Time to map out a plan for Villa's future
- Says blogger Matthew Turvey
Today’s transfer rumours Apr 7
Monday 7th April 2008, 8:22AM BST.
All the latest transfer gossip on Wolves, Albion, Villa, Walsall and Blues.
VILLA
INS: Newcastle and Villa have been linked to Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant.
Barnsley midfielder Brian Howard, a rumoured target for Villa, has admitted he is likely to leave the club.
Peter Crouch, consistently linked with Villa, says his future may not be at Liverpool.
ALBION
Nothing for Albion today.
WOLVES
OUTS: The Sunday papers link Sylvan Ebanks-Blake with a move to Everton. The People says it will be a swap deal for £2m plus Victor Anichebe or James Vaughan.
BLUES
INS: Blues are interested in Derby midfield man Stephen Pearson.
SADDLERS
All quiet at the Banks’s.
We have scoured the back pages and the internet to bring you the latest gossip.
We are not saying they’re true – just that they’re out there
You have read ours now add your own rumours.
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I know they are only rumours, but sellig SEB would just go to prove the real ambitions of the wolves administration, i.e. Find a good goalscorer and cash in on him, forget about building a promotion winning team, just cash in on the best players. I hope thats al they are, RUMOURS!!
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Why’s it always Everton may I ask?
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If we sell SEB to Everton for quick profit plus a Donkey it will show just how short sighted the Management and Board are, and these great fans of ours then might as well get used to our once great club being happy never being a great club again. We keep compairing every striker we get to Bully, now we seem to have found someone who can be mentioned in the same sentance.
DONT SELL SYLVAN
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premier leagues top scorer next season
with us
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anichebe is v.good talent by the way
i wouldnt call him a donkey but i understand your point. keep ebanks blake
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heres a rumour i just heard
pompey on the way back to w-e-m-b-e-r-l-y
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very quiet on the tesco front!!!!! defeat 2 blackpool either quieter then????????
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BYE BYE ,HENNERSLEY,BYE BYE BLAKE,,,BAGGIES IN THE PREM NAILED ON CERTAINTY,WOLVES TO DO THERE NORMAL,NOTHING COS THERE CRAP,,DOING THE DINGLETS OVER THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,OH YES
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Hahahahahaha. The only positive from your season and he’s already on his way!!!!
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Why would they want SEB when they have a player who plays the exact same role and same age, but is slightly better, in Yakubu?
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rumour as it that fa chairman brian barwick was so impressed by albions style of football that tony mowbury is being lined up to replace fabio capelo as the england manager,dont let him go JP boing boing blackpool here we come
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ARE THE MODERATORS ON HERE TODAY WOLVES FANS BECAUSE AS NORMAL NO ALBION MESSAGES GOING ON,,,SORT IT OUT AND BE FAIR….
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what it like being evertons feeder club,i mean everton,they aint even a big club boing boing going to goodison next season
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James Vaughan what a injury prome donkey he is.Mind you his parents live in shenstone thats about 15 miles to wolvo
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7..Just shows how poor your season is when all you have to look forward to is your bitter rivals results.
You should stick to your own teams fortunes because the play offs are in your own hands and should you mess up it may be a return of “you’ve let us down again” banners
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Worcesterbaggie – your comment is pathetic! No substance and lacking class, as per albion on saturday!
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Vaughan would be some compensation for SEB. I think it’s likely if we don’t go up that we’ll lose a few players. I hope we can keep kites
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13. At least Blues don’t use us as a scouting system…
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12. TOO RIGHT THEIR ISN’T, E&S WOLVO PAPER, DOW LIKE IT? CRAWL BACK UNDER YOUR STONES…
ALBION FANS, ONLY COME OUT THE WOODWORK WHEN THEYRE DOIN WELL…WATCH EM DISSAPEAR :D :D
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u lot r stupid!
its the papers drummin up a story out of nothing!
if all the rumours were true hennesey,kightly,seb,foley,little,henry,keogh and olofinjana would be playin for some 1 else! remember when we were in prem and the people were sayin bergkamp was joinin us!
get a grip-blake going nowhere!
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12 worcester, well said mate i toally agree with you,your one of the few people on here who talk sence keep the good post coming boing boing
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19 .. I’m here and by the way I live in rather a big house not under a rock.
and for gods sake 3rd button up far left
Its called “Caps Lock”
is it broken!
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13. What’s it like being a Portsmouth feeder club? Kanu hear the boggies sing…No, No.
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oh we do like to be beside the seaside
oh we do like to be beside the sea
oh we do like to be beside the prom prom prom
when the brass bands playing
come on west brom come on west brom
blackpool here we come boing boing
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20 dedwolf, bergkamp had never heard of ya,i remember when you was in prem finished bottom daint ya boing boing
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25. GET A LIFE AT LEAST TEAMS FROM PREM LOOK AT OUR PLAYERS BUT NO ONE LOOKS AT URS CUZ THEY AM ALL OLD AND AT THE END OF THERE CAREERS JUST JEALOUS WE HAVE TEAM FOR THE FUTURE BATCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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26…is it catching “caps lock hitus” is there an epademic in wolverhampton!!
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21. You mean theres another dimwit that understands you terry? you two should meet up…
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Terry we saw you cry on tv again mate, you’ve got nothing to be proud of – if what kiely said your bigger than pompey…yeah right they actually get 20,000 at home.
Sandwell Town…staying down.
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win on saturday against bristol city and then teams in the top 6 will get worried form team and that!!!! tesco will suffer from fa cup hangover!!!! haha iv heard that wembley turf has been dug up and re turfed due to some fat left bak diving all over it on saturday!!!!!
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hahaha how i laughed when kanu rammed the ball home, it was like SEB scoring THAT goal against charlton, a very beautiful moment!!!
and at least our players are linked with big clubs with ambition?? koumas-wigan, kamara-fulham etc but fairplay to j.peace for getting huge money for what can only be described as championship players not prem class!!!
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wba WOBBLE. COME ON WOLVES ,seb staying at wolves in prem.
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Selling SEB would make about as much sense as putting money on a one legged man winning an arse kicking competition!! NO SENSE AT ALL!
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I actually feel embarrased that a sizeable amount of my teams supporters seem more interested about Tesco’s than our own team.
Very sad to see
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Hey guys, just remember that the papers have to fill their columns. There is no truth in this whatsoever, especially as SEB’s price has already been assessed at £10m upwards !
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29 unloyal,was the camera on me agen mate,they always pic me out dont they,did you like my hat boing boing
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31,spankwolves,linked to big clubs,EVERTON ? daint we beat them in the fa cup final boing boing
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1. your name is Terry……….lol
2. yas we finished bottom but we were never voted in the “top” 10 worst teams in the prem-like u! lol 8th i think????
3.bergkamp was probably told about us by our last dutch international de wolfman!!! lol
4.when do you think you’ll sell your next top player?
5.we got loads of cash so we doh need to sell anymore-unlike ulot!
6.how upset were u saturday? i cried all afternoon………..with laughter!
7. blowing the big games the “mowbray” way!!! hahahahahahahahaha! my sides r still hurting!!!! cheers for a great saturday albion!!
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34.. Here Here
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Easy Easy Easy!!!!!!!
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15. Baggie boy
Dont shout too soon, I think that you might yet find that your play-off position is in our hands!
Up The Wolves.
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Victor Anichebe would be a great addition 2 our squad but not at the expense of SEB. Anichebe is a great young player who has scored 5 goals in 11 starts. (25 sub appearances)Him, SEB and Keogh would be a force in the Championship but if we get promoted we would need some 1 with the expirence.
Wacky
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N’mind albion, nothing like a trip to the seaside and the cool sea air to blow away the cobwebs of a semi defeat…being generous i thought you was unlucky, and played the better footie.
As for SEB, i posted only a week ago about Everton being interested and us struggling to keep him…Moysie knows a gem when he sees one. At the moment he’s our only chance of promo.
Ok if we swap him for Arteta and Cahill and Anichebe… and 5 million pounds deal done!
After all you robbed us for Lescott and he’s worht about 15/20 by now so fair’s fair,
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Saturday was a class day, first albion lost, then the results went right for wolves, then I won £110 on the grand national – textbook day!
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terry………………lol!
everton 5th in the prem!
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38 ED, AND YOU LOL AT MY NAME BOING BOING BAGGIE BAGGIE
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38….response to questions
2..you got me on that one how proud would it have made me feel to be voted the most whining fans but no Wolves beat us to that one(why do you always have to go one better( our 8th worst team has changed your worst fans will always be there)
4.. thats easy probably july/august we have at least 15 to pick from so I am sure one will go.
5.. why have you more cash
6.. Not upset in the slightest very proud of my team appearing at Wembley as you would be if you had ever been to the new Wembley that is.
7.. what big game ?the semi final of the cup aint a big game its a bit of fun. Now blackpool (Tuesday) and Watford(Saturday) are big games as for blowing it we will see . Dont forget the play offs in your own hands if you blow it I can see a return of the famous “you’ve let us down again ” banners
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37. how long ago was that??? tool!! england got hammered by hungary (think englands 1st defeat on home soil) and wolves then went on to hammer honved (who had about 9-10 of the hungarian side in there team), so if your bringing up the past!!!!
you do know with your idiotic comments you are just a laughing stock, and im not surprised if even your own fans on here think “my god what a wally he is”.
going to wembley twice = £100
number of goals scored = 0
losing both matches, with wolves fans absolutely p!$$ing themselves with laughter = Priceless
for everything else theres mastercard!
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38,de wolf what a great player he was,tell me agen what did he win with ya,4th division south was it,and was you named after him,cuz an anagram of DE is ED ha ha ed was named after a daffidol picker that played in cloggs boing boing
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albion fans say that saturday showed that they can play against the big boys… WELL DONE! but you still got beat.
saw you crying at wembley, yes we saw you crying at wembley.
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38,ed,
2,we never finished bottom,you did,
3,i dont think bergkamp would be on speaking teams with de wolf,do you,
4,we dont sell our top players,we sell mediocre players for millions of pounds,
5,you aint got no cash,thats why your a feeder club,
6,i wasent upset at all,i was a very proud albion fan,
7,we will BLOW you away dont worry about that,cuz yum a bunch of losers
boing boing going up the MOWBURY WAY
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50, IS IT MR SMUG OR MRS MUG BOING BOING
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Just been reading all the posts above maybe we did get beat but it was blatant handball that got them the win, Baros has even admitted that it was, so we were very unlucky.
How would wolves have done ????answers on a post card please.
As for post 30 at least we don’t hire our ground out for grazing like you do for Freddie (the ever elusive) Eastwood’s horse . . . . .
after the banter just hope that we are both promoted at the end of the season baggiebird and proud of it.
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41.. Dont flatter yourself. Its in our hands old chap . We can at the moment(although not advisable) lose to your lot but you can not afford to lose to albion..
50 Mr smug… As I have said to an earlier post I only saw children crying at Wembley and as I told them if thats whats get you going well there is another word that we call people like you!
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You have to love this banter, especially when you have the intelligence of a baggie. I mean come on, who came up with BOING BOING? a bouncy baggie just sounds like a 70 year old couple getting intimate!!!
Next Tuesday is the day when Wolves watch that Tesco bag drift pass us in the cool breeze of spring and we climb the table leaving the rubbish behind………
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55 twid,id sooner be known as the boing boingers than the whingers BOING BOING BOING BOING
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48.. your deluding yourself
you would love to have the oppourtinty to spend 100 pound on seeing your team at wembley( although I would never only spend that small amount but if thats all you can afford well you have to live to your means)
If it was 1k I would still pay it because thats my team.
How can you comment on other people “idiotic” comments when you say albion losing blah blah ….priceless
Would you like me to come back with
Banners ” let us down again”…Pricless
or
Mad Mick out on the radio when you lost >>> Priceles
we could go on and on tit for tat history rubbish its gone .
What still amazes me is that it takes an albion defeat to be the highlight of your season
How bad must wolves be for this to happen
Because I can hold my hand on heart and state that I could not give a monkeys about Wolves results
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We are both going mad to get promoted to a Cheats League, (see reference Baros admits handball), where that sort of thing is standard, the ref’s job is a nightmare, the diving would suit the Olympics, the play-acting get RADA membership and only 4 clubs win anything normally. The clubs only want the money for the players wages, we just get one long survival struggle. We must be nuts! Everton surely won’t get Blake with your owner being a Liverpool supporter. If they do, I’ll expect to hear your screams of rage over here in Walsall. You’ve got a centreforward there to make things happen. Let’s hope it’s just newspaper talk for your sake.
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58. Well said Cyril. The Premiership is an embarrassment at the moment. Just look at failed plans to play an extra game abroad.
To the football purists, the game is in a state at the moment. I don’t even watch MOTD anymore. Hopefully both the Wolves and the Baggies will go up and change the dynamics a bit. You can’t beat a black country derby.
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58,cyril, dont you worry about it mate,cuz you wont be in there anyway boing boing going up the MOWBURY WAY
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sorry cyril misread mate,all the beer i had over w/e boing boing
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60. I take it from your comment you don’t want WBA to get promoted then.
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57.
1)£100 that would be for both tickets i.e £50 each cant remember them being much more than that??
2)wasnt my banner nor would i waste my time phoning in a radio station, and this coming from albion fans.
“Robbo what a manager, great escape” blah blah then next season “robbo out aint got a clue”?? so guess we are more alike than you think!
3)that history rubbish it was terrythetool who said “big club?we beat everton in cup final!”
i was merely pointing out if you want to keep going back through history, ill go on all day!
4)as for highlight of my season an albion
defeat? erm no just makes the weekend that bit more enjoyable, and keeps you lot quiet for a week.
the fans round here are as fickle as each other, ok not speaking for every person but on here you get the “freddie parade” who for some reason idolise him. but baggie boy i agree with you on some points, well i think the point you are trying to get across, but we are all as bad as each other, some more than others
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i dont get these wolves fans, yeah we got beat but at least our boys got there and tried, not like your bunch of moaners
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terry baggie,you are a sad man!
ca u see most of my post was tongue in cheek!
when we finished bottom we finished with more points than you did when u stopped up!
baggieboy-lol 15 star players to pick from! thats a good 1! i cant remember any speculation about your players?
who would go for big money?
koren is prob your prized asset?
u would have thought man u,real madrid and milan was after some of your players the way you go on!
your not as good as u think u are!
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Terry – post 60 shows just how thick you are. Stick to fishing as the football team you support keeps bottling it on the big stage.
Everyone else – lets stop the childish bickering and face facts. Wolves fans spent the first 3 months of this season deluding ourselves that we were gonna walk the league. But being clever we soon realised it weren’t gonna happen. Tesco’s on the other hand spent the first 8 months of the season deluding themselves and are still deluded now, cus they’re thick.
To be fair – Cyril – a really good post. Premier league – 19 home matches – more defeats than victories, a couple of 3pm Saturday kick offs if you’re lucky.
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63.. 55 pound is the price of the dearest ticket (I have just read my posting and I could of put it better it made sound like a snob).thats in the normal seats etc but much more expensive in the leather ones etc…
I dont think any Albion fan said that Robbo was a great manager
as for the history rubbish who cares who won what thats gone never coming back.
West brom and wolves where once the 2 best teams in the country but that I am afraid will never come back so history is history.
As far as I am concerned all that matters is the next game.
As for your last point I forgot what point I was trying to get across lol!!.
65…In this very paper lazio where looking at Albresten(although its just rubbish paper talk) you and I both know that the only players that would not command a good fee are Kiley (age) gera (out of contract) KP (age/out of contract).
Mind you if our chairman can get 7.5 million for Curtis Davies then he might get a coulple of million for Kiely (lol)
just because you read some utter rubbish that everton want to pay 5 mill for your player does not make it true does it.
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8 – how many stars you got from last season? koumas, kamara went to wigan n fulham so shows you how poor you guys must of been
13 – everton 5th best team in country! who wouldnt want to sign for them if not at any big 4 sides?
i think its good news our players been linked to bigger clubs! it shows we are moving in right direction! time to worry when it says ebanksblake linked with leyton orient
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dont worry fellow wolves fans. everton cant buy him becvause of the 3 clubs in a year rule. plymouth,wolves,everton
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53 how the hell can you say you were unlucky when you never had a shot at goal you were crap and you know it.
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Terry, Where is Proud? Is it near Walsall or Wembley or even Webley????
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69. cracking point! and dont think they’ll sell him anyway.
i know chris woods (everton goalkeeper coach) as got a season ticket at molineux lol but surely they have a better scouting system than “oh lets just pop to molineux,they are bound to have some good young players”
we let them have lescott on cheap (because of his alleged dodgy knees??) but thats it. kenwright if you want our players…..tough!look somewhere else
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sorry you hit the crossbar but james never had a shot to save.
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Toffees, no thanks. Be grateful for Lescott, try elsewhere. He’ll be scoring against them for us next season not for them
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HE ISNT GOING OK !! SEB 4 WOLVES 4 EVER !!
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65 ed nugget,do i take it you dont like it back,if you cant take it dont give it boing boing
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71,gob gob,it aint nowhere near wolverhampton boing boing goin up the MOWBURY WAY
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A bit fed up with all the tit for tat on here. Just came on to say that they have Yakubu who is as close to SEB’s twin as you’ll get and Vaughan and Anichebe are two of the most promising young strikers in the country. Can’t see them letting either go.
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69.. I think that counts 3 per season not per calander year but I may be wrong
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Terry.
You’ve hooked him and landed him, now just put him in the keep net and leave him alone.
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80,bully, but i want to batter him boing boing
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this is going to give ebanks-blake a morale booster so baggie fans watch out this bloke is gunna get you and bag his first and not his last club hatrik for wolves. just watch. and im sorry but why the hell is a welsh team in the fa cup final. we should of knocked them out the welsh scum. WOLVES FOR THE UP. not stoke or bristol city because they have had luck on their side.
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Just in …
There are 11 donkey’s arriving midweek…
BOING SPLAT….
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just in…
Blackpool are expecting 11 donkey’s midweek..
BOING SPLAT !!
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82 jamez,wots a hatrik boing boing
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Mick McCarthy Out!!!!
ASAP
KEEP FREDDY EASTWOOD
PLAYER OF THE SEASON I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE FOR HIM BECASUE THEY WAY HE HAS BEEN TREATED
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Come on then Dingles Top of the League, bring on tuesday when we silence the custard bowl. You aint gotta chance against bristol. We play attacking football and score goals. You’ve got a striker who scored half of his tally at another club. Going up the Mowbray Way in him we trust. UNLIKE MUPPET MICK
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87 . By default that means he has also scored half for us …and let me tell you in only a dozen or so games !! The tide is turning. Our long shots are going in instead of hitting the ref, the bar, the dog that ran on the pitch etc etc. You have had more than your fair share of luck this season – so Im glad Howard Webb evened it out a bit. When you have a top player at the club, you wouldnt know this mind, then you are going to have Premiership interest.
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I heard SEB to team up with his fitness hero Andy Reid at Sunderland, with those two in the squad, the people who own cafe’s up there would never need to work again.
UP THE ALBION, BOINGIN BACK TO THE PREM AND STAYING THERE.
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At least Wolves have a decent academy that has produced lots of youngsters who are up and down the leagues as well as the current Eire captain and an England centre back. Plus two of the UK’s best keepers.
Who have the Boggies produced? NO ONE.
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