Sing up the Jarrold

Truly emotional scenes. Thank you Paul Lambert. Thank you every single player. From the depths of despair 3 years ago to this is just phenomenal. All together now - WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE!

Although I was left dumbstruck that after one poor performance people around me were so quick to start booing on Tuesday, and still feel that it''s a fairly immature and unhelpful response (after all I''m sure Mr Lambert would have made quite sure that any player walking into the dressing room and thinking he''d had a good game would have been rapidly disillusioned), it occurs to me that it has become the normal response to displeasure. A sensationalist and polarised media report everything as being either phenomenonally good or diabolically bad, so people react to anything with hyperbole or vitriol. Whilst I hate to reference such drivel, just think of how the audience react to criticism on reality TV shows like The X factor or Strictly Come Poncing. It doesn''t matter how much truth is in criticism or how constructively it is intended, the response is always booing or, conversely, ludicrous whooping and hollering if a judge feels inclined to praise them. Some people have forgotten is that life has grey areas. No, we didn''t play at all well and Crystal bloody Palace deservedly beat us, but yes, the boys in yellow have more often than not produced the goods over the last 12 months, responded when the crowd is positive and behind them, and besides, everyone has a bad day at the office sometimes. Let''s all do better on Saturday.

That''s sad news. RIP Roy.

Fingers crossed that the Cricketers returns in some form, but as an alternative I have found the Steampacket as a great stop off. It''s closer to CR than the nice pubs in the Golden Triangle and has Friendly staff and a good atmosphere, plus £2.50 a pint on match days and the odd plate of free grub never go a miss either! [B]

A measure of some Leeds fans was seen when 2 of them started fighting each other when walking up the hill toward Clarence Road after the game. Idiots.

[quote user="Heresyourfathersgun"]Look here for every thing you need stats wise http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/index.html [/quote]This is interesting. More sides than I would have expected can still theoretically finish top, and we can finish no worse than 19th!!! Extremes that won''t happen but still an interesting page, I think. http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/runin.html

Flecky for me too (first time round).

[quote user="a1canary"]Two of my fish are missing...[/quote] Did you back them up?

My post count has dropped by two, so I assume that the whole thread is long gone.........it''s easy to keep track when your count is so low.

I must say that there is a real grit about this team. A lot of City teams of recent years would have been bullied by a physical Leeds team and rolled over. Not any more.....

And there I was sat in my NY hotel room a couple of Monday''s ago cursing because I was missing the Sunderland match. Who knew that a couple of dozen blocks away was the home of the New York Canaries? At least I didn''t miss a classic I suppose.....

It has just take me bloody ages to get the RW and am now shaking my head in disbelief. Such a natural wide man I can''t believe I didn''t get it immediately. The tactical vision of PG was way beyond me.....

To include Dejan with some of the others is a little harsh. To dismiss a man who started last season looking a class act and then was injured as being only good enough bcause we are at a lower level and as having no fight is a little harsh.

Unfortunately Carrow Road will be full of armchair Manure "fans" anyway, but against Wigan.....

Some Chelski fan just email SSN to say "I hope the ref knows how many people he left in tears". Oh what a hard life it must be missing out on the Champions League final and having to go watch your multi-millionaire spoilt brat players in the FA cup final. They should try being a City fan watching Andy D''Urso!

I have us staying up on goal difference from Barnsley (plus Southampton and Charlton). To be honest, who would not take that now if it was offered?

Yellow Rider''s post is one of the most erudite posts I have read on here for a long time. As others have intimated, but for the luck of the draw, that terrace could have been full of City fans on that fateful day. Flippancy has no place when we remember the people who went to watch a game of football, as many of us do week in week out, but never came home. RIP

[quote user="The 4th Official"] [quote user="Duffman"]No idea what the official rules are ... [/quote] http://www.refworld.com/information/5/article/36/0 [/quote] Love the page you get if you click on next. What the linesman / ref should do "in the event of mass confrontation situation". Presumably based on last Sat the ref should run into the other half of the field completely unaware of the situation developing behind him. Trot back blowing his whistle frantically, then once it has calmed down, book two players so there is no comeback on him, irrespective of who shoved who to the ground!

[quote user="I. Shurmer"] School-leaving teenagers should be encouraged to find their way and their place in the world rather than shoe-horning them all into a University education.  Vocational courses, scholarships, apprenticeships, degrees, or just a job - they should all be treated as options in my opinion... instead those who leave school and get a job straight away are often viewed as "inferior" because they''ve not got a degree, whereas in reality, in three of four years'' time, they''re far more likely to have found their place then someone who''s spent their time in bed eating Pot Noodles... [/quote] Hear Hear

As a former teacher, I have to admit that all the way from Key Stage 1 SATS up to A-level the nation''s schools and teachers have figured out how to get students to jump through the hoops required to get high test scores. And with the pressure to achieve in the Government''s league tables, who can blame them? Fail and you will be publicly stigmatised. That is what has "raised standards" and devalued the assessments. It has also resulted in a generation of students arriving at universities without the ability to learn for themselves and expecting to be spoon fed.  

I am by nature an positive person, especially when it comes to NCFC, but as the days and weeks slip by I must confess that my Pinkun visits are becoming less expectant and increasingly anxious. At the moment, for the first time in a very long time I will take my seat at C.R. for the first home game of the season without a mindlessly optimistic sense of anticipation. Who knows? Maybe four or five quality signings will come before the big kick off? Or maybe Roeder will weave some magic and knit his thin yellow line into a team to exceed expectations? Perhaps DS, MW-J and PC will get together and give Roeder a warchest worth having? Who is really worried? Well, I am not yet, but must confess to an uncomfortable sense of disquiet.

THE HOFF 1. David Hasselhoff is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis. 2. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures David Hasselhoff allows to live. 3. When David Hasselhoff drinks pee, his asparagus smells funny. 4. When David Hasselhoff was born, the nurse said, "Holy Cow, That''s David Hasselhoff!" Then she had sex with him. At that point, she was the third girl he had slept with. 5. When David Hasselhoff goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket. 6. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects David Hasselhoff could use to kill you, including the room itself. 7. The popular videogame "Doom" is based loosely around the time Satan borrowed two bucks from David Hasselhoff and forgot to pay him back. 8. David Hasselhoff can count backwards from infinity. 9. Crop circles are David''s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the f**k down. 10. When David Hasselhoff jumps into a body of water, he doesn''t get wet. The water gets David instead. 11. David Hasselhoff can divide by zero. 12. In fine print at on the last page of the Guiness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by David Hasselhoff,and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone has evercome to matching him. 13. David Hasselhoff is not lactose intolerant, he just refuses to put up with lactose''s s**t. 14. David Hasselhoff has two speeds: walk and kill. 15. David Hasselhoff is the reason why Wally is hiding. 16. David Hasselhoff can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. 17. You are what you eat. That is why David Hasselhoff diet consists entirely of bricks, steel, and the tears of small children. 18. David Hasselhoff once beat Super Mario Bros 3 without even touching his Nintendo controller. He just yelled at his TV in between bites of his "Filet of Child" sandwich, and the game beat itself out of fear. 19. David Hasselhoff played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won. 20. If you were to lock David Hasselhoff in a room with a guitar, a year later you would have the greatest album ever, it would sweep the Grammy''s. When asked why he doesn''t do this David replied "Because Grammy''s are for losers." Then he ate a knife to show the seriousness of his response. 21. On his birthday, David Hasselhoff randomly selects one lucky child to be thrown into the sun. 22. When David Hasselhoff does a pushup, he isn''t lifting himself up, he''s pushing the Earth down. 23. Whenever David Hasselhoff puts out a cigarette, he throws it in slow motion into a long line of gasoline and calmly walks away as an inferno erupts behind him. 24. David Hasselhoff invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink. 25. David Hasselhoff coined the phrase, "I could eat a Horse" after he ate every last unicorn in existence. 26. David Hasselhoff haunts Freddy Krueger''s nightmares. 27. The eternal conundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.

Quite a few I agree with here, not least the constant whinging and dissent from players (largely Premiership players) that gets shown and escapes unpunished on a weekly basis. Unaccountability of professional referees. How refreshing would it have been to see Andy D''Urso give a post match interview and admit that he had made a mistake and that Jamie McCombe, not Lee Croft had handled the ball? ''Simulation''. How many times do you see a player go down under a tackle like he has  been shot and appeal to the ref for a foul, only to see the ref wave play on. Surely that is either a free kick or a yellow card for simulation? Too many for my liking. People who call themselves ''Tractor boys''. Nuff said

25th August 2004 - St James Park. In a bout of early season optimism I had a tenner on Bellamy to score first and city to win 3-2 at 150-1. Thanks to Messrs Bellamy, Hughes, Bentley and Doherty it was 2-2 and Leon bloody McKenzie missed a chance to win it in the last 10 minutes. The rest of the pub groaned - I went ballistic.[:@] Had a few beers after that one - and it was the only away point I didn''t celebrate that season.