Dinho lad

Once again you're using transfer fees as an indicator to a player's ability. As I mentioned, this is overrated way to gauge a good measure of their ability. It’s about the club rather than the players ffs man. There was nothing stopping Man Utd going for a Laporte or a Walker or Van Dijk or Mane etc over the last 3 years or so. They’ve blown massively and yet are miles away from the clubs that got those players. They shouldn’t be starting a big derby match with Ashley fucking Young right-back and Smalling centre-back, but their inept spending has lead to it. Yeah.... erm, that's not what I was getting at. You're basically addressing their failings in the transfer market - that's nothing to do with the actual footballing abilities. (And as I mentioned, transfer fees are not a reliable measure) I didn't see the comment on Sky, but I would bet that when they labelled Man Utd as the underdogs, they meant it in terms of football ability, not resources of the club overall. That was certainly the angle I was approaching it from.

Well we know that . The point is that Team X and Team Y both had 300M or whatever to spend, you can't then say Team Y are plucky underdogs because they fucked up how to spend it. You say they're plucky underdogs because the players are not as good, not because the transfers were fucked up. Oh yeah, Smalling is a plucky underdog every time he walks on a pitch. Manchester United are not though. The team is. The point we're making is just that it's a bit rich (ahem) to call Man U plucky underdogs. It undermines the really plucky underdogs who have relatively miniscule resources - including those available for transfer fees - such as Burnley, say. Better to just call Man U incompetent twats. And nobody uses transfer fees to measure a team's abilities, they use transfer fees to highlight what a team's abilities should be in relation to others. ffs, don't give a shit about other contexts. I was responding to NO's suggestion that transfer fees matter that much. If those comments on Sky last night (i didn't see it) was 'club v club', then I understand NO's view. But if it was '11v11', then no.

Once again you're using transfer fees as an indicator to a player's ability. As I mentioned, this is overrated way to gauge a good measure of their ability.

Well we know that . The point is that Team X and Team Y both had 300M or whatever to spend, you can't then say Team Y are plucky underdogs because they fucked up how to spend it. You say they're plucky underdogs because the players are not as good, not because the transfers were fucked up. Oh yeah, Smalling is a plucky underdog every time he walks on a pitch. Manchester United are not though. The team is.

Well we know that . The point is that Team X and Team Y both had 300M or whatever to spend, you can't then say Team Y are plucky underdogs because they fucked up how to spend it. You say they're plucky underdogs because the players are not as good, not because the transfers were fucked up.

Transfer values these days are too overused and frankly it's boring and not as good measure of a player's or team's ability like so many people think. Not least because a player's strengths and weakness interact, for example with the manager's instructions/ability to coach (plus whatever else), to influence the outcome. Transfers these days are also over inflated for reasons such as agent fees, economical forces (?) and even value of x player to the club. (which doesn't make a good indicator of a player's ability in relation to the fee; i.e, Sigurdsson.)

Clearly City are more talented, ffs.

Not sure what you mean.... but that looks nice.

Mental image in his back of mind of someone telling him he's next.

Nothing wrong with it. It's daft as fuck. Nobody needs to drink it. Adjusting to every other culture and belief is a favourite among a lot though. Urgh. It's not about adjusting your culture to theirs, it's simply finding a way of meeting theirs but also it doesn't get in the way of the dominant culture. Making alcohol free drinks available is clearly not repressing anyone's culture. It's simply an option there for someone to exercise, if they wish. It's hardly fucking ramming theirs beliefs down your fucking throat, is it? It's the principle of it, more than anything. Changing ways to adhere to conservative/other beliefs. The champagne already was an option for someone to excersise. Simply no need to change anything. What you're talking about? Which ways have changed for you? I didn't read the article due to the source, but there will be alcoholic champagne still available, no? The champagne was not an option to exercise...? No, there was only once choice: alcoholic one. Now there is none-alcoholic one for the individuals that prefer it. What's so fucking outrageous about that?

Nothing wrong with it. It's daft as fuck. Nobody needs to drink it. Adjusting to every other culture and belief is a favourite among a lot though. Urgh. It's not about adjusting your culture to theirs, it's simply finding a way of meeting theirs but also it doesn't get in the way of the dominant culture. Making alcohol free drinks available is clearly not repressing anyone's culture. It's simply an option there for someone to exercise, if they wish. It's hardly fucking ramming theirs beliefs down your fucking throat, is it?

Can't believe Al there like, if that isn't a goalscoring opportunity nothing is. He was saying due to the distance from goal by the letter of the law it’s not a red - what’s wrong with that? Cos it's still a clear goalscoring opportunity. Shearer himself wasn't the quickest, maybe that's why he couldn't get his head round it being a goal scoring opportunity. Wat One of the best strikers of all time.... doesn't know how to sniff out a goal scoring opportunity, basically.

Nothing wrong with it.

He was actually pretty good up to that point. I remember him at home to Spurs where he was class. Had to read up on this one a bit He was 31 years old, so not sure age can be used as an excuse but apparently he was struggling with an strain injury. His next match against Fulham he got MOTM. Portsmouth lined up in a 4-5-1 with Benjani as a lone striker. Only speed merchant in their team was John Utaka on the wing. Benjani was rapid at Portsmouth (85 acceleration and pace on Fifa iirc ) and we still played a stupidly high line with a slow defender over 30, like. I'd say it's fair to say the set up was suicidal. You blatantly googled something about Benjani's pace and the best that you could find, to complement your confirmation bias, was his Fifa stats.

Is he related to Vernon Anita? He was sitting on his lap.

I once started a poll about this years ago. I have no idea if it still exists. Favorite time of the season for me is CL final.

Why though? At least they are big clubs And? Bournemouth haven't been a bad addition to the PL!

Yep. But thick cunts like Mark Bright didn't think so.

Loved Nobby.

Fuck off, Arsenal!

thank god we're safe.

No, no, it was first class casual finishing today. Woowwowo!! Woowowwow!!