Sky have video clips of tonight's post match interviews at their site. You'll need Media Player and a relatively fast connection to view them. I'm on a 56k dial up and the video is a bit choppy.

Feeling a little better after seeing Bobby's interview for myself. He's definitely not ruling himself out of England involvement, but refuses to give any hint as to what kind of offer he'd find acceptable. Great to see/hear him speaking about the team and Lua Lua!

The Shearer/Dyer bit is good too. Al looks quite relaxed and happy.

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2000

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GIVE ME THE BBC! [Lawrenson excepted of course] I WANT TO SEE AND HEAR YBR, SHEARER & DYER TALKING ABOUT THE MATCH. I WANT TO SEE THE GOALS.

After numerous f*&^ing weeks and days trying to download their videos, downloading various players, changing settings and configuring everything from my washing machine to the television set [at their behest], i've given up. Sky's stuff just doesn't work. And when you try and e-mail them about it, they want your f%%^&ing life story. F$%^rs!

The trusty BBC - honestly, being this far from home, i see them in a whole new light. Fast server, slick website, no problem. You listening ITK?!

God knows what'll happen when ITV get MOTD....

;((((

yours, mad as hell that he can't see/hear the interviews...

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

Yes Min. I agree. I gave up when they requested I download a piece of Microshit.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

"TOP SIX WILL DO NICELEY" says Shearer

from BBC

Alan Shearer helped fire Newcastle to third in the Premiership, but insisted they would be content with a top-six finish. The former England captain set the Magpies on their way to an impressive 3-1 win at Middlesbrough with a 38th minute strike at the Riverside on Monday night. Victory lifted them to within two points of leaders Manchester United and Shearer admitted: "We thoroughly deserved the three points." He was also pleased with his own contribution, saying his goal had given the team a good start. "I came here very refreshed after a 16-day break - the longest for 10 years - so long may the goals continue," he added. But he dismissed Newcastle's title chances out of hand, saying: "We certainly won't win the league.

"I think the top of the league has a familiar look about it already but we will keep going. "Success for us would be to finish in the top seven or top six and if we can keep playing like we did tonight, who knows?" Alain Goma added a second goal in the North-East derby before man-of- the-match Kieron Dyer wrapped things up with a sweet volley. Perfect Dyer described the evening's work as "a perfect night for Newcastle, the fans, the management team and the players". Newcastle boss Bobby Robson agreed with Shearer that a top six finish would suffice. "A year ago we were almost bottom, so we have made great strides. If we can finish sixth I will be pleased. It was probably our best performance of the season," he beamed. Robson singled out teenage substitute Lomana Lua Lua for special praise following his 15-minute cameo role at the end.

Bobby Robson on Lomana Lua Lua The 19-year-old signing from Colchester exhibited a dazzling array of skills to leave Robson drooling. "He has to learn how to be a team player," he conceded, "but he has such spontaneous ideas in his head, he's magic. "We will let him do his party tricks - we will not take that away from him because he's mesmeric. We have found a jewel." Boro boss Bryan Robson, who saw Brian Deane a grab a consolation goal for his side late on, said: "For some reason the lads are not confident at home, but it's a different story when we go away and we need to put it right."

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

Are you guys accessing sky.com via netscape or ie? I find I can only get the videos when I use IE. Even though my netscape does have Media Player, Sky's site just doesn't seem to recognize it. You probably need the latest, or pretty recent, version of IE.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

Cheers expat - again, much appreciated.

Ciara - yeah, i'm using IE 5, however [and this is probably the clincher] i'm using an Apple Mac. I can still download all the software though, configure the browser and [surprise, surprise] it still doesn't work! ;((

I'm with Sounder - the sooner MS and Sky realise that 'quality' and 'profit' aren't mutually exclusive concepts, i might, just might buy a PC and a satellite dish...

boooooo!

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

Ahhhh....Mac...that's probably it. Micro$hit doesn't usually like to play with Mac. :-(

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000