Disco

Deary me. Barry, De Jong, Vieira and now Toure. Seems a little excessive.

Oh good lord. Be justice for that piss poor tackle against NZ.

Can't run anymore, that being the reason why Chelsea have used him as a back up DM throughout this season. Think he has said he wants go back to Brasil anyway.

Walkover tbf, if that is your possible opponents. Depends which France turn up tbh. I don't think France will reach the KO stages. I just can't see it with Domenech in charge. He's probably the worst manager of the lot. I don't disagree with that but sometimes no matter how bad your manager natural talent will still win through. Plus Grp A has 3 teams that are pretty weak defensively in there so they should be able to without playing well get enough points to go through. Plus the others are likely to all take points off each other.

Agree, Serbia would be tough but I'd much rather play them then a South American team, we should beat them. I honestly think France will be out by the quarters and even if they and we get there I'd fancy us to beat them. Beyond that, unless a surprise team gets to the semis I can't see us getting past the semi's. Definitely all boils down to England winning the group. If they come 2nd its likely to be Germany in rd 2 and one from Argentina and the Grp A brigade.

Walkover tbf, if that is your possible opponents. Depends which France turn up tbh.

We have a favourable draw which should help us massively. GP - Should win group 16 - likely to play Serbia - should be able to sneak a win QF - then play one of France/Uruguay/Mexico/Nigeria/Korea

At least you've a bye to the Euro's.

Eugh, no need for afternoon games to be kicking off at 3 when they could easily kick off at 5. Fucking stupid.

DEF - DEF - DEF DM DM DM AM FWD FWD FWD Wide forwards cut in, wing backs bomb forward. It's not that defensive. There's only one DM. It's more like: DEF DEF DEF DM WR WL CM FWD FWD FWD I know, just wanted to show it in terms of every line having same name. As i said the WBs will bomb forward. Very much looking forward to watching them.

DEF - DEF - DEF DM DM DM AM FWD FWD FWD Wide forwards cut in, wing backs bomb forward.

Didn't know David Pizzaro has retired, anyone know why? cracking little player. Aye, he's been one of the most consistent midfielders in Europe over the last few seasons. Along with Vucinic last year he was probably Roma's best player. According to Wiki, so obviously, pinch of salt is necessary this is why he quit: Sounds unusual. Just had a look further and he said he wasn't prepared to comment in any detail on why he quit so it definitely sounds like he had the hump with someone. Shame, for all involved really.

elaborate.

I'm assuming this Iniesta is a planned sub. I hope so, as he is dreamy, the rest of the players who are missing out are primarily twats although good players. but i'd hate to see Iniesta miss out. One of my favourite players to watch.

Not a chance against either. Brasil are too good defensively if at full strength. Only point of attack would be Lennon against the LB. Plus England can't defend setpieces where unusually for Brasil they are unbelievably strong. I think if luck fell on our day we could beat them. You could say that about anybody IMO. At the moment, Spain & Brasil are a long way ahead of Argentina (who with a proper manager and a wiser squad selection would be a lot closer to Spain and Brasil) and Holland and then the rest.

Not a chance against either. Brasil are too good defensively if at full strength. Only point of attack would be Lennon against the LB. Plus England can't defend setpieces where unusually for Brasil they are unbelievably strong.

Didn't know David Pizzaro has retired, anyone know why? cracking little player.

In Seville? EDIT: Espanyol?

Divvent make him change his team man, means I have less chance of winning!

I'm untechnical and did that aye, probably be an easier way though.

gave me free drink when i was 15 did he also give you drugs and try to get you into bed ? oops no, that was someone else who very conveniently gets forgotten about in the press. Graham Rix?

Basically, Keane was supposed to be an accessory to Barry. When the Barry transfer fell through, Keane was surplus to requirements. Possible to expand on that? Just makes little sense to an outsider - i.e. why would signing Barry make any difference to the £20m Keane signing? Not only was the fee vastly inflated, but Keane was always unlikely to fit into the system Rafa prefers (Barry or no Barry). If the plan was to switch to 4-4-2 and have Keane as a partner to Torres, how did Rafa hope to achieve this by adding Barry to the central midfield squad whilst at the same time lacking good quality wingers (and Gerrard having proved to be ineffective in central midfield compared to playing in front of two central midfielders)? To make matters worse, he was signed iirc a short while after you got rid of Bellamy, who is pretty similar to Keane (in terms of the type of forward that he is) but twice as good and far more versatile. If Bellamy struggled in a Rafa system, what made Rafa think that spending £20m on an inferior version of Bellamy would work? Bellamy wanted out. He just wasn't into Rafa's follow-my-instructions-to-the-letter gameplans. From what I recall, I think Keane was supposed to do pretty much what he does, scampering around the edge of the box and feed off Barry on the left of a midfield diamond. At a guess, something nominally like this: Keane Torres Gerrard Barry Kuyt () Mascherano And presumably with the full-backs providing the width. That might be a load of cobblers, but it's the best explanation I've heard for what happened with Keane. Wouldn't the right FB have been Arbeloa though? Still mental that he wanted rid of Alonso in the first place. Criminally underrated when he was in the PL. Absolutely amazing player although he was a bit of a snidey so & so.

gave me free drink when i was 15

Do they put on a special bar or do you just have to go to them bars that are already there?

Oh aye, thankfully they're actually pretty decent together beyond paper. Both have very handy international records., and with the aforementioned Lodeiro playing behind them there's a chance of fireworks. EDIT: With journeyman Sebastian 'El Loco' Abreu on the bench aswell. Apparently he's the highest scoring player at the World Cup, in terms of total career goals. Them goals spread across 20 different teams,6 different countries and 3 different continents. Got Cavani they can hoy in the mix n all. Can see them struggling defensively though. Hope they progress.