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No black players in Liverpool? I mean, they have suarez and glen johnson, but is like we'd only have anderson and rafael and we don't. are they racist or is just a coincidence?
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# ? Nov 18, 2011 11:10 |
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Paperhouse posted:No black players in Liverpool? "british jobs for british workers" - Kenny Dalglish, minutes after spending £35,012,000 on Andy Carroll and sending his scouts out to the continent to find some racisms
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# ? Nov 18, 2011 12:26 |
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quote:Football’ll be on soon and won’t have deal with all the high and mighty talking bollocks about racism. When you see real racism i can assure you all this childish he said, she said nonsense will be seen as just what it is loving waste of time. quote:Its nice to see our cousins from the poorer end of the Mersey wweighing in with their knowledge of the legal system. Something that is almost genetic now with you lot. As with my genetics there is an inbread fear of spiders and snakes, your inbreading has alowed you to understand legal jargon better than the copper that arrests you. I always wondered why more scousers didnt join the police force, with your knowledge and legal cunning we’d all be safe Im sure. quote:Official Liverpool FC Statement: GoatinaUnitedShirt posted:As always the goat will take a differing view, not because its the view he holds, thats private but rather to put the cat among the pidgeons and to talk. Talk is cheap talk is orange!??? 8raz fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Nov 18, 2011 |
# ? Nov 18, 2011 14:39 |
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dont yeh eh! eh! eh dont yeha ! eh! dont yeah do! eh ! eh! dont you do! eh !
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# ? Nov 18, 2011 16:36 |
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Iggy Pop Barker posted:"british jobs for british workers" - Kenny Dalglish, minutes after spending £35,012,000 on Andy Carroll and sending his scouts out to the continent to find some racisms lmao
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# ? Nov 18, 2011 16:43 |
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i think you mean dogleash
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# ? Nov 18, 2011 16:47 |
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quote:Ironically... From another member of that same Chelsea board...
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# ? Nov 19, 2011 21:42 |
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I outdueled him with my extensive knowledge of Frank Lampard information.
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# ? Nov 19, 2011 23:15 |
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trem_two posted:From another member of that same Chelsea board... that completely owns and I want a giant one on my wall
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# ? Nov 19, 2011 23:39 |
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BunnyX posted:that completely owns and I want a giant one on my wall Here's the full hi-res version if you want to try to have it screenprinted. http://i.imgur.com/n4VfI.jpg
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# ? Nov 19, 2011 23:47 |
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trem_two posted:From another member of that same Chelsea board... You have brought this forum a wonderful gift. The post you have quoted, the image, everything. Thankyou. I feel quite emotional.
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# ? Nov 20, 2011 00:07 |
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trem_two posted:From another member of that same Chelsea board...
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# ? Nov 20, 2011 00:22 |
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I've done some additional sleuthing and unearthed his Frank collection
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# ? Nov 20, 2011 00:40 |
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I wish I had an arsenal of Lampard facts to prove that I'm a True Blue just like Frank
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# ? Nov 20, 2011 16:08 |
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irlZaphod posted:I wish I had an arsenal of Lampard facts to prove that I'm a True Blue just like Frank Shouldn't it be a chelsea of Lampard facts?
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# ? Nov 20, 2011 16:45 |
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trem_two posted:I've done some additional sleuthing and unearthed his Frank collection Is it me or are these just photoshops using some kind of filter or a bunch of airbrushing?
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 00:31 |
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The Gunge posted:Is it me or are these just photoshops using some kind of filter or a bunch of airbrushing? It's just you.
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 11:14 |
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In response to Bulgaria having fines levied against them for chanting about killing black people during the Euro qualifying match versus England:quote:If a fan tells a ref he is blind and needs glasses, is that racism? What about telling him he has a shiny head due to the lack of hair, so what if you sing chants against someone for the colour of their skin, or their ethnic origin shouldn't be treated any different. I'm sick and tired of this world employing political rules rather than common sense or moral correctness. Bulgaria sucks (lived there for a year yo)
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 22:57 |
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quote:lay off da manager it aint his fault, da players we had on da pitch shud be capable of beating liverscum:) keep da manager but we need radical changes!! i wud sign gary cahill,thiago silva, shweinsteiger, gotze, navas, and higuin!! get rid of malouda droggs kallueless mikel anelka alex frerera!! we all knew in da summer that wot we bought wasnt enough!! we was all hoping on da last day of da transfer window thinking we was gonna sign a top attackin player and we ended up wiv a liverpool reject!! he aint bad but not wot we needed!! now its all ova da news were gonna be in for check toite from newcastle anuva holdin mid!!!wtf!! were obsessed with this possition!! WHY??!!we play shite! then we go out da followin week play da same formation and same result!! no gutts from da players seems like no1 was realy tryin!! terry was shite!! he seems so heavy and flat foot now and looks though his age is catchin up fast!!!!! lamps was lost!! da only players that played wiv gutts and played quite well was ivanovic and luiz! ashley cole too looks slow and cant run like he used too!!! we wont do any thing to radical in jan prob just wait til da last day and sign anuva waiste of space!! da radical chages will cum in da summer ....WE HOPE!! http://www.chelseafcforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=136232#p136232 lmao
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 23:06 |
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HeroOfTheRevolution posted:In response to Bulgaria having fines levied against them for chanting about killing black people during the Euro qualifying match versus England: Christ where is this from? c0burn, loving hell, Britain's youth
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 23:09 |
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To be fair though there was one gem in there: I haven't hear Kalouless before and it made me laugh.
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 23:17 |
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Highest rated comment on the guardian's match report after Utd-Benficaquote:FrankyValley
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# ? Nov 23, 2011 01:08 |
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PirateBob posted:Highest rated comment on the guardian's match report after Utd-Benfica Highly inaccurate comment. Benfica is the best team in Portugal.
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# ? Nov 23, 2011 01:23 |
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PirateBob posted:Highest rated comment on the guardian's match report after Utd-Benfica Haha reading that I was thinking "Why has he shared this, ok there's some hyperbole but hardly the wo-" *last paragraph* "-OHHH"
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# ? Nov 23, 2011 02:29 |
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when are they ever going to let it goquote:@SamNasri19
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 09:04 |
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Ian Wright had a little twitter meltdown yesterday after a guy said he was poo poo, that was a bit funny tbh.
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 09:15 |
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$amir
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 14:33 |
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i'm the Billy Kingsmill in that post
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 14:43 |
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euroboy posted:Ian Wright had a little twitter meltdown yesterday after a guy said he was poo poo, that was a bit funny tbh. JoeMcClennan10 posted:@LucasLeiva87 ur the worst player to ever wear a lfc shirt. Ive considerd not supporting the club when i see u trott onto the pitch LucasLeiva87 posted:@JoeMcClennan10 and you have got the worst photo on twitter hahahah Guy changed his pic too though to be fair it is pretty bad
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# ? Nov 25, 2011 03:29 |
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wilshire's at it as well lmao
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# ? Nov 25, 2011 03:39 |
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I love how people think its acceptable to give footballers abuse on twitter then kick off when they get some back
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# ? Nov 25, 2011 09:11 |
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For you to mention a current RED with ugly names as if you are a Mancx it makes me wonder. You have no idea how much you hurt fellow Reds by sayind 'Candy Parroll'. Its your opinion mate but you lost my vote.
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# ? Nov 25, 2011 16:10 |
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This John lad makes some interesting points and I would like to subscribe to his newsletter. Posted by john 9 hours, 5 minutes ago gently caress off you german twat! we will have the last laugh when real madrid lift the champions league! "we're bayern frickin munich" where the gently caress was bayern last year??! europa league???? the great bayern in the euro b cup HAHAHAHA german football is poo poo!!! Remember these words THE BLUEMOON IS RISING!!! Posted by john 8 hours, 34 minutes ago Listen here sausage sucker i have some facts for you. bayern finished 3rd in your league witch is poor for the great bayern munich. you last won the champions league in 2001 with AGAIN is very poor for a club like the great bayern munich. when bayern get knocked out of champions league witch will happen sooner rather that later. make sure you rub the egg of your face!! Posted by John 8 hours, 4 minutes ago I hope you bring your first team cause we're gonna batter ya. Maybe we are being condescending because you Munich fans are doing what you do best sitting on your perch thinking your the best when you haven't won the for 9years, an to be fair you league form is shite. Posted by John 6 hours, 21 minutes ago Yeah raffael mate I'm a city fan you silly oval office! I just think real Madrid will win the champions league this year with mourinho in charge. An Chris you can't possible think city can fight side by side with Madrid an barca! It's city 1st year in UCL. Next year will be the year Posted by Maciej 6 hours, 16 minutes ago Posted by John 6 hours, 11 minutes ago @CiTyBlUe gently caress off you oval office. It's not that city wasn't good enough to get into Europe, city have never had any financial investment and we have been in the best league in the world (FACT) for years and now we have the money that we never had before we will take Europe by storm in the next few years! Watch your sausage munchen back you German nob Posted by john 5 hours, 48 minutes ago Blah blah blah yeah some arabs did buy us so fuckin what. i wouldnt say city are behind bayern cause you play in a poo poo league where bayern are the only decent team. you dont play teams like wigan stoke bolton spurs scrappy team who take points off you. not to mention arsenal chelsea liverpool the scum (united). bayern is poo poo your league is poo poo your country is poo poo end of mate
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# ? Nov 25, 2011 22:34 |
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this will be the first and last contribution from the lrb. there is much to admire in a good ramble Short Cuts John Lanchester Quantity changes quality, Hegel thought. It’s an observation which proves true in many different contexts, and one of them involves football. I know that I’m far from alone in finding the game much less compelling than I used to, and when I ask myself why, the answer involves two different kinds of quantity. One, there’s so much more of it, on television and everywhere else. The Premiership in particular has become an oppressive, oppressing monoculture and the whole idea of being a fan has been reified, commodified, and then marketed back to the supporter-as-consumer. Everyone now expects sharp annual hikes in ticket prices and annual changes of replica shirts to fleece fans with children. Those ticket prices are high: a season ticket to Chelsea costs an average of £870. As for where the revenue goes, the answer is: straight to the players. That makes football, indeed professional sport in general, a model for workers’ power; there isn’t another business in the world where so much of the revenue goes straight to the primary producers. Unfortunately, in the case of football, the results are loathsome to behold, and that’s another way in which quantity has changed quality. I find I just can’t get interested in what happens to people who are paid £100,000 a week. Sport is a form of drama, and a key part of the drama is that what you’re watching is real. This is particularly true for television. Most forms of TV entertainment are packaged, managed, mediated; but within the obvious artificialities of whatever game you’re watching, what is happening in a sporting contest is the most real thing you’ll ever see on TV. What’s happening to the players is genuinely happening, right now, in real time, with real consequences. But if they’re on a hundred grand a week, just how real are those consequences? Answer: not very. These kids know that for them, the normal rules don’t apply. They can do what they like, and nothing really matters. If nothing really matters, why are we watching? A spectacular example of this was the recent behaviour of the best-paid player in the Premiership, Carlos Tevez of Manchester City. In 2008 the underperforming club was bought from Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai prime minister, by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi. Now City are trying to buy their way to a major trophy and Tevez, an Argentinian striker, is part of the masterplan: he is paid £250,000 a week. (Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that, as David Conn has been jaw-droppingly reporting in the Guardian. Tevez’s ‘economic rights’ apparently belong to an overseas investment company whose ultimate ownership is opaque, and is being disputed in court by post-Soviet oligarchs.) What you get for your quarter of a million quid is a brilliant footballer who is also a piece of work. He has fallen out with his manager, Roberto Mancini, and been agitating for a transfer, with his dissatisfaction taking the form of a public stroppiness, but not manifesting itself as an unwillingness on the field – until now. Against Bayern Munich in the Champions’ League, Tevez was on the substitutes’ bench. With half an hour of the game left, Mancini told him to go on. Tevez seemed to refuse: an unprecedented thing even among very spoiled footballers. He later claimed that he hadn’t done so, and that the whole kerfuffle was based on a linguistic misunderstanding – a claim which caused the hashtag ‘tevezexcuses’ to trend on Twitter. Tevez’s actions were pretty much universally reviled by Man City fans, which was interesting. He had previously had a good deal of sympathy, since he works hard on the pitch, and the club do much better when he plays – and also, Mancini isn’t loved. Tevez’s open wish to leave the club was acceptable, but his apparent refusal to play wasn’t. Footballers can get away with a lot but not with everything. There are strong codes of behaviour in sport, rules which aren’t written down but which exert just as much influence on what players do as the rules that actually are. Spoiled, petulant and deceitful behaviour is all fine in football, up to a point – a point Tevez evidently passed. These unwritten rules are one of the most interesting things in sport. They vary between sports, and they vary both off and on the pitch. There are many things that referees punish but that fans are content with, as long as it’s their own team’s player doing them. One of the noticeable things about football is that the unwritten rules permit a great deal not just of cheating – tripping, fouling, handballing etc – but of ‘simulation’. There are a rich variety of techniques employed, but in essence, what happens is that players routinely fall over while pretending to have been fouled. Theatrical variations on the fall are widespread and often feature what a hilarious paper in the Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour calls ‘the archer’s bow’: the player exaggeratedly flings his arms, leg and head back, up and out, as he falls to the ground. (In a real fall, the arms instinctively move down and out to protect the body.) The player will then spend some time writhing in simulated agony. He hopes, at a minimum, that the ref will award a foul, but the ideal outcome is that his opponent will be booked or even, in the best of all possible worlds, sent off. If that happens, the hardest of all the diver’s skills is called for: keeping a straight face. This behaviour is loathed by opposing fans, but tends to be quietly approved of by supporters of the diver’s team. This form of cheating, endemic in international football, is another of the reasons I’ve fallen out of love with the game. It’s in contrast to the forms of cheating you get in rugby, which are much in evidence at the moment thanks to the World Cup, currently taking place in New Zealand. At the time of writing, England (grindingly) and Ireland (exhilaratingly) have just got through to the quarter-finals (other teams got through too, I’m just mentioning the ones I support). Players cheat all the time in rugby, mainly by putting body parts on the ball to slow down the speed with which opponents get hold of it. This is an acknowledged and entirely honourable part of the game. A murkier area was uncovered by a mini-scandal involving the England team. It turned out that when it was time to take a conversion, they tried to get a preferred ball to their kicker, Jonny Wilkinson, rather than using the ball with which the try had been scored – which is what the rules specify. Is that cheating? Well, barely. Apparently some of the balls behave differently once they have been ‘kicked in’ and are no longer stiff with newness. Two of England’s support staff were suspended for the ball-switch, which to me doesn’t seem so much cheating as an embarrassingly public form of magical thinking. What rugby players almost never do is fake injury to get opponents into trouble, as happens all the time in football. It’s against the code. I like that about rugby. I notice that it also doesn’t happen in the sports Americans watch: none of them has an equivalent of football’s ‘simulation’. American spectator sports all involve a ritualised idea of maleness which would be violated by that particular type of cheating. The other great thing about the Rugby World Cup has been one of the best sport-related tabloid scandals for some years. Several England players went to a bar in a hard-partying place called Queenstown, where extreme sports fans go to blow off steam after – for instance – taking part in the world’s longest bungee jump: 134 metres, or 440 feet. (Who does that for fun?) Anyway, the bar was having a ‘mad midget weekender’ featuring a dwarf-throwing competition – though apparently the dwarfs aren’t thrown so much as slid across the floor; it would be more accurate to call the activity ‘dwarf-curling’. The players got hammered, and one of them went outside for what looked like a brief canoodle with an ample-figured blonde. Why is this news? Because the player was the England captain, Mike Tindall, who a few weeks before had married Zara Phillips, Princess Anne’s daughter and 13th in line to the throne. As several commentators observed, it’s hard for the tabloids to go wrong with a story which features the following terms: mystery blonde, World Cup, breasts, royal family, England rugby captain, drunk, dwarf-throwing. An employee from the bar posted CCTV footage of the clinch on the internet – and has gone on trial for doing so. By the time the next Rugby World Cup comes around, in England in four years’ time, the scrutiny of the players will be so intense that this kind of thing will happen behind closed doors, as it currently does in football, so this may be one of the last public meltdowns of its kind. The England manager, Martin Johnson, struck a magnificently lordly note in dismissing the subject: ‘Rugby player drinks beer, shocker.’ A good line, almost as good as the observation V.S. Naipaul once made to his biographer, that Zara Phillips has ‘a criminal face’. I’d pay good money to hear his uncensored view of Carlos Tevez.
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quote:I would like to add another guy has lost his life today. Another soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. It's so sad and tragic that Gary speed has gone and I still can't.get my.head around it but equally as an ex squaddie myself a young soldier gas lost his life. The famous footballer is headline news , the young soldier is small news probably a few lines in tomorrow paper might mention his name quote:Sickening thing is that Gary Speed got applause by 20,000 people and a load of celebrities coming out to say how great he was. He chose to die. quote:
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 14:27 |
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I might be cynical, but I can't really feel bad for people who choose to fight in a silly war and manage to get killed in the process. I feel for their families though. Also, they way he/she/they are talking about Gary Speed is pretty pathetic.
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 15:03 |
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Xabi posted:I might be cynical, but I can't really feel bad for people who choose to fight in a silly war and manage to get killed in the process. The vast majority will be there due to a combination of economic hardship and propaganda.
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 18:23 |
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frederic38 posted:just to remind you: today is liverpool-manchester city! frederic38 posted:like players that look like me, players i can identify with
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 22:44 |
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Bad Arsenal fans posts incoming:quote:The Well-endowed Wegster NOVEMBER 24, 2011 AT 11:26 AM quote:Wenger says that Gervinho should not worry about his lack of goals, and should start worrying about the African Cup of Nations. We will lose Gervinho for two months while the African shenanigans are going on. And who put them up to this????? quote:Munitionsman NOVEMBER 25, 2011 AT 3:59 AM Arsenal: an extract from the lower afro-french menu
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The vast majority will be there due to a combination of economic hardship and propaganda.
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