Jose posted:

While I know you linked to the comments section, Louise Taylor's articles are almost always awful

Transatlantic Gulp posted:

How good would a Lucas-Yaya Toure partnership be?

Best signing City have made in a while.

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Picture the opening moment's of Wembley, Rooney plays Hernandez in, he's one on one, he buries it and we're a goal up with a minute played.

OR

Hernandez is played one on one, however, Valdes takes him out and is sent off, Rooney misses the resulting penalty. Barcelona, however, are down to ten men with only a minute played.

What situation would you rather?

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I do wish, though, that Man Utd would stop Hernandez from praying in the centre circle prior to kickoff.

If he wants to pray in private that is his own business.

I find the sight of a grown man praying before millions of a people to, I presume, ask God to favour one football team over another frankly ridiculous and somewhat embarrassing.

Ninpo posted:

owolabi taiwo, 15 MAY 2011 1:41A.M. posted:

i am hapi 2 be a man u fance.kudos 2 all man u players,man u boss nd best manager so far sir alex faguson man of honor nd kudos 2 al man u fance out dia

BunnyX posted:

haha stupid foreigners who don't know how to spell things

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Here's a question regarding Transfers - Maybe a decent ITK or "agent" wannabe can answer. What is the full process in a club (any Club) purchasing a player. I'm talking about the Negogiations with Agents and Club, Contract agreements, salary and bonus demands, time scales from start to finish etc. It can't be a simple as finding a player and signing him? Can it??

Just always wondered what actually went on behind closed doors?

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Abou Diaby to be player of the season next year

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Going to finally find his position and put in monster loads of work this summer and then bang in the goals playing behind the striker. Quote me on that

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Is it just me, but as a Liverpool fan, its much harder to hate this MANU team than past teams ?

This team's core(with the exception of Rooney and Ferdinand) is absolute class players (VDS/ Giggs/Hernandez/De Silva brothers/Berbatov). They dont dive, they are not assholes. They do not spend the exhorbitant sums of money many other premier teams are(tottenham, chelsea, manCity).

I hate to say it, but I hope they beat Barca(who I have lost a lot of respect for the last two matches).

It was easy to dislike United when they had a lot of floppers/pricks/dirty players on their team, such as scholes, keane, ronaldo, but now I find it much harder.

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United could field my mum as their entire starting 11, and I'd still hate them.

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The pro wrestling = hilbilly past time fails on many levels. Basically it just shows you have absolutely no concept of pro wrestling and its history. Wrestling existed all over the USA in the past in a territory system. Did hilbillies etc like wrestling? Sure. There were regional pro wrestling companies in Texas, Georgia etc. WCW was predominantly known to cater to the souther american style of wrestling. But thats as far as it goes. WWE or WWF has its powerbase in NEW YORK. YANKEE COUNTRY. MADISON SQAURE GARDEN IS KNOWN AS THE HOME OF THE WWE. Italian americans eh? them hillbilies :

T. Finn posted:

This is from the LeBron James thread on RAWK which is the worst thread ever in the history of all forms of communication

Iggy Pop Barker posted:

he's right greg. fans from all over the world tune in to watch the larger than life superstars of the WWE.

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Eh, there is 2x colored really tall persons and i assume hes talking about the one with the wide nose that looks tallest = Sama? =P

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What on earth is a colored person ?

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MTE. They're black, its not offensive to say so,definitely much better than using the awful term "coloured".

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Depends where you're from, in some parts of the world 'coloured' is the accepted term whilst 'black isn't really considered correct. I wouldn't be too harsh on him.

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I thought coloured was the correct term now? It seems to get changed to much to keep track with though.
Either way, he's still a lad and a decent prospect aswell, no matter what the colour of his skin is.

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Like I say, depends on where you're from. Words have different connotations in different environments.

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We say can't say either in Sweden, then someone comes and smack the fingers.

We have to say "African background, Asian background" etc..... fml.

T. Finn posted:

Hmm let's see what else I have in here...

*reaches into bag marked Absolute Shite*

(this is all in the Pics thread, best for last.)

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Wenger needs to bring in a vertical jump coach from the NBA to teach these fools how it's done.Then we'll have players heading the balls when the opponent least expects it.Nate Robinson is 1.75m and has a vertical jump of 110 cm so I don't see why Nasri,Fabregas,Wilshere and Walcott can't win headers.My guess is they don't even practice jumping which should be a priority imo.

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They offered Valencia a bonus to win a game of football. Not injure someone, not throw the game, not score a certain number of goals. Not to an official to effect the outcome. There was no guarantee with the offer that Valencia would be able to win the game. Of course it wouldn't have been alright if they had offered money to injure a player, or if they had offered money to one of their opponents money to lose a game against them earlier in the season. IDK how you can equate the two really.

And don't hit me with cognitive dissonance BS, I was on here condemning Alves and Busquets for diving, and the alleged racism stuff, and it's not like I'm in lock step with everything that the club does. I just don't see this as a big deal, especially since we don't even know if it ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

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Ok, you're right, there isn't any arguing that point. However, I still think calling it a bribe is incorrect because a bribe (unless you're being obtuse) carries the connotation of trying to influence the outcome in a negative way (ie, paying a ref off, injuring a star player) rather than paying someone more money to play a bit harder.

Also, I'm still not at all convinced that this even happened at all, but I guess since Sid Lowe wrote it it must be true.

Let me summarize so you can continue to quote and pat yourselves on the back in PWM: I was wrong you guys are right.

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Because unlike the CL final, where both teams are motivated to play, in this La Liga game, one team was not motivated to play.

The way a league works is, you play thirty eight games, against teams who are presumably trying to win every game. But in reality teams are not always trying to win every game, because sometimes they have commitments that prevent them from fully getting into one game. Is that fair on the other teams?

I'm not saying you should pay for results but we're talking about a situation that's already hosed, you're just making it hosed in a different way.

a posted:

I agree. The money used by Barcelona, which was an outside influence, countered the influence of the league standings.

Due to this, Deportivo lost a title. They lost because they failed to win against a team that was not interested in letting Deportivo win.

Losing against teams who are not interested in letting you win is how teams fairly lose league titles.

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Firstly to me this still has te potential to be "shady" to say te least. It puts Ridsdale in the forefront in the hope that no one asks any questions regarding the Irish.

IMHO this isn't obviously a bad thing. Ridsdale certainly didn't start out in football but is a genuine football person. In this fact Guilfoyle hasn't lied to us, he said there was a genuine interest in football. The property being separated from the club isn't obviously a bad thing, look at the deal PR negotiated for Cardiff, 100 years rent free.

The Irish have plans to redevelop, nowhere within the release does it say money from these developments WON'T come into the club. Nowhere does it say that we will be charged massive rents.

I think that people on here need to take a deep breath put it all into perspective and wait for more info to come out which will surely be more frequent from now on.

For now let's be happy with the fact that we have taken another step closer towards survival and actually being in the fixtures on the 16th of June.

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People ask for transparancy, get it and then moan about the outcome! Football fans don't buy underperforming football clubs! At least Ridsdale is passionate about the game! Was there ever going to be a different outcome the minute Ridsdale first entered the boardroom?

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Thank Christ - some rational thinking. Whatever next?

Ridsdale is a football man, and a very clever one at that. He's being given a chance to redeem and enhance his tarnished reputation.

I think PAFC will be the beneficiary of someone who has learnt from past mistakes, and is determined to shut a few people up.

You da man, Pete...

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Mate, I am from Malaysia. Its just that I've always wanted to move to Liverpool and to actually feel a connection to the club, the community and local fanbase.

When I said I'm not English,I'm Scouse, it was just quoting what most Liverpudlians say.

As for the language, I usually use slang words like shite, mate, la , 'me' in place of 'my' and so on....