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played for their u20 at one stage before getting called up by englands u21

yep and as a bonus gets to finish off Platini before he can even challenge his dictatorship. If he weren't so despicable I'd admire such brilliant political thinking.

meh he's not a bad player.

completely agree, hell when was the last "official written transfer request"? Also the very concept of a "loyalty" payment is ludicrous

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10871065/Qatar-World-Cup-2022-France-embroiled-in-corruption-scandal.html

We would like. read something about man utd "cooling their interest" in fabregas or some shit like that today

Roy Keane rejects Celtic job

fucking hell that things official

I'm willing to put Lucas is the best in my sig if England beats Uruguay as long as you put I-Know-Nothing in your sig if they don't. I think Uruguay will walk away with that group is Suarez is fit. I'm not all that convinced by Uruguay, sure Suarez is brilliant and Cavani is fairly good but the rest of the side isn't great. For me that group is by far the hardest to call.

will it be that simple? i imagine if the allegations are proven then the countries that lost out to qatar will at the very least try to force a repeat of the vote any country complaining will either get "grants" (which will conveniently end up in the fa executives back pockets rather than any kind of grass roots) or threatened with removal from the football "family", any government tries to intervene in stopping this corruption that country gets banned. The whole thing is corrupt beyond redemption and FIFA, UEFA, and every single FA world wide needs to be torn down and start from scratch to remove it.

bbc has a bit more detail on that times story http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27652181

I'd feel much better with a better lb than Santon if we tried it

a rather underwhelming target, solid enough but for the price they'd have to pay surely they could do better or just try to hold onto Colback

personally I think Chelsea would be better off with Ivanovic at cb and azpilicueta actually playing in his proper position at rb but seems to work for them

well to clarify the owners been the same since league one, whats changed is the chairman, apparently the owner wanted to sell as soon as she inherited it but he advised to wait until in the prem or something like that.

McDermott gone from Leeds

agree fully on Coleman, not so sure Ivanovic is better going forward but defensively he's miles ahead of Debuchy.

And Southampton They're about to get £25 million for Lallana,and they will definitely spend it. We're trying to give away Mapou and Ben Arfa for peanuts that we won't spend anyway. will they? Hard to tell really since the guy who really was ambitious and running the club is gone its impossible to predict what will happen.

29, one of the most ridiculous athletes in the game right now combined with a ludicrous amount of skill.

how did they break the rules exactly?

anyway to get somewhat back on topic, its rare that any manager can get the opportunity to go out on top from a club and I wonder will Wenger get as good a chance to go out a winner as he had here.

which is quite a feat when you consider he managed to take the title off the best team of the last however many generations, that was mourinho's greatest achievement imho...he stopped the unstoppable and they've truthfully never been the same since Impressive feat but at Real winning the title isn't considered that big an achievement, see Capello two seasons at Real 10 years apart, sacked both times despite winning the title in both seasons.

I meant go somewhere else, possibly International football, not to give up completely. Think you're spot on, he loves the day to day stuff too much to leave club football. Definitely, he loves Arsenal too though, possibly too much if anything. Aye, there's definitely a right time to leave a club and if you love a club as much as Arsense does in Arsenal, he may not see it when he should. Sir Alex got it spot on. Funnily enough Mourinho gets it right on a much shorter time scale, Porto, Inter, Real, he seems to get out just at the right time.. wouldn't include Real since he was more or less kicked out of there with mostly everyone hating him You know what i mean though. You're right, Jose does have ability to incite hatred of him, personally i think he's a good manager but a massive prat of a bloke. No doubt, winning the CL with Porto and Inter comparatively limited resources (by champions league standards) were incredible feats but the way he conducts himself leaves a hell of a lot to be desired. Must be noted as much as the english press swoons and fawns over him neither the Italian or Spanish press ever took to him to any extent.

I meant go somewhere else, possibly International football, not to give up completely. Think you're spot on, he loves the day to day stuff too much to leave club football. Definitely, he loves Arsenal too though, possibly too much if anything. Aye, there's definitely a right time to leave a club and if you love a club as much as Arsense does in Arsenal, he may not see it when he should. Sir Alex got it spot on. Funnily enough Mourinho gets it right on a much shorter time scale, Porto, Inter, Real, he seems to get out just at the right time.. wouldn't include Real since he was more or less kicked out of there with mostly everyone hating him

not sure its a good move personally, might have been the right time for him to bow out while he's still on top (relatively speaking)