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We're playing Norwich at home and we have Rafa god damn Benítez at the helm. Anything other than a win will be a disappointment.

This is it boys. This is what football is all about. Glory days.

I'd might not be averse to this if he actually was really good. He isn't. He can actually fuck right off for all I care.

Goes to show how he's rated.

Another one from Real Madrid's Castilla. I know people rightfully go on about Barcelona's La Masia but Real don't really do much worse even though they usually don't provide their youngsters with many chances in the league.

I think that McManaman foul is the angriest I've ever been watching football. Did the ref even blow the whistle for a foul? And the lack of remorse from absolutely everyone - McManaman himself, Martinez and even the Wigan owner still makes my blood boil.

Did well. Sought 3 points at home as we should. Maybe not spectacular but it looks like the foundation of a team. I don't really care who we are facing at home in this league - we should beat them and we did just that today. Especially impressive as we were out of our two main strikers.

Yay.

Don't know if this has been discussed earlier in the thread but why hasn't be played more than one game for Ireland?

Just realised I've never heard of anyone of these and I had no clue who Hayden was when we signed him. Glory days.

Some people on here actually thought he was coming here to replace Dan Gosling

Pointless bringing him in. Can't even break into a Championship midfield comprised of Colback and Anita.

:'(

Isaac Success has signed a deal with Watford who seemingly are buying success.

It looks like Rafa has faith in young Sterry at left back and will use Dummet and Clark as cover But Sterry is right footed no? Either way not very inspiring but I'll give Clark a chance.

This probably means that Dummett will be regarded as a left back from here now on. I'm not a big fan of that.

I actually decided to go through Andy Carroll's old thread and holy shit the amount of grief he was given. Mitrovic is going to be fine in the Championship.

Real Madrid - PSG is canny. 3-1 now, some kid broke the ice for PSG after a nice dribble followed by two goals by Thomas Meunier who came on as a right back after 10 mins of play weirdly enough. Marcelo just scored from a pen.

Why on earth did we buy Shelvey.

On that note. The fake Fat Sam profile on Twitter is hilarious. "It's a good thing my plonker is so fucking massive, because I've been plunging it into a lot of Premier League arse this season. Have it."

Last time around Carroll(17), Nolan(17), Lövenkrands(13) and Ameobi(10) scored 57 goals between them and we lorded the league. I'm pretty sure Mitrovic, Gayle, Perez and Ritchie can achieve the same. I'm actually pretty excited to see if Mitrovic can step up to the occasion and find some confidence, all hell might break loose. Another striker wouldn't exactly hurt but I agree with most that we should put an emphasis on finding someone who can create and score from midfield.

Don't really mind him signing at all. Going to be a long season and if I recall correctly Benitez likes to rotate so it's positive to have a bit more experience and especially height. Actually I had him confused with Ryan Nelsen all up until yesterday. That worried me a bit.

If you want to know what's wrong with English football you really don't have to look no further. Those five managers share between them over 2000 games and a whopping count of two trophies. An FA Cup and a fucking Intertoto cup. English coaching is in the dark ages and has been for a few decades now and it has to be noted as a serious problem that the last Englishman to mount a serious challenge for the Premier League was Kevin Keegan with us more than 20 years ago. Also an Englishman hasn't progressed to the Champions League final probably since Liverpool under Joe Fagan(?). Absolutely rotten to the core.

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