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Who else remember how well Bolton were doing in 2010/2011? If the beat us at The Bridge just after Christmas they would have gone above us. Coyle was known as one of the best young manager's in the country and his name was quietly getting mentioned with top jobs (even some CFC fans i know wanted him in had Carlo got the boot). Talk about falling from grace.

It won't clash with their summer breaks that would still be as normal, although i didn't think of the pre season angle, having a full club pre season then going straight off to Internationals for just under a months might be an issue.

The last one felt like yesterday and now club football is being halted again by these tedious international breaks, i think something has to be done. It's lose lose for clubs, playing well your momentum is halted, playing shite and your mulling over it for a whole 2 weeks. Something has to be done, there are just a nuisance to the club calendar, but the key question is, what can be done? Why not do half the qualifayers in August and the other half the next August? It will give the national coaches a month with his team, he will learn a lot more about the players at his disposal then when it's 2 games here, 2 games there then we can forget about international's for a year and get stuck into club action. Yes it might not be nice waiting an extra month for the new season, but if it meant nine months of uninterrupted club action, it will be well worth it.

Nothing top's his Olympic team of the tournament when he had Neymar virtually in defensive midfield

Football expert Garth Crooks has tipped James Morrison for an England call despite the West Brom midfielder having 23 caps for Scotland. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2214503/Garth-Crooks-tips-James-Morrison-England.html This guy is like a walking facepalm.

Is fifa replicating injury phrone players onto the game? he picked up a 4 month injury, got him back for one game and he did it again. My mate signed Robben for Arsenal and he's hardly ever fit either.

For me it's a mix of them all

If he is looking for a mere stepping stone to Madrid, he could not have made a poorer choice of club if he tried. We are not Arsenal.

first half or second? because the second half after Dempsey's goal the ball was near enough permanently in the final 3rd of Tottenham's own goal. It made our approach at the Nou Camp look like a display off all out attack.

@, All that suggest's is Robbie is a very clever man altering his tactics depending on our opponent's strength. If AVB did that more often he would still be manager here. Yes there be the occasional tactical fuck up (ie QPR) but in general im more than happy with what i have seen from Robbie in the tactical side of things. Based on whether Robbie is the man to lead us long term, there does seem to be a lot of fate in how Robbie has got where he is today. Roman delaying AVB's sacking hoping he will turn it around, he sacks AVB a week after Hiddink (who would have almost certainly got the job if he was free) took the Anzhi job. Roman has gone through numerous high profile manager's in an attempt to win the Champions League but who finally delivers it? the Chelsea legend who really got the job by default. Robbie was never a Roman man so to speak, if Robbie does end up being the long term manager craved as this club then it is to quote Neville written in the stars.

@Blue Armour, He scored a few goals but his overall play post Blackpool at home was dire. The rest of the midfield (despite being on horrible form themself's) had a respectable number of games in between their terrible form where they shown glimpses of their true self's (Anelka away to Sunderland is the prime example of that). I didn't see that from Flo once in the "bad moment". He scored 13 that season 6 of them came in his first 4 start's the last of which being that Blackpool match i mentioned.

Im sorry but that's insane, at his previous clubs he played an attractive brand of attacking football but last season when he got the job here he realized he didn't have the resources to be as attacking, so reigned it in and produced the tactics suitable until now where he has the players to attack, attack, attack he is. I would rather have a manager who makes use of his resources to give the team the best chance to get results (Robbie, Carlo, Fergie, Jose) than a manger who has an idealistic view of the game and will stick to it regardless of how detrimental it is to results (Wenger, Holloway, Rodgers - i imagine Pep will soon be added to this list also).

@Blue Armour, sorry mate but im with @Kojo, here, the last game Malouda has had where he has played to the level he is capable off was the Blackpool home match over two years ago. He was terrible for the whole season after that match, and like Kojo said, the rest of the players despite being on shite form too, had some matches where they showed glimpses of their best form, Malouda didn't have any, infact i started a thread about it at the time, so i might report Kojo for robbing my material http://forum.talkche...-to-be-dropped/

Which is why he could have been a decent squad player to have now were playing good, add that by telling him he has a new contract to play for (even if he doesn't) and i reckon we could have got a decent squad role out of him this season.

The AVB angle will motivate the players who were here last season and RDM. Only AVB can match the determination in that camp in that sense.

Compared to the last two season's he is doing much better, but regardless of the form he is in we should get a new forward at the very latest next summer. Even if he scores 30 goals this season. Why? Because improving teams when you are on top keep top team's at the top also after the double season we didn't bring in any players to challenge Malouda, Lampard and Drogba based on their form in the double season and we all know what happened there. EDIT: i meant latest not earliest so changed it.

Cole "oi, new boy, fuck off, he's mine"

On other news Arsenal have completely owned West Ham and concede with WHU's first attempt

Garth Crooks apparently

The thing impressing me the most. When Holt scored at Stamford Bridge last season i was sent into a royal panic. This season i just shrugged my shoulders with the utmost confidence we would come back and win.

Cech was the main hero in Munich even before Drogba. Drogba on the sky sports programme admitted as much. Cech's heroics meant Drogba header was an equalizer and not a mere consolation, Cech's heroics to save Robben's penalty save Didier's bacon in extra time, Cech keeping out the 2 shootout penalty's gave Drogba the platform to make that ultimate exit. Drogba ran straight to Cech after he tucked away that penalty for a reason, Cech saved him from being the villain then gave him the platform to make the ultimate exit. That's just one of the many example's where Cech has saved us. There is no words to describe just how incredible he has been for us, when i think of the problems United, Arsenal and Spurs have with their goallie's, make's me realize just how lucky we are to have him. Its a shame what happened with his injury. Since his injury at Reading he has been a world class keeper but i really believe without his injury he would have been the Messi of between the sticks.

Get down to the Malouda page and post that.

Never seen him in real life, but i seriously hope he is better than he is on fifa

The Mail on Sunday has published a 'diving chart' based on the number of PL bookings for simulation since the beginning of last season. Liverpool - 6 Chelsea - 4 City, Spurs & West Brom -2 Arsenal, Villa, Bolton, Norwich, Sunderland, Wigan & Wolves - 1 Interesting that, despite the antics of Young, Welbeck, etc, no United player has been booked for diving. Wonder why?"