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Agree with that to the extent that I think Messi was possibly more thrilling to watch before that ridiculous hoard of goals he got. That might have been because it was new and exciting, but to me he definitely seemed much more efficient in that season than in the one's where he pulled off perhaps more ridiculous things. His peak for raw dribbling was in his early years, before striking a balance around 09-11 where he was at his best to watch allround IMO. Then he became a bit a goal machine for a couple of years after that while losing some of the raw excitement he had. Now he's had some injury and form problems he's at a position where he's changing again and reassessing the way he plays, particularly now Barca's strength is with the forward line rather than the midfield (imo).

probably a combination of a growing middle class and the relentlessly negative football employed by Brazilian club coaches

Hazard is boring cos he's Belgian. All these Belgian players are boring and overrated by nature, even a one as talented as Hazard. It's worse when you see the South Americans become boring, they should be flying around like maniacs every game and meeting drug lords in their spare time not putting in solid defensive shifts.

Granada then straight to Watford. The Pozzo way.

WTF

Antti Niamey Hedwiges Majuro fuck the police

Alessio Romagnoli

Pietro Tripoli Wellington Paulista Yann M'(Port)Vila

Lazio wearing this one off number at the weekend, a remake of a kit they had in the 80s

That is what Taylor_J trained us for

http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/squad-lists/Premier-League-squad-lists-September-2014.pdf

Stupid bald fucking cunt talking a load of waffle, hope he fucks off, fucking thumb in a suit.

just read it man ye blind dafties

Suarez still doesn't look sharp to me, even though he's not playing badly.

Yeah it's almost inevitable that teams on the borderline will get shuffled around.

That's actually a photo of Gimp reading the proper mincer thread

Shittest shitcunt ever to play upfront for us since Luuk de Jong

Fingers and toes crossed his legs fall off in his first game, cunt.

You're kidding aren't you? He was never the brightest but what in the fuck actually happened to him? He was full on the "Ashley's to blame, not Pardew" typeset when I followed him. Although I think it was me slagging off fans praising 'grafters' that pushed him over the edge. Called me a source of 'constant negativity' and blocked me. Thing is, I'm convinced Skirge is a proper sound bloke but he talks some rubbish like.

Ahh Skirge man. Still got me blocked on Twitter, had a massive flounce cos I was being negative about Pardew

It's not a tremendous deal for them though. Admittedly it's an example of making the best of a bad situation, but they spent £6 million on Antiscore - now 18 months down the line they're having to give him away plus money to bring in a 32 year old on massive wages in an attempt to secure short-term survival. This is endemic of their terrible management. People take the piss out of the whole 'stepping stone' shtick but compare their management here to Swansea who bought Bony at the same time and have just sold him for £30 million. They'll invest that and improve their whole team probably rather than laying down more money on dead weights.

Was just thinking that swear he used to be good.

james found the drugs thread

So obscure they named him twice. Checked this guys Wiki, have absolutely zero recollection of this bloke despite being in an era where I watched lots of football. He gets my vote.