cosmicway

Who writes those songs ? Once upon a time they took me to an orphanage for the new year party. This was in the middle of the fanatics country of a certain football team and on the tables there were many pieces of paper left with lewd poems and verses, written by the orphans I believe. So there is everywhere a "centre of operations".

Zap's shot looked like going wide and it was a simple tap for Morata and he did n't make the dash for it. Maybe offside though.

In the replays I saw Morata lost an open goal chance due to slow reaction - Zapacosta's cross. That was unacceptable. Costa too missed one such last year. We were 2-0 up but I don't remember against whom. But anyway it's unacceptable.

Qarabag ladies can knock you out.

Alvaro has performed three Diego tricks so far. Not bad, but we want to see more to justify all the fuss.

We should and could have killed it, still.it's over.

no pen, Courtois kicked that ball

Sometimes injured players go cheap. The legend Dusan Bajevic of Jugoslavia in 1975, his leg was in plaster when he came to AEK Athens. AEK payed nothing but he became "the" great Dusco. There were no free transfers across Europe back then, but this man's price should have been pretty high, 50 mil in today's money - beyond Greek budgets. Barclay then feels he 's so great and he 's going to stun the world so he dropped the 35 mil offer and he wants to wait until January. Let's see.

It's certainly not near as spectacular as United's. Could have been better, but those players have to prove themselves. If not, given that we ditched Costa and Matic, it does n't look good. We will know in about a month's time.

If Morata is as good as Costa and if Bakayoko is a new Essien, then the transfer window was a success. Otherwise we will struggle for a place. UTD put in a lot of money. They don't seem to care if someone overcharges them or if a signing of theirs proves to be a failure.

35 mil is a lot of money. I was looking at the Mail website some time and there was one of the queen's palaces for sale. Big one, the size was say from Hyde Park corner to Lancaster gate, thereabouts. You coluld buy it for 7 mil.

There was a South American once who came by ship - in the fifties - people traveled with transliners from the Americas. The ship enters the port of Piraeus and stops, waiting for space to be created on the moorside. The team representatives were naturally waiting in the welcome lounge, on land. But while the ship was still waiting to come in, another team sent a small boat around, they climb the stairs and pick the man. He did n't know who is who or what exactly goes on in the port so he went along and they gave him a paper and he signed for the other team.

Strange. We can sign players from Vietnam to Chile.

Agreed, but why go after them then ? Makes it even more ridiculous.

I have some faith in Bakayoko because his name was the first we heard back in May (a little before that of Lukaku was n't it ?). If Morata does n't turn out to be a new Jimmy Greaves, then it's the biggest club fail of the century. From Greek football I remember a year when Panathinaikos were crashing the gates and preventing all the other teams from making a tranfer. They signed all the good ones but also if there were some out of the way good looking third division centre forwards, green money was offered to buy them. The objective was to stop them from strengthening the opposition in any sort of way and those third division players never played again. The greens after signing them were just giving them a good gift to go home and become gardeners. In our case however -in Bosman years- it's the disease of "crabsitis".

Roman clearly does not have his sights on the CL. At home it's settled, it's the unmentionable one's year. So he has arsed us. Meanwhile I saw Falcao doing some Diego Costa jobs with Monaco last Saturday.

By far not. The 2008 team was. Lost the cl to the -also strong- United with the unlucky penalty shootout. The 2008 team at 70% strength won it in 2012. Now we are a little below that standard.

It was satire folks, but if I really wanted Ox, the method is simple: Cherche la femme.

Deadline approaches. Tall story time: - Messi stopped by immigration at Heathrow. - Griezmann loses trousers buttons - has to miss plane

One of Roman's friends

The sh*t of it is to watch football from some formerly glorious countries. In the Argentine empty terraces, they have some Greek league players of ten years ago, Scocco-Beluchi (!)-Blanco. Their teams cannot string two passes together. Nacho Scocco who also played for Sunderland for a while, was just a notch below the level of their national team, but that was ten years ago.

I can recall 6 big English names who played for European clubs over the yeras: Charles-Greaves-Keegan-Rash-Owen-Beckham. Count also the Welshman Gareth Bale. Any more ? How many Germans played for other countries ?

With the captain they were two, now only one. But the only English player I readily approve of now is Leicester's Vardy - from among those discussed for a transfer. Maybe some others will prove useful -if a transfer is concluded- but I don't know, so I cannot agree with you. Those who want English players just because they are English will make CFC a side of losers. If all the premier teams do the same but the whole of Europe does n't follow, then no English team will progress in European competitions beyond August. If all of Europe goes back in time and players of foreign nationality are not allowed it's very bad for the players freedom of movement but it will make football more interesting. Back in the fifties I think it was only the Italians and the Spaniards who allowed foreign players and the Portuguese considered Brazilians as automatically qualifying for Portuguese citizenship (Brazil belonged to Portugal in the old days). There were many cheats too being done. Also in 1956 the Hungarians Pushkas and Kubala became Spanish out of honour, after they defected from the Hungarian communist regime.

Leicester fight hard, but the Ranieri era is gone. Unless we are terribly unlucky we should bag this.

Everton sometimes perform well against us at the bridge but not today - very poor. The commentators were on about Everton's exertions during the week but I think they were patting them in the back a little because that match against Maribor in Croatia was no more then a training exercise. However we 're in for similar journeys in the weeks to come, to Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan. You think wre we going to play like Everton did today after every such midweek journey ?