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That's OK, just checking obsessedmarra-ness levels.

2 belting fixtures from best leeg in da world tonight anywho.

Unbelievable, is this match on TV over your way or have you sourced a stream?

Some of the players Barca have had is ridiculous. That's Riquelme, Hagi and Henry i've now seen VI be all 'meh' about on here

Bent makes Defoe look like Totti in playmaking terms.

Yeah because he's good at playing in shit teams that build their entire gameplan around him. The results tend to stay shit just that he's scoring 60% of his teams goals and the football is terribad. We already have 2 centre forwards that seem completely incompatible in a front 2, the last thing we need is another of the same ilk who can only function on his own. We need wingers, or flexible wide forwards, or a centreforward who can play back to goal, plus some new centre halves, plus a new fullback, plus a box-to-box midfielder... long before we need to sign Darren Bent.

Pretty sure this keeps being the case every season

Actually - in terms of high value signings (fee & wages), I can struggle to think of a more inappropriate way of spending whatever money we have. Even Carroll is more of a desirable option.

No thanks, we have enough shit players.

agree with all of this. And do you know, I'd rather lose 4-3 tomorrow night than win 1-0. I went to the shop and bought some milk before - shirtless.

6 weeks out. Sorry like, but people must stop with the 'unlucky not injury-prone' line. Total liability, unfortunately.

Those quotes They literally can't think for themselves. Hopefully we can kickstart our title challenge here.

Cliche-tastic on there. Aye, if you say so. It's almost nice. There was a void in my life without those cliches, I'm glad to have them back.

If anybody is bored there's a triple-header on ESPN now. Zenit/CSKA, then Cagliari/Napoli and Parma/Inter.

Set penises.

it's funny either way

Just seen this pop up on my Twitter timeline. "I’m not a manager who looks for a clean sheet, I’m looking for a win" - Roberto Martinez

I lived near Stoke when they were promoted and knew Stoke fans who wanted Pulis out of the club before a ball was kicked and I've heard them saying the same thing many times since. Obviously then Mick, these fans you knew are 'deluded' and 'fickle' and of course have an enormous sense of entitlement that means they expect to win da leeg every season. That's obviously the case because they don't like a manager, it can't be for all the perfectly logical and reasonable reasons. Pisses me off this kind of judgement on other fanbases. Apart from when something is totally inexplicable, without comprehension and explanation then I'm willing to take most supporters' word for it on how their manager and team is doing. Like when everybody was up in arms about Lee Clark's sacking except for the Huddersfield fans who watch them every week, or how we hated Allardyce because he was a horrendous fun-vacuum cuntball and instead like Kevin Keegan for some inexplainable reason. I mean, it's not like he saved the club from oblivion, played the best football in the country and is basically the best manager we've had since the 60s. Bad Newcastle fans for worshipping him, bad delooded Newcarstle fans.

Frankly I couldn't give a flying fuck what Stoke fans think. They blissfully enjoy watching their expensively assembled collection of spare parts, aging cloggers and 6 ft plus giants play for binary results every week so it makes sense they'd struggle to grasp our infuriation at watching rank awful football every week. Or maybe they aren't so blissful, when you see their increasingly dwindling away following.

I'm in a foul mood today, and people keep wanting to talk about football. Just feel like ranting! Yeah, there's counter examples tis all.

I don't think there's a distinct correlation between the type of player somebody was and the type of manager they become, tbh.

I feel sorry for him that he's been sold a lie on our football.

Just been tweeting that LeazesTerrace. Struggling to agree with what he's saying, that we need to be tighter defensively and more compact in midfield to stop shipping goals. I think we need another player in the middle since we're just about the only side in the league that plays 2 there but the last thing we need IMO is more focus on defensive shape, solidity more people protecting the back 4.

The Pichichi when you take away pels: Messi 18 Cronaldo 8 Falcao 6