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Because they pass the ball around well and score goals. They play with exuberant confidence they can smash any team 3-0. They don't always do that and that is fine but you've always got the feeling that ManCity can pull a ridiculous scoreline off. Kinda like Chelsea in the 09/10 season, not invincible but on the day incredibly entertaining and fantastic.

The manager talking isn't football, the manager talking is just an interview. The football his team plays is incredibly entertaining.

Because the manager's personality is irrelevant? Because he is actually a good coach that makes his team play sexy football?

I was once crazy drunk in Brisbane city and I caught a cab home. The driver was a Hungarian immigrant, a very old one at that. He grew up watching Puskas and the likes play for Real Madrid so he was fond of the club. I remember he said to me about the Atleti v Barcelona match "Atletico won but they kicked lumps in all the players. The moment a Bacelona player had the ball, they were all over him and kicking him into oblivion. That isn't proper football!"

Well isn't this fantastic? http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-shaq-gainesville-officer-teens-pickup-basketball-game-20160124-story.htm A bit of pick-me-up news in the recent and constant doom and gloom.

Come now, you don't need to resort to exaggerating what I meant and mocking it. You know I meant on a minor social scale and not foreign policies and economical issues. I don't even know why you are comparing the two, because I wasn't. You know very well I'm all for equality so why are you twisting my words so and making me look like a child comparing my minor social issue (which I stated was so) to yours? This isn't a competition who is persecuted the most. If I had my way neither would exist in the world. It is as petty as the people complaining about the Oscars. It detracts from the real issues. Besides, you know it's not about the cup but the hypocrisy of it. How on earth can people stop bombing, killing, slaughtering and prosecuting each other when they can't even cut out the petty stuff? I am not a PoC? Why aren't I a colour? I feel very coloured. I'm red when I'm hot, blue when I'm cold and green when I get sick. I get brown and red from the sun and pale from lack of it. Aren't we all coloured at the end of the day? The term is nonsense. I've experienced racism, I'll have you know. I've probably told you before but that doesn't matter, I'm not comparing it to the social injustices of the world but to me it was quite difficult; especially when I was 13 being bullied by a 17 year old. Racism from the smallest scale, to the largest is important and I don't know why you would be indifferent (or seem to be) to the former. You are too damn smart to be taking what I say out of context like that. Ah, fuck it, it doesn't matter, I'm going to have a drink.

Aye, can't argue against that nor would I.

What is even the point of your post?

Great video that further proves that it isn't as simple as the frothing morons would have you believe. There are activists out there that use the 'pay gap' as an argument when they don't even understand the complex dynamics of it. There are so many variables it is absolutely mind numbing, nice find on the vid N. For example, an entry-level fry cook at MacDonalds is always going to urn the same wage, no matter the gender. It might change on state and location but if you, myself and two other women were working the frying machines and held the same 'position' at the establishment I'd wager that we'd all earn exactly minimum wage.

Essien, Keano, Gerrard, Viera, Lamps, Ballack and probably a few others I've forgotten. There has been a few greats.

What makes you think it is me? Is it the aggression or the abrasiveness?

While I agree with you on everything there really isn't a wage gap in the conventional sense. http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=hire_women

Yeah, I know. It won't change a thing, he wants to revolutionise the country. Impossible to do in two terms, let alone from ages 75 to 83. American politics has no balls, nobody will bite the bullet and really make a change that revolutionises that country. In 94 several politicians committed political suicide by instating gun control laws that are still in affect to this day. Here they care more about how long they can stay in office, not what they can do. I'd rather someone come in, change everything for the better be hated for it (people hate change) than wanking about for nearly a decade.

I know. Being angry at the past isn't going to change anything. Blaming people isn't going to change anything. Everyone knows that whites have done terrible things in the past but so has every race. There are millions of innocent people but no innocent races, we could sit here and debate who was worse to the other(s) but what does that achieve? It just scratches at old scars and brings hatred back to the surface. People should be looking toward the future to build a better future, not looking in the past and getting angry. You'll never properly get rid of racism, culturalism, or any other ~isms because they are more than likely hard coded in our DNA. When you break it down to the core elements it is simply this: "those people across the river are slightly different to us and if we take advantage of them, we won't feel as bad as doing it to ourselves". Survival of the fittest if you will, the nature to stay with the familiar. However cultural and societal norms can and do change. Sadly it is becoming the norm to hate white people, even for past transgressions and for actions taken by other white people. It is just racism pure and simple. The media focuses on race so much, so, so much. Wouldn't it be better if the news read: "Man murders child" as opposed to "Black man murders Latino child". The first simply comes across as a vile, terrible, violent act but the second is the same but with racial connotations and motivations. The 'black vote', who gives a fuck what the 'black vote' is. It should just be the 'vote'. BET, BET awards, what is up with all these exclusiveness? I will always stand by my notion that everything should be awarded through merit and in this time and age it's more true than ever but all these little things add up and create a divide. I dunno it's all so difficult and touchy. Wigger, oreo, banana, people can't even appreciate different cultures without backlash. Stick to your own kind mentality still exists apparently and most people don't even realise it.

On Sanders Immigration I don't know what these means for me. I'm a Johnny Foreigner, does this change things for me? Gun Control This works for me. Civil Liberties If this means I don't have to take my fucking shoes off in the airport again than okay. Fuck the TSA. Foreign Policy I suppose that is good? I'm not a far of war but we'll see. Taxes That is excellent. Fucking billionaires, hoarding money and having it rot in accounts. That shit needs to be spent for the trickle down effect to happen. Jobs and Employment Give me a damn job you geriatric bastard.

I don't care for Bernie Sanders but every second, every minute I'd have him as President over the other candidates.

I think you missed the point again. It's not about the real JT, it's about what the papers sell. What the papers sell hurts JT's image. What hurts JT's image hurts the club. Damn man, you are a smart lad JT has been one of the most hated people in world football of the last decade, don't you agree that hurts the global brand? That whole racism scandal was damn scary, at the time I thought he could have been done for. Racism just isn't something tolerated anymore. It doesn't matter if it is true, it only matters what the public perceives, imagine if half world thought JT was a racist villain? Well, they do and it makes the club look evil. Peace. never said, that the club was saintly or doing JT favours but they did show loyalty to him and stuck with him and supported throughout all the time the Press dragged him through the mud, that is all you can ask from the club, isn't it? That is all he said, JT has been loyal to the club and vice versa. Peace. wasn't criticising JT or Chelsea. He was if anything praising them for sticking with eachother for over twenty years through the good and the bad. How the board was smart enough not to cave into pressure from the world. Imagine how easy it could have been for JT to leave England with the press hounding his every move? A little privacy abroad would be something also on the back of his mind. The point is the board have done some stupid things but how they've treated JT up until now hasn't been one of them.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2609730-the-second-coming-of-pato-hope-remains-for-brazils-great-enigma-at-chelsea Decent article on him. Please don't worry, I know it's Bleacher Report but it's quite a well written piece.

I was beginning to doubt my fishing skills.

Great perspective. An interesting take that other clubs would have dropped him for his faults. There have been a lot of good times and a lot of bad times for Terry but the club and the man himself have done well to stick together. Other players have been booted out of clubs for less. It's good that the board obviously viewed the good and what he brings to the club and team as far more important than the bad and didn't buy into the global pressure of Terry's poor PR. I've yet to see a player replicate the near universal hatred as Terry, boy does he have his detractors. Both the club and the man have shown loyalty to each other...until now. It's the end of an era. No need to be upset about it. These things happen in life and I look forward to seeing what will happen in the future. I won't be mad, nor pessimistic of the future. If the club's hierarchy wants to press on with a new philosophy than good for them, I can't wait to see what the club is reinvented as.

Oscar - Remy - Pedro Mikel - Matic Fabregas Kenedy - Cahill - Zouma - Branislav Bego GOING FOR THE JUGULAR

Oscar better feel like carrying on with those hat-tricks, the rat bastard.

HECTOR? Seriously though, who is Hector?

He'll be Iniesta's hair.

I'd take that big moron Toure for a couple of seasons.