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Arshavin was a fantastically talented footballer. For 3-4 years with Zenit, Arsenal and Russia he was class. Just seemed to get a bit bored.

good at the football

Nee idea what the hell I've just watched.

Probably one of the shittest games of top flight football I've ever seen in terms of the standard of play. Good defending has totally and utterly gone out of the window over the last 10 years or so, and it doesn't really make games better spectacles to be honest. Like watching fucking handball or something.

Napoli - Fiorentina game has been great

Unbelievable how shit we are. 12 million + Cabella on Thauvin and he isn't even good enough to start at home to Norwich Sensational club.

Not too surprising though. Giovinco is extremely talented. Just a combination of his tiny stature and bad decision-making meaning he never quite had enough to make it at Juve as a first choice. He was brilliant at smaller sides where the team was built around him. In MLS, which is a naive league tactically/defensively, he has time and space to take the piss at what is basically the peak years of his career. He looks like a total ringer playing for Toronto, which you probably couldn't say about any other DP player previously.

Bournemouth have 2 goalkeepers, one who likes to pass the ball to opposing strikers' feet and the other who has hands made of quavers. Quite impressive really.

Bellerin is fucking brilliant. Barca will buy him back in a year or two.

Jamie Vardy has 9 goals. Shows how much attention I've been paying. I know Leicester have played well but I still can't work out when the fuck that happened.

Shit.

No

De Rossi scoring on his 500th appearance for Roma

Vehemently disagree, he's a very good player. Yep. He'd be England's best midfielder by an absolute mile.

Man Utd 10 times better without Carrick

What you mean is its exactly the same except Norway and Newcastle are shite now.

Hopefully Bosnia and Ukraine make it because they actually have some watchable footballers.

Klinsmann's always been a bit of a cunt really.

1. Mexico 2. Costa Rica 3. Jamaica 4. USA The new CONCACAF hierarchy.

Bobby Charlton is from Ashington and loved Maggie Thatcher. Enough fucking said.

He's being played as a workhorse, man. Has been for far too long. In a more static role he'd still get lots of goals and make stuff happen. Exactly. He almost exclusively plays up front on his own. It's ridiculous. He has to cover far too much ground. I'm not at all of the opinion Rooney is as good a player as he has been or would have hopefully been, but to say a player like Kane starts ahead of him is silly, imo. Exclusively upfront on his own? That's not true at all, he played deeper last season for large spells and has frequently played in a two with Welbeck, Hernandez, van Persie etc in the recent past. It's only this season where he's been played upfront on his own because that's where he demanded to play, and Man Utd totally cleared the decks to make it happen. He's played a multitude of different roles over the last few years, each of them with decreasing output as his body has gradually given up on him.

He's being played as a workhorse, man. Has been for far too long. In a more static role he'd still get lots of goals and make stuff happen. Bollocks, he's no good whatever role he plays. Man Utd played themselves into a corner thinking he was their man through the middle, cleared all the decks for Rooney and then realised early on this season what a mistake they'd made. Hence the panic buy of Martial, who already offers far more to the side. Absolutely no chance we should be going into ANOTHER tournament with him in the side. It's just daft when you have Sturridge, Kane, Sterling etc who are all powerful, pacey and hungry. That's our biggest strength because the midfield options (especially when Wilshere is inevitably injured) are poor. We need to be able to worry teams on the break as that's our best bet.

It's not form. He's been in a constant decline since 2011 to the point where he's now a total physical weakling and barely a threat to the opposition. He's done a Torres just with more penalties and less horror misses so nobody has cottoned on.

Rooney is honestly shit. I don't get it. It's as if people don't watch Man Utd these days so don't realise. He's a shit, slow, useless bastard who spends all game waddling around being shit. Martial looked livelier in 5 minutes up top than the cunt has for a good 3 years. Don't even mind Rooney tbh, he's a alreet bloke and has absolutely mugged Man Utd for 250k a week so you've got to congratulate him for that. A proper scouser. But his goose is well and truly cooked.

Kane ahead of Rooney?! Hardly a controversial opinion considering Rooney is shite at football.