The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[The Lusophone]

No matter how much of a dick Warnock might be, it's so disrespectful to the guy who brough you into the club and made you captain instantly, on massive wages no doubt. Barton seems to forget what an amazing job Warnock did to get QPR up!

Anyway.

City council bosses have said they will be appealing to the media to continue to refer to the Newcastle United ground as St James' Park.

In November it was announced the ground was being renamed Sports Direct Arena, after owner Mike Ashley's company.

Many fans reacted angrily but the club said it was a prelude to securing a new global sponsor.

Councillors agreed to write to media outlets "respectfully requesting" them not to use the new name.

The motion was debated, amended and carried unanimously at full meeting of the council.

It "requests that the city council write to the media and asks that they continue to use the name of St James' Park in all reporting and refuse to use the name Sports Direct Arena.

"We respectfully request that you take this approach."

The authority also decided not to change any signs bearing the name St James' Park and has called on the club to reconsider its decision.

Newcastle United refused to comment.

The BBC said in a statement: "As of 10 November, the Sports Direct Arena became the official name for the ground as chosen by the club.

"It is not the BBC's place, as an impartial public broadcaster to decide or debate on whether this is correct or not, rather to report on the matches which take place on the field.

"Changing the way we display the graphics or refer to the ground on our programmes ensures consistency with every other ground which has a sponsor, be it new grounds that came with a sponsor like the Emirates, or old grounds that have changed their names like Bradford City's Coral Windows Stadium (formerly Valley Parade)."

I can't honestly remember a single time I've heard Valley Parade called the Coral Windows Stadium in any BBC coverage I've watched :/

[Lineker]

They call the stadiums by their sponsor names on TFLS in their on-screen graphics, i.e. Dean Court is called the Seward Stadium, etc.

[Lineker]

Just noticed that Papiss Cisse has been given the Newcastle #9 shirt right away. No pressure there then!

[Thrilla]

Its just a number.

[9 to 5]

[Colly]

Can't be any worse than Martins or he who shall not be named.

[Lineker]

Norwich: Ruddy, Martin, Whitbread, Ayala, Naughton, Fox, Johnson, Pilkington, Surman, Morison, Holt.

Subs: Steer, Drury, Crofts, Jackson, Hoolahan, Bennett, Wilbraham.

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Lampard, Meireles, Sturridge, Torres, Mata.

Subs: Turnbull, Ivanovic, Essien, Romeu, Malouda, Lukaku, Bertrand.

Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)

No Cahill in the Chelsea squad at all today. Mata, Sturridge and Torres all start up front, Lampard in the midfield.

[Thrilla]

My accy for today Chelsea to beat Norwich, Newcastle to beat Fulham, QPR/Wigan draw, Stoke to beat West Brom, Swansea to beat Sunderland, Wolves/Villa draw and Liverpool to beat Bolton. £559.14 for a pound stake. So lets all hope for those results >_>

[Colly]

I've barely touched the Premiership this week so will hope for that...

[Baddar]

With a bit of luck, Norwich will perform better than they did against Spurs. They did ok first half but fell away. I think Chelsea will be far too strong for them though.

[Thrilla]

Has anything happened in the Norwich/Chelsea game? There hasn't been an update on the BBC in about twenty minutes :-/

[Lineker]

Fairly even, nothing of real note has happened.

[Starvinho]

The Sturridge will score in the second half, unless AVB takes him off, then Chelsea will lose.

[Dingle]

Any particular reason why Lamps got taken off for Malouda so soon?

[Starvinho]

Any particular reason why Lamps got taken off for Malouda so soon?

He picked up a knock, calf injury I think.

[Lineker]

Yep, he got injured. Talking of injuries, Essien has come on and has somehow not crocked himself again yet!

Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts has revealed through his Twitter account that he is not being considered for selection, along with Chris Samba, Michel Salgado and Keith Andrews, by manager Steve Kean.

[EddieG]

My accy for today Chelsea to beat Norwich, Newcastle to beat Fulham, QPR/Wigan draw, Stoke to beat West Brom, Swansea to beat Sunderland, Wolves/Villa draw and Liverpool to beat Bolton. £559.14 for a pound stake. So lets all hope for those results >_>

[Thrilla]

Fucking Chelsea.

[DavidMarrio]

Harsh....

Anyway good result for Norwich getting their first cleansheet. Bad result for Chelsea in which Arsenal, Newcastle and us could possibly gain points on them but hears hoping Arsenal and Newcastle don't win

[Lineker]

Everton: Howard, Neville, Duffy, Heitinga, Baines, Donovan, Gibson, Fellaini, Anichebe, Cahill, Saha.

Subs: Mucha, Hibbert, Bilyaletdinov, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Gueye, Vellios.

Blackburn: Robinson, Lowe, Dann, Givet, Olsson, N'Zonzi, Hoilett, Petrovic, Dunn, Pedersen, Goodwillie.

Subs: Bunn, Modeste, Formica, Rochina, Vukcevic, Hanley, Henley.

Referee: Mark Halsey (Lancashire)

Fulham: Stockdale, Kelly, Hangeland, Senderos, John Arne Riise, Ruiz, Murphy, Sidwell, Duff, Dempsey, Zamora.

Subs: Etheridge, Baird, Johnson, Gecov, Hughes, Frei, Briggs.

Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, Ben Arfa, Guthrie, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Best, Shola Ameobi.

Subs: Elliot, Lovenkrands, Perch, Gosling, Ryan Taylor, Obertan, Ferguson.

Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)

QPR: Kenny, Young, Hall, Ferdinand, Hill, Mackie, Buzsaky, Barton, Wright-Phillips, Helguson, Campbell.

Subs: Cerny, Orr, Derry, Bothroyd, Smith, Ramage, Macheda.

Wigan: al-Habsi, Gohouri, Caldwell, Boyce, Figueroa, Gomez, McCarthy, Watson, McArthur, Moses, Rodallega.

Subs: Pollitt, Crusat, di Santo, McManaman, Sammon, Stam, Lopez.

Referee: Jon Moss (W Yorkshire)

Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley, O'Shea, Brown, Richardson, Larsson, Cattermole, Vaughan, McClean, Bendtner, Sessegnon.

Subs: Westwood, Turner, Gardner, Wickham, Ji, Meyler, Elmohamady.

Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Dyer, Britton, Sinclair, Allen, Sigurdsson, Graham.

Subs: Tremmel, Routledge, Monk, McEachran, Moore, Agustien, Richards.

Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)