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Jonas

Not everyone is a glory hunter, VI. Some people pick teams based upon factors other than how good they are, VI.

cant believe you've still got that map up for directions

Man City 1-2 Arsenal Cardiff 2-1 West Brom Chelsea 2-1 Crystal Palace Everton 2-1 Fulham Newcastle 1-2 Southampton West Ham 2-1 Sunderland Hull 2-1 Stoke Aston Villa 1-2 Man Utd Norwich 1-2 Swansea Tottenham 1-2 Liverpool

Christ such intent. Just the four center mids eh?

#ShitwithorwithoutMessi

I think Luca is on to something to some extent. I'm not sure how much of the extent, but some of it, definitely.

Translated: Put Ronaldo on Double Coverage and play Altidore in the slot.

Holland have a 40% chance of progressing vs 80% for Chile. Rightio.. Holland are shit nowadays mate. Nee Van Bommel, nee Gio, nee Patrick Kluivert, Frank De Boer or that other De Boer. You should try watching them once in a while, Anita plays every game in a false 9 for them and can't even get on our bench

Which is the exact same time that the MLS ALL STARS play against a mediocre European team and get beaten

I think Pards may play him wide right of a midfield 5 with Remy up top alone, we can still keep it tough and hit them on the break. I doubt we'll see much of Ben Arfa on the wing again personally. He doesn't "work hard" enough for Pardew. Pardew needs his wingers to defend, his central midfielders to defend, and his defence to defend. HBA will end up upfront/no10, else, bench. And I think the Shola target man role is far more tempting than having HBA and no real outlet. (Outlet = someone to lump it to from within your own box). And tbh, he's right to play Shola ahead of HBA while he insists on playing this delightful brand of "football". IF we did go 4-5-1, and drop Shola, I'd imagine it'd be in favor of another central midfielder, or a "hard working" winger. (http://i.imgur.com/yQj8LgL.gifbertan)

I understand the theory of throwing HBA in now, but in the last 5 games we went with 2 blocks of 4 behind the ball, make sure they dont score, hope you nick a goal. I severely doubt away to Manchester United will be the game where Pards decides to try and "take it to them".

Australia

Bosnia will deal with Nigeria. Sorry kaka.

Absolutely fine group for me. We normally steal victories from shit teams in the groups and then look thoroughly unprepared when we play against a proper team. If we go out, then so be it, but if we make it past Italy and Uruguay, then I'll be confident against most teams.

Seems like a very American way of spelling it to me, Fenham Mug.

wait wait wait. 45 minutes of dancing and shite singing, and pele gets 25 seconds and one question? The question being "Who do you want to win the world cup?" Fucking A, Brasil. I now hate Brasil and everything it stands for.

who forces each country to do this shit btw?

mint tits like

Brazilian music sounds so predictably brazilian. Flip, you should get some N-Dubz in your life.

Man Utd 2-0 Newcastle Crystal Palace 1-1 Cardiff City Liverpool 2-0 West Ham Southampton 1-1 Man City Stoke City 0-2 Chelsea West Brom 2-0 Norwich Sunderland 1-1 Tottenham Fulham 1-1 Aston Villa Arsenal 2-0 Everton Swansea 1-1 Hull City

Listening on the radio. No silver lining for me.

Seems somewhat contradictory to give the player of the month award to the goalkeeper of the same team who gets the manager of the month award.

I mean, the rule doesn't exist yet. The complexities would need to be fleshed out so that wouldn't happen. Most likely having different classifications, cynical & dangerous being sin-bin, persistent fouling just being a yeller. That kind of thing. No need whatsoever so sensationalise this proposal imo. There have been far shittier suggestions out of that twat's mouth.

Nowt wrong with it imo. I'm more than happy to call Platini a cunt at every opportunity, but a yellow card is not a deterrent for things like a cynical foul late in the game etc etc.