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Anyways back to football. Class to see QPR basically be a sure thing to go down. Now lets beat the Mackems and hope Wigan and Villa can collect enough points to be safe.

A Brazilian worried about violence in Brazil...no is the answer I'd be amazed if England fans cause bother. No, definitely not worried about violence, I'd be more worried if I was a supporter causing trouble in Brazil as they'd probably be shot by police and normal civilians. I think it's well documented we don't get our hands dirty in Brazil, some rather just pull the trigger True, if it does happen surely it'd only be Sao Paulo / Rio (and the police/army will be locking it down), other places are going to be a massive cock on to get too. Salvador is an easy place to go and definitely somewhere I'd recommend anyone going there. (obviously if you guys qualify ). Reason I was asking as there was some mugs on that documentary burning Brazilian and Croatian flags and harassing girls. I'd just guess that type of attitude would only get you killed in Brazil no matter how many police/military are there.

Depends if The Elite Squad will be policing. BOPE man. Class. Good movies btw.

A Brazilian worried about violence in Brazil...no is the answer I'd be amazed if England fans cause bother. No, definitely not worried about violence, I'd be more worried if I was a supporter causing trouble in Brazil as they'd probably be shot by police and normal civilians. I think it's well documented we don't get our hands dirty in Brazil, some rather just pull the trigger

Earlier today I sat and watch a documentary on the English fans in Germany 2006 and saw all the trouble caused by English, German and Polish fans. Now I see the Millwall fans behaved like absolute cunts. My question to you is whether these supporters will afford to go to Brazil to cause trouble or do you expect them to stay home?

3-0. Götze missed again but ended up getting the ball back and Kuba headed it in. Great game this.

Sill remember them being screwed over the Ba deal. Got only 500k in the end. But they sold Luiz Gustavo for like €17m or so, I guess that adds up. Luiz Gustavo isn't a €17m player.

Götze? Wow. Just missed an open goal completely. Unbelievable. He missed so many chances. Mourinho at Trolli Arena

2-0 to Bayern too. I hope the Bundesliga gets at least a third team to compete with these guys next season. Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke can hopefully become more consistent. Would love to see Werder and Hamburg becoming decent footballing sides again.

2-0 Gundogan. Dortmund just all over them. They're horrible Greuther Furth like.

Nice goal by Gotze.

Greuther Furth - Dortmund right now. No surprise to see that Greuther Furth are terrible considering their position and total points this season.

This really

8 goals in 30 Premiership games this season, 13 in 41 overall. Is that enough for you from a lone forward? How many of those were as the lone forward? probably like 10 How many of those were as a right winger? Probably like 5 How many of those were as a forward, be it a lone forward or as part of a front 2? Probably like 25 8 goals in 30 is not enough, whatever way you look at it, for your only striker in a 4-3-3 in a team aiming for European qualification. I find it funny that the people who are most critical of Pardew are the ones who are most forgiving when it comes to Cisse's underachievement this season, considering the fact that if Cisse had anywhere near the same chance conversion rate as last season, we would be comfortably sitting in the top half of the table. On your last point, the reason you should be critical against Pardew is because you have to be a pretty rubbish manager to not get a player like Cisse to score. Loads of us were saying in the first half of the season that we should be playing to his strengths, which was pretty much the opposite of what we did. We have started doing it a bit since Ba left and to no one's surprise both us and Cisse have improved. We have improved lately, but that's probably as much to do with our January signings hitting the ground running as it is with Cisse playing up top on his own. Of course Cisse has also improved as we have started playing to his strengths as you say. I'm not denying any of that; on the contrary, I have praised him in recent weeks for getting us the goals that win games. What I am doing is expressing a (valid in my humble opinion) concern whether it is enough. If you play a 433 and your sole forward has a 1 in 2 goalscoring rate (and that's being very generous as his goalscoring rate for the entire season stands at 1 in 3.8) based on a below average conversion rate, and then you combine that with there not being that many goals in other areas of the team (especially with HBA injured), then you'll be lucky to score a goal on average per game, which will see you draw or lose more often than not. The 433 may suit Cisse down to the ground, and indeed a number of our other players, but I'm worried about the number of goals we score in that system with Cisse (in this season's form) as the focal point. In there is the key point that what matters is the team winning games, not how many goals Cisse is scoring. Many seem to be saying that the way to improve is simply to get the rest of the team to make more chances for Cisse. A striker in his position should also be taking part in the creation of chances, and we may be able to land a striker who offers a better overall package. For most part of this season we have lacked a link between striker and midfielders. How deep do you want him to fall? For me Cisse's lack of goals have been more down to the manager than him or his teammates. Like Tooj has consistently said, we are terrbile in the transitional phase, both offensively and defensively and Cisse needs to fall down the whole time to help out. Until Sissoko arrived we didn't have a link between midfield and strikers as Cabaye was playing to deep and Tiote is a headless chicken. Asking for a better striker will cost us £15-20m something I'd rather we put into a good left winger who will create something himself a la Benny and Marv. As well as CB if Colo goes. Outside the top 6 there aren't many strikers who are better than Cisse.

This. Fucking shitness of a saturday.

Easily gone from the worst to best thread in the football part in the space of half a day or so.

That's just wrong tbf. Oh maybe just seemed to happen a lot....in any case can't have helped his return. According to Football-Lineups, he's started out wide four times this season. Most of the time he's been up top with Ba or on his own. Won't stop people from using it as a convenient excuse for his underperformance in the first part of the season. Except those stats don't tell the whole story. He might have started 4 on the right, but one of those were when Ba left and Shola started up top. I swear to god there was more than three games where Cisse was drifted out wide and played there for more than 70% of a game. He's not had the best season, but he's not our biggest problem and your timing is terrible as he had one of his better games this season for us against Benfica. He's coming into his own and has been the last month. As for his conversion rate, he's not the worst in the league and he has missed a fair few chances this season but he's also been very unlucky at times. It's a confidence thing and when Ba left and he got to play centrally again consistently he's been better. If you don't see it, it wouldn't surprise me as you believe the dutch and portuguese league are similar.

Stu I got to tell you HTT got you there HTT posting tl;dr is the funniest thing on here yet.

In the end this is football guys you will never win if you don't try to score goals. It's really as simple as that. Pardew tries to go for the draw way to many times. From now on we have nothing to lose, why not just let the team play offensive football for 5 games and see how that pans out? Maybe we'll beat everyone by three goals? I have to much faith in the abilities of Siss, Cabaye, Debuch, Ben Arfa, Gouffran, Cisse, Marv offensively to believe we can't outplay 75% of the teams in the league. It's time for Pardew to stop being a defensive coward and go for it.

Really? i couldn't care less as long as we win if i'm honest. I thought the smily made it obvious that I wasn't being serious.

Every time we play a good side would be by answer I hate winning by the odd goal

? Give it a rest, you're dull now.