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Mind the gap

An un-sharp Ben Arfa is still a better option than Obertan.

"Sickening"

Fully expecting someone to change a letter here.

I suppose we're more huggers. I love a good hug.

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What, the kissing on cheeks? It's a perfectly normal greeting in their culture AFAIK. With your closest friends though? I knew that they kissed on the cheek, but I thought it was at informal parties and such.

I know the French are more affectionate than most, but surely that isn't normal? It's not even whether it's "gay" or not, it just seems awkward.

0:25 seconds in, no fucking way man They're humping each other like.

Taking this off topic a little, as much as I love Only Fools and Horses this clip is much funnier than the Del Boy falling through the bar that always wins the greatest comedy moment shows. It wins EVERY ONE Funny clip, but it's just slap stick humour. Nothing we haven't seen 100 times before.

Aye, I missed all of that which is a bit of a shame, obviously glad the hooligan element has largely been eradicated but it would be nice to get the terraces back. There's still some fantastic atmospheres generated in the top flight like dependent on the game. There's no other sport in the world though, to my knowledge, that will generate the passion we see at football grounds in the likes of Istanbul, Buenos Aires etc.

American football, at both the professional and top college levels is definitely up there. With stadiums that seat 50 to 100,000+, hours to get properly pissed up before the game, long-standing rivalries (many college football ones go back over 100 years), a small schedule (16 games for the pros before playoffs, only 12 for college) so the result of each game is critical, and crowds dominated by young males violent bullshit is pretty inevitable. In typical U.S. fashion, people don't often get killed, so the violence isn't mentioned much. I experienced some nasty stuff on a regular basis when I was an undergrad including some full-scale skirmishes that stretched out over blocks and required riot police and tear gas to break up. I've also had some quite menacing stuff at certain away games, including, memorably, some hateful shouting and chanting directed at my then-pregnant wife. American football (along with Football in England) isn't up there with the stuff you see on the the continent, or in South America etc. Partly because of rules and regulations, partly because they're just nutters

It's not even that, when it's not floated it hits the first man/floats far too far. Mind boggling frustrating. Taking a corner is arguably the easiest task in football. Say if we'd scored the average 4 or 5 goals from set pieces we'd not need to be looking over our shoulder currently. All this French shit on/off field for Sunday, we're almost asking for a piss poor performance and a slack 1 goal defeat. one of his free kicks yesterday was probably the worst I've seen in years, it was practically a daisy cutter.

His last too I hope.

Areet then, I'm just thrown by comments like this I suppose

He used to whip his corners in when he first came, right on the keeper usually iirc. God knows what's going on now.

I don't know the statistics and I don't really care, there's no need for a bloke and his son to be jumped by a pack of nobs, regardless of how a few of their lot go on. It just comes across like your Man U vendetta, A deep genuine hatred of a club and it's fans for arbitrary reasons. Like the fucking Lyon lot would have had a clue what they were shouting anyway.

What's the point, man?

Bunch of fucking charvers, basically. I'd love to see them 1-on-1 with a genuine nut case, like.

That's LRD's work. I feel like I need to credit him. Obertan too is quite the strapping man with full head of hair.

I don't think I've ever thanked you for that, have I? Anyway, cheers Sima, I actually do really appreciate it.

Cabaye I'd say.

Or that he's been dropped from a plane.

Would genuinely have him on a short term deal if he could hack it.

Elliott, although none of them fill me with much confidence. I think adapting a "score 1 more than you" approach is probably the best route.