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I had a good laugh at that awkward yet rather clever piece of work too. Nothing beats the Cisse stunner at Chelsea last season though (in a different way). I was left speechless with with an open mouth after letting out a mandatory shout. Love those opposition players' reactions to these incidents. vdV and Drogba (along with Pardew) last season. It's like 'I would/could never have done that!'

Having a midget like Defoe in their team was probably a factor in choosing Perch over Williamson. Perch is a better bet than the slow-turning Williamson against an agile Defoe. It also helps that they have no Adebayor to own Perch in the air, which is a definite weakness of his.

Thought I saw a glimpse of vdV smiling after Krul collected the ball from Saylor's improvised header.

You can view them after the transfer deadline for each gw is over. Works fine for me.

Just realised too. I usually wait for the team news before I make any final adjustments. http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4395/98291278.jpg

Yeah, he already has a Dutch passport but FIFA requires 5 years residency to represent another country. That's why he has to stay til August to be eligible for Holland. We probably won't know until near the end of the transfer window whether this is a goer.

Dawson is their captain which makes it more likely he'll start over Kaboul.

Curious, does the national service exemption apply to medals in any sports, or is it just the football team with the privilege?

Does that mean no national service exemption for him? Gonna suck if that got away cos of some naivety on his part.

It would have been fine if the Olympics weren't sandwiched between 2 ACoNs. The club made the right call in this. With a bit of luck, he'll miss the next ACoN too. Will be all ours for the season.

Don't know if it's area-specific but they are streaming it live on the official olympic channel on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic

The 'Newcastle United' is allowed, isnt it? This from twitter earlier... My bad, wrong corner...

I know they can't show the SportsDirect signs. Didn't know 'Newcastle United' is not allowed though.

As if I take Wiki at face value. Click on the link which refers to a translated article at OM's website before u facepalm

Where's the final year of contract from? Wiki has him signed with OM for 5 years in 2010. Link in references seems to suggest so too. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.om.net%2Ffr%2FSaison%2F101005%2FActualites%2F48184%2FLoic_Remy_a_signe_pour_5_ans&act=url

http://www.epltalk.com/media/2012/07/man-united-away-shorts-600x346.jpg Great away shorts boxers to go with the top. Kagawa's lass would love that.

The least he can look like Shola

I like this.

Or rather EPL, which you'll hear very often around here.

New kit!

Read wiki's entry on Sunderland's 05/06 season after the previous few posts and came across this excellent bit. Also their season summary is one big blur of (classy) text.

Imagine - Senegal qualify and Ameobi gets the remote chance of a call-up from Nigeria.

Any1 else noticed that the back of the Espanyol kit seem to be a solid colour, not stripes?

Good (if true). Bad IMO, we shouldn't be denying any player the chance to compete in the Olympics. Unless he doesn't want to personally. Can entirely see the reason why the club wouldn't want to release him though. That would be 3 consecutive international tournaments within the space of 13 months - 2 ACoNs + Olympics. He'll probably be running on near empty at the end of it.