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Bonjour you cheese eating surrender monkey. Have some Jerry Lewis to brighten your day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MA3406YJUg

Yes. The home grown applies to him. I think they have to have trained in England for 3 years before their 21st birthday.

And your puns are England. Get it? I did what you did, making a pun out of nationalities. Instead of writing shit, I substituted it for England. Haha, I'm a fucking genius.

Hmmm. It's close. Villa would probably be a better fit but Gonzalo is much younger and hasn't hit his peak yet. If they were both available for the same price, I'd go for Gonzalo.

Would bite Real Madrid's hand off for this one. I'd prefer him over practically anyone. I rate him really highly. REALLY.

I can't speak for Busquets at all. But he could be an ambitious fellow that wants to prove himself outside of Barcelona. He could be growing too content about playing in La Liga, and deserves a change of scenery to bring something new to his overall game. But the same could be said for any player.

8pm I'll see your Daylight Saving in hell. It's evil Communazi propaganda anyway.

Does SBS have the coverage rights?

It's a stupid comic but the last two panels slayed me. So funny.

Touré cost around £25 million...Not that cheap...

Mikel played as a Attacking Midfielder during the 2005 Youth World Cup. He won the Silver Ball, with Lionel Messi winning the Golden Ball. Mikel should be converted to an AM because he played as one over seven years ago. He'd probably be the second best in the world too, it's only logical. Hitherto we should play Mikel at AM and buy Fellaini and play him at DM.

British. I am from Britain. I am British. I am a Brit / Britisher / Briton. That should cover it.

Or if he was English. English players are gods compared to Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh and Scottish footballers. ENGLAND!

I like this guy. All cynical and pessimistic, my type of fella.

Cheers to Rafa for taking some tactical changes and experiments against Nord. Oscar and Luiz at CM. Paulo back on the pitch. Juan back in the middle. (I know he had played there in earlier games but today he was dominant). Changing the 4-2-3-1 into a 4-3-3. Good stuff.

Stuff like this makes me kind of despise the game. It just defeats the purpose, really. Good FK and header.

I can honestly say Ivan hasn't really impressed me since Carlo's reign. He was such a bear back then. He is my vote for worst player so far.

It's a hard thing to fine though isn't it? Without substantial proof that the team is tanking the club can just say they played like shite. Or we could just blame Platini like usual...corruption in UEFA, The Ukraine and Italy? Well, I never...

I hate to say it but that was a very old school Torres goal.

Pigs: they tend to wiggle when they walk.

So he just skips Autumn?

How I hope that José will be back next season.

@, put up a goddamn spoiler tag, I didn't want to see that fucking picture. PLEASE

It's a bit different in ol' English. Our terminology for positions is up for debate most of the time but I consider thusly: A Centre Foward is a Striker that plays through the middle. With the term CF I think of mainly a big number 9, a target man, like Andy Carrol or Drogba. Messi is a Striker but isn't a CF, even though he plays through the middle. Pedro is also a Striker even though he plays out wide and still isn't a CF. I don't know, it's all semantics.