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Not only was he there, he seemingly had already started taking notes Could still be a coincidence as apparently he's close with McKenna, but that doesn't explain why he had brought his agent with him to watch a random Championship match

Arsenal 2 - 1 Forest Bournemouth 2 - 2 Brighton Palace 2 - 2 Sunderland Everton 1 - 2 Villa Fulham 1 - 1 Leeds Newcastle 3 - 0 Wolves West Ham 0 - 2 Spurs Brentford 2 - 4 Chelsea Burnley 1 - 1 Liverpool Man City 5 - 0 Man United

I'm on the fence when it comes to deciding if my memories of Robert are genuine proper memories, or if they're more flight of fancy "dreameries" from a version of me that was just about too young to genuinely appreciate what was on show. Plus, back then even us filthy foreigners were lucky if we got to watch us live on telly at least once every six to eight weeks – so regardless of where I'd end up landing on my "are my childhood memories genuine or are they a mix of genuine ones and random made-up bullshit ones?" – it'd still feel a bit shit of me to write off Robert in one fell swoop just because I can't remember him ever being close to energising and enthralling me with his skills on the pitch, which Ben Arfa did. For me, of all the players I've seen play football in my lifetime that I can remember – Ben Arfa, by far, is the most gifted technical player I've seen. I'd even put him ahead of Messi, CRonaldo and Ronaldinho. The sad part of Ben Arfa's story will always be the fact that even if I'm genuinely correct in my belief about my ranking of top player's in my lifetime's technical ability on the pitch, Ben Arfa only showed his abilities when Ben Arfa felt like doing it, whilst the other top players one would compare him to even played near the peak of their abilities even on their off days. TL;DR if Ben Arfa had even just a fractional work ethic installed in him, he'd easily have won at least one Ballon d'Or in his career – probably nicking the 2018 off Modrić playing for PSG as even if we for argument's sake don't speculate on "what if's" for clubs he theoretically could've represented and just stick with those he genuinely played for, in 2017/18 he should've been at his physical peak playing for PSG in the CL and be leading the line for France at the 2018 World Cup. Alas, it was not to be. I'll forever be cherishing the fact he at least bothered to show up enough times for us to have a collection of spectacular memories to appreciate, though!

Few things about football I love more than when fans of a club release a support anthem that's genuinely a banger, which pretty much never happens. Granted, this one got me because it's essentially just a remixed version of a song that was part of the soundtrack of my youth and the first local parties a younger me attended, with the original being sung at the top of everyone's lungs both before going out and when getting back in for the afters. The fun thing about that original rap remix having been part of the soundtrack of my youth is that it had also been the soundtrack of the youth for two generations before me, only then in its original form. Rather obviously, nobody below 65° north had the same experience as everyone above it. Kinda miffed it'll now be attached to the club in the region that, on paper, is the club I'm supposed to hate from a "support your local club" perspective (though my hometown has never had a club rise higher than the 2nd tier over here, and even that only lasted two seasons). Anyway, prepare to be underwhelmed by the actual thing after reading the build-up: Here's a rather horrible attempt at translating the lyrics in a way that doesn't lose most of its context – even though it genuinely doesn't work in any other form than in its original Northern Norwegian dialect Hell, even just changing its written lyrics from Northern Norwegian into Standard Norwegian removes most of the magic... which makes sense, as it was never intended as something other than a love letter to Northern Norway, from Northern Norway. All that said, here's a shit attempt anyway: Sidenote; how young must the artists have been way back when they first dropped the remix? Guy looks young even now Anyway, anyone else have any (in their opinion, at least) genuinely good examples of this from past and/or present?

Literally not even under true pressure and just hoofs the ball towards his own goal like he thinks he’s wearing yellow @Conjo’s 100% correct, fraud of a footballer, always has been and always will be. It’s why no club keeps him around longer than 12 months before getting rid.

Wasn't quoting him, though

Haaland was raised in Bryne, Norway and continuously posts about his hometown club on social media The time he spent in Leeds as a baby will be a time he has no memory of.

UK doesn't have birthright citizenship, weird thing to even mention.

11-1

Not an ounce of English DNA in either of them (French in Aasgaard, though).

I feel confident the £50 I put on Norway -5 @ 5.90 will give returns now

Double digits! 10-1

9-1

8-1

7-1 (we've scored all eight )

Aaaaand that's 7-0

6-0 now, Haaland's 4th.

Andorra is worse, Moldova did the double over them as recently as last year with the same score as England just did. So, by that logic, Moldova > England > Andorra.

8-0 is Moldova's biggest ever defeat, will be disappointed if we don't break that record tonight.

5-0 now

4-0 now, Haaland hattrick.

2-0 now, 10 minutes played. Could've been 5.