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He'll have a job getting in ahead of Kisnorbo and McCarthy, who seemed a pretty settled partnership by the end of last season. Maybe we'll play all three and save even more money not getting any proper wingers in! Stearman at least would be an ideal right wing-back. I'm sure we've got a masterplan to avoid another relegation scrap somewhere.

"Don't forget to watch my World Cup Wind Ups on saturday night!. If we win and you're all pissed at home it might not even seem shit". http://worldcuphippo.com/2006/05/18/offici...rinking-game-i/ A splendid world cup drinking game. The comments further down are even better actually, proof that the weird little quirks of ITV's football coverage are held dear by fans everywhere. Will the German's allow Ally and Andy to take their little table?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ity/5048224.stm We were linked with him last year I think but nothing came of it. Hang on a sec, I get it! He's FREE this year! Tight bastards.

Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me? Yo La Tengo - Fakebook American Music Club - Everclear

The Pumpkins were actually featured a lot in Kerrang, at least when I bought it for a while in the mid 90's. After grunge broke out the types of bands magazines like that covered used to be a bit more random and less predictable. They realised there was a younger and larger group of people who wanted to read about Metallica alongside stuff as different as Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day. A so called 'alternative rock' mag sold better than an exclusive old school hard rock/metal one. The result? They sold more copies and we get silly lists that make no sense.

Pearl Jam? They sure are. Good point. I'm not a fan but NIN would possibly be pushing top 5 if this list made any kind of sense. Sonic Youth and Pixies just aren't the kind of bands that Kerrang covers. Yeah, I know. Too indie I think.

That's another one to cross off the list then.

Nina Nastasia - Been So Long

They also have Iniesta and Xavi as options as well as Reyes/Joaquin out wide if they want. Villa might just be the man to take them that bit further if he's given the chance.

Stewart & Curtis. That was certainly a full-back partnership to forget.

Really? That's brilliant. I love those rubbish/unknown players who get turned into world beaters. That would be a crap name for a sunday league trophy!

You took the words right out of my mouth.....

"No way man! They love me! Wayne Bridge stole my England place! I played for the U-21's you know''. Watford fans have been moaning about him all season. It makes the current Watford situation really funny and i'll be cheering Jordon and the boys on against Leeds. 125 grand for him they paid.

Yes it did. To make me feel better. All that and much more. Yep, I agree with you there. I don't go on my regular Forest forums much at all now as I'm fed up with everyone. However, I don't believe I had at a go at the fans as such. I had a go that they don't have many, but the ones that go are, frankly, pretty hard to critize. They're completely insane, but they do create a hell of an atmosphere. It was more a general moan at Premiership fans who don't realise how good they have it at times. Massive is pushing it, and clearly you're taking the piss with the Champions League, but regardless of how you measure a club's 'bigness' we're certainly 'bigger' than most. Last season we had the 30th highest attendance in the country with 20,257, and that's - for the most part - as a mid-table third divison team with nothing to play for. I'll admit Leicester were slightly higher than us with 21,691 but of course you had the possbility of an exciting relation fight for some of the season and the novelty of the shiney new ground still probably hasn't worn off Portsmouth had an average of 19,840, Wigan had 20,610. Fulham 20,654 and Blackburn 21,015. Our highest attendance was 28,193 which is higher than Wigan (25.023), Fulham (22,486), Leeds (27,843), Leicester (25,578), Coventry (26,851), Wolves (27,980), Norwich (27,470), West Brom (27,623), Charlton (27,111) and Portsmouth (20,240), all of whom are either regarded as proper 'big clubs' by the Media (Leeds and Wolves) or were in the Prem/Championship. Now, to say we're close to Leicester in terms of honours though is just utterly wrong. The mighty foxes have won the Premiership/Division 1 a grand total off... 0 times. You're best attempt was finishing 2nd in 1928/29. You've won the FA Cup an unbelievable... 0 times. You did though choke when you reached the final four times in 1949, 1961, 1963 and 1969. To be fair though you have the won the League Cup three times, 1963-64, 1996-97 and 1999-00. However, Forest have won it four times, so you're still not quite there. And of course there's your proud European record which consists of reaching the second round of the Cup Winner's Cup in in 1961/62, and your two adventures to the first round of the UEFA Cup in 1997/98 and 2000/01. Now Portsmouth are closer but still aren't really at our level. They've won the League twice, which is once more than we have, in 1949 and 1950. They won the FA Cup just the once in 1939, and although we've won it twice we have only managed it once in the 20th century so that's more or less even. However that's it. So they've done a better job that Leciester, but aren't on the level of ourselves or even Derby. So to compare. League Titles Pompey 2 Forest 1 Leciester 0 FA Cups Forest 2 Pompey 1 Leicester 0 League Cups Forest 4 Leciester 3 Pompey 0 European Cups Forest 2 Pompey 0 Leciester 0 UEFA Cup Forest - Semi's 1984/1985 (referee later admitted he's been bribed to be anti-Forest and wrongly disallowed a winning goal deliberatly), Leicester - 1st Round, 1997/98 and 2000/01, Pompey - never qualified Cup Winner's Cup Leicester - 2nd Round 1961/62, Pompey - never qualified, Forest - never qualified. In all areas apart from that their current teams are better than ours, I find it impossible for anyone to claim that we're not a 'bigger' club than Leicester or Portsmouth. Those first couple of replies made me laugh, at least you're honest and I can't really blame you. You're in such a mood when your team's losing/lost you don't give a fuck. I don't CARE if Gerard Houllier has just had a heart attack... we're losing for god's sake! Don't know if you frequent any general footy forums but Forest fans are a complete nightmare! I think the normal Forest fans on there (and there's a LOT - Forest fans like message boards) just get embarrassed by them shooting their mouths off. I agree even fans of mid-size premiership clubs can take things for granted when they've been there a few seasons. It can vanish so quickly once financies or a good manager dissapear. There was no need to drag up all those stats. I think what I said was right concerning size of club, I wasn't really thinking about honours won to be honest, more just actual 'size' if you know what I mean. I can't imagine anybody arguing that you weren't bigger than Pompey or Leicester and neither was I but too many (not all i'll admit) Forest fans think you're one of the top six clubs in the country! I think we both know there's a middle line in there. I know we've won bugger all! Mighty Foxes?? Now who's taking the piss? I've never called them that myself....not even when I was seven years old! Would have been nice to win the FA Cup once though, even bloody Coventry managed that. You missed out our Charity Shield win though...I think one of the other teams couldn't be arsed or something so we took their place. I remember the bribe team being Anderlecht because of that message at the start of any CM 97/98 game where it said they'd been banned from European competition this year because it had recently come to light. Anyway, i'll leave you with a positive message from a footballing great..... ''If I can nearly make it back to the premiership then there's hope for Forest yet!''

REM - Bad Day. All day long after hearing it on Scrubs last night.

Premiership beware! He's coming baaaack!!!!!! Maybe... Well, if dirty Leeds don't win the play-off final......

How many good ones have there been since the Palace/Man U one? only ones that I can think of are 91,95, and today, the rest were one sided and/or boring. after 76 years we finally get a player in the world cup finals, even if he's spending it on the Aussie bench. I honestly can't think of a good one since the early 90's. Or at least not one I've been so engrossed in as a neutral. Count yourselves lucky you've got a player at the World Cup. I don't think Pompey has one. Man, we suck. You suck!? Oh fuck off. Fucking Premier League fans complaining there team is shit because they've no one at the World Cup. Boo fucking hoo. You're Portsmouth for fuck's sake! It's a minor miracle you're in the Prem at all considering your shit ground, tiny attendances and that you've won fuck all for 50 years and yet you're complaining you've got no players at the World Cup. Jesus Christ. You try watching the absolute shite which is the fucking third division all season if you think Pompy suck. Besides, you're billionaire Russian owner Gaymark or whatever he's called will no doubt let Redknapp buy some players from the WC for some rediculous amount of money only for 'Arry to then complain the teams got to many foreigners who can't understand what he's saying as soon as results go downhill. Having a go at Pompey won't help you feel any better about your shitty team and their shitty season. What was the point of that stupid post? Have you been storing up that impotent rage all week after your own team's miserable faliure? Typical Forest fan to let it out by slagging off another team and it's fans. You really are the most boring bunch of bastard supporters in the land. Don't argue, you've become well known for it i'm afraid. We're a massive club!! We should be in the champions league not league 1!! Your club is small and shit!! I'm a sad, bitter, arrogant, delusional, BORING bastard Forest fan!! Waaaahhhhhh!!! You're closer to being a Portsmouth or Leicester than you are to being a proper 'big' club so drop the attitude, cheer up a bit and stop acting like such a stereotypical Forest wanker. You might even make play-offs next season with a bit of luck!

Despite coming from the opposite side of the fence (liking Benson/disliking White Stripes) I agree it's a fairly dull record. It's not bad, just kind of forgettable.

Yo La Tengo - The Summer

My mum listens to a combination of classical, motown, chillout and stage show musicals (Chicago etc). I'm sure she's got Carole King and Dido as well. My Dad mostly only has 60's music.

Yo La Tengo - Speeding Motorcycle

Of all the players to get injured.....sod's law it always happens to somebody right at the end of the season before an Tournament but that's the worst possible person to lose.

I didn't even know he'd gone until the other day! Incredibly injury-prone with just 2 starts and 8 sub appearances at Leicester. He's still only 25 though so nothing to lose by giving him a chance. Same here. Patrick Kisnorbo to Brum for 750k was the story. They cold be on their way down to play us next season anyway. Kisnorbo even has his own song now - A catchy 'He used to be shite/But now he's alright' variation on the old Viera chant in reference to a total transformation since switching to centre-half from centre mid. Hopefully there will be no Stearman and Fryatt rumours, it's nice to see some promising youngsters in the first team after having a reputation as a team of old gits for a couple of seasons. Crazy attendances = Leicester Tigers got 13,000 for a reserve team game. Come to think of it they're also the only Leicester side who can sell out the Walkers!

REM - What If We Give It Away?

I think the old stereotype of Eastern European sides having no bottle was proven to have more than a grain of truth in it tonight. They went from looking very composed and comfortable to a complete shambles. Not conceding 4 in an hour against Middlesborough? Obviously too much to ask for a semi-final quality side these days, I think most championship sides would have managed to see that one out. Middlesborough deserve massive credit of course but let's be honest, they're a mediocre side in the final of an increasingly mediocre competition.