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Julie Foudy is my guess for his female appointee Aye, it's her and Steffi Jones that are his prospective choices.

Blatantly because we lack a Nigerian prince up front tbh. http://www.nufc.co.uk/javaImages/a4/a8/0,,10278~9021604,00.jpg

I love Europe.

He's on it. "Trying to force myself to say "football" instead of "soccer" in interviews with foreign media. This is not easy. Please bear with me."

Golf ffs. :lol:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/2/22/soccer-sports-last-america/ :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :lol: Saying football was more boring than golf ffs. :lol:

have And that Ben Arfa shirt is rather sweet.

Had a slight lapse into full on geek mode.

Clean break, it should be absolutely no doubt he will be the same player bar any psychological blocks. Given his ego I doubt we'll see that, though.

What kind of creature is that in the bottom left? No matter, Carroll will ride it. Those yellow eyes caught on camera clearly means it's a shapeshifter.

Interesting tidbit re: Europa League "money", Rosenborg ended up with minus £200k for playing in the league stage last year.

I'd take Shaqiri tbh.

Dave.

Who needs domestic trophies when we have: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kLYfH-okVHM/TFiO1rFSToI/AAAAAAAAB-s/KoWUJPtTp5E/s1600/Trofeo+Teresa+Herrera.jpg Ain't many trophies out there to win larger than that one.

39 matches so far this season, 23 goals conceded. Ca. 0.5 a match. Where's the supposed blatant defensive weakness? For good measure, let's just compare to Real Madrid (supposedly better defensively than Barcelona) who have played 38 matches. They have conceded 24 goals, 19 if you take out the 5-0 loss, but still.

My bad, I was going for that but for some reason wrote complacency. I'll blame that on English not being my first language and confusing the two, even if that's a lie. They did appear happy with an away goal and a win, though. But aye, not really complacency. :-[

I think Barcelona won't suffer from complacency like they appeared to do towards the end of the first leg and shit all over Arsenal, tbh.

Also, Barcelona have conceded 13 goals in the league this season compared to scoring 73. Where are the defensive weaknesses? They've had a couple of minor accidents over 24 matches proving that the players are still human, they don't have a glaring weakness in defense.

We can agree that Guardiola's Barcelona have a main game plan that doesn't need more than subtle changes here and there due to Barcelona executing it as well as they do, and that they usually stick with it even in sluggish matches where they usually also come out victorious, aye.

Not really, as most teams will treat a Barcelona fixture as a "cup final" and thus be on their A game and pumped up for it, whereas Barcelona might have an off day and be complacent about their opponents which causes a match to be closer than it should be on paper. On paper, even Man Utds and Arsenals reserves should easily dispose of the likes of Crawley and Leyton Orient (not saying La Liga teams aren't better than those teams, just making an example of how no match is certain.) yet they didn't, because that's football, it's not pre-arranged, it's 90 minutes of a game where both teams start at the same score. It's the beautiful game for a reason, and that reason is that every game starts 0-0 even if it's a massive team on one side of the pitch and a bunch of amateurs on the other.

I enjoy discussing differing views with people.

As I said, I'm not really fond of Guardiola, especially after his spat with Solbakken. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we8w-85KkJI (Not really a "footy" video since it's just two managers walking off arguing, surely? Just remove if it's doubtful. ) But come on, one dimensional and tactically inept? Every team have a preffered style of play, even Newcastle do. It's the subtle changes to that preffered style of play that makes and breaks a manager, and Guardiola's not broken.

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