Want-away French midfielder Moussa Sissoko has attracted a lot of attention from the media recently after proclaiming that Arsenal is where he’d like to be playing his football next season.
Unless Moussa had his head in the clouds this year (he definitely did), he seems to have forgotten the small matter of Newcastle’s relegation and his arguable contribution to it. But come on, let’s not stifle his dreams.
Much like Sissoko, I of course am looking to better myself. For example, in recent times I have decided that a single life dating medicore women is no longer for me and have decided that Kate Upton will be my next fling (or Jennifer Aniston, I’m not too fussy).
But in all seriousness, a player who can’t acknowledge that he is partly to blame for the Magpies’ demise (although he wasn’t the worst offender it has to be said) and instead of atoning for his lacklustre form by ‘sticking it out’ with a manager who has won everything there is to win in football, makes bold claims of where he’d like to ply his trade next, is not a player we want at St James’ Park next season.
But who am I to dictate who signs who and what player plays where? Let’s say what a small sub-section of Arsenal fans have to say about Sissoko’s desire to play for the North London club.
@JayFerGaming I’m a Arsenal fan and normally I mown about lack of signings but I’ll pass on Sissoko ???
— Jack Sparshott #44 (@JackSparshott12) June 8, 2016
‘He wouldn’t get into their development team!’ Neither Arsenal nor Newcastle fans want Moussa Sissoko – TalkSport https://t.co/xyFEqkFjWN
— ArsenalNewsWire (@TheArsenalWire) June 8, 2016
Aubameyang going to City, Bailly and Zlatan to United, Higuain wants Liverpool, It’s alright lads Sissoko wants to join…FS #afc #arsenal
— Alexis Xhaka (@CoqBlockd) June 7, 2016
You was one of the best of an awful bunch that got embarrassingly relegated at NUFC, and you have the cheek to talk bout AFC move. Behave.
— – (@simply_arsenal) June 7, 2016
Sissoko trying to worm his way in at AFC reminds me of Serge Aurier doing the same 2-3 years back. Go home fella
— – (@simply_arsenal) June 7, 2016
cc, But he’s not French what do you expect 😉
Kimtoon(Quote)
“I think it was Kane who was offside”
Oh the player two yards ahead of play, not the one who passed the ball, Thanks for clearing that up Clive
ITV covering England matches never stops grating
CC(Quote)
not impressed with Sterling tonight
Kimtoon(Quote)
Good job of zooming in on the fat, bald bnp voter saying fucking in the crowd there
ITV the family channel
CC(Quote)
Oh ****
CC(Quote)
well that was always gonna happen 🙄
Kimtoon(Quote)
that’s England all over, we should be used to it
So Wales top the group then
Kimtoon(Quote)
Well that was coming wasn’t it. That was mainly a really **** second half. Didn’t take the chances and paid the price.
Dubai Toon(Quote)
In south London Alan Pardew is currently straightening his tie & blowing kisses to himself in the mirror
It’s almost time
CC(Quote)
No way Sterling should be in this team how he got picked in front of Townsend defeats me people say what a great striker Kane is he’s alright with balls played in front of him but he cannot play with his back to goal and he cannot for the life of him hold a ball up and bring people into play
Icedog(Quote)
Woy picks Townsend when he didn’t deserve a call up & drops him when he absolutely does in favour of bog standard plodders like Jardun Henderthun, Milner, Lalana
Plan b will be hoy a load of strikers on & still have absolutely no one to supply them
CC(Quote)
Sorry but Russia is a very poor team they had four first teamers missing as well
Icedog(Quote)
Trouble between England and Russian fans in the stadium now
Kimtoon(Quote)
The Welsh are top of the group and their fans are showing ours how to behave.
Fair play to em
Kimtoon(Quote)
Ice Sterling was really poor tonight as was Kane but the press won’t have it. Also Milner looked poor got robbed of the ball a few times and the last time in the build up to their goal.
Kimtoon(Quote)
We should of taken the good chances we had first half, cannot complain one bit imo.
Kimtoon(Quote)
On a brighter note , nice to see Shearer get a CBE in the queens honours list for services to charity.
Kimtoon(Quote)
KIM at least the press are giving Sterling dogs abuse as well,drop him for next game along with Kane,pace in attack wins you games 🙂
Icedog(Quote)
I was watching the earlier games today & Henry hit on a good point. He was saying he hoped England get distracted by trying to accommodate Rooney in midfield.
I’m not saying we did tonight, but he was pretty non existent in there for most part. But then Joe Hart barely made a save either.
If Lallana & Sterling are part of our strongest 11 we are screwed.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I was Utube surfing earlier & found Billy Crystals tribute speech for Ali.
If you haven’t watched it already it’s really good.
https://youtu.be/bOKCoctNk9A
Sharpy17(Quote)
I thought Rooney was pretty good. In fact I thought we played really well and if we had taken our chances we’d have been talking about a different game. Obviously we didn’t so it’s kind of irrelevant but if we play like that for the next couple of games we will win the group and progress. In fact it’s almost impossible not to progress. We’d probably do it with three draws.
Stuart79(Quote)
Sharpy just watched the eulogy. Great stuff.
Shamrock(Quote)
Sharpy, very nice eulogy that.
Kimtoon(Quote)
looks like the Russian fans instigated much of the violence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/11/england-and-russia-fans-clash-in-marseilles-ahead-of-euro-2016-g/
Kimtoon(Quote)
Kim, it takes two to tango… disgusting behavior by both sets of fans…
As bad as Ice says Australians are at sportsmanship, we have none of that kind of ****..
Aussie Magpie Fan(Quote)
I actually thought Rooney played well, I think the team was right apart from the two wide players.
Townsend should have been one side & Vardy on the other where Leicester have played him numerous times to good effect.
Sterling is completely out of form & Lallana, Henderson, Milner aren’t international players.
Two many midfield plodders & not enough game changers
CC(Quote)
typical england.
we’ll have to beat the sheep shaggers on thursday.
roy cropper(Quote)
AMF your dead right there mate,I traveled all over Queensland with the footy not once did I even smell trouble five stars there,even the passion with rugby lge I saw no trouble,plenty off “cheating”bas::tarts,bloody crooks ect,but all banter
Icedog(Quote)
Yeah we are no angels but what the Russian fans did in the stadium was awful, there were kids in that section getting hit and stamped on. It’s easy to say don’t fight back but at the same time how can you not? Not enough police in the stadium and apparently standing back when Russian ultras attacked random England fans outside! We can see how the Russian WC is gonna pan out though can’t we.
Kimtoon(Quote)
There’s quite a few England players not the class needed,Sterling I wouldn’t be happy if he was a toon player never mind England couldn’t tie Townsend shoe laces and Ime sorry but Kane can only play one way running on to balls and facing the goal,he cannot hold a ball up or play with his back to goal,he has to work a lot harder on that to have any chance to be a top top striker
Icedog(Quote)
Spot on Ice, we are nowhere near as good as a lot seem to think. Wrong players picked based on clubs they play for and past reputations.
Kimtoon(Quote)
KIM Your spot on and let’s not forget Russia were a very poor team made us seem to play very well it’s a poor group if truth be told
Icedog(Quote)
I don’t mean Rooney had a bad game last night, I’m just not sure that’s his most effective position.
Lallana & Sterling are not forwards. They aren’t wing forwards even & if they are seen as much then their goals & assists stats suggest they aren’t good ones.
Regardless who it’s against, Rooney is England’s record goal scorer & could have supported Kane far better than Lallana or Sterling.
We dominated that game last night but didn’t have the quality up front to convert the chances – and with the likes of Vardy, Sturridge & Rashford on the bench, that’s wrong.
Sharpy17(Quote)
i see Vardys wife got tear gassed by police poor sod
icedog(Quote)
so SM is finally admitting hes a total ***** and allowed players to dictate.. went in and basically didnt put his stamp on things from the start.. but kept insisting he could get us out when he knew he couldnt so he’d get a decent pay-off – ****
thats what happens when you sign yes-men coaches that allow players 4 days off per week.
Gashley(Quote)
some footage on liveleak of fighting
seems to be a mixture of locals, Russian and English with the police tear-gassing everyone..
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa2_1465681776
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27e_1465668491
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b5_1465668358
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e9_1465668903
Gashley(Quote)
Croatia is a team i think will do quite well in the euros
icedog(Quote)
On the violence. I blame the stadium security. There is no way the fans should have been that close to each other. How did the Russian fans get these fireworks & flares into the stadium?.
The Russian sports minister who is head of their 2018 World Cup campaign was in the stadium last night.
I tell you one thing, I wouldn’t be an England fan going to Russia!!!. If the fans don’t get you, the police will!!.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Ice – she shouldn’t have been fighting mate!!! 😆
Sharpy17(Quote)
😆 😆 😆
icedog(Quote)
Sharpy, they shouldn’t of got that WC anyway# bribery and corruption
Kimtoon(Quote)
Kim – no!!, not the heads of FIFA!! – whiter than white those guys.
Russia & Quatar were bids legitimately won – Sepp Blatter cleared that one up 😉
Sharpy17(Quote)
Just watching the Croatia game & listening to Slaven in the build up. I do like him like – just a shame he’s at West Ham 🙄
Sharpy17(Quote)
Going to need some strong control from the ref, this game.
Kimtoon(Quote)
silly me 🙄 😉
Kimtoon(Quote)
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/2/834868808?-11058:809:0
Steve McClaren has nobody to blame but himself. He went in thinking he was the new man about town, thinking he was some kind of big shot. The board had waited for him, they gave him his own backroom staff & he thought he had made it – finally a PL manager at one of the biggest clubs.
He went in wanting to be everyone’s mate – as he did at England. You can’t do that if you want management & leadership.
He’s on about the recruitment of CBs & CFs. Maybe he didn’t have much say over the summer signings – but where were the CBs or CFs in the Jan window when he was signing Saivet & Shelvey?!.
The other thing I will say on that is that he also goes on about injuries – every club suffers with injuries.
Rafa suffered with injuries. He was also left the players that Mc and the board had put together.
In the 10 games Rafa had with that same group of player, he achieved mid table form.
The fatal mistake we made – what got us relegated wasn’t recruitment or mentality. IT WAS NOT SACKING YOU SOONER MATE!!!. Had we give Rafa more games, I honestly believe he would have kept us up.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Spot on Sharpy! I also agree about Sterling and Lallana. Sterling has been **** ever since his £50m move. How he got in instead of Townsend is beyond me. And is Kane really better than Sturridge? Don’t think so. I won’t even start about Henderson and Milner . . .
Georgio(Quote)
Georgio – the grin reaper is a clown mate. He’s banging on about the ‘hierarchy’ – they made him part of the bloody hierarchy!!!.
Yes we need to get rid of these stupid transfer restrictions – but I’ll say again – with the same group of players Rafa managed mid table form. It was calculated that if Rafa had the team for the full season, we would have finished 11th.
That’s down to management, organisation & discipline – not coz your CF is 27 or 28.
As for Sterling. Finishing was never his strong point at Liverpool either mate. He got away with it coz he had Suarez & Sturridge in red hot form. I don’t think Liverpool lost a top player – infact I think they robbed Man City blind.
Sharpy17(Quote)
For anyone having a go at England fans, it might be better if you commented on things you know about. I have spoken to a friend who’s there and he said on the first night their bar was raided and attacked by local ultras after England fans were singing. The second and third night they were attacked by Russian thugs with balaclava’s on using knuckle dusters! What are we suppose to do, just turn the other cheek? Also in the stadium it was 100% undeniably Russina thugs again – only this time everyone could see it.
Bit tired of people just blaming England fans regardless of knowing the facts.
Stuart79(Quote)
Totally agree mate
English fans were seen throwing bottles at police but as far as I’ve read some of the Russian fans feel guilty how some of their compatriots have acted.
Lots of English fans have reported them singing and drinking when 300 Russians with knuckle dusters, telescopic truncheons, gumshield and even wearing England shirts, entered the area where the fans were singing and battered anyone around.
Apparently the Russian ultras have teamed up with Marseille ultras to fight the English.
Even the local youths armed with blades are joining in.
Scary **** like
Gashley(Quote)
How does it take two to tango?
Yes the English fans can be loutish and unruly but what are you meant to do when 300 fans armed with weapons storm you when you’re pissed? The bloke knocked unconscious and kicked about like a ragdoll, who is on a life support machine didn’t want to tango..he was attacked by 3 russians
Gashley(Quote)
Obviously our bad name is getting dragged thru the **** again.
We’ve taken measures so the main hooligans can no longer travel. Did the Russians do the same? Doubt it
Gashley(Quote)
The good news is that the England and Russian fans will now be hundreds of miles apart. I think it was madness to put them in Marseille which has a reputation for football violence. I think I said before it was a recipe for disaster.
Didn’t the Russians cause havoc at the last Euros as well? It is just bad management to put them into a sprawling port town with a history of violence. I have been to Marseille and I liked it but felt it had a sort of unsafe feel about it. I couldn’t put my finger on why, it just felt that way.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Are we not still gonna be close to Russian fans at our next game too? Lille and Lens is like Bristol to Weston super Mare in distance which is the same distance as them two venues. So still not far enough apart.l
Kimtoon(Quote)
Oh, Lens and Lille are not that far apart, but far enough I think.
Marseille to Lens is 507 miles. The organisers really are taking the ****. It is like they set it up on purpose to make sure the England fans have as difficult time as they could? I mean, they could have played in Nice, or Monaco or Bordeaux, but no! Let’s have them travel the full length of the country between games. IDIOTS.
Lands End to John o’Groats = 603 miles.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/russian-fans-charge-at-england-fans-inside-stade-velodrome-after-1-1-draw-videos/
Gashley(Quote)
Eric, Russia play Slovakia at 2pm uk time in Lille on Weds and the next day we play Wales at 2pm in Lens. It’s only a 35 minute journey between Lille and Lens by car and with the Russians already played their game the day before there is nothing to stop them travelling to Lens on our game day to carry on where they left off. Not to mention the French ultras which have been conveniently forgotten by UEFA in all this violence.
Kimtoon(Quote)
Germans fighting with Ukrainians now
Gashley(Quote)
Sad business between the English and Russian supporters. So much of it is caused by over drinking. It does sound like the main culprits are Russian but I imagine the English aren’t exactly acting like angels. Cut down on the drinking and you would cut down on the violence. Russia is a disaster thanks to Putin. The average life expectancy for men is in their mid 50’s. Alcoholism is a way of life in Russia.
GeordieTwo(Quote)
G2, apparently the 300 organised Russian mob were sober!
Kimtoon(Quote)
yes it’s just the English who fight 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzLt4M-lV5s
Kimtoon(Quote)
and will UEFA act re the French fans
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/violence-nice-northern-ireland-poland-8171259
Kimtoon(Quote)
What a stunning counter attack that was
Kimtoon(Quote)
From Germany
Kimtoon(Quote)
Gashley – it does take two to tango mate.. If **** is a bout to kick off, you clear off and get out of the situation. The knuckle duster situation is unfortunate and it show a desire to cause trouble. I am not just condemning English fans… just the behaviour of so called fans that get involved in this ****. No matter what country they are from.
Aussie Magpie Fan(Quote)
i disagree mate. Ive seen the footage in the stadium. English fans running away from Russians. I didnt see one punch from an English fan. Ive seen the footage in the centre when 100+ Russian fans storm the bar where English fans are sitting having a beer. So you get stormed and run? leaving your dad and mates behind? while youre along being chased by 20 nutjobs from Russia? nice plan mate
Believe it or not mate, 90% of English fans want to go to tournaments, have a beer and a sing with their mates.
Gashley(Quote)
http://www.gillingham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=449585
interesting stats
9th
Premandup(Quote)
They are Prem, good link
Kimtoon(Quote)
One good thing now is that everyone has cottoned onto the Russian organised thugs. They can see what they’re up to.
If there are no Russian thugs in Lille over the next few days there won’t be any trouble. I can’t see there being any trouble between England and Welsh fans to be honest. If the Russians come to Lille they’ll no doubt be fighting us and the Welsh and that should be even further proof.
Stuart79(Quote)
Everyone knows – from Putin to Marseille – thug country.
Georgio(Quote)
I’m sorry but not all England fans are blameless for the prematch violence – though the stadium violence appeared to be all Russian.
I’m not on social media but a lad I work with was showing me stuff on his Instagram that England ‘fans’ had post and those clowns weren’t victims like.
Sadly you will always be fighting a loosing battle (pardon the pun) trying to stop these vicious idiots.
Allocate the fools a field somewhere and allow them to kick seven shades of **** out of each other I say.
What has worried me so far though is the stadium security.
There were flares & fireworks in the England game & yesterday an air bomb was set off at the start of the second half of the Croatia game. It sounded like the explosion you heard from the France game when it all kicked off in Paris.
How the hell are these things being allowed to get passed stadium security would be the question id be asking.
Sharpy17(Quote)
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/2/834997806?-11058:809:0
This is a canny little article from the Chronicle.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Just announced an ITV after the Spain game that 2 England fans have received jail sentences for their involvement in street fighting.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I thought England should have won easily and were very unlucky. Fat Wayne had a decent game but that still does not excuse the fact that he had never been tried in that position before and Mr. Roy waited until one of the biggest games of his career to try it. It shows there was no plan, it was almost as if McClaren was managing the team again 🙂
On that subject, McClaren has now come out with a new set of excuses saying he was too compliant and in retrospect would have insisted on a centre back and centre forward. FFS, all he had to do was go into any pub in Newcastle on his first day and he would have been told that.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
There never seems to be any violence at Ireland games. They are pretty fighty as a rule so that is a surprise to me.
Eric Sykes(Quote)