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I am the same. For me, it is more a matter of comfort than anything. Unless it is excruciatingly hot, I always wear gloves when playing football, and similarly almost always wear tights when playing basketball. I like the feel of these things.

It is just another pointless end to a season with nothing to play for or aim for, similar to 2006-2007, 2010-2011, or 2013-2014. One has to assume the manager is a lame duck (In Jesus Name ) and any real investment (if any is forthcoming) will be this summer. I can just watch the match, when I am bothered, with the bit of solace being that I do not pay for any of this, sorry for those that spend their hard earned on it.

Colback has been the best passer in NUFC's midfield this season, fwiw, not that this is some great competition. He is generally fairly accurate, and has been more proactive than Anita. I like Abeid, and he should get many more opportunities this season with Tiote injured and Anita probably working his way out of the team or playing emergency fullback. The sample size is far too small for him to be labeled as some sort of winning charm, but he has good attributes and good experience from Greece.

The top scorer in that division last season was some Icelandic, Finnbogason, who scored ~30 goals in a 34 match league season, then promptly moved to La Liga where has failed to score even once.

You may think so but I thought he was crap - as usual. He may have scored the goal - and God be thanked for that - but his general play and control is amateurish. He also lacks pace and is now just a poacher who I would sell if we had a club run by a professional instead of a greedy tight-fisted Market trader who won't pay market rate for a decent CF. You obviously weren't following the club when we had Shearer up front or even David Kelly, let alone Supermac. With Mandoon here, like. Cisse played perfectly well yesterday. We all know he's not Shearer or Supermac but I couldn't care less if he keeps scoring a goal every 85 minutes or whatever his rate it. Neither should you. The average football match has less than three goals. Even if Cisse lied in the grass the rest of the match, a goal per 80 minutes makes him the most valuable player in the team by a distance. Still, we have seen his goals dry up often before and when that is the case, he is rather useless. If this club was serious, they would bring in another established striker in the summer if Manu continues not to show anything, so we don't have such a Cisse-dependence.

Terry, Zouma, and Cahill all start for Chelsea in the final. It will be interesting to see how they line up. With Matic and Mikel both unavailable, there is not enough steel in the team to play Fabregas in his normal deep position against a team with a style like Spurs. Still think they win because Spurs' defence (Walker, Dier, Rose) is quite poor.

Colback, if still here and around the first team, will be captain when Coloccini leaves, retires, or expires.

Have you only watched NUFC for 8 weeks or what? Ridiculous statement. Can I have your username and password to this (secret?) database that contains these thoughts about who is interested in who? Tiote has been garbage this season but there really is no need to rewrite history. Oh great, Tiotefan99 returns. He's s***, he's been utterly useless for the best part of 3 seasons and has hopefully played his last game in the Premier League. History suggests had any manager shown genuine interest in him he'd be long gone. One day I sincerely hope you retrieve the username and password to common sense. The majority of teams in this league would still probably buy him. He is an player established in England and is seemingly decently rated everywhere outside of this forum. The top sides will definitely not have interest, but looking at some of the poorer players and money that is cycled throughout the lower Premiership sides, do people really think he cannot be bought for 5 million or more?

West Ham have been rubbish. I don't think they have come close breaking down Palace once from open play. CPFC look more likely to score...................and they have.

Palace have had the better chances and should have had more if not for Puncheon's continual poor decisions.

I have my apparatus set up to watch this London derby, but I cannot see it being anything other than atrocious and a waste of time.

Another change is that the 2023 African Cup of Nations will apparently be in June now, because the World Cup is now one month apart from when it was originally scheduled. I have no problem whatsoever with either of the two locations for the next two World Cups, but the haphazard and obviously corrupt nature of this whole process is fairly ridiculous.

How can you give the ball away in that position, and not even have the desire to chase it? He wouldn't have been tired, either, as he was only on ~10-15 minutes. Lad he was chasing was too quick, Ox tried. He was too quick because Chamberlain was stood still staring at the ball instead of chasing back, following runners after giving the ball away in deep midfield. It was terrible. Tbf, the likes of Kondogbia and Moutinho are top class players that could be at bigger clubs and came from very big clubs. Martial and Wallace were very impressive, but I was most surprised by Monaco's defensive effort. The likes of Uwa Echiejile, Toure, and Abdennour are not young starlets or top talents left over from ASM's spending spree. They are simply experienced, average professionals who stood up to Arsenal all match.

How can you give the ball away in that position, and not even have the desire to chase it? He wouldn't have been tired, either, as he was only on ~10-15 minutes.

:lol: Arsenal are an embarrassment, here. Such simple goals.

I was just about to recommend NUFC signing him, but that was awful from Kondogbia for the goal. The guy clearly never played basketball. You never leave your feet running towards a shooter. Never. Arsenal will go through now.

I'm stunned by this result, tbh. Monaco are a good side and very difficult to beat, but Arsenal just have more quality. Arsenal look beaten mentally. Still, if Arsenal can score a goal here to make it 2-1, I think they will win the tie. If a goal is to come, it will probably be from Walcott. Uwa has struggled with his pace throughout the match.

I really do not believe there was any reason to dive like that for the header. He made it unnecessarily difficult.

I don't understand that substitution at all. Basketball is my favourite sport, it comes from there, tbh.

Got Villareal to within inches of a champions league final and Malaga to within seconds of a semi final It's City who can't do Champions League footy, like. Rolling over sides in the league with mercenary players every week probably isn't the best preparation for facing Europe's most prestigious teams. Their squad is pretty poor for the money they've spent They've got lots of quality players and lots of pretty mediocre ones. For what they've spent players like James Milner should've been off years ago. Milner has a role to play, especially in the league, it doesn't need to be an All-Star team. The defense is absolutely terrible, though. Only Zabaleta is truly great, Kompany overrated, Mangala not ready, Demichelis physically limited, no real quality at leftback.

There were rumours of him going to West Brom. Navas hasn't done anything in a City shirt. Amazed he's still there, let alone getting the odd game. I thought he was very good against Chelsea, tbf. He gave Azpilicueta many problems throughout the match and was involved in the goal. Regardless, if Navas isn't good enough, they should sign a wifeplayer with a bit of pace, giving they have unlimited funds. They are too pedestrian, especially when Toure is out.

Very surprised Jesus Navas wasn't picked for this match. Despite the match being in Manchester, Barcelona have 10 players in City's half at times, yet they have no one to exploit this because their is no pace outside of Ageuro, who has been consistently isolated.

Agree. Was hoping to see a good match tonight. Oh well. at the same time I do enjoy watching the mighty PL gettin well and truly bummed. Surely no one really thinks the PL are mighty on the European stage though. Even Sky etc can't, they just bill them as such for the mula. The three best sides in the world are quite clear, imo, and none of them are in England. It is still the best league, imo, though.

Messi is perfect. The only downsides to his game relate to his physical deficiencies.

Check on this in seven years time. People went to scary South Africa, they went to backwards Brazil. They will go to rogue Russia. They will go to questionable Qatar. It will be fine.