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Alan "do you have a house" Shearer

LA Gear

wow, there's a blast from the past. I'm sure their boots would be... flashy.

Liverpool being sucked into the dross now... going to be a "top 3" league.

Nothing at all here, all challenges won the ball...

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At Gerrard just then I'm guessing?

... yeap it was pretty bad.

Players (or managers even) patting each others' faces or back of the head when shaking hands... it's hard to explain really, but I find that really annoying and would imagine it be rather unpleasant unless you know the other person well.

"uhmmm get out of my private space please" tbh.

Nasri considering getting back up and then realising they were losing the ball deciding to lie down completely...

What a finish by the little twerp.

I find it hard to believe that Adidas will leave us, I mean they have offices in SJP, they have a store at SJP, NUFC shirts are one of the highest sellers regardless of what league we are in.

Same here really. We are still a very profitable club to be associate with from a kit maker's point of view. I can't believe Adidas would feel being our sponsor would tarnish their brand enough to warrant not renewing. The pros strongly outweigh the cons surely?

I wouldn't say he was particularly biased towards teams, but there's definitely something unsavoury about the way he refers to players like pals. 'We know JT wouldn't do that' and so on.

At least that's a valid claim. Doesn't bother me at all really, he's always been like that, I guess after all these years he knows the players inside out.

Maybe I'm a little more sensitive to this having experienced both English and French football commentating growing up. To this day French ones still can't manage NOT to all talk at the same time after a goal, sometimes even when there's three of them.

Tyler and Gray are the best commentary duo for me and always enjoy them being on. Times I've disagreed with Gray over the years have been very few, he has a common sense approach that should be needed at all levels of the game.

Thought Lucas was trying to claim a touch there at first, which wouldn't have been very clever

What annoys most about Gray haters is people who will claim bias. In all the years he's been on Sky there have been fans of almost every single team claiming the Sky boys are biased against them or towards their rivals.

Just a typical case of noticing when something hits and never when it doesn't.

Nah, Gray still the best in the business. Tells it like it is, and is correct so much more often than not.

Wow... that link up play was fantastic. Would have been some goal.

Hope Arshavin scores five this time.

And then breaks his shushing finger.

Puma do some nice stuff, unfortunately their football shirts tend to have the logo on them in about 15 places!

This season their kits are dogshit. And yeah the logo thing is just silly. Really hope we don't get them.

With Adidas we always seemed to have some kind of original/unique design, Puma seem to make 2 templates a year and decline it even to its bigger teams.

That Boro kit really is such an abomination, glad we got to avoid that template on any of ours this season.

Wow, that scramble was awesome!

I guess you didn't see Franny Lee play then?

One example... the point I was making was about a quasi norm being created by a high amount of players.

Puma's current designs are just horrible. Yugh.

I think one of the reasons that adds to English players getting away with it more is that they hardly never then stay down pretending to be injured.

I would really prefer for English and England players to adhere to a higher moral code. I like to watch Gerrard play and Rooney is my favourite active player but it's very disheartening seeing them dive. Wish they would basically follow what they say with their actions.

Don't think it's xenophobic to say foreign players have brought diving into our game, it's pretty much fact. But there should certainly be no discrimination in handing out 3 match bans after the fact if the refs miss it.

FIFA and UEFA need to get their fingers out too instead of openly letting it go on for years.

Rather disappointing we can't see Alan's face when he's throwing those questions at him

Ahhh, heard about this being filmed a couple of weeks ago, was looking forward to it.

Boom, Nolan's goal was just on SSN. I guess all of them should be on sometime before half past.

Everyone dives. There is no advantage to not diving, so I don't see why any player wouldn't.

I guess we should "hate the game" really... FIFA/UEFA are effectively condoning cheating by not systematically dishing out bans.