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Beardsley :lol: He's got not skill whatsoever, is slow as fuck and can't take a man on. Nothing like Beardsley even in style, nevermind quality. I wouldn't really care if he left tomorrow tbh. Just not for free.

the original header was good enough to go in, shouldn't have had to take a penalty. There's far too many grey areas in other cases where this happens for one thing. And secondly, like I said, the team that is victim of the handball still gets an advantage from the man being sent off even if they miss the pen.

Can't wait for it to end and the real stuff to start tbh. Watching my club > world cup.

No. Ridiculous idea for me. If you're shit at penalties then that's your fault. Even in the event of a miss you've still got the rest of the match with a 1 man advantage (not much use in tonight's game like, but then, rules aren't based on single matches for a reason)

In the circumstances it was the only option.

One poor performance. Honestly, who brings up these idiots? one poor performance my arse, he was shocking v japan & algeria i guess you didn't watch chelsea last season as well, where they conceded more goals last season than any season since 2004 Are you taking the piss? They won the league by playing attacking football. Cech was out for a month, Cole was out for 3 months and Alex/Carvalho were in and out of the side. Shocking against Algeria? f*** off, man. If you can't see that John Terry's season went to absolute shit post-tabloid scandal then you can't see the wood for the trees. He was rubbish and would have still been turning in bad individual performances with a settled back four and keeper.

Wow. I hope that's in monopoly money.

Hodgson is a decent manager but no more than that really. I'm quite happy with the appointment. Looks from the outside to be a safe pair of hands that will tow the line politically and try to keep things ticking along on the pitch now that they have no money for once. Hardly ambitious.

http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/breves2010/20100629_000846_m-gueye-file-a-everton.html Now theres a phrase! Online translations are great.

Good that you put HOnda in. Isn't he more of a striker though? He's just playing up front because their strikers are shit, I think. He's an attacking midfielder really.

Looks like another new forward for us. Magaye Gueye from Strasbourg. http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/breves2010/20100629_000846_m-gueye-file-a-everton.html

I'm glad you've cleared that up. Why did they go to all the trouble of the Taylor Report when they could have just asked you?

Darijo Srna surely! He never signs for me. I now consider him to not exist.

because Jonny Evans > Pique apparently. He must have been hitting the whisky hard that week.

Best right back on FM

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Upson was a big part of the shambles that was West Hams defence last year and even discounting form, has never been a quality player. Beggars belief that Jagielka & Lescott weren't even considered for the squad when both are miles better. King & Dawson are sat on the bench having had superior seasons to Upson as well. Then you've got younger players like Shawcross & Gary Cahill who have been consistently better than Upson for the past two seasons. Taking them would also give the added bonus of handing those lads experience of being around the squad for a major tournament in advance of them playing a bigger part in future tournaments.

I think you're underestimating Suarez.....slightly. Suarez is good but not great imo. Forlan is a classier player and more intelligent.

I said weeks before the tournament started that Capello had bottled it and lost the plot as the tournament approached. Those friendly games leading up to it were a joke. Pissing about with players he'd never picked before, desperation calls to Carragher, Scholes, Seaman & Jimmy Greaves, suddenly shunting players he'd relied on throughout qualifying down the pecking order, tinkering with the tactics before going back to the same old in the WC, god awful squad selection.... Cue the FA with a 2 year extension before the impending disaster :lol: To be fair, I didn't think they'd be quite as bad as they were but I wasn't expecting much more. QF was always going to be the max.

I think Gilberto being there is more down to the fact that Brazil have hardly any left backs. It was a toss up who would be in the squad for that position right up until the final one was announced unlike the rest of the team which you could have predicted about a year in advance.

I might be wrong but I haven't been that impressed with Cavani anyway. He was hyped up pre-tournament but Forlan is just head and shoulders above everyone in that side.

People confusing Slovenia & Slovakia all the time in this World Cup. Mongs.

Do they want to get relegated? I thought he was alright in his first spell at Goodison. I take it i'm wrong? He was mostly terrible apart from his debut (when he had a blinder vs Bolton). His goals per game stats were good in the first spell but it papered over some massive cracks and none of them were decisive goals iirc. In the second spell he was the same but without the goals. Just downright shit. re: Spurs- I knew saggyface would buy Kjaer after seeing him talking about him on the BBC before a Denmark game. I'm pretty sure the word "triffic" was used more than once.

Do they want to get relegated?

I'm not watching the match but I assume the goal was from long range? Howard is a pretty good keeper but he doesn't half let some soft goals in from range. Few times every season it'll happen.