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He should be done for the stamping, but nothing on the celebration. Come on, if Arsenal fans can't behave it's their own fault. This kind of taunting celebrations are not that rare, and this is the first time I see people asking for a player's head. And they are great if you ask me, football thrives in rivalry. The last time I remember a player getting done in Spain was when Giovanni showed Real fans the finger after scoring at Bernabéu 10 years ago... And although that was a tad over the line (and yet Real fans didn't stampede or do anything other than scream at him), he is forgiven in my eyes (We have had Madrid players doing taunting celebrations in Camp Nou too!)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1213480/CHARLES-SALE-Fraud-probe-force-Ashley-sale.html#ixzz0R7sltFsq Why the hell would a children's charity buy a football club?

Is there really any team that - as of today - would fail the homegrown rule?

5 English players is nothing for any club. The squad size could be another thing... we have that in Spain but we cheat it a lot with youngsters registered for our feeder teams that are allowed to line up with the main squad (Jeffren for example played this weekend for Barça and is registered as a Barça Atlètic player).

EDIT: So this smiley is called "mackems", so unexpected.

Every UEFA game is filmed, isn't it? They should seriously start dishing out bans for incidences that weren't caught by the refs, it's not like they don't make a pretty penny out of the whole circus. The whole "if the ref doesn't see it you get away with it" mentality is just wrong and encourages cheating.

http://www.paddypower.com/football/football-specials/tottenham-v-chelsea-special?ev_oc_grp_ids=114039 Who makes up that stuff?

Suggest the thread title to be changed to "The end of the end of diving?"

I have to go and make another one at some point... I have an idea but I'll probably have to make it (even) shittier than the Jose/Bobby/Ronaldo one since I can't spend that much time on this crap EDIT: Who scored that goal against Spurs?

I think the animosity comes from before the transfer already? Pretty sure he got his share of booing at home games. And I think Adebayor has fueled the fire with some of what he's said since then about Arsenal.

Looks like the van says Police on the side. The way he starts waves his arms angrily when he realises he cant catch him. Fat policemen

Ok, when did Robert get in his undies? I have heard about the incident but not exactly when/how it happened?

Took me almost 3 hours to make this... http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7315/cwc.jpg

Did Asprilla ever perform at domestic level with his clubs? I get the impression that he created his career with his continental heroics. I felt gutted after that game, btw, GUTTED.

Silva is so good already, and he is going to become even better in my opinion... Florentino can have Ribéry, I will take Silva (so pissed off we didn't sign him last year and ended up with Hleb...)

I see... Mou was using Motta as creative midfielder? The problem with us is that he wasn't quick enough (of mind) to work as creative midfielder, and he was too bad a tackler to work as a ball-winner (he got so many stupid sending offs that I was foaming at the mouth). So while he was a decent all-around player, he wasn't excellent at anything. He seemed to don't give a toss in his last years, too, but moving clubs can help on that.

djmattis, what are your thoughts on Motta?

They have been massive underachievers these last two seasons, but I agree that on paper they are third best. They need to sort out all the ownership/debt issues though.

Yep, and once you fail to reproduce that defensive record, you get a relegation battle.

They scored 30ish goals last season, iirc? That's a relegated side record.

http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/gif/20090912/Getabar.jpg

A hacker group uploaded a Maradona photo to the Argentinian FA web... wearing the Brazil shirt http://www.marca.com/2009/09/12/futbol/mundial_2010/1252708205.html

Drogba

Top 2: Boumsong on his debut for us against a non-league team in the FA Cup. Bottom Left: Alex McLeish (Rangers manager at the time who we bought Boumsong from for £8m) Bottom Right: Graeme Souness (with tache) Basically Boumsong got raped by a non-league striker on his debut. Thanks!

Ok, I need decodification for Skeletor's since it looks funny but I don't understand why... is the guy in the Scottish flag Souness? And who's the black dude in the magpie shirt? EDIT: Is it Boumsong?