Viper22

Tactics is irrelevant here my friend. If you win, you win in my eyes. Whether you play tiki-taka football or long ball football it doesn't matter, as long as you win. So I agree with you, but that wasn't my point at all. My problem here is with the unneeded diving and constant cheating. There's no need for it and it just makes you as a team look pathetic. And in case you think i'm biased I used to have a real problem with Drogba for his constant diving. Took me quite a while to come around to him after he stopped doing it so much. I hate cheating of any kind, play football any way you like but don't cheat and lie, it's just unprofessional and disrespectful. Those 2 words unfortunately sum up this Barcelona team, even though they're comfortably the best team in Europe.

A bigger group of childish, pathetic scummy cheats has never existed. By far the best team but still resort to diving and cheating. So disappointing.

I see your Jordi Alba and raise you a Dani Alves....

To be fair I wasn't expecting a goal THAT quickly!!! Hopefully they can hold out now. The longer this match goes the more chance Juve have.

Forza Juve!!

Well i'm claiming to be a psychic from now on. Come to me with every concern.

Cannot see Barca keeping a clean sheet. For all their attacking ability they don't have a great back 4. Juve still have a chance. Come on Juve!!!

You should do!! IIRC Israel were like 3 wins from getting to the 2015 Rugby World Cup!

I'd imagine its a complex where they can't accept that Chelsea have the best player in the league and not them. Hence why every fan vote is hijacked by them in a pathetic way (Ozil, Sanchez etc.). They probably run down Hazard to convince themselves that Sanchez is better and that they have a chance of taking on Chelsea for the title.

^Rugby Ball. And Twickenham (a place we were rumoured to be considering moving to) is the home of rugby.

Just spoke to an acquaintance who is a chairman in the CPO and while he said he officially isn't allowed to tell me anything he said one phrase "You'll still be able to sing blue day with oval balls.". So yeah, looks like Twickenham to me.

Great news. I imagine something could be announced soon after our new shirts are revealed. I can imagine we'll be moving to Twickenham for 2 years in the meantime. Stunning news and thanks as always WHS .

Wolfsburg might think that but tbh they're welcome to him. It's not even the price as such, it's the fact that a raft of players who are at least as good and will definitely be cheaper (Schneiderlin, Imbula, Wanyama) or players who might cost a similar mount but are markedly better (Nainggolan, Witsel).

He can be keen all he wants. Why in the christ would we pay £33M for such a bang average player?!? He's not even worth £15M.

You can add Imbula, Schneiderlin and Naingollan to that CM list too. I reckon they're more likely to come to us than Pogba, Witsel or Gundogan. As for RW, Reus, Griezmann, Costa and Di Maria are our likely options. Gaitan is VERY left sided, don't think we'd sign him as a RW.

Will hurt like a bitch to see him in an Arsenal shirt. The silver lining I guess is that he'd never actually be in red, just the GK kits... But he has earned the ability to choose where he goes and what he does. If only PSG come in with a great contract offer for him...

Depends on him. If he wants to leave then by all means he can, I would be ok with us signing Aldeweireld instead. But ideally i'd prefer to keep him here as LB cover (& RB cover as Azpi can move over there).

Possibly designing other team's shirts. If the knew they didn't have to have ours done until July they'd focus on all the other kits they have to do.

De Gea will be at RM within the next month or so. There he can be vastly over-rated 1 week and then crucified the next. And that's by his own fans. Tibo is the 2nd best GK in the world ATM, only Neuer is currently better. Let's not forget either that this was apparently his 'settling in' season. He should be even better next year!! Good luck PL strikers....

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored. Over 47 days til our next game?

It'll more be the fact that Adidas likely won't have the shirts ready yet. I assume seeing as our contract with Yokohama begins in July we'll be wearing our new Yokohama sponsored kit for the first time on our USA tour. Adidas have probably been told to have the shirts ready for a reveal on something like the 1st July. So we'll see around the end of June/early July the new shirts I imagine. It's easy to stick Yokohama on some boards around the stadium, less easy to get the shirts designed so quickly .

Who's this Brandford guy? He sounds new, foreign and fancy. We should sign him.

Griezmann? Isco? Reus? ... Douglas Costa?

Also, the idea that teams that have never ever qualified for a World Cup get the same weight of vote as Spain or Italy is laughable. They need to change that system to stop it being abused by leaders like Blatter by paying off the African/Asian countries. How about a system whereby every country gets a vote but the countries that qualified for the previous World Cup get a weighting of 3x on their votes. Therefore the countries that put the most resources into football (and so qualify for the top competitions) get their voices heard more. Therefore its not all opinion as to the weighting of countries.

To all the people saying things like "Everyone only started caring when England, Australia and USA didn't win the world cups" or "Corruption has been going on for years, and only now do people care about it". I can't talk for everyone but I can say that for me and for all my football loving friends we have hated FIFA and known that it was corrupt since the early noughties. It was so glaringly obvious but was ignored because the people losing out had no balls and the others were getting what they wanted - monies! I remember watching the outcome of the bid for the 2018 world cup already knowing that we'd lose and laughed out loud when I saw the dodgy vote patterns. I must admit even I didn't see Qatar getting the 2022 world cup because I thought even FIFA wouldn't be that stupid, but alas... They got cocky, they thought they could make literally any country host the World Cup even if they had 0 interest or heritage in football before the bid. They have fallen due their arrogance of going on that power trip. I would have actually been more concerned if we had won the world cup, because then it would prove that we had bought votes and were corrupt. Us losing just proved that we still believed in the fairness and legality of the voting system which was both admirable and incredibly naiive. UEFA didn't have the balls to do anything, Australia/NZ didn't have the power but thank god for the yanks. USA deserves to be criticised for a lot of things but my god when they want to they get shit done. The 2018 World Cup will never be taken away from Russia, would be too much aggro for the USA and as the preliminary draws are happening soon and some qualification matches have taken place they'd have to do it very quickly. Well and people will likely start turning up dead with Ernst Stavro Putin in charge. The 2022 World Cup is in genuine danger though methinks. Could very well see a revote and it given to a different country. If that does happen though, I would advise England and the USA to avoid running to be that country. Even though we're 2 of the most well equipped countries to host a World Cup everyone will get a little bit touchy and think that we're just flexing our political muscles to win the World Cup for ourselves. Let someone like Australia or Belgium/Netherlands host it instead so we don't get the heat from it.