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Nice lie Foluwashola, he's met you once and that is the only he wished to met you you cretiin.
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Chairman/manager would be good, they've had success with that in the past.
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Best bit about Pardew was the money won on his appointment at NUFC. Downhill from there How quickly we forget.
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There definitely seems to be a disproportionate amount of African players dying young. Is it genetic, or if is it something that might be caught here but goes undiagnosed in Africa (or both)?
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Even more so when that country isn't actually yours, just one who called you up because of a grandparent.
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You should send that to Danny Baker.
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Not worthy of a thread - 2018 FIFA World Cup edition
Troll replied to OzzieMandias's topic in Football
By 2026 the World Cup will have 128 teams, so they might need the help hosting. -
Not worthy of a thread - 2018 FIFA World Cup edition
Troll replied to OzzieMandias's topic in Football
Joint USA/Canada/Mexico bid for 2026. What happens if Iran or Syria qualify? -
What are those odds in none div format though?? 1.01
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Norway would probably have given Savile community service.
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I wonder who won him the two league titles in Spain with a club that wasn't one of the big 2? He didn't win it once which you could put down as a fluke but you don't usually fluke your way to two titles. I guess he could have treated the league season as a cup competition though. Won it with 70 something points twice. 1 of them Deportivo finished 2nd. Neither were flukes. But it just goes to show the best seasons in his career - his team still dropped a lot of points. He regularly got similar amount of points at Liverpool but that wasn't enough to win league titles. His best ever season in terms of points was at Liverpool which they lost against a very strong Man Utd side. Again you would say being too defensive at home cost them the league. Too many home draws. It's a pattern in his career. He's a fine manager but his teams have never dominated a league. Is there a manager who dominates a league ready to take the job? I'm not advocating that we can do better. I'm saying - rafa making harder work of this league than we might have imagined isn't an indication he's not still a top manager or we should be worried long-term. It's actually consistent in his career. It's not his style to steamroller any division. Another Championship manager could do a better job in this division imo. But medium/long term? He's the best man for sure. Another championship manager like Steve Bruce? Or Alex Neil? Norwich and Villa fans would happily swap places with you right now. At the season's start, I thought Norwich had a stronger side than you and were better suited to the Champo, fwiw. But really, who? Gary Monk? I think some of you forget how on your arse you were when you went down and how downright godawful, p*ss-stinking, laughing-stock s*** you've been for more than a decade. And that's not even considering the off the field fuckery. You could easily be where Villa are now, with 30,000 every week moaning their arse off, in absolute pieces. In fact I'll stick my neck out and say that if you hadn't got Rafa, and if he hadn't got you a couple of good players like Clark and Ritchie and others, you'd be absolutely Freddie f***ed right now. Having watched over 50 Championship games this season, 20 odd involving us and loads as a neutral on TV I think you're talking rubbish. Any team that can call on Gayle, Shelvey, Ritchie and Yedlin is going to be up at the tip end of this league even if most of the other players are pretty much run of the mill Championship standard. This is madness. Gayle, Ritchie and Yedlin wouldn't be anywhere near you without Rafa. He brought them to you!! We're the biggest club in the division by some distance and we had a a large transfer pot in the summer due to player sales. To suggest we couldn't have brought in a squad player from Crystal Palace, who hardly featured last season, a Bournemouth player and a player who spent the end of last season at Sunderland and had no future at his parent club is ridiculous. It's not we couldn't have attracted them without Rafa, it's that Rafa identified they were what we needed and signed them. Under the old model, we'd have just signed more Obertans and Rivieres.
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Surprised at that. Being pretty much from there it's not the impression I got at all. Kind of like how on here everyone wanted Pardew to go, but you still got "Alan Pardew's Black and White Army" sung at the match.
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Thought this poll was interesting. Leicester fans were pretty unanimous in wanting him gone.
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Does eating a pie really count as a "football-related matter"? Also there is no evidence that he made a bet either. No but he did admit he knew some friends had bet on him doing it (if you believe what's been reported). That would then make it illegal I think (well some sort of offence to do with betting anyhoo). It's not actually illegal is it? All the "gambling offences" you see tend to be professional sport bodies trying to prevent match fixing rather than criminal trials..
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Does eating a pie really count as a "football-related matter"?
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Apparently that Sutton keeper used to play up front with Shearer for the Southampton youth team.
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How much do you think they're saving?
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It's a novelty bet, it shouldn't be under the jurisdiction of the FA.
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Nowt wrong with that. It's just German for "the, geordies the".
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Hope a snake bites him on the knob.
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Newcastle Utd. v Notts Forest 30/12/16 at 7.45pm (not on TV)
Troll replied to shintonsghost's topic in Football
Notts is the abbreviation of Nottinghamshire, so by calling them Notts you're likening them to County. They feel the same about that as we do when Man Utd get called "United". -
"I get it. I will go home, shine my manager of the year trophy and give myself a bit of confidence." Hope he spends Christmas in a dark room shining his trophy and crying.
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I've become indifferent to Palace since yesterday.
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If he does go, his mam had better watch her letterbox.