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Is that a haiku? Big American Untroubled by ball control At Milan through luck.

Yeah. "Up to 5" too. So, it might be zero, then? What a waste of paper/ink/pixels.

Good call, am tempted to go buy one just to bounce it off the pavement. The trick in shooting was always in mastering that reverse spin curve.

Babatunde, what do you think of Cana? Supposedly Spurs are sniffing around as well, though I've heard Wolfsburg or Hamburg.

Beautiful. Consider yourself virtually repped.

Yellow streak = cowardice...

and people were saying that it was embarrassing that our fans went to see Owen, Kluivert etc, when they signed. (in hindsight yes! ) A big club shouldn't be doing this...blah blah blah. It was embarrassing, and this is embarrassing too. Can't wait until people actually start playing football again.

Yup. Impressive how he trademarked CR9 over 6 months ago now. For impressive read depressing and predictable

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that Bruce does not fancy Ferdinand in the slightest.

Cheers. Fulham's is smart, West Brom's is beautiful. Quite like Burnley, and the Liverpool ones. The Everton one just looks worse and worse (sorry Niel). Boro is nasty, as is West Ham away. Man City's are lush, sadly, and I just can't make up my mind about Man U's.

...but the Championship is still miles behind the Premiership.

I have visions of black-clad teenagers moping about the pitch.

Jonathan Godsmark Cheers

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/07/02/newcastle-united-players-at-training-session-72703-24056332/ Apologies for ignorance here, but who's the incredibly short skinhead in the first group running picture who look like a mini-Alan Hutton?

What's strange about a cat in Hell? Should it not be a snowball's chance in Hell? Its fur would catch on fire.

where in Ohio are you living? Kent at the moment, near Akron, kind of near Cleveland. My wife's American...

Am currently "from" Ohio. Born in Sydney and brought up in London.

Cheers, http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/16/real-madrid-loans-debt Particularly like the headline "Real seek to prevent fees spiralling out of control". My arse.

If he was walking past a special school with that face on him he would get dragged inside. That's his usual matchday experience I believe.

Where are they getting their money from this time? Don't want to search for the info as I suspect I would get too alienated from football in the process.

Does Owen leaving count?

this is REALLY pissing me off now KSH, serious kudos for the signature, it cracks me up every time you have to cross another one off.

Aren't you still paying for him though?

...because they don't have relegation. Mismanagement is not exclusive to Britain. My point has nothing to do with relegation at all. There are very few professional sports teams in America ran like a f***ing circus. Disagree - there are plenty of examples of similar circus type management. Al Davis - Raiders Mark Cuban - Mavs De Bartolo family - 49ers Marge Schott - Reds 4 out of 92 (MLB, NBA, NFL - 137 if you include NHL & MLS)? I think a lot of his has to do with the passion aspect of English Football. The reason the top clubs are doing well is because they are run by foreigners with no real passion for the club and (sometimes) enlist personnel with close ties to the club to help advise them, but when the "hour cometh" they think with their head and with business sense rather than their heart and hold very little sentiment. Now it just boils down to the choice, would you rather have a some-what soulless club (at least from the boardroom stand-point - there will always be passionate fans) that is well run and be at the top of the game or have a haphazardly run club with local owners at the helm and being adrift in the lower leagues? Unfortunately the face of the game has changed, even over the past 20 years or so, and you've either gotta keep up or fall behind. Football is a world business now and there is very little room for staunch localism. There is room for staunch localism at the level of fans at least, though certainly less than before. If there wasn't, then me and you would probably have found better things to do than banter on here. There is also room for staunch localism at the top, as long as the chairman is not incompetent - see Wigan. I mentioned relegation seriously, because the entire American system is so different that we can only take some lessons, not look at the US as a panacea. No relegation, wage caps, the draft, etc etc - "chairmen" and owners in America are protected from abject, tragicomic failure by the system. I don't know enough about the checks in place regarding prospective owners of American franchises to say whether they are more or less stringent than those here - but my guess is that they are more. I would like to be well-run and be at the top of the game, regardless of whatever country the person in charge comes from. I agree that those at the top are doing well, but is it really because they are run by foreigners? Is it more likely that, like Man U, Arsenal & Liverpool, a team was doing well, the Champions League perpetuated that and then someone came in with a lot of money (borrowed or not) - it just happened to be someone from America in the case of Man U or Liverpool.

I am shocked, what a f***ing waste of a great football player. Yeah waste. He should go play for one of the big plastic super money clubs like Inter so his talent can actually be wasted. Actually, he should go to the likes of Spurs or Villa, so he can "challenge the top four" I fail to see what's wrong with him joining l'OM. He'll be paid alot, he'll be playing in the Champions League and he'll hopefully be fighting for the league title. You all want to make it out like he's going to Uzbekistan or something. I'm sure Lucho will enjoy playing at one of the biggest clubs in the world infront of some of the best supporters in the world. And I'll enjoy watching him lead the team in the fight for the title. Honestly, I'm disgusted by a football world where someone moves to the biggest club in France and it's considered a waste because he's not at a "super club". Hear hear. That said, it would have been nice if he'd come to Spurs