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Please get back on topic.

Ha! Beat you to it! Suck it, punk! :getin:

Not to mention messed up my prediction league score

3 matches. 1 is for 2 yellows or for denying a goal scoring opportunity. Reckless tackle = 3 matches unless FA decide otherwise.

Cavani was booked for a sniper celebration last night against Lens and then sent off for arguing to the ref about it. I'm all for kicking 'violent' celebrations out, but that's not for the ref to decide, is it? Though I can see why he didn't see it as a normal celebration. First it was after he was done celebrating with his teammates and it also wasn't a 'happy celebration' like Keane's for example. Looked a bit angry and sinister. Opinions?

No. I don't want to

Should beat them regardless.

Yeah, buying a CM would definitely end his career here. Honestly, I don't think any of our current loanees have a future here, certainly not next season.

I like Danny, and I feel bad for the way the club treated him. I don't think Liverpool are a genuine threat to us so I really hope he recovers soon.

It's scary how often that happens! Though I never took Jose for a superstitious person..

Watch it before it gets taken down: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x284vaq_mourinho-press-conference-crystal-palace-a_sport

Yeah, but Bertrand has already more or less confirmed that he wants to move on at the end of the season (actually, didn't his loan deal include an option to sell?), and Moses is a player I really like but he has next to zero chance of making it here with the caliber of players we have in his position.

Still good to have them on the bench. Happy now?

Jose says Ramires, Drogba, Diego, Schurrle, Mikel all doubtful for tomorrow. I hate international breaks...

Good. Keep that manager of the month curse away from us!

I'd love someone like Green for example. Like Mark, he's had a long career and I think he can settle for being second choice for a few years if it gets him some silverware and prolongs his career.

Brana will be 31 this season. Not exactly a 'long term solution'. I think we will most likely sign a CB in the next two transfer windows. What kind of CB we will go for will be very interesting to see and will tell us a lot about how Jose sees the likes of Omeruo, Kalas, Zouma..etc.

Hmm debatable. I think by 2012 they had lost a bit of motivation, but when they turned it on I think they were even better than 2010. Their pressing in particular was something out of this world. Either way, it was some achievement to knock them out with 10 men.

Yes, but even more crucially, a whole lot of this guy:

That 2011-12 Barca team was by far the best I have ever seen even if they lacked pragmatism. It took incredible leadership and just immense raw desire for us to knock them out. Not to mention a whole lot of luck.

Among our loanees this season, he's arguably doing the best so far this season. Nailed on started for Stuttgart and doing well. If we are going to bring back any of our loanees next season, it will most likely be him or Omeruo.

Haha The hooligans! We only do it for blind religious/sectarian tribalism

I know and it completely boggles my mind. I genuinely believe he has all the technical and physical abilities to become a top CB.

Nothing I've not seen in a Beirut derby. There is a reason that stadiums in Lebanon are not allowed to have seats unless they cannot be removed For the past few years here, football matches have been played without spectators and basketball matches only allow home fans "out of fear of civil war" as the police put it...