[shakermaker]

I know there'll be a lot of paper hype but it's not just that, is it. That's why in the original post I quoted Jimmy Bell and none of the article. To my reading there's a lot in his quote without even reading the article.

We all know that they've been working without a contract for eleven years, and that if we were to lose them, the loss wouldn't be lessened by any compensation package (unless it included Jose Mourinho). But, when a contract is 'days away' from being signed over six weeks ago, the anger and confusion is understandable.

This is one thing I can never understand about O'Neill. Why say things are about to happen when they just won't? It's much better to say that things aren't going to happen and to give a reason for why, than to say they will happen without ever following through.