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Proper legend. More than any other time, this means so much.

Great "battle" between him and Abrhams for top scorer this season. Explain how your period affects your posting...

I think Jose told him that he has his cat hostage and that if we do not win he is going to execute it ISIS style. I'm pretty that's what he told him..

Brutal, but spot on.

No, I watched the match (as I'm supporting Algeria in this AFCON) and thought he was sloppy. The stat was just to back it up. Yes, he did well to create a few chances, but he should not be giving the ball away as easily as he sometimes did. Algeria have been playing pretty badly and well below their potential which they showed in the WC, but credit to Ghana who executed their match plan to perfection even if they did get a bit of luck.

Did he play? Was he good? When are you going to buy him?

His start against Cardiff was literally his second in two seasons! He's probably just not physically fit to start another game so soon.

Very sloppy at times, though. I read he had the lowest pass completion rate on the pitch.

I feel embarrassed for him!

Was it a tactical issue from our side or was it just the players getting complacent after going to 2-0 up?

Am I the only one who was laughing the whole thing off? I mean, sure, I'm upset we lost the Chance to win the FA cup, but we conceded 4 goals..at home..after being 2-0 up....to Bradford! And it's not like I have someone to point my anger at since I obviously couldn't watch. On that note, to all the keyboard warriors on here, unless you were at the Bridge yesterday, please spare us your "expert analysis" because it will most definitely be some baseless rants full of assumptions to fit a prior agenda of yours. Cheers. Onto Liverpool!

Does that mean you actually take her to that place or is it "pound" land like a euphemism for saying that you have sex often?

Love it That includes two of my favorite things empirical physics to inaccurately describe everyday matters and sexism!

Criticism of capitalism is not advocating Marxist thoughts. Some say that Marx was more of a capitalist theorist and that there is very little in his work about socialism. But I've never been good in Economics to tell. Personally, I support democratically worker-run companies. The supposed need for a power hierarchy in companies is, to me, completely imagined as is the need for the huge salary gaps. The generally uncontested idea that people should sell themselves for a salary is pretty ludicrous to me.

Why so upset? I feel like you have a "size complex"

Yeah, poor multi-billion companies. It's so hard to buy good slaves these days and the nation states they control to protect their concentrated private interests are actually trying to take a very small percentage of their billions to try to benefit the whole community. The nerves of some people! It's gotten so bad that gap between the rich and the poor is only increasing in a slightly accelerating manner and today the richest 1% in the world have more money than just the poorest 50%. Oh the humanity! It's funny how you only talk about companies when discussing social political systems. I would have thought it was about the people, the community, the culture, the society, or at least the rights and state of the people working in those companies, the hands that actually do the work and that by many times outnumber the filthy rich CEOs. Silly me...

I think we all are to a certain degree. Mario Pasalic for example has been a nailed on starter for Elche all season where he has been moved to a central midfielder role rather than attacking one and has, I read, been doing rather well. But he seems to be completely forgotten by Chelsea fans (and maybe even management?).

Obviously if that happens we'd have to make signings to the the U21s. Imagine someone like Ola Aina playing competitive football in the championship!

Garry Cahill is a good player to have on the bench and have come in for rotation or in case of injury. That has been my opinion of him since day one of his Chelsea career and 3 years later it is still exactly the same.

Good read. Thanks.

Theoretical capitalism has never been implemented. One of its main principles is a free market where a necessarily informed public ought to be making rational choices. One of the biggest industries in the world is devoted to undermine just that; meaning creating a misinformed public that would make irrational choices. That is of course the advertisement industry. Now, the current neoliberal capitalist system that we live in; THAT is pure evil and is likely to be one of the causes of the end of the human race as we know it in the next hundred or so years through corporate greed and zero interest in the community or the environment.

Every time we are linked with a player, he immediately gets both incredibly over-hyped and incredible underrated on here (and other forums, I'd imagine). For the people asking and making comparison about his style, he's not similar to Willian nor Schurrle. If I had to compare his style to someone, it would be Victor Moses. Obviously he's better, but the styles are similar. He's very good at tracking back, physically strong, with decent pace and dribbling with a bit more flair than Moses. I don't expect him to score a lot more often than Willian in our system and certainly not more than Schurrle. But he's someone who I think Jose can rely on to do a job but like I said before, I have my doubts about how much impact he can really have at a top club. This is a completely different challenge than Fiorentina. The price is completely over the top, but I guess that is to be expected in the winter market..

Better yet, imo, the FA clear it up by turning U21 teams into B teams that can compete in lower leagues. But that's just the AVB in me speaking

Ah, thanks. Yeah, a bit surprising. You'd have expected that FIFA insist that their interpretation is used. Anyway, hopefully something we learn from for future players.