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The way the club treated Milner last off season he could of just gone through the motions for us--telling him he could go (to Aston Villa were he was wanted and appreciated) and then pulling him back at the last minute. Still he played his ass off. And he's going to get better.

It does not look like any of tonights games are on sky sports. Both of them are. Tuesday 26th June Football 23:00 Sky Sports 1 Uruguay v Peru Copa America Wednesday 27th June Football 01:45 Sky Sports 1 Venezuala v Bolivia Copa America Seems like games that you'd brake a leg to stay up for eh ? If no, I'm sure the Uruguayians will break a few for ya!

Argentina brought a full strength squad. Bet they maul the US Thursday. The Americans brought an "experimental" squad. Won't be able to manage Tevez, Messi, Riquelme.... (Not that our best 11 would do much better) Still, I appreciate the thought. This past weekend they beat Mexico-- first time I've seen them "play" with Mexico and win.

Better than resigning Bernard.

Don't buy into this notion that Milner isn't good enough or that he'd won't be good enough. Souness said something ridiculous about never winning anything with a team full of Milners. I don't trust his judgement, and inasmuch as you agree that Milner will not come to anything, can't agree with yours either. He's 21 fucking years old and over the past two seasons he's been the best player for two clubs-- Aston Villa and Newcastle. He's got more caps than anyone on the under-21s and will be eligible to play for them for some time still. It is a little early to say that he won't come to anything IMO.

FFS What are you doing? Channeling Souness now? James Milner is 21 and he was the club's best player last season. (We should be so lucky as to be midtable.)

Don't f****** apologise to people who are taking the piss out of you. Call them miserable c***s and be done with. Ok, sorry. I won't do it again.

Stay on Freddie.... All is forgiven!!

No.

Well, we've already bought Viduka. Let's buy some defenders this time.

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I've seen this thread many times on many forums. The winner, as always, the Colorado Caribous of the NASL. http://www.premiershirts.net/wearthat/wearthatshirts/colorado.jpg

Way too early to tell. Wenger probably won't miss a beat. If I were to bet on any one of the top four faltering it would be Liverpool.

No. Scholes, Ferdinand, and Ronaldo are all absolutely f****** top drawer. I have a jaundiced eye for woeful footballers who forge a career on effort. Bigger problem is with talented players who couldn't be bothered.

Yeah, we're not a team to do that.

Could someone translate? My Czech is a little rusty

Who sold Woodgate just before the window closed without bringing in a suitable replacement? Threw that season away right there.

He ate us alive. Sure, I'd take him.

Yeah, like Luque or something.

Gab Marcotti sang his praises tonight on the rumour mill... Thought he would make a good number 2 CH to play alongside a stronger more agressive partner. Very quick and comfortable on the ball... guess he'd be worth £5-6mil so could be getting a bargain if all is true. Where is this exactly?

Sidwell or not, guess he's not that young.

What's young? Give us a number. Ben Haim is 25. Limit it to under 21s.

The ticker thing... didn't exist on CNN.Sorry, that monstrosity came from Sky/Fox. ESPN took it from Sky / Fox as well. It is CNN that has taken to apeing Fox, not the other way around. As far as Monday Night Football etc. goes--- all sport coverage was relatively sedate until Fox bought the rights to broadcast the NFL. Thoroughout the 1970s and 80s. NBC had the AFC games, CBS had the NFC games, and ABC had the Monday night games. Then Fox bought CBS's lot of Sunday games and EVERYTHING changed. It all went way over the top.

Truer words have rarely been spoken.

Sorry, got to take exception to that last bit. Murdoch is not an Americanizing influence. Au contraire. I'll give you fast food and the gratuitious use of the letter zed, but the aesthetics of Sky and the Murdoch media empire are most definitely not American. US sports fans experienced the same bewildering overhaul of sports television when Fox (Murdoch) acquired the rights to American football. And FoxNews --- CNN + Sun sensationalism and rightist agitprop-- is also quite un-American and unprecedented. We've never had a television channel that is essentially the propaganda organ of a political party. Unprecendented and quite un-American.