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Neymar is brilliant at it. Keepers to be booked if they move off their line before the shot is taken. Bet they aren't. They're always moving off their line now and rarely get caught.

Arda = cover for Lennon? seems excessive though when you have Krancjar, Bale, Lennon, Bentley and at a push Modric who can all work the wings. Not to mention yoof like Bostock and Rose.

Got to get them cheap laughs man.

Hows his leg coming along?

Barca playing fantasy football with him & Villa. Never good to see the truly class acts leave the league though.

A kid scores a lush chip in the game i've seen. 37secs in.

He was going to go but then realised there'd be no other Bosnians there so he knocked it on the head.

Wouldn't mind a cheeky European away trip to Holland or Jormany rather than them coming here.

FWIW (with players who aren't in prelim squads of countries going) Akinfeev (USSR) Zanetti Mexes Vermaelen (Belgium) Chivu (Romania) Valencia (Ecuador) Cambiasso Modric (Croatia) Arshavin (USSR) Dzeko (Bosnia) Zlatan (Sweden) Subs: Cech, Srna, Zhirkov, Keita, Pato, Riquelme, Benzema

Too busy drink driving to have time for that,

No, especially if they sign Villa. Villa, Messi, Bojan, Zlatan and Pedro is ample cover for 3 forward positions.

Read the OP in its entirity. I'll do a seperate one when the squads are whittled down for countries that DID qualify.

Shamelessly nicked from elsewhere. Pick your XI from countries that didn't qualify. Akinfeev (USSR) Srna (Croatia) Hangeland (Norway) Vermaelen (Belgium) Chivu (Romania) Valencia (Ecuador) Keita (Mali) Modric (Croatia) Arshavin (USSR) Dzeko (Bosnia) Zlatan (Sweden) Subs: Cech, Ujafalusi, Zhirkov, Tymoschuk, Jovetic, Falcao, Zidan

Good gesture from the Gooch. Can't imagine he'll play much like with Thiago Silva, Nesta & Kahladze all still there plus he is not a old paceless Italian.

His stock keeps rising, shame we (the club) were so short sighted (including many of the fans) he would never had made it so well with us, aside from the instability due to constant board and managerial changes lets face it we've not exactly got a track record of coaching the best out of players have we? i remember brummie saying he thought villas coaches would get a lot out of milner when they signed him and he's right, that shits not just happening by accident and our players mostly regress for that exact reason imo yeah spot on. Take Duff for example, i know he is significantly older than Milner but i still think this applies. I know his poor spell at Newcastle may well have been partly due to him not being fully committed to the cause, but a large part of it has to go down how he was coached here and how he was told to play. If you look at his impressive season at Fulham, you cant put it all down to him suddenly becoming inspired and motivated again, it has a lot to do with the way he has been coached at Fulham and the structures he has been put in that suit him quite well. In Milners case, from what i understand we insisted on using him as a winger, and now Villa have stuck him in the middle and he is flourishing. I believe this is a big reason as to why high quality players fail to sustain their form when moving on to another club. Duff hasn't been that good for Fulham anyways in the games I've seen. Just isn't injured all the time.

Suprised. Definitely better than that standard, maybe he is just playing for the love of it now. Still, not many can claim to have scored a winning brace at Old Trafford.

Probably be there regardless if they go up.

£5m man Chrissy Dailly slots it home.

Maybe not.

People are thick of course they will. Look at how well all them twats on BGT, Xfactor, Big Bro etc. do every year.

I do enjoy a good pelanty shoot-out when I couldn't give a fuck who wins. Bit of a local derby if Charlton play Millwall in the final i guess.

No official song so people can do what they like. Should just update or re-release World in Motion.

Domenech makes him team selections based on tarrot cards and horoscopes. The man is clearly a sandwich short of a picnic and is really running Maradona close in the looney stakes. Could the FFF not afford to get rid or something then? Surely they can see he is toss, his players have spoken out previously and I'm sure he got a 20% confidence vote in L'Equipe or something earlier in the season. Not sure he is as mental as Diego though. I eagerly await his antics next month.

That Nicky Bailey looks a canny player.

To be honest we'd probably take a bag of chips for him. But his wages are surely too big. The biggest factor in his downfall is the lack of Wenger though, he thought he was better than he was and underestimated how much Arsene and Arsenal got the best out of him and made him look better than he actually is. He was almost the identikit Arsenal player like.