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Redmond stood out for the U21s today. As I type, he bags his hat trick. 3-1 to Eng-ger-land versus the Welsh. Low standard game.

Anyone watching the England U17s? Patrick Roberts just scored a Messi-esc goal, again. Lad is gonna be the next big thing.

Up until this Arsenal segment there wasn't really much to watch expect a bunch of idiots killing time at pitch side. Back at the BBC next year?

We do need someone else capable of playing on the right wing.

http://www.4dfoot.com/2013/02/09/doping-in-football-fifty-years-of-evidence/ Overview of a few high profile cases of doping in football, from the 1954 World Cup winners West Germany to modern day Spain.

Falcao named in the Columbia squad.

Yeah, so fair play to Dechamps for having a pair.

Nasri, the prick, not included.

So this is my first thread on this place and wary of the conventions and standards of the board, I'm more than happy for this not to exist and its content be collapsed into the Generic small time football blather thread. So delete should there be an uproar. Anyway, there's this really good section on F365 that highlights and comments on lazy, stupid and basically hilariousness journalism from across the footballing world. They update it quite often, so you could easily just bookmark it and forget this thread exists, but I thought I could shamelessly steal this thread from another forum I visit to allow us to keep track of the cream of their publications. http://www.football365.com/mediawatch/

Quality Stat: In the past 5 seasons, Spurs have finished above every team in the Premier League except Arsenal.[

Danny Simpson is still pony.

I was worried about Wigan going with no striker, but Perch took care of it. Movement and the finish, quality.

World Cup organisers need to do the right thing and maintain the ban.

He isn't good enough on the deck for Bayern.

Tell that to the Greeks. I guess you don't mean that we have literally zero hope? Still, play to win. If you have to take a couple of work experience boys, take them along for the ride but don't select them over better options.

Still has the cash for competent representation then.

I'm really not happy with his preference for selecting players with possible potential over experienced internationals plus other currently better players. Shaw over Cole is the elephant in the squad, but I don't see why Stones or Flanagan make the reserve list. The later was schooled by Debuchy and Sissoko on the last day and made a hasty retreat to the bench at half time. You pick your strongest players and go to win. You do not select a bunch of youngsters and go to provide them with experience. Otherwise, it seems like a stronger 23 compared to the guys who failed in South Africa 4 years ago.

England U17s hammered the Turkish U17s this morning. Woodman made a penalty save and Adam Armstrong bagged his second goal of the tournament. Fulham's Pat Roberts has ran the show for us, he is the next big thing.

Could do with someone having filmed and uploaded one of the several anti-Pardew songs.

@MsiDouglas "We could have been really harmed in that second half but I think we've come out, on a football basis, with our dignity intact" AP Exactly, a fucking loser.

Alan, considering you mustered two shots on target all night, one a speculative 30 yard swinger that was comfortably caught and the other less than a half chance, again saved with comfort, would you say that all that work you've done in the week trying to improve the team's fret didn't work as planned, or would you place more emphasis on the poor tactical set-up, whereby you instructed the players to play a short, slow paced, passing strategy, which negated your selection of 3 quick, direct players who could have benefited from playing on the counter?

Can he pass a ball more than 5 yards without falling over? He is better than Dan fucking Gosling if he can. Now, in all seriousness Darren Ambrose mustered 6 goals in 11 games in the Greek Superleague this season and I wouldn't consider him a Premier League standard player. Have you seen much of Ambrose? How highly would you rate him? How does he compare to Abeid? Would you say that you've over-rated the quality of your league?

The man is a born loser.

Yeah, by as many goals as possible. So disillusioned with everything, from Neville treating us as a circus crowd to Pardew treating us as Leyton Orient. Pardew needs to go and a manager with the balls to stand up and demand success and not settle for the utter dross we serve up on a weekly basis.