Parky

You and half the planet - so it evens out...

Robbed. Straight red for Ivanovic and Terry handball.

Yup.

We've bought a lot of donkeys dressed up as racehorses.

Using City as a comparison is a bit donkeyish mind.

Gignac at Marseilles?

Love arriving at Nice airport.

Bigi has a nice pass on him at least. I wouldn't write Tiote off however. He'll be back.

No one gives a flying fuck about French football, this is one time of the year wine soaked old dokes like this can get a bit of limelight.

Well done Tiote. The players would get such a boost if a couple of good players come through the door.

Have you heard yourself man? All of you. Mike Ashley the man obsessed with money goes out of his way to accept a lower offer to what, p*ss off the fans and drag the name of the club through the mud because its good advertising Any more conspiracies you got while we are at it? Mike Ashley behind 9/11 so he could sell more secure luggage? He invented Bird Flu so he could sell trainers to run away from swans? Calling Womblemaster! Womblesignal lit!!

I recommended Maarwijk on here 4 years ago.

Think a rotating panel from N.O. would do a better job than Pardew.

I'll be your tracksuited English number two. Your Pat Rice, if you will. I'm sitting about 10 miles from where Arthur Cox is from. I'd be the new him. I can slip into character no bother.

This is good restraint for me. Usually my wildcard would be in operation by 2pm on Saturday. I've done it...Just bothers me if I don't do it...

The way I see it is if you can aim for 2000 over the season, you've a good chance of winning medium-sized leagues. i.e. somewhere between 8-20 people. So going off that, 55-60 is a great average to aim for. Very hard to keep up, mind. I always have too many weekends where nothing happens to keep up such an average. Had some low, low scores last year, despite winning a couple of friends' leagues. I think I got under 20 one weekend. I wish Van Persie was banned from this game. I get it, he's mint, and fair play to those who've thought about the rest of their team. Can't lie though, it annoys me when I see some muppets I know not giving 2 shits about the rest of their team and having RVP bail them out every week. I tried to average 55 last year, fell a bit short (due to a midseason collapse!), but I think your projections about winning a medium size league are pretty accurate. You hate RVP in FF :lol: The challenge is to beat those RVP©-heavy teams with skill and bargains they won't know about until they're priced out of their range. My big pet peeve is when your "rare" finds/bargains begin to get duplicated in every team around you. That said, I don't really have many "unknowns" in my side atm, there are too many players who are big names who are a bit unmissable. Think Coleman and the young Eve lad have to come in at those prices...

I told you to swap Maynard for RVP but noooo... I think I'm going for a proper clear out tbh, other than Shaw and Mig every single one of the fuckers has let me down. Get in, a week 1 wildcard. Tempted tbh...

Won't get new contract I reckons.

I can't see anything but a defeat unless there is some kind of Remy/Hatem miracle.

Kept up with Navas which ain't no mean thing.

Sissokho is the starkest contrast...that debut game when he 'rapes' (PardewTM) Ashley Cole and looks as if he's been given the opportunity to show what he can do. Few months on and he's another in the long list of static drones that'll get brought off if he shows too an advanced tendency (a la Gouffran). It's like he sucks the joy of football out of them. Pardew the football vampire.

...and to get in the shop window.

Anything over 15m will be brilliant business money wise. Cabaye is wildly overrated. Obviously in a functioning Arsenal unit will look a better player. Gets inj a lot, is moody and imo too tiny for a PL midfielder.

It's interesting watching decent players arrive and then over a period of time go straight downhill....All have one things in common.

Get ready for an ugly atmosphere on Saturday then because West Ham will beat us like cowering dogs. West Ham are stronger than they were last year.