Ishmael

He's more important than any individual player (with a few exceptions e.g. Bale for Spurs), but he's not more important the sum total of the players. Obviously pretty hard to prove either way, but that's my belief. Erm, the Fink Tank research.

It's even easier to string together one line of irrelevant nonsense that contributes nothing to the discussion about our incompetent owner. Bravo sir. I've pointed out that the post is based on absolutely nothing other than fantasy and wishful thinking. Your move.

Started off as a simple helpful post, then, for some bizarre reason, I had to justify myself and for some ridiculous reason I'm having to do it again. Christ.

It's easy to string together a couple of paragraphs of fantasy lined talk about how much better things would be if things were better.

How many professional footballers do you know personally?

And that post is coming to you direct from Imagination Land, where all your dreams come true.

Haha, how fucking dare I try to be helpful.

Replacing Beckham with Beckerman, huh? Crafty. I bet the Amuuuurican public don't notice.

Anyone who hasn't seen the film doesn't know that ffs, even though it is very relevant to the middle third and one of the main selling features of the film Leave it out So yeah, a Wolverine spoiler is on the last page...

The monument is perfectly placed. I proper welled up the first time I walked up and saw it in the distance.

Keep telling yourself you're only smoking it! There was a Fink Tank article a while back that looked at the impact of replacing "under performing" managers which found that there was a honeymoon period for the "upgrade" before results reverted to how they were previously. Ergo, squad quality is far more significant than the manager. Obviously there will be some miracle worker managers out there, but what is the likelihood that we get that lucky? How many clubs get that lucky?

Because we are worse off than Norwich in the short-term.

Torres is a proper Crouch of a striker these days. Can net a double hat trick against the dog and duck, but cannot control a pass against the likes of Norwich. You can obviously see glimpses of his former quality, but now his body is letting him down, he needs to man-up (oops, sorry Liverpool cunts) and change his approach.

On the whole who is to blame issue, I'm of the opinion that it's more the quality of the squad than the manager. So, I'm happy to keep Pardew providing the squad is improved.

Because they have the financial stability to do so. Just try their approach with a huge loan outstanding plus 60-70% (whatever it is now) wages... They'd be treading a very fine line.

If we were in Napoli's position with our current transfer window's failures I'd be stood outside SJP firing flaming arrows of doom at the boardroom windows.

Yeah, we can't do a Napoli then. No debts and 42% wages is fucking amazing.

Retired managers would be ace. Actually, articulate retired managers. Plus Lawro for japes every now and then. Lawro was amazing commentating on the scummy Brazilians.

Mate, if Suarez was there they'd have needed to publish a fucking filing cabinet. Plus negro or negrito isn't there, which would have been Suarez's number one and two suggestions seeing as he was done for using them - why did Liverpool omit those I WONDER...

I've seen the Wolverine, but anyone who hasn't should not scroll up the page unless they want to see a massive spoiler.

Spoilers FFS.

Any debts? Wages as % of turnover?

Now this I can agree with. OK, so if you're the kind of person that needs a squeaky voiced commentator screaming about how glorious everything is then Lawro isn't your man. Or if you are desperate for a co-commenter who has the eyesight and mental capacity to talk over slomo-replays using hindsight to say exactly where the defender should stand, cos you know the co-commentator is dead right on everything... But, if like me, you want some foul tempered cynical old cunt making a mockery of anything pathetic on display then there is nobody better than Lawro.

They blatantly ran out of ideas and were desperate for one more to make the formatting look decent. Seeing as there is no logical order to it, I'll assume it is ordered as ideas were put forward. Makes perfect sense.

If over the course of a Premier League season, our only options in two crucial attacking positions are Ben Arfa, Gouffran, Sammy and Jonas, you're saying we're not fucked? Utterly preposterous. Don't forget Mareaux and Sissoko *shudders*.