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I would add that anyone who doesn't think Rafa's job is still seriously under threat is deluding themselves. A win over the Mancs might just knock some sense into a few thick heads so let's just hope for the best on Sunday.

A quote from me half an hour before DarkBailo posted the above when it was suggested I guess Rushian has heard some news from the meeting yesterday: "No. Not even sure if there was a meeting. Just more a feeling of impending doom based on the clear lack of support from those at the highest level for the manager, coupled with what appears to me to be a cheerleading exercise at the Echo for Rafa. I still think the most pertinent article of the last week was Tony Barratt's defence of the reserve/youth team and those that have been brought in the last 18 months "post-Heighway". It comes to something when the local newspaper has to spell out to the hierarchy that you don't abandon an experiment after such a short time because they've had their ear bent by a few whinging voices complaining that not enough local kids are getting a look in. This is the same hierarchy who'll happily laud Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal team who have been running a system like this for ten years. Anyone who has watched the reserves and academy teams recently has to be impressed by the quality of the footballers we're now developing, many of them imported." Damn, if it wasn't for those pesky kids Can I repeat - I do not know if there was a meeting. I don't know if there is one planned. Or when it may or may not be. And I haven't got the boardroom bugged. So speculating on what I heard from a meeting I have no knowledge of apart reading that there may have been one in a copy and pasted article from the Times is a bit pointless.

Not for European aways it isn't. System worked well in the past, now it's a tout's paradise.

It was never a chant though - it was a banner out in Barca. You can submit any old rubbish to the BBC chant section and they'll publish it.

That's the area we'll expand with an extra tier (or two) to take the capacity from 61000 into the mid 70000s.

Bootle's a well known localised hot spot. The Strand is a sun trap.

Team for Toulouse: Reina Arbeloa Carragher Paletta Insua Benayoun Mascherano Sissoko Leto Kewell Torres play the warm weather team.

Build another tier on the stand opposite the new Kop. The roof has been designed high enough there to fit it in.

There won't be enough space. Only feasible if you have loads of space around the pitch between the touchline and the stands e.g. a running track.

Arsenal got £45m for 15 years naming rights. It is often incorrectly quoted as £100m, because there was also an 8 year shirt sponsorship deal for £55m announced at the same time, hence the "£100m deal".

Which suggests that Mascherano has a contract with MSI which still runs for a certain length of time beyond the end of this season, otherwise he'd be available on a Bosman.

I can't imagine they'd unveil the stadium without the owners being in town - not sure they are at the moment.

He didn't say Paletta would be poor - he said it was too early in his development for him to move and he'd be better off playing regularly at River Plate (who wanted to sign him) than in our reserves.

Those are clearly the plans before the stadium is wrapped in it's exterior skin.

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His mate who posts occassionally on RAWK said a couple of months back that he'd either stay till the end of his contract or leave this summer. He wasn't keen on a new contract.

Sod all.

I'm not sure anyone's taking him seriously on RAOTL - reads like it's been copy and pasted from football-rumours.com

Yes.

With all due respect to the lad in question, I think you're overegging his pudding massively. I can't think of anything offhand that he's claimed and been right on.