Sunderland's New Manager

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biggeordiedave said:
I've looked him up and found a video on him. I've spent many an afternoon watching the scores with a losing betting slip in my hand.

[video=youtube;38YNkcetu3U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38YNkcetu3U[/video]
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<laugh>! What a find! This guy seems like the world's friendliest grandad.
 
oog, you seem to have a fascination with keegan, quite what he has to do with your team is beyond me, think jealousy springs to mind
 
skalpel said:
Do the BBC still do the score readings like they used to years ago with the dark blue background and about 20 minutes worth of just reading scores? Who the hell was that guy who read those out? He had such a distinctive voice.
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I think his name was Graham Alexander or Graham Alexander-Gordon

No got him now James Alexander Gordon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alexander_Gordon_(announcer)

me memory is not what it used to be
 
Orb of Genius said:
Intellectual in peace.

This is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to write, but following the news that Kevin Keegan is returning to PL management as Sunderland’s new supremo I wonder what your thoughts are about this, considering that everytime he comes back to Newcastle Kev says that they are the only club he'd ever want to manage and the only club that could ever bring him back, yet now he's at Sunderland?

Similarly, Kev still doesn't seem able to get over what happened to him in his second and third comings at St James' Park. Firstly, Kev's 'rant' on Sky Sports gave birth to the whole idea of 'mind games' which we've all had to sit through for the last 15 years. Everyone forgets that NUFC had already essentially forfeited any chance of the sweet nectar of silverware that year by presiding over the greatest bottle job in the history of the league. Instead the narrative is that Newcastle were still slightly ahead (they weren't) and that it was an amazing 'mind game' played by Alex Ferguson that caused Kev to break and somehow that infected the team.

We are now constantly hit with the spectacle of 'mind games' before a match. Imagine if someone came in to your place of work and said 'frightfully sorry to bother you, but I don't think you're going to be as good today as you were last week'. Would you fall to the ground in anguished pain and then proceed to perform terribly? Apparently, that's what 'mind games' do to grown men, and we have Kev to thank for that.

Then of course there was the third coming, where Kev essentially relegated NUFC. How did he do this? Firstly, he spent the summer attempting to sign Henry, Lampard and Beckham while rival clubs were concentrating on actual possible targets. Secondly, he engineered a situation in which he wanted the fans to choose if they wanted it to be 'Newcastle United Football Club' or 'Kevin Keegan Football Club'. Imagine how poisonous the atmosphere was when Kev was doing this, no wonder NUFC lost so many games and ended up getting relegated after Shearer played 3 at the back against Liverpool.

So my question essentially is, do you feel that Kev should have asked your permission due to his 'unique' relationship with NUFC and do you feel betrayed that he is coming to the Premier League for a 'fourth coming' with Sunderland?
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Whatever your smoking, stop!
 
biggeordiedave said:
It's a DavidMoyesWife article so I can give you a summary.

Kevin Keegan, Keegan, King Kev, £200m warchest, doing a Leeds, I have no evidence of him wanting to sign Henry, Beckham and Lampard, Keegan, Keegan, Kevin Keegan. Everton are better than Newcastle, Kevin Keegan. I'm a boring ****, Keegan. Kev, King Kev.
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Very well summarised
 
skalpel said:
Do the BBC still do the score readings like they used to years ago with the dark blue background and about 20 minutes worth of just reading scores? Who the hell was that guy who read those out? He had such a distinctive voice.
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Epic fail from everyone else putting up vids of the 5 Live fella, Tim Gudgin did the BBC TV results until two weeks ago, heres a vid of his last one. Legend.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15804993.stm
 
GeoMax said:
Got to be honest, didnt read the post but recognised the username, so............

Sample recipe: Goulash with stallion or bull testicles


Ingredients
2-3 tablespoons lard
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Haha, my firsth thought when I got as far as "intellectual"

We've had a few goulash though! Try this:

Tournedos Rossini
Course - Main - Meat
Region - Pays Basque
Description

One of the great classic dishes of the world.&#65533; Created by French master chef Antonin Careme and named after his great friend the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.&#65533; Pure luxury on a plate, the 'tournedos of fillet steak, foie gras, truffle or cepes and Madeira.



Ingredients

For 4 people
Pre-prepared:- No
Preparation time 15 minutes
Cooking time 15 mins
&#65533;
1 tablespoon of butter
4 slices of foie gras (duck or goose) each approximately 80gm (7 to 10 mm thick)
4 slices of white bread, without the crust, toasted and
of the same size as the meat
4 beef tournedos 200gm
1 tablespoon of olive oil
3 garlic cloves, finely sliced
1/2 cup of sauce. See below
2 sliced truffles Or substitute cepes or mushrooms of your choice.


Preparation

Mix the butter and the oil in a hot frying pan.
Season the tournedos with salt and pepper and fry rapidly to seal. Cook for 3 minutes until the steaks are crusted on the outside but rare inside.&#65533; Remove from the pan and set aside.
Using the same pan, rapidly fry the slices of Foie Gras,until just caramelised. Remove, place on absorbent paper, and keep warm. Do not discard the juices in this pan.
Braise the truffles, cepes or mushrooms in a separate pan with a little butter and a spoonful of Madeira wine, and the chopped garlic .
Add the sauce and let simmer for approximately three minutes. Keep hot.

For the sauce. Deglaze the pan used for the meat and foie gras with a tbs. of Port, two tsps. of brandy two tsps. of Madeira and 100 ml of veal stock. Allow to reduce.

Presentation
Place each cooked tournedos&#65533; on a slice of the toast and top with a slice of fois gras. With a slotted spoon lift out the truffles/mushrooms and place round the edges of the tournedos. Cover with sauce. Serve immediately.&#65533;

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Lovely that. Just sear the steak on a piping hot pan and place in the over for 5-15 minutes. If you litterally just seal it on the pan and give it 5 in the oven that will give perfect blue every time, and means you get less blood on the plate, though I expect that is why you have the toast.

If you can't get Foi Gras, it is still very nice if you get decent pate. I wouldn't bother putting salt on the steak before you sear it, a decent cut of fillet carries itself IMO, especially given that the sauce will be a little salty.
 
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