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New Zealand wasn't ready for this I suppose away matches to Vanuatu don't prepare you to face this sort of quality in this sort of environment.

Other than Arsenal and Chelsea, no club south of Birmingham has won the English league since 1962. Other than the big London three, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham, the other clubs in the "South" are Fulham (a nothing club, as people here love to state) and sides that were promoted within the last three seasons. Up north, even the clubs that don't win trophies are historical with large supporter bases, such as Newcastle, Sunderland, Villa, and Everton. It is not really a fair comparison. Also, Birmingham is definitely in Southern England. Otherwise, Northern England is 75 percent of England. Geographically, yes. Culturally, no. My experience with the United Kingdom is essentially just a lot of London, so I'm not trying to change the culture of the place, just noting the imbalance and how they make comparisons such as these difficult.

Other than Arsenal and Chelsea, no club south of Birmingham has won the English league since 1962. Other than the big London three, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham, the other clubs in the "South" are Fulham (a nothing club, as people here love to state) and sides that were promoted within the last three seasons. Up north, even the clubs that don't win trophies are historical with large supporter bases, such as Newcastle, Sunderland, Villa, and Everton. It is not really a fair comparison. Also, Birmingham is definitely in Southern England. Otherwise, Northern England is 75 percent of England.

I've seen Yedlin. I don't think he is a right back at any higher level.

This is the ones to watch, your guy must be 32 or something. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Dele Alampasu. I think he has the potential to be a top level keeper. Not only does he have great height and athleticism but very assured as well. He was selling water on the streets of Lagos and playing football on the streets a year ago.

What...what could possibly be the reason for this? I don't understand.

The worrying thing is that Santon has actually declined from one year ago until now. He is one of those that lost confidence and hit very bad form when things turned for the worse last season. He has been alright this season, imo (I think much of the criticism of him has been over the top), but I really want to see him improve and push on at this point of his career. I always thought the deal to buy him was fantastic business, and at the end of 2011-2012, I thought we had an absolute star developing at leftback. He is still very useful and easily the best left back here, but I am disappointed in his progress.

Why include two female goals, that will invariably lose every year, instead of just creating a female Puskas?

Apparently they're planning on only playing the America players since it's at the Azteca and they won't need cohesion as well as playing in altitude. Think it's a great idea, look at Spain for example, their whole team is composed by Barca and Real players. I have no doubt that Mexico will go through in a decent fashion. Alright, but Real Madrid and Barcelona are the two best teams in one of the world's top three leagues. Meanwhile, the Mexican league has to stop matches because people are firing automatic gun outside. There is some difference.

Fatally idiotic Sopranos character http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/i/players/130x180/121811.jpg Davide Santon http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090510221407/sopranos/images/c/c2/Seangismonte.JPG

How does work ?. Tottenham were far from tired, they battered us, and if it wasn't for our GK making the most saves in one game this season we would have lost. Tiredness my arse. People are changing history, now. We certainly were not "battered". NUFC clearly outplayed Spurs away from home in the first half and then conceded too much of the possession in the second half, which was a direct result of the team leading and our players tiring.

Every time a team scores from a corner in England, we have to hear ten minutes of commentators talking about zonal marking. Every time.

Yeah, we were wide open for about 20 mins down his side, lucky they didn't score from one of those chances. This coincided directly with a sharp drop in energy levels from Gouffran, imo. It was understandable given how much he invested earlier, but Davide struggled when Walker and Townsend both came at him in tandem.

Add Mapou and Gouff to that list. Cabaye too. Even Santon who I thought was given a rough time and made one bad mistake, fought really hard, got in some good blocks, and sacrificed for the team. I am proud of them for that performance. The first half they outplayed Spurs and in the second they battled very well.

Say what you would like to about this club, the players, the manager, NUFC are right in position to challenge for Europe.

Debuchy gives away so many foolish fouls.

Ciise offsides are now like Tiote yellow cards for referees. They just assume the player has done something wrong.

I wish we would track Walker. Spurs are overloading that side at every opportunity.

We should bring on Sammy Ameobi or Hatem Ben Arfa. Gouffran and Remy have tired.

He's has only been given a yellow because it is a situation where most players would foul.

We are struggling with the overload on the right side.

Sissoko is monstrous.

All of our players need to calm down. Nervous mistakes all over the pitch for the first 10 minutes this half.

Gomes is still at Tottenham?