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Aye it'd have to be something worth analysing. The Spurs game as great as it was, I felt just ran on emotions alone and an incredible atmosphere in the ground. That Huddersfield away game last season or the Man Utd game just gone would be the best bet imo.

Would've suggested those 2 games as well.

 

Huddersfield away last year Rafa completely outthought Wagner tactically in such an important game, and Sunday was just brilliant.

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QPR away was the most one sided game I ever saw live, including the 8 nowt versus Sheff Wed. Not sure how much there'd be to dissect tactically mind, we were strolling around a lot of the time.

Preston at home in the League Cup last season as well. Even before they went down to 10 men it was so clear how superior we were to them. The whole 90 we just completely took them apart, just like QPR away it should've been 9 or 10 nil.
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Aye it'd have to be something worth analysing. The Spurs game as great as it was, I felt just ran on emotions alone and an incredible atmosphere in the ground. That Huddersfield away game last season or the Man Utd game just gone would be the best bet imo.

Would've suggested those 2 games as well.

 

Huddersfield away last year Rafa completely outthought Wagner tactically in such an important game, and Sunday was just brilliant.

 

Aye Huddersfield were flying at the time iirc, so Rafa had a lot of work to do preparing for them. To then pull out a 3-1 away win was impressive.

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Just noticed, every Premier League team bar the top 6 have negative goal difference. :lol:

We're 8th best defensively, 6th worst offensively :lol: Literally just a passable premiership striker away from being comfortably safe.
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The man who owned Portsmouth for six weeks during an ill-fated spell in 2009 has been sentenced to five years in a United Arab Emirates jail for stealing £5m from his wife to fund the purchase.

 

Sulaiman Al Fahim, who also fronted the Abu Dhabi United Group's deal to buy Manchester City in 2008, was found guilty of forgery, using forged documents and aiding and abetting.

 

He and an accomplice were found to have stolen the money used to buy Pompey from Sacha Gaydamak, with Al Fahim soon selling the club to Ali Al Faraj.

 

Al Fahim, 42, did not attend the hearing and was sentenced in his absence.

 

Prosecutors said that Al Fahim's wife discovered the money was missing after the returns she had expected from a high interest rate account she opened in 2009 did not come in.

 

She said she contacted the bank's accounts manager, but he "kept stalling" despite her asking him to move the account in September 2011.

 

When she decided to visit the bank in person, she was told there was no money in the account.

 

She then went to the bank's legal affairs department, and when they failed to take action she reported the matter to the police.

 

Dubai Criminal Court also convicted the bank manager of theft, forgery of official documents and use of forged official documents. He was also sentenced to five years in prison.

 

'Top eight by 2016'

 

At the time of Al Fahim's ownership, Portsmouth were in the Premier League but the club was also in financial difficulty and had struggled to pay players and staff.

 

Four years later, Pompey had gone into administration twice, suffered three relegations and had seven different owners.

 

In 2013, it was taken over by the Pompey Supporters Trust (PST), who sold it to former Disney chief executive Michael Eisner in August 2017.

 

Last season the club was promoted from League Two to League One. They are currently ninth in the table.

 

In a 2009 interview with Radio Solent conducted after he had bought Portsmouth, Al Fahim said: "To be realistic we need a new ground and we want to strengthen the squad and the academy.

 

"Hopefully we can have a new stadium in place by 2015 or 16. We would like to be a top-eight club by that time."

 

PST spokesperson Ashley Brown told BBC Sport the case "once again raises questions about how owners can purchase football clubs".

 

The Premier League has tightened its rules on ownership since Al Fahim's brief spell, and stricter criteria now have to be met than at the time of his takeover - with changes introduced largely as a result of the club's tumultuous ownership history.

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http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/16/phil-brown-apologises-describing-chelsea-ace-tiemoue-bakayokos-performance-holocaust-game-7317204/

 

Former Hull City manager Phil Brown has issued an apology for describing a performance from Chelsea star Tiemoue Bakayoko as a ‘Holocaust of a game’.

 

The ex-Derby County and Preston North End manager featured on TalkSport on February 6 and likened the France international’s display against Watford to the horrific genocide during World War II, which saw six million Jews murdered.

 

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Bellerin kicked up a stink on Arsenal Fan TV apparently... 

 

 

Just earned the guy a bucket load more publicity and money

 

Wasn't expecting that accent

 

:lol: The only thing I could think of as well.

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Like the bit about him saying his boots we're a bit of a rip off. Think we can all guess where he got them from  :aww:

 

Went to watch Man United at Southampton with a pal who had spare ticket. Was at start of his final season. Ability he had even at that age was something else, everything went through him and Southampton couldn't get near him.

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