50 nominations named for this year Ballon d Or. Of cuz it includes EPL big names like lampard n terry. Real surprise to see tim cahill in the 50 when everton had a poor last season. Wuldnt bet ronaldinho on winning it this time, hes kinda off form eh. I will like to see riquelme winning it this time, with gerrard 2nd and luca toni 3rd.

Newcastle lost 2-1 to bolton on sunday after dominating much of the play and leading 1-0 earlier on. Christmas isnt even near but yet bramble keeps giving away goals. If im the manager i'll release bramble even if i need to pay him compensation, at least tt free up some wages to sign new and better players. Hope roeder and sheperd sign some decent defenders in the january window. Heck, any championship level defenders will do better than bramble. He just sucks. Read the news saying tt magpies will join in the hunt for lucas neil and klaas jan huntelaar. Sure hope we can get lucas neil. Oba n amoebi will do the job up front, with rossi with backup. I think the money intended to be used on huntelaar shld be used to buy some more decent defenders. Its jus amazed by how the newcastle board are able to come up with funds every season, without winning any silverwares. Simply amazing.