James

How fast can he run then? 13. May aswell just put a screenshot up and then we can all make a fair judgement on the lad It's not pretty. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/599/thebestr.jpg Corners 2. Don't see what people are complaining about, he is clearly a replacement for Geremi, only twice as good.

I'd agree with those ratings as Championship players. As Premier League players: Simpson - 4 Williamson - 6 Routledge - 5 Best - 2 The contract lengths for these players scare me, and don't make me optimistic for next summer at all.

How fast can he run then? Coventry is billytray's local club to be fair.

Unfortunately all the good goalscoring strikers for this league were only available last summer. Club's don't want to sell their goalscorers in the January transfer window. Therefore any failure to be promoted due to lack of goals can be pinned firmly on Ashley's shoulders for his refusal to take responsibility for footballing matters last summer. Sounds like Hughton has bought in the best striker he can get. Sadly, I think he's done what other managers would have not done in the past - got a player for the sake of it. I think he's made the wrong call. This transfer is not going to benefit us.

If they cease to exist then the Premiership temporarily becomes a 19 club division, the bottom two clubs will go down at the end of the season and three will go up to bring the numbers back up to 20 clubs. That is right. Then there is an increase in the number of promotions from the leagues below us.

I find it highly unlikely that FIFA won't support this. I find it extra unlikely that anyone with a brain would support South Africa getting punished for the actions of the Togolese. It is called brinkmanship. The CAF would withdraw with that threat imo. If there was the remotest liklihood that FIFA would get all heavy-handed and start threatening one of their member associations in order to go against a rule they strictly uphold themselves, which of course there isn't. The rule exists to stop governments interfering with the appointments of managers, team selections, competition rules etc, for political ends. This is something completely different. FIFA may well be in a difficult decision when it comes to deciding whether to intervene. That doesn't mean that the CAF have acted wisely. I don't know anything about the political situation in Togo, but it doesn't take much imagination to come up with a scenario whereby the Togolese government called the players back for a day of national mourning in order to make some political use of the event. The political situation was that people were murdered, the whole Togo team witnessed it, and the players needed someone to tell them what to do. That is all there is to it. History is littered with dictators who think they know what people need to be told to do. Did you miss the bit where Adebayor actually asked the Togo government through the press to tell the team what to do?

a week or so ago.

I can not comprehend this lineup one little bit.

I'm not sure that is true. I was in JJB today trying to buy trainers, I live about 90 mins train from WHL, and probably 6 hrs from SJP, but there was not one Spurs shirt in JJB, but there were NUFC 1st and 2nd strips. Thats that then , definitive proof. I know it isn't really like. Still tickled me that demand for football shirts near London is greater for NUFC than Spurs.

I find it highly unlikely that FIFA won't support this. I find it extra unlikely that anyone with a brain would support South Africa getting punished for the actions of the Togolese. It is called brinkmanship. The CAF would withdraw with that threat imo. If there was the remotest liklihood that FIFA would get all heavy-handed and start threatening one of their member associations in order to go against a rule they strictly uphold themselves, which of course there isn't. The rule exists to stop governments interfering with the appointments of managers, team selections, competition rules etc, for political ends. This is something completely different. FIFA may well be in a difficult decision when it comes to deciding whether to intervene. That doesn't mean that the CAF have acted wisely. I don't know anything about the political situation in Togo, but it doesn't take much imagination to come up with a scenario whereby the Togolese government called the players back for a day of national mourning in order to make some political use of the event. The political situation was that people were murdered, the whole Togo team witnessed it, and the players needed someone to tell them what to do. That is all there is to it.

I find it highly unlikely that FIFA won't support this. I find it extra unlikely that anyone with a brain would support South Africa getting punished for the actions of the Togolese. It is called brinkmanship. The CAF would withdraw with that threat imo. If there was the remotest liklihood that FIFA would get all heavy-handed and start threatening one of their member associations in order to go against a rule they strictly uphold themselves, which of course there isn't. Like I said, these political rules are enforced by FIFA, not CAF, UEFA or any of the others.

I'm not sure that is true. I was in JJB today trying to buy trainers, I live about 90 mins train from WHL, and probably 6 hrs from SJP, but there was not one Spurs shirt in JJB, but there were NUFC 1st and 2nd strips.

A lot of these deals seem to involve Redknapp as well for some reason.

Typical of the French to come up with a masterplan to cause disharmony. Terry is shit at international level anyway, Upson is more suited to this level.

I find it highly unlikely that FIFA won't support this. I find it extra unlikely that anyone with a brain would support South Africa getting punished for the actions of the Togolese. It is called brinkmanship. The CAF would withdraw with that threat imo.

Ozzie, the FIFA bans are for as long as the government interferes only and enforced by FIFA themselves, while this isn't just some political situation you cite, it is a situation where people have died and the CAF were unable to protect the Togo delegation. Therefore I find it highly unlikely that FIFA would support this, and the CAF should be sanctioned the only way possible if they see fit to proceed.

It is the CAF who has banned Togo, not FIFA.

Could we change the thread title so we know what this is actually about. FIFA should make a stand here. Unban Togo, or the 2010 World Cup gets moved out of South Africa.

Also, the fact that cyclists rely more on increased respiratory rates means absolutely nothing, as it doesn't mean that other sportsmen won't benefit from drugs. It is not cyclists competing against footballers. It is cyclists competing against cyclists, footballers competing against footballers, rugby players competing against rugby players and so on.

It is clearly been done to gain a fitness edge - there is no social esteem benefit a top flight footballer can get from anti-obesity drugs. Coke was idiocy and not cheating (and therefore he should have got off a lot lighter than the likes of Jaap Stam), but this is idiocy and cheating so no longer has any sympathy from me. It depends to what extent, which is why I asked. I don't see the problem unless he's one on one with someone like Nolan. An anti-obesity drug will increase the whole energy burning cycle, which will make him fitter during a match Aye, cheating then. As a related subject. Imagine bringing in a drug lift in sport, and just letting them become X-Man United ahohoho. But seriously, imagine it. Don't like the idea of 19 year old sportsmen being made to wake up and walk to the bathroom and back every hour just to stop them dying of a heart attack in their sleep personally. name me one footballer that needs to do that? Or one footballer that would ever need to be half as fit as a cyclist in the Tour De France? The reason they have to be woken up is because their heart rate is so slow is due to excessive training and fitness regimes leaving their hearts as huge fists of muscle. The respiration rate of a cyclist in full training means his heart has to be a million times fitter than a dude (say kevin Nolan) who 'runs' about a pitch for 90 minutes on a weekend. You can't make the comparison. a) he was talking about allowing drugs in sport generally. b) The bit in bold is completely wrong. The reason is that during EPO use, there are so many red blood cells in the body that when heart rate slows down during sleep, it can actually get blocked. It has very little to do with training regimes and could happen to any sportsmen that got involved with that particular drug.

To be honest, if it wasn't for the injuries to Taylor and Simpson, I'd put Kadar into the team for a month, but as it is just Colo of our first choice back four, I'm definitely happier to have someone with a few more games at this level already under his belt.

It is clearly been done to gain a fitness edge - there is no social esteem benefit a top flight footballer can get from anti-obesity drugs. Coke was idiocy and not cheating (and therefore he should have got off a lot lighter than the likes of Jaap Stam), but this is idiocy and cheating so no longer has any sympathy from me. It depends to what extent, which is why I asked. I don't see the problem unless he's one on one with someone like Nolan. An anti-obesity drug will increase the whole energy burning cycle, which will make him fitter during a match Aye, cheating then. As a related subject. Imagine bringing in a drug lift in sport, and just letting them become X-Man United ahohoho. But seriously, imagine it. Don't like the idea of 19 year old sportsmen being made to wake up and walk to the bathroom and back every hour just to stop them dying of a heart attack in their sleep personally.

It is clearly been done to gain a fitness edge - there is no social esteem benefit a top flight footballer can get from anti-obesity drugs. Coke was idiocy and not cheating (and therefore he should have got off a lot lighter than the likes of Jaap Stam), but this is idiocy and cheating so no longer has any sympathy from me. You must really hate cycling then. Not really, because you know the cyclists will get caught because their drugs testing is so much better. Some sports like football and tennis are in complete drug denial and will be until some scandal occurs in the future. Cheating's more prevalent in cycling because it's more beneficial to the athlete. Drugs benefit anyone. Better fitness equals better technique. And the financial benefits of standing out as a footballer are huge, so you'd expect some to try. Are you aware that the most infamous cycling drug doctor was actually a doctor at a top-flight Spanish football club, and was even offerred a job at Barcelona?

It is clearly been done to gain a fitness edge - there is no social esteem benefit a top flight footballer can get from anti-obesity drugs. Coke was idiocy and not cheating (and therefore he should have got off a lot lighter than the likes of Jaap Stam), but this is idiocy and cheating so no longer has any sympathy from me. It depends to what extent, which is why I asked. I don't see the problem unless he's one on one with someone like Nolan. An anti-obesity drug will increase the whole energy burning cycle, which will make him fitter during a match

It is clearly been done to gain a fitness edge - there is no social esteem benefit a top flight footballer can get from anti-obesity drugs. Coke was idiocy and not cheating (and therefore he should have got off a lot lighter than the likes of Jaap Stam), but this is idiocy and cheating so no longer has any sympathy from me. You must really hate cycling then. Not really, because you know the cyclists will get caught because their drugs testing is so much better. Some sports like football and tennis are in complete drug denial and will be until some scandal occurs in the future.