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Allardyce, once close to winning the England job, now admits he will never be able to achieve true fulfilment as a manager. He said: “I don’t think I’ll get a chance to be England manager. That would have been the ­fulfilment of my career. “I’m not sure I would get the chance with a top-four club either. It's our fault this will never happen you know.

Said it before, and I'll say it again, utterly odious twat. Can you imagine Modric in an Allardyce team btw

I used to agree with the lack of physicality in midfield, however Song has hugely impressed me this season. Diaby is meh, Denilson should be sold. Can't really think of a defensive midfielder within their price range who would be an improvement on Song.

Surely Xerez has no chance, do they not have a worse head to head than atleast 1 of those teams?

He's not an out and out goalscorer but he's very much an Arsenal player. On a free Arsenal have got themselves a great deal. I disagree about Arsenal needing somebody to put the ball in the back of the net. It's the style of play they play that prevents them scoring as freely as they should be, not their lack of a 'fox-in-the-box' type player. I doubt if they went out and bought some kind of goal poacher it would make any difference. Their current squad having a season with no serious injuries is good enough to win the league. Maybe a quality centre half aswell.

That real? Don't like when players get weird numbers like that. He should get the 10 'stead of Gallas. Looks shopped tbh. I agree though. Diaby having number 2 and Gallas having number 10 for Arsenal really annoys me. You'd think a nitpicking, footballing purist like Wenger would be obsessive about players having the 'correct' numbering.

Ibra onto the pitch and the first person he embraces with a lengthy hug...Pique.

I watched Annan in the semis and final of the ACoN and he was impressive. Ghana seem to produce a lot of good defensive minded midfielders.

Get the fuck in Pools!

Didn't even see Guthrie there. Smith - 11% Guthrie - 0.9%

I don't know what it says about me but I think Coloccini has been our best player, just slightly ahead of Enrique. I voted for Colo on here and on .cock, It's definitely between him and Enrique as the poll on here shows. The votes for Smith is just mental, bar a couple of games at the start of the season I'd say he's been consistently one of our worst.

Smith double the votes Colo has. Christ our fans are retards.

Pretty unlikely tbh.

Villa is more consistent on the international stage, but Torres is the better all round player.

Wonder if any of our released players will end up there.

First half Mallorca dominated, having much the better of the chances. Second half Ronaldo pulled Madrid by the scruff of the neck to turn it round, they they never reallly loooked in trouble from that point on.

Damn, Totti.

While I agree his shooting (and lots of other attributes) was terrible, I don't really understand the second bit. Give him some credit man, at the end of the day he wasn't a few yards back and it flew into the top corner, it was a hell of a strike. Certainly not an example of his 'terrible' shooting.

For the love of Christ, just delete that first post. We're just starting to get away from the 'deluded' label, this could revive the whole thing.

Well that's nice. Thanks for that not so uplifting semi-rant.

Zigic will lead the line for a very good Serbia side this World Cup. He's very good at what he does.

Oops.

They're like full on bezzies aswell. Maxwell looking for his first goal though.

Allardyce is one almighty c*** of a man.