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"Meanwhile, any player or substitute who gestures with his hands for a ‘VAR review’ will be shown a yellow card."

"Russia, here we come!"

Never thought I'd give this much thought to, or defend, a footballer's tattoo, mind Just out of all the shit tattoos out there, this one at least has a deeper meaning, even if I agree the tattoo itself isn't a looker.

It's not at all. Tattoos are (most of the time at least) personal and have a meaning for whoever gets them. His tattoo has a deeper meaning for him due to his father, it's not up to anyone else to criticize his choice. Did he not just say it's cos he shoots with his right foot? His weapon of choice is his feet, rather than actual weapons - which is a path his life could have taken due to the environment he was in when growing up. So essentially the gun tattoo symbolizes the path he chose to follow. It's how I've understood the situation, at least

It's not at all. Tattoos are (most of the time at least) personal and have a meaning for whoever gets them. His tattoo has a deeper meaning for him due to his father, it's not up to anyone else to criticize his choice.

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As things are right now, I'd say we should be looking at somewhere between £20m and £25m. If he has a great WC, who knows what we could get as the clubs who'd want him would be larger than Fulham.

Keane had one year left when he signed for Everton.

Classic N-O mong response. My fault for thinking spending that time posting a detailed argument wasn't going to be responded with a comically irrelevant shitpost. My favourite part is where he thinks quoting the average rating from whoscored.com means something. At least use actual stats.

As stated, it's a fairly common opinion on here that Mitrovic was poor/shit in his first season (go back a few hundred pages to see that), just as it was a common opinion on here that he was OK/decent for a young player in a new country thrown into a mediocre team. So logically you'd be accusing me of revising the past if you think Mitrovic was good/decent. That's a given. I'm not discounting that possibility. The point I made is that from my perspective, because I am in the "Mitro in first season was poor" camp, others seem to be revising the past based on their bias towards the player. You've not really covered that. Another point which I hadn't raised but which you've failed to acknowledge in your factually incorrect statement above is that an additional method of revisionism is retrospectively extrapolating performances from stats and then saying "oh he must have been decent, look at this number on paper, see?", as you've done in your next sentence. Anyway, "nothing but your own opinion" is a tad nonsensical. Everything on here is opinions, including your opinion on interpretation of stats when judging a player (which I'm sure won't be consistent when it comes to universally accepted mediocre/crap players who have good stats on paper occasionally, e.g. Shola in 05/06). Plus, it's not just my own opinion, I've already made the point that noone went near Mitro after relegation, and since his "good debut PL season" he's only played in the Championship, which if anything is far more a concrete argument that supports my view. Already explained, in some depth too, re: expectations. The stats are decent on paper certainly, but that why I specifically said I went by what I've seen. The poor performances far outweighed the positive stats, and the failure to do the basics as the season wore on is what has led to the opinion I and others have that he had a poor first season in spite of the OK'ish stats. Again, seeing that he's spent 2 years in the Championship since that supposed (according to you) good quality breakthrough first PL season, at a club with an owner who sells at every opportunity and under a world class manager who doesn't rate him, potentially backs that up. Just as another example, according to WhoScored.com Mitrovic had an average rating of 6.67 in 2015/16 for us in the PL. Shola Ameobi had an average rating of 6.72 in 2010/11 (21(7) appearances, 6 PL goals, 3 assists). I've said plenty of times that Rafa and Mitro are mutually exclusive and I'd rather have Rafa, and also elsewhere I think Mitrovic will go on to have a good career. Just admit it you've been overly critical - his first season was not 'gash' , it was at least decent and quite promising. Better GPA than Gayle in the PL for Newcastle. Fairly equal GPA when you include his other clubs in the PL as well. Yet, some people still think Gayle is better - despite the equal stats and age difference. If Mitro was as old as Gayle and has had the same time as Gayle in the PL, then yeah. He's not, and has not, though.

Will Smith is 50 year old. What the fuck's he doing He's got a vlogging Youtube channel as well. He'll be an OAP soon, needs to get in his lane You all haven't heard that he's announced a comeback as a rapper? Album dropping soon. Celebs went loco on Twitter and Instagram in hype/awe a while back, was good times.

Last goal like that I saw a yellow was given to the outfield player for unsportsmanlike conduct

Anyone want to say what Haydn's asking about?

I’m amazed at how many people don’t understand how football works.

...it might as well have been sponsored by Carlsberg.

Fulham will take him before the WC.

fyp

Where did the five mins come from?

Was made for Coca Cola’s WC ad campaign, not the official WC Song.

Had a great moment last night when watching the female CL final. Met a dude from Sunderland, and he started on the six in a row bullshit. Just said I didn’t pay attention to them and that I thought it was eight, so I was underwhelmed. Admittedly a fairly balanced and chill dude other than that. Beyond that one wind-up attempt he was fairly human.

Who's that? Östersund's manager. Worked absolute miracles there, taking them from the Swedish third division to knock out stages of the EL, playing mostly really good football and on a shoestring budget, even by Swedish standards. Highly debatable. Not really. Their most recent season had their annual budget at £5 million (compared to £350,000 when Potter took over). AIK, Hammarby, Elfsborg, Göteborg, Helsingborg, Djurgården, Kalmar, Hacken, Norrkoping all have from £7.5 million to £22 million a year. Their £5 mill were the budget during their surprise EL season. Before that it was even lower. It’s a crazy achievement by Potter and his team.

They’re a Welsh team in the English league. It’s a horrific anomaly. Either go full UK or stick to your own national leagues. If you have seperate FAs and national teams, you shouldn’t interbreed in your leagues. If Swansea qualified for Europe they’d not take one if the Welsh spots. It’s all anarchy. ANARCHY!

Noooooooooooooooo! Noooooooooooooooooo! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?! WHYYYYyyyyYyyyy Jesus fucking christ I’m angry. Of all the clubs in England. You deserve better, Graham. You deserve better.