Newcastle?
>That's not a bad idea actually.  I'm bored of managing Bolton now, 

Hang on, what do you mean Bolton?  I thought we were still in charge
of Charlton!  No wonder they've been giving me funny looks and giggling
and pointing a little when I've been wandering into the changing room
at half time!!
--

Michael Cunningham wrote

> Does anyone want me to fax our CV to Newcastle?

Speaking as a mackem, God yes please ;-)

Chris

Chris Gilbert wrote:
> Michael Cunningham wrote
> 
>> Does anyone want me to fax our CV to Newcastle?
> 
> Speaking as a mackem, God yes please ;-)

We aren't going to take Paul McShane off your hands, you know. Nobody is.

C

Chopsy wrote

> We aren't going to take Paul McShane off your hands, you know. Nobody is.

Hey, there's nowt wrong with a bit of occasional, unpredicatble
humour in the modern game. If Forest survived in the top flight
with Jason Lee up front then we can survive with McShane in the
team.

Hang on, there's a flaw there somewhere.

Chris

Chris Gilbert wrote:
> Chopsy wrote
> 
>> We aren't going to take Paul McShane off your hands, you know. Nobody is.
> 
> Hey, there's nowt wrong with a bit of occasional, unpredicatble
> humour in the modern game. If Forest survived in the top flight
> with Jason Lee up front then we can survive with McShane in the
> team.

That's true, and if you drop him, why, you always have Greg Halford to 
play instead. An embarrassment of riches.

> Hang on, there's a flaw there somewhere.

I think it's describing McShane as 'unpredictable'. He seems quite 
consistent to me.

C

Joe Horowitz wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7179847.stm
> 
> The club, currently 11th in the Premier League, said the decision had been
> reached "by mutual agreement".
> 
> Allardyce, who was in charge for 24 games, said: "I'm disappointed but I
> wish them all the best for the future. It was a shock, I didn't expect it."
> 
> Doesn't sound very mutual to me.
> 
> 

What would be the most underhand thing their board could do? I think it 
would be get rid of Fat Sam (check), install a puppet (check), buy 
players in the Jan window to Mourinho's bidding, ready for the special 
one to take the help as soon as he's out of his "you can't manage any 
one else" clause.

It's such a pity though. After all, they are a B I G club. Who don't win 
trophies. Or command a top 4 position.

"Joe Horowitz" <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey> wrote in message 
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> I hate to say it, but I think we've lost the dressing room.  Maybe our 
> work here is done.

It seems so.  Mike Ashley just called and says the job is all ours.  He's
even agreed to give us a patsy who reminds me a bit of Les Something
from Charlton.  Nigel Piercing, I think he said his name was.  Apparently,
he's used to doing interviews as someone else's mouthpiece so that should
work quite well.

So, if we're all agreed, I'll let Phil know we're leaving.  I'll even 
recommend
that he makes Megson the real manager.  For a laugh.


-- 
Mike

"Vicky Conlan"  wrote in message
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> Hang on, what do you mean Bolton?  I thought we were still in charge
> of Charlton!

We stopped being manager of Charlton months ago.  Ever since we
successfully got them relegated while simultaneously making the players
more open-minded, tolerant and considerate young men.

We successfully applied for the Bolton job in the summer and after a
tremendous start, where the players revealed previously unseen depths
and some wonderful poetry-writing abilities, they've since changed and
have started concentrating far too much on football.  They've been
secretly bunking off Science lessons recently to practice set-pieces and
dribbling around cones.  All completely useless skills in the real world,
I'm sure we'd all agree.

> No wonder they've been giving me funny looks and giggling
> and pointing a little when I've been wandering into the changing room
> at half time!!

Judging by what I saw of Kevin Nolan that time he and I shared a
sauna, I'm surprised it wasn't the other way round.


-- 
Mike

"Chris Gilbert"  wrote in message 
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> Michael Cunningham wrote
>
>> Does anyone want me to fax our CV to Newcastle?
>
> Speaking as a mackem, God yes please ;-)

Oh, so you _want_ Newcastle's players to be well-rounded, intelligent,
selfless members of society, do you?

Because, believe me, Chris, that's exactly what's going to happen.


-- 
Mike

"Michael Cunningham"  wrote in message 
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> Oh, so you _want_ Newcastle's players to be well-rounded, intelligent,
> selfless members of society, do you?
>
> Because, believe me, Chris, that's exactly what's going to happen.

AWTWP.  Our record speaks for itself.


-- 
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

"Michael Cunningham"  wrote in message 
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> "Vicky Conlan"  wrote in message
> news:fm4uvb$1b5k$1@magenta.plig.net...
>> Hang on, what do you mean Bolton?  I thought we were still in charge
>> of Charlton!
>
> We stopped being manager of Charlton months ago.  Ever since we
> successfully got them relegated while simultaneously making the players
> more open-minded, tolerant and considerate young men.

Good times.

> We successfully applied for the Bolton job in the summer and after a
> tremendous start, where the players revealed previously unseen depths
> and some wonderful poetry-writing abilities, they've since changed and
> have started concentrating far too much on football.  They've been
> secretly bunking off Science lessons recently to practice set-pieces and
> dribbling around cones.  All completely useless skills in the real world,
> I'm sure we'd all agree.

AWTWP.  I caught Ivan Campo in the gym the other day.  The _gym_ ffs11!  I 
thought we'd converted that place into sex-dungeon ages ago but apparently 
you can still work out there.  Essentially it's the same machines.

He was bench-pressing the horsecock.

>> No wonder they've been giving me funny looks and giggling
>> and pointing a little when I've been wandering into the changing room
>> at half time!!
>
> Judging by what I saw of Kevin Nolan that time he and I shared a
> sauna, I'm surprised it wasn't the other way round.

GPWM, except that Kevin Nolan plays for Bolton.  I think Vicky's still 
talking about Charlton.

Hence the whole 'giggling and pointing' thing, because she's not supposed to 
go into the changing room at half time, because she's not the manager 
anymore and some of the lads there probably don't even know who she is.

Honestly, Mikey, it's tiring having to keep explaining Vicky to you all the 
time.  Just remember that she's the Archive Monster, and she's angry, and 
increasingly confused.

If Vicky ever set foot inside the Bolton changing room at half point, I 
suspect most of those feckless cunts would cower like frightened animals, 
and Nicolas Anelka would curl up into a ball.  No-one would be laughing, 
that's for sure.

I think I understand now why we lost the dressing room.  It's no use trying 
to do the whole 'loads of nice managers and one nasty one' routine if the 
nasty manager's two hundred miles away at the wrong club.  Ffs.


-- 
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

"Michael Cunningham"  wrote in message 
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> "Joe Horowitz" <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey> wrote in message 
> news:ezfhj.164460$cJ3.44190@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> I hate to say it, but I think we've lost the dressing room.  Maybe our 
>> work here is done.
>
> It seems so.  Mike Ashley just called and says the job is all ours.  He's
> even agreed to give us a patsy who reminds me a bit of Les Something
> from Charlton.  Nigel Piercing, I think he said his name was.  Apparently,
> he's used to doing interviews as someone else's mouthpiece so that should
> work quite well.

I like the sound of this Nigel Something character.  Sounds exactly our kind 
of patsy.

> So, if we're all agreed, I'll let Phil know we're leaving.  I'll even 
> recommend that he makes Megson the real manager.  For a laugh.

Heh.  Nice idea, but I can't really see Gartside going for that.  He might 
be slightly mental but he's not stupid.


-- 
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

According to <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey>:
>Honestly, Mikey, it's tiring having to keep explaining Vicky to you all the 
>time.  Just remember that she's the Archive Monster, and she's angry, and 
>increasingly confused.

Blimey.  I don't think anyone has ever summed me up quite so accurately.
--

"Vicky Conlan"  wrote in message 
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> According to <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey>:
>>Honestly, Mikey, it's tiring having to keep explaining Vicky to you all 
>>the
>>time.  Just remember that she's the Archive Monster, and she's angry, and
>>increasingly confused.
>
> Blimey.  I don't think anyone has ever summed me up quite so accurately.

I think they probably have, it's just you were too angry and confused to 
understand at the time.


-- 
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

comps@riffraff.plig.net (Vicky Conlan) wrote in
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> According to <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey>:
>>Honestly, Mikey, it's tiring having to keep explaining Vicky to you
>>all the time.  Just remember that she's the Archive Monster, and she's
>>angry, and increasingly confused.
> 
> Blimey.  I don't think anyone has ever summed me up quite so
> accurately. 

*Ahem*. 
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.sport.football/msg/073bf305a0eb4906

Sid

"Joe Horowitz" <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey> wrote in message
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> I like the sound of this Nigel Something character.  Sounds exactly our
> kind of patsy.

Nigel Piercing, Joe.  He likes to be called Nigel _Piercing_.


-- 
Mike

"Michael Cunningham"  wrote in message 
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> "Joe Horowitz" <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey> wrote in message
> news:cfuhj.156315$S37.20390@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> I like the sound of this Nigel Something character.  Sounds exactly our
>> kind of patsy.
>
> Nigel Piercing, Joe.  He likes to be called Nigel _Piercing_.

Well, I must say, that's a funny sort of a name for a man to have.  I'm 
never going to remember it.

So what do we know about this Nigel Something?


-- 
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan

"Sid"  wrote in message 
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> comps@riffraff.plig.net (Vicky Conlan) wrote in
> news:fm68f2$13s5$1@magenta.plig.net:
>
>> According to <my_name@youblunder.co.youghey>:
>>>Honestly, Mikey, it's tiring having to keep explaining Vicky to you
>>>all the time.  Just remember that she's the Archive Monster, and she's
>>>angry, and increasingly confused.
>>
>> Blimey.  I don't think anyone has ever summed me up quite so
>> accurately.
>
> *Ahem*.
> http://groups.google.com/group/uk.sport.football/msg/073bf305a0eb4906


Ironic that Middlesbrough vs Liverpool comes up in the same thread.

BTN

"Michael Cunningham"  wrote in
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>> I like the sound of this Nigel Something character.  Sounds exactly
>> our kind of patsy.
> 
> Nigel Piercing, Joe.  He likes to be called Nigel _Piercing_.
> 

Is this our ghey nigel or another pierced one?

-- 
Cheers, Os

>