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I don't like either but I'd guess that the reason Obertan gets more stick breaks down like this: Marveaux is an absentee who doesn't do s***. -vs- Obertan gets involved a lot and actively wastes possession. Every f***ing time Obertan gets the ball I go "well that's that, maybe we'll get something going next possession" Meanwhile, I can't even tell that Marveaux is on the pitch.

Now that's a decent team! I have to say Elliott doesn't look too bad. Not a threat to Krul of course but he does look sharp as a backup.

I'm for this. Give him a reality check.

Perfect result right? Cisse breaks his slump and we don't have to dick around with this bullshit tourni anymore.

This one for me... Jonas needs to be on the field, he is one of our hardest workers and seems to get involved in everything. He's important to the morale of the team as much as anything else imo.

Whoa now. I'm as big an HBA fan as the next ignorant American, but this is getting a bit ridiculous. You are completely discounting Jose Enrique in goal -- the man has a 100% clean sheet rate in all competitions.

Tiote Anita and Cabaye does sound tits, but not if it means Perch at right back... Would rather see Perchinho alongside tiote in midfield and Anita on the side. Never thought I'd want to see Simpson back, but Perch seems completely lost on the flank. Quality player at DMF/CB mind, but he has been exposed badly at RB this season.

Come on boys. If you can't be confident going into a match against Norwhich, you might as well quit watching football.

Not sure who wants him to be fair, with the knee issue and all this bullshit and his drought at the end of last season... It's not like teams will be falling over themselves to sign him. He's a great player mind you, I just don't see clubs bigger than newcastle being desperate to have him.

Krul would have saved both goals and scored a hat trick

Say whaaaat? NICE

Don't we have four points from the first two games? At least wait til monday night to start freaking out.

At this point I'm pretty sure our women's team could beat our men's team

Fair enough, sorry boys

Reckon his lack of movement is down to being out of shape. at least I fucking hope so.

Go live in Britain? Continue your life as before, except in a shittier economy? Would be a hard choice to make eh?

It baffles me why England is so desperate to hang onto northern ireland in the first place. I mean, obviously the answer has to be "money" but it still seems like more trouble than it's worth to me. Let them have a few extra hectares of potatoes and save yourself the riots, I'd say.

Hahahahaha yep, that's the s*** right there. Makes me think that he has a second career as an NFL punter once he's done in MLS, that is pinpoint accuracy. Hilarious how he punks Rafael Baca out with that chest bump too. Motherfucker grows a pirate mustache and shaves half his hair off and all of a sudden he's a hard man.

As a bonus, there was a moment in the LA/San Jose (my local club) game where a SJ player was rolling around on the ground pretending to be injured because we were up by one in the last five minutes, and Beckham chipped the ball in on him from about 20-30 yards away while play was stopped. He just took a little potshot at him, because he happened to have the ball when the ref stopped the game, and managed to drop the ball literally on top of the San Jose player as he rolled around on the ground. Unfortunately the ball ricocheted off the SJ player straight into the referee and Becks got sent off for it. It was f***ing classic though, the San Jose player jumped right up and charged Beckham, obviously forgetting that he was "injured"

Yeah he won the championship last season, and has been very solid as a cmf-playmaker type for the last few years. He is still just as good as he's always been on free kicks, but he has really impressed me with his work rate and durability. He's one of the players that is making tackles out of position in the last 20 minutes of games for LA, which is not what you expect to see from overpaid "star players" as they close in on 40 years old. I'd love to hate on him, mind you, because I have a load of excess hatred for man-united, but he's been a fucking good player out here and I'm kind of happy for him that he finally got his MLS trophy. Robbie Keane and Henri haven't been bad either, but they haven't adapted as well to the "we will foul the shit out of you because we know the ref won't call it" style of the MLS

I've been impressed as hell with Beckham's performance in MLS. Technical deficiencies aside, it's not an easy league to play in. Very similar to the premier league in physicality and pace, add to that the fact that every single MLS player loves to take a hack at Beckham and he has held up remarkably well, especially playing as a center-mid. For a past-his-prime 38 year old English wanker, the guy is pretty damn good.

Two welshmen come across a sheep with it's head stuck in the fence. One of the two goes down and starts fucking the sheep. He then looks to the other one and says "don't you want to join in?" The second welshman says "alright then" and then goes down and sticks his head in the fence.

Great attitude in that interview, and he didnt seem to miss a beat in the Villa game. I saw plenty of other guys fuck up but can't quite point the finger at Bigi for any particular mistake. Not to mention The Tackle which was key of course. Sky's the limit for this lad and we have to give some credit to the scouts yet again.

Nah, that's Wales.

Man you should at least kick over a sign, steal a traffic cone or grope a foreign woman in there somewhere. You have a reputation to uphold you know.