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"Win it for McClaren, urges Jenas" Bollox.... How about winning it for the pride of your country !!!!! Sod the manager and his feelings !!!! Look after your own you lazy gits! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/i...als/6479125.stm Jermaine Jenas is backing England to win their Euro double header and ease the pressure on manager Steve McClaren. The Spurs midfielder believes McClaren has come in for some unwarranted flak and is confident he will return from Israel and Andorra with six points. Jenas, who misses the crucial Euro 2008 qualifiers through injury, told BBC Sport: "We can definitely win them. "Steve has the support of all the players and it would be nice if some of the press got behind him as well." Anything away from home is always tough but the lads are confident of completing the task ahead Jermaine Jenas England have had a disappointing start to their qualifying campaign and go into Saturday's match against Israel lying third in their group. But Jenas is convinced they will come good and clinch one of the two automatic spots up for grabs. "The players know we need to win the next two games," he said. "We've got to go to Israel and Andorra and neither of those are going to be easy matches. Anything away from home is always tough but the lads are confident of completing the task ahead. "If you look at our squad we've got some fantastic players and although they're not going to be easy, we're more than capable of winning them both." Jenas, who scored on his comeback for Tottenham against Watford last weekend after recovering from a groin problem, praised boss McClaren for not forgetting about him during his injury lay-off. He said: "Steve gets on very well with all of the boys. He's come down to the Tottenham training ground a few times and talked to a lot of the lads and he's spoken to me personally when I've been injured. "It's really nice to have a manager who goes out of his way to do that and I hope the team can repay him by coming away from these two games with six points."

Traf, I agree it was common sense but had it been Ben Haim, he would have got sent off. Or probably anyone not in the "big" teams. They would get the red card and have "the law" quoted to them about "a clear goal scoring opportunity".

He'll never come back if he does well.

Sorry but just read what the beeb have written: "A succession of passes and flicks ended with Adebayor firing in a 15-yard shot that took a crucial deflection off Stelios to beat Jussi Jaaskelainen. The rest of the opening half - apart from the closing minutes - was an Arsenal master-class in passing, movement and individual brilliance. Baptista just failed to connect with Gael Clichy's cross, then shot wastefully wide from another inviting cross from Rosicky. Bolton almost bounced back from being outclassed with an equaliser three minutes before half-time, Stelios hitting the bar from only eight yards out. " Did they watch the same game as me? If it was a master class the blind donkeys would have scored about five in the first half. And we were NOT outclassed. They were better than us at times, but NEVER outclassed.

Fantastic game and (I hate to say it) but they did deserve to go through. The pace in that Arse team is amazing and I must say that Meite and Tal Ben showed some real class for most of the game and Tal's sending off was because the ref had no option. But the best part of the game for me was Campo's "You can't blame me for trying" smile when he was booked for diving. Classic. A great FA cup tie.

Cheers for that.

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At ??1.5M seems a bargain to me !!!

No.... you're thinking of Blackburn there WHUJOHN. Get it right fella if you are goin' to take the pi55.

"It's like having a blanket that is too small for the bed," BSA said of his limited options. "You just have to pull your knees up to your chest, blame the ref for blowing out the candle that was keeping you warm, blame the FA for not enforcing larger blankets, blame the supporters for not taking a blanket off someone else, and the beeb for showing the stains on the mattress"

On top of Anelka's hat-trick! That'll be some game.

They are to good to go down now. Has anyone told them that it's not how much you spend but your league position that keeps you in the premiership?

Anyone else got a link to the snippet?

They must take into account how few minutes he played for Wet Spam and when he last played.

Oh yes yes yes yes yes !!! Pic of the month!

I hope so. At work so relying on BBC and WWays

This is a surprise if it's true 1328: News involving a Premiership club. BBC Radio Cumbria report young Bolton striker Johan Smith has joined Carlisle. OK, so it is not the big-name, top-flight club signing we are craving, but the crescendo to that moment is only increasing. From BBC I thought he looked pretty promising

Just said the same in the predictions for tonight. It's all about 6 points in 4 days and keeping on the tails of Liverpool and the Arse. There's a Liverpool derby on Saturday when anything can happen and The Arse are away at Middlesborough which may be tricky (as we know!!!) Wigan may also do us a favour at home to Pompey; Prediction after the weekend: Liverpool 26 50 Arsenal 25 48 Bolton 26 46 Reading 26 40 Portsmouth 26 38 Everton 25 36

Heart says 3-1 (Anelka 2 & Campo header, Lazy last 10 minutes lets them in to ruin a clean sheet) Head says that this is where we have to show that we can take 3 points of the premiership strugglers without to much effort and show we deserve our 5th place. 6 points in the next 4 days will send a message to Liverpool and Arsenal that they can't take their eyes of us! 0-0 it is then!!!!!

Snack and the Snackettes will be there and maybe even the missus !!!!!

Nolan should start and spend 45 minutes trying to remember that he is actually a player of premiership quality and act like it. He needs a good 90 minutes or could find himself dropped imho. Foj and Smith should get at least 20 minutes as well but we should keep that back solid and tight as we've been conceding to many recently and we need a clean sheet. I'd like to see Vaz start to see if he has actually learnt anything in the past 12 months (like how to score !!!!)

Walsall again.... going 1-0 down and then winning the second half. Be a mug to bet against us tomorrow.

I've been a member for years and get all my tickets through them (the odd home game but mostly away games). They have some very organised and dedicated members who organise tickets and travel and do it extreemly well. And these people cannot be thanked enough. But we should understand that anyone ordering significant numbers of tickets regularly will build a relationship with BWFC (whether formal or informal) and this relationship will deliver benefits (rightly or wrongly and however small). BWFC is a business and should/does look after it's better customers. I agree that buying a season ticket makes you a good customer but you'll never build a relationship like the London Whites who contact the club on a weekly basis to buy tickets. But the main reason to join.... is to meet up and have a beer before a game (they hunt out some decent pubs!!) and travel with some people you can get to know. And it's surprising when someone comes over because they know you from on here !!!!!

Any company who tries to take on established businesses will be frowned upon, more so if they are sucessful and threaten to dent profits. It's a business game and discrediting any new boys via the media is as much a tactic ias diving in the penalty box is. Their fear is that we are closing in at a sustainable rate, year after year we get stronger, no "one hit wonders". Everytime they big boys look over their shoulders at the chasing pack, BWFC are always there. This year hanging on to their shirts having beaten 2 of them already. We need to stand firm, support our club and chip away at what the FA, Premier League & Media think belongs to the "glamourous" clubs. "Slowly, Slowly, Catchy Monkey"