thomas

How could we drive the price up if they don't want to deal with us? Toon: We bid £8m Arsenal: We bid £5m Sochaux: Arsenal has it. Toon: But we bid way more Sochaux: Yeah but fuck you.

Hope this is true. FM legend.

Perhaps some kind of elite league of champions? But to make it larger and more interesting non-champions also get invited, with the number of places from each league determined by coefficients. It's just crazy enough to work.

that avatar fucking slays me

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/avs/avatar_10640_1316903086.png

Sounds horrible and stupid and greedy.

"When Alan smiles at him, he smiles back, and the whole training ground is lifted for it. It's like basking in the light of twin suns."

please to be "injured" injured and not injured injured mr ba.

That's the word I was going to buy

I find it surprising people think Arsene is ONLY NOW burning through the goodwill/earned time that resulted from his prior successes, and that people calling for his head are being knee-jerk/disloyal "after all he's done for them". Newsflash: he's been eating through it for the past two years.

It's not. Arsene must walk.

Sucks for him and I'm not happy he's injured, but really happy he and his crumbling wasteland of a body are not ours to deal with anymore.

Anyone else trying to repress some deeply cynical feelings about this? Like it's Aesop's The Boy Who Cried Sober?

Encouraging that in a time of mourning such as this we can band together to reach uncharted territories in homophobic slurs.

good spot, gayboat

The tackle was a really nasty one. I mean real horror show. The kind that had some of the old men in the pub wincing in empathy, and these are men who go on about the full blooded tackles of the "old days" and think anyone born after 1965 is a poof. Pat sitting down at the end nearly lost his dinner. I've heard they're not even allowed to show it on TV without warning those with bad hearts and children to leave the room. But the worst part was what happened after. The Albanian midfielder who committed the tackle rolled a screaming Yohan off the pitch onto the sideline. The ref saw and heard it but turned a blind eye. The the entire Albanian bench got up and started stomping on him. All at once at first and then they took turns, cursing and yelling at him in a harsh tongue he didn't understand while raining down blow upon blow upon any piece of undefended flesh. The French team stood and turned their backs to all of this, like that part in Bloodsport where Chong Li kills the guy. Yohan looked up pleadingly, asking why no one was stopping this, why no one was coming to his aid? The look of pain and desperation in his eyes said that he didn't even care about vengence on his attackers at this point, he just wanted the suffering to end. But the ref wouldn't meet his eyes and Yohan prepared himself for oblivion. It was then a rogue group of Médecins Sans Frontières members who were attending the game during a holiday burst through the angry mob and carted him off to safety. Early reports from these brave souls indicate at least 18 broken bones, many of them multiple times. Bones can mend though; what else may have been broken today in Cabaye only time will tell.

Just.

I love my dead gay son

Sprained his Dyerbone, out forever.

Did not look happy :\

Lol italy.

tbf barton, smith and nolan were hughtons group of lads and probably sabotaged things.

You know thats not really true though Sure it is. Not that I really want to be all "USA #1!!!!!" but athletically there's not another nation that compares. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table for example. My god that's embarassing. Should we care to, it wouldn't take more than a generation for us to dominate the sport. I know everyone wants to paint any kind of endorsement of the US (or any non-traditional footballing powerhouse) as some kind of naivete or jingoism but frankly I find all this overly-romanticized prattling about footballing culture to be horseplop. A "football culture" is just one where it's the dominant sport there's nothing mystical about it.

lol but seriously if the US cared at all about it we'd dominate SOCCER (and make everyone else call it that) within 10 years. http://i.imgur.com/eAxBM.jpg Search your feelings, you know this to be true.

We don't get spunked on.