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Ruud (and Berbatov for that matter) is a significantly more well-rounded player than Michael Owen because he can hold the ball for longer than 3 seconds without being blown over by a rogue cross-wind.

He does fuck all apart from tap in a few sitters. It doesn't add enough to the overall play of the team. How would you like this to be quantified? Assists? Pass statistics? Tevez scored less goals than Berbatov last season, yet played more games, because he did more for the team. I can't be FUCKED to write a massive essay on every fucking post.

Agree. Maybe 10 years ago, but Michael Owen is not an adequate striker in the modern game.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/03/article-1197195-05948F0B000005DC-222_468x323.jpg Boring.

So where is this photograph?!

He probably won't be.

I voted July 21st in the club sale sweepstake...

They'll probably offer us £15m for his services. No doubt we'll reject it.

I dunno, Michael Owen in your side = feels like you've only got 10 men on the pitch.

Divvnt be daft man.

Pub afterwards? Will define whether I drive there...

Can someone just clarify for me what surface it is we're playing on... astro boots.. Ah that'll be reet then. Don't think i've pulled on me proper footy boots for possibly years. 3G - wear blades or astro trainers. It's a 10min drive from train station to pitch, traffic/lights may add 5 mins. The major issue with them being on time is that a train destined for Newcastle at 13:45, is just as likely to arrive at 17:20 as it is 13:40.

Can someone just clarify for me what surface it is we're playing on... astro boots..

so 3 ppl at least will be late. hrmm. We won't be late. I get in at twenty to. Surely won't take over twenty minutes to get to Newcastle Uni? I reckon you'll pretty much arrive 2 on the dot.

so 3 ppl at least will be late. hrmm.

But they've still got Owen Hargreaves! ONOEZ :omg:

I'm not sure on this, but they'll probably be looking to put him on the bench for Champions League games, as a home grown player. Sneaky fuckers, that Chelsea lot Haha you won't be saying that when Ross Turnbull comes on 10 minutes into the Champions League final after Petr Cech gets sent off for felling Leo Messi.

AHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Competition for Petr Cech obviously.

The championship rights won't have changed from last year. So probably not much. Watching the BBC games really won't be hard though. UK Proxy plus iPlayer win.

They probably will, you're right. But people are foolish to assume Barca have the title wrapped up before the league has even begun.

Anyway, as much as people cream over the Barca team, it's not like they stormed the league last season. If they didn't dick on Real with 5(ish) games left to go, then the title would've been very very close. Real won't win the Champions League, not this season at least, but La Liga is always a possibility when you've got an entire season of playing against 14 s**** Spanish teams, 4 decent Spanish teams and 1 good Spanish team. They didn't? What more could they have done? Scored miles more than anyone else, conceded less than everyone else and had only lost 2 games before they gave up at the end of the season with the title wrapped. Also you gotta remember one of those defeats was Guardiola's first league game when he didn't have the players doing what he wanted, after that they only lost one. As for 'if they didn't dick on Real', how is that Barca's fault? They did dick on Real because they were the better team by far that game and for the whole season. dick on real = that 6-2 game. I was referring to that 1 game. I simply mean: Barca won by 9 points. Both Barca and Real officially gave up after that 6-2 match, I think it's fair to say. People act like Barca ROMPED home with a 30 point difference or something. I don't at all claim Real will be the better side, but it's far from beyond possibility that they could take La Liga over the course of a season. After all, everyone was saying how SHIT the Real Madrid team were this year, so do people not think C.Ronaldo, Kaka, Albiol and Benzema will get them an extra 9 points?

so we've got 11-a-side, plus 1 extra blue player? And Yorkie will be late..

so is this going ahead?

Stéphane Guivarc'h is gonna tear it up like.