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Devastating.

Theyre nailed on to win the FA Cup like but their league results for their obscene spending is hilarious. Anyone other than their beloved racist King Kenny would have got the boot already. The grim faced prick.

Douglas has to be the worst name ever for a Brazilian btw. Falco, Zico, Socrates... Douglas.

This is a really cogent example of why a competent defensive midfield player should always be relatively easy to find btw. If you clearly define the role and dont give them any creative remit/responsibilities, it's a position loads of players should be able to play relatively effectively. Guthrie's done the same. While Tiote is the supreme example DM and the best we've had, he's not a great footballer, nor does he need to be. It's a scandal that it's still such a novelty position to us tbh.

I think Chez demolished said post on Friday. As is the way when someone puts you squarely in your place, you completely ignored what he had to say. The now notorious "post no. 1373" Keeps bringing it up like he's stumbled across a form of rational thinkers kryptonite.

why not ask the people who forecast doom and gloom, that totally ignore that the club was a well run high flying football club for over a decade, that very question ? But you won't, or if you do, you won't get a reply. Silly boy. Well ran? I wouldnt go that far like LM. Not paying HMRC any VAT or PAYE and using that to fund the running of the club? Why would MA do that is the question? ie you might decide you'll adopt that approach if you've acquired the company for buttons in the first place because you'll only have lost buttons when it eventually goes bust, but you wouldnt do it if you'd spent hundreds of millions acquiring it. That way you lose hundreds of millions. Thick as mince.

Oh for fucks sake is she at it again already?

1 for Stoke and 1 for Liverpool please. ta.

I think he'll drop Cisse for Ben Arfa. Also this whole thing about Ben Arfa not grafting is a myth as well. I don't think it's about not grafting as it happens (in Pardew's mind), I think it's about giving possession away. On a personal note I don't mind if he loses possession up the field*, especially if he's in a midfield of Cabaye and Tiote as it couldnt get much more defensive sitting around him than that and hence he should be encouraged to attack. His cover from the full back is another matter I spose-that is inadequate-but because of the aforementioned centre midfield I think we have to forget that and give him the ball. *there was some stat on here a while back to say that the player who conceded possession most in La Ligua was Messi-which is absolutely no surprise when his modus operandi in possession is slaloming into the opposition box. It's just a fact of having the ball in that area, it's not like you'd drop him for it.

Draw for me. And I had it down as 1-1 at the start of the game so all on track.

Papa Laz to piss on the buffet.

Santander and BP will be chomping at the bit to hoy £100m at that sort of sales pitch. Way to showcase the opportunity Decka. Aye, I read that and just thought: does he actually care how incompetent he sounds? I mean I get he doesnt mind being unpopular (revels in it probably), and the stadium name change is prime evidence of that, but theres a huge difference between seeming unpopular and seeming retarded. That difference basically boiling down to self respect.

Punched in the face by her iirc, by order of a 60 year old man. What a shambles.

So glad Fish didn't respond with the same question about his daughter after all the tears last time.

Fucking superb.

Bookmarked.

haha. You're an idiot. You've disagreed with me for years on points I've brought up which are all happening and all you can do is pounce upon a few opinions from 2 other people who don't go to games, based on results on the pitch over a few months to vindicate a way of running the club, which will never match the long term results of what happened before, and can't even address the points I've put into one post and invited you to comment on them. You're an utter shambles of a man. You don't have the balls to admit that this is true. Long term I will be right. Will you bet me that we will not finish in the top 4 under Mike Ashley, yet Spurs have and according to you and others, we are doing it their way, which is an absolute joke. Go back to sitting on the fence. The ultimate grey man. Just quoting this so Sammy can see how rattled you are. What a stool. Leazes man don't bother asking me to comment on stuff, I can't see your stuff unless it's quoted. I put you on ignore months back you daft sack. You're wasting your time.

It's taken Spurs fucking years to 'do it', and they're still not going to get near to touching the front two this season. And that's exactly the thing he has absolutely no tolerance for whatsoever-having to do things gradually. If he was a Spurs fan you'd be able to find about six years worth of forum posts of him slagging the 'football men' in charge of his club off as they sold their best players. What a fucking shambles. Chez and Gemmill have had his pants down the last few pages, and the lube has been left in the cupboard.

aye, RIP. Genuinely sad stuff and awful for his family.

Aye same here currently fwiw, assuming he remains 'happy' to play there.

Transfer spend for the last two seasons: Bolton: £17.5m Everton: £9.5m Newcastle: £33.65m The 'Bolton/Blackburn/Wigan' comparisons seem to persist in spite of league positions too. With LM then citing league positions as irrefutable COLD HARD FACT to 'win' some point or other in the very next post.

Bolton were top 7 in March last year. I suppose that renders their relegation this season uttterly pointless. So what you are saying is we're worse than Bolton, or you expect us to be ??? The fact of a team coming back down the table who've been near the top places should be taken as a given in any sport. It's not evidence of anything for me apart from that you have to constantly strive for better. Again that's an absolute given amongst the top clubs. Man U want to win as much now as they did when they won their first Prem title. That's a big part of what we need in the culture of the club. Bolton is absolutely heartening simply for the fact that a team can get up to near the top without spending twatish sums-that's what we have to take heart from, not that you can come back down again afterwards, that should be taken as a given; if we need an example to tell us that we might as well pack up and go home now, it should be there anyway in the form of a constant and intrinsic 'fear' that pushes you on to better. We've definitely not had that during vast tracts of our recent history. I think we're gradually bringing in players that are showing the right mix of skill and diligence to respond well to what in my book is clearly a club (employer) that is demanding more from them than in the past. That's absolutely entirely as it should be and the rewards given for this recently (improved terms for Krul/parity for Colo) are exactly what I'd hoped to see as it will have reinforced that ethic amongst existing players and shown further evidence of what is expected to prospective targets.