The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[9 to 5]

I think Villa should be about safe tbh. It's three from five.

[Summers]

We need to win our next two games or we're in serious trouble. Ergo... We're in serious trouble.

[Thrilla]

Until we beat them at the weekend and drag them down into it.

[Liam]

There is no chance Villa will go down, not with the 8 point gap they already have.

[9 to 5]

We might have to try shooting on target before injury time for that to happen.

[Lineker]

There is no chance Villa will go down, not with the 8 point gap they already have.

Willing to put a bottle of hat sauce on that?

[Lineker]

Newcastle United’s Nile Ranger, Walsall’s Manny Smith and Manchester United’s Federico Macheda, currently on loan at Queens Park Rangers, have all been charged with improper conduct in relation to comments made on Twitter.

The charge is that the players acted in a way which was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute.

It is further alleged that the breach included a reference to a person’s or persons’ sexual orientation.

Each has until 4pm on Wednesday 29 February 2012 to respond to the charge.

-TheFA.com

What did they do?

[DavidMarrio]

Probably be a typical dickhead footballer calling someone a fag or something along those lines.

Yeh I don't think Villa will go down but will be in a tough nervy battle. Wigan/Bolton/Wolves/QPR it'll be three of them four who go down.

[Liam]

There is no chance Villa will go down, not with the 8 point gap they already have.

Willing to put a bottle of hat sauce on that?

Definitely.

[Lineker]

You're on.

[Matt]

Spurs hace recalled Adam Smith from his loan with us due to Kyle Walker's injury. So that's Delph, Townsend and Smith all here for less than 2 months... suddenly our "massive squad" doesn't look so big. Anyway, yeah, Smith was alright for us by all accounts but he'd probably struggle if Spurs needed to play him.

[IAceI]

But at least you have Ben Parker back now. Please keep him.

[Colly]

How many shitty things does Nile Ranger have to do before we tear up his five year contract? I think he actually has to murder the Queen to be in breach of it...

[Hobo]

Newcastle could do with offloading Ranger (he's not going to be a Premier League striker of any note and with his disciple problems will probably fall down the leagues) and Alan Smith who the still have for no raisin! But at least the managed to send Smith off on loan.

[Gazz]

The problem with Nile is that he has at least 4 1/2 years left on his contract. Though, to be honest, I'd just take the financial hit, he'll be non league at best inside 5 years.

[DavidMarrio]

Rangers awful on the field and off the field. He must be on a decent amount of money for the club just not to think "fuck it let him go"

[Gazz]

I've heard £5k p/w which means a million to pay him off.

Then again, they might just be waiting for him to do something prison worthy so we can sack him for free.

[Dynamite]

Macheda's charge was from replying to someone who insulted him "shhhhhhh you stupid little gay".

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Apparently he meant to say guy instead of gay, which could make sense, though it's quite likely he's just saying that to try to cover himself. While it was yet another average comment in the long line of them (See Clarkson), he amongst so many others should know that everything is always blown out of proportion nowadays.

[Colly]

I think people need to grasp the fact they're putting written statements out every time they 'tweet'. It's not the evils of Twitter, its divs not paying attention. They wouldn't put a statement in the paper saying 'I hate the gays me like', so they shouldn't do the same online, simple as that.

Blown out of proportion maybe, but easy to be charged for because the evidence is available to everyone.