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Bit late now, but yeah, they are/were. Just hoping they notch another one for my -2 to come in.

Do you mean we have to call Japan Nippon, or the real shit 日本国? Or Saudi Arabia? Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah, ¨المملكة العربيّة السّعوديّة If you mean the last one i can no longer go outside Europe, as i don`t know where the fuck i am going You'd call it Nippon as that would be how its pronounced. Countries would offer their name of country as they want it in all alphabets so it would be pronounced the same way no matter which alphabet it was in. As Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah then? Or call China Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó? Lets go to Dawlat al-Imārāt al-‘Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah, its United arab Emirated. Pretty stupid tbf. They call themselves a short version as well, Al Emarat, which isn't that hard for anyone to say. Do you call China "The People's Republic of China" or Saudi Arabia "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" as well? No? Most nations have shortened names as well as the long official one, I for one don't call Norway "The Kingdom of Norway", but that's our official name. Still, most Norwegians call our country "Norge", no? Not "Kongeriket Norge"? Now, it's not something that could be enforced given just how nudged into our minds the country names are in the languages we know. But not knowing we called China for China, I'd be more than happy to have called them Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó if that's what they were known as. Also, I'd imagine that if any such thing were actually enforced, which sadly it won't be, most nations would have a short version of whatever long name they might have that they would be happy with foreigners calling their nation. All that said, I never said it should be enforced, because that would be impossible and obviously stupid. I'm just saying I'd prefer it if that were the way things had been done rather than "translating" names in the first place.

I think every nation should be known Internationally by what the nation calls itself tbh.

Winner, spat my fanta out.

Xisco had an assist.

Norwegian tips: Hønefoss - Stabæk 3.60 - 3.35 - 2.00 Hønefoss have been in decent form lately, and Stabæk quite the opposite. Wouldn't put it past any of the two sides to win, but most likely outcome is a draw or away so an away dnb is on the cards. Kongsvinger - Haugesund 3.00 - 3.45 - 2.20 Haugesund should have enough about them to either get a draw or a win here as Kongsvinger are as good as doomed for relegation at the moment and Haugesund are flying high due to their great home form. Haugesund dnb. Lillestrøm - Aalesund 1.85 - 3.50 - 4.00 I'm a right cunt saying Aalesund will win this tbh, as on paper Lillestrøm should do it quite easily. Though, their form have been remarkably shit over a longer period of time now, and Aalesund are chasing their best league position ever and therefore I think they will continue this by nicking a late winner or something of the sorts. That said, I'd not bet much on this as it's most certainly not a safe bet, but then again neither is betting on Lillestrøm. Tromsø - Odd Grenland 2.10 - 3.35 - 3.35 Odd are shit away from home, Tromsø are great at home. Easy math, though Odd will be hoping to turn their dreadful away form around against a Tromsø team that have been a bit up and down in recent matches. Still think Tromsø have enough about them to win this one, though. Viking - Start 1.65 - 3.70 - 5.00 Nevland are nearing match form for Viking, and they're just such a better team than Start. Not to mention Start are dreadful away from home and Viking are hopeful of a finish getting them into Europe next season. Viking win. Rosenborg - Molde 1.55 - 3.90 - 5.75 Bar their two matches against Stuttgart, Molde are looking absolutely dreadful. And even though Rosenborg are resting some key players for their return fixture against FC Copenhagen on Wednesday, the fancy thing about a locomotive team such as Rosenborg is that their reserves are good enough to win the Norwegian league. Home victory, and could be good value for a -1 as well. Vålerenga - Sandefjord 1.25 - 5.75 - 10.00 Sandefjord are all but relegated already, and Vålerenga are the only team left that realistically can challenge Rosenborg for the gold. They didn't do their title bid any good by selling Moa Abdellaoue to Hannover 96, but should still be able to win this and should be good value for as much as -2 tbh. In the Adeccoliga, Sogndal, Sarpsborg, Bodø/Glimt dnb and Ranheim dnb are good shouts. Double: Rosenborg Viking Treble: Rosenborg Viking Tromsø Quadruple: Rosenborg Viking Tromsø Haugesund dnb Dare to Dream: Rosenborg -1 Viking -1 Aalesund Tromsø Haugesund dnb Sarpsborg 08 Sogndal

I came all over my good pants. I'm so fucking happy right now I could fucking cry. http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8308/believeit.png

He'll be sitting shaking his fist at the computer screen "Je ne joue pas pour baiser de Marseille, merde!"

I'll do the usual write-up either tonight or sometime before the matches tomorrow. Won't be too in depth lenght wise as I'll be typing it on ze iPhone, though. Congrats Ash and Yorkie, btw. Nice wins.

Probably did it himself tbh.

Agreed. Ben Arfa and a striker along with Tiote and I think we'd be safe mid-table. We'd have a team that could we could put out against most premier sides and I wouldn't be embarrassed. That's all we are really asking for. How much of this Tiote have you guys seen? Three-four times when I've had some Eresdivise on in the background. Based on when I paid attention, he'll improve us defensively as he's strong and shit like that and can start an attack from the back. Won't matter as we have no creativity elsewhere to recieve and continue on the passes from him, though.

It's a pun.

Seems realistic enough that, he started pre-season one month late so you'd think getting match fit one month later would be natural.

tbh I'll be pissed if we buy Tiote for £3.5 Million but didn't want to fork out £5m-ish for Ben Arfa when we need a creative attacking midfielder A LOT more than a defensive one. Other than that I'm happy we're signing someone, of course.

This thread blatantly need some old school Zoolander car scene and A Night at the Roxbury gif action added to the already smashing, smashing great work in this thread.

All our 38 games are on telly here. ...oh...

Still amazing on FM10.

Where's Kaizero? Where's Kaizero?!?! He'll shit his spleen in excitement if this goes through! I'm in no mans land refreshing this shit thread on my iphone browser like a spastic whenever there's signal. Was in the local paper yesterday, talksport have just taken that and put a Ben Arfa spin on it: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,68821.msg2463533.html#msg2463533

Thought this was aimed at our N-O Mike.

http://fotball.adressa.no/eliteserien/article177351.ece WOOP there it is. Not a proper transfer window without us being linked.