LRD

How did Mexico not qualify automatically from CONCACAF btw? Relied on a USA goal in extra time to save their arses.

That Suarez dive. Old habits die hard.

Jordan keeper punched the ball to Perera when he should have pushed it over the bar.

Uruguay 1-0

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Spain2014-4.jpg

The problem is that if a player is 'exceptional', they're likely to have offers from more successful clubs, and we can only secure them by paying over the odds in wages to overcome their reluctance. That's the route to trouble (eg QPR) If another 10-20k can secure the player, why not? It's not as if we are offering wages of 150k, 200k all round. That extra 10-20k for ONE player won't break the club and send us to the same path QPR has taken (full squad of mediocrity ridden with huge wages).

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sld9EcWv6Mk/UoC_GFmdWsI/AAAAAAAAKAk/vuCWRo9aTXY/s358/Russia+2014+Home+Short+1.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K895utl7q6U/UoC_GEj9f6I/AAAAAAAAKAg/m68P6EyTBkM/s358/Russia+2014+Home+Short+2.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oho2P9GLEzE/UoC_Gb46I2I/AAAAAAAAKAs/qqsLwnc-1SI/s358/Russia+2014+Home+Socks.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7_Y3Y4VG3I4/UoC_F4RvwII/AAAAAAAAKAc/j0WqCTG0H9Y/s358/Russia+2014+Home+Socks+1.jpg Another nice Russia kit. Can't make out the faint details on the front though.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Sweden2014Leaked1.jpg Crap photoshopping but the match fixture details on the shirt look real enough. Guess we'll find out in a few days.

Should just make it London clubs vs the rest.

As usual there's a middle ground of not spending a pound and spending to financial ruin. If a player is exceptional and makes a huge difference to our team, I don't see how spending an extra 10-20k/pw will lead us down the path of Leeds. Not sure why people are talking about doing a QPR that went round signing mediocre players on huge wages. Nobody is proposing the same modus operandi.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Remy's worth 80k/wk and we won't compromise or ruin our financial situation if we offer him that. I'll be well pissed if we don't sign him if we don't sign him because we are stingy. He's one player who lifts the team a level above.

Lloris Ward Caulker Mertesacker Cole Diame Fer Lallana Michu Ozil Berbatov South, 10+1.

Krul Zabaleta Shawcross O'Shea Baines Cabaye Huddlestone Sessegnon Suarez Benteke Van Persie North, 10+1.

Even having a go at at least one rep from each club in the first XI, I'm sure most can come up with better.

South: Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Fulham, West Ham, Palace, Norwich, Southampton, Swansea, Cardiff North: Newcastle, Man U, Man City, Everton, Liverpool, Villa, West Brom, Hull, Stoke, Sunderland

http://i.imgur.com/rogJPxa.png Naw, no way. She looks fine to me.

He's playing fantasy football where you can start at most 2 players from one club. Thing is pretty much everyone can come up with better even with those rules.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WwUrR1xc1sI/UlkXAKrE6PI/AAAAAAAAVbE/ym0QY-EcfvI/s500/Mexico+2014+World+Cup+Home+Kit+(1).jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qfv7RbX7fYM/UlkXB7fUkbI/AAAAAAAAVbU/_KlmGtbYxlQ/s468/Mexico+2014+World+Cup+Home+Kit+(2).jpg

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Colombia2014-5.jpg White shorts.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Scotland2014Home1.jpg Different socks = as good as Brazil?

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ozil-Germany-2014-Shirt.jpg

What a stupid FIFA ruling. New 'tradition' ffs. Makes it easier for Adidas to use one template for all then (excluding Germany).