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Peter Bonetti as well.

Sorry to hear that, mate. Hopefully you'll get to go see the boys soon.

Pretty refreshing, isn't it?

The real question here is why is "Defensive unit" 'Rumoured'?!

Think it's more because of our friendly with Sociedad than Sky.

Thanks, mate

Very close between Barbara and Skipper, but went with B because she looks better in the Schurrle shirt than Skipper

Went with my original nomination, Viper22.

remains of the day because she deserves much more credit than she gets.

Yuvala because he made my sig

This is got to be the toughest choice between all the categories. Had to go with the sharmouta in the end

I think he's still at the club in some capacity, but it's being made official. He represented the club along with Giurlay in the CL draw last season.

I look so out of place on that list!

Sharaaaap. Love knows no logic!

Absolutely ecstatic. If Michael Ballack emerges from the crowd to lift the cup, this would be the best day in my life! :')

He does have connections at Chelsea, there is no doubt. But A LOT of the times he makes stuff up to get clicks and Twitter followers.

Rob Beasley reliable? In what world!

Let me get that window for you!

Operator: 911 Me: My wife is going into labor, what do I do? Operator: Relax sir, is this her first born? Me: No, this is her husband.

What? You think you can invade an country and not have violence? I'm only talking about the heroic resistance to the Israeli invasions and occupation. Right now, I'm sitting in my home village that was liberated by the resistance with blood. Till less than 20 years ago, this town was occupied by the Israeli army and had the second largest torture center in Lebanon. And the only reason that I can sit here peacefully, and the only reason that the people of my village and thousands of villages in the south don't have their land stolen, homes destroyed at will, women raped by the Israeli army and their agents, the only reason why your army and their agents can't kidnap whoever they want and for whatever reason and detain and torture whoever they want is because of this resistance. I admit, I might have gone a bit extreme in reply to a very extreme and provocative posts, but I am incredible proud and defensive of this resistance that has won our land, freedom and dignity back. You can't possibly understand what this means unless your country had been occupied by an enemy. We are certainly not afraid of an invasion. After knowing what it means to lose it, we cherish the chance to defend our land. But it is no secret that I'm hoping to see another Israeli defeat, like the one in 2006, in Lebanon or in Palestine because I believe that, just like the 2006 war, it can change the 'equations' in the region for the better. Why? I've already explained in detail one side of what I think this latest battle is and why it, and the whole agenda, must be stopped in a post which you ignored: They live in grossly over-crowded neighborhoods in below poverty levels (Gaza is one of the highest population density in the world with about 5000 people per squared Km). The Israeli government controls everything in their in lives, from the amount of water, gas and fuel they can consume to when they can and can't have electrical power. But even that, they are not allowed to have peacefully with civilian houses being destroyed on regular basis and it's inhabitants made homeless (over 60,000 demolished houses IIRC) to be replaced by more illegal settlements: And if that is not enough they are constantly under methodical racist segregation and harassment. They have their number one source of income, olive trees, uprooted regularly by the IDF: They can be arrested whenever the army likes and for whatever reason or even without one. They can be detained indefinitely and without trail. When they are trialed, they are prosecuted using military law not the Israeli civilian laws. Forget trials and laws, in some mixed areas, Palestinians are even forced to take different roads! On the other hand, Israeli settlers get away with abusing and beating Palestinians on a regular basis. Every year, tens of Palestinians are assaulted, shot and even killed by Israeli settlers. They are treated worse than animals and no one does anything about it. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The atrocities against Palestinians are countless. And they are only getting worse. Every year they are losing more land, losing more of what's left of their basic rights of living. You see, as much as I hate Zionism, I just have to respect the intelligence of how Zionists go about their business. Because you can't erase the people of a whole nation in a single war, and they know that. But over a hundred years you can slowly take their land, slowly decrease their numbers in the country, slowly take away their rights, slowly take away the support they get from the neighboring nations and the empathy they get from foreigners, very slowly dehumanize them with your propaganda until everyone, including yourself, don't believe they are equal humans anymores. And in another hundred years or two they would probably have succeeded in getting rid of all the Palestinians in the country and would most likely have set their target on further expanding their boundaries. From the Nile to the Euphrates, right? The people of Palestine have two choices and no third: To resist or to simply cease to exist. But, this is not a movie. Unfortunately, the resistance cannot be led by a perfect Platonic hero (or Kim Possible and genetically enhanced rats). It is, and has always been, led by people that far from perfect. But these incredibly corrupt people change and have changed many times, but what your government knows and tries to convince you otherwise, is that the resistance will continue long after Fateh and Hamas as long as there are Palestinians. Because the resistance is an idea and a choice of the people, not only that, it is their only choice. So, to get back to the current ongoing events, NO, the air strikes on Gaza CANNOT stop the rockets, they simply cannot just like they couldn't in the countless wars and invasions in both Lebanon and Palestine in the past 40-50 years. And your government knows this, but that is not their objective that's just their alibi. Let's put things into perspective a bit (because that always seems to be missing when talking about this conflict): Just like in the movies, the army enforcing this oppression and these racist norms (can't really call them laws) are ridiculously over-armed with all the state-of-the-art weapons, tanks, warplanes and warships and even nuclear weapons of mass destruction while the resistance has old riffles and weapons which they have themselves developed.Since the start of this last battle, the resistance rockets have caused ZERO Israeli causalities! While the death toll from the Israeli airstrikes has exceeded 100 in less than a week, the vast majority of which are civilians and half of them are women and children. The strikes have been mainly targeted at civilian house with some strikes even aimed at a couple of hospitals, the red crescent (equivalent of red cross), and even the media. So, again, NO, this attack on Gaza is NOT aimed at stopping the rockets. It's aim is to terrorize the Palestinians a bit more, to destroy a little more Palestinian houses, to kill more Palestinians, to violate a bit more what's left of their rights. This attack is, like every battle before it for the past 70 years, like almost every Zionist action and plan in the past 120 years, it is that tiny little step forward towards a racist Jewish only state in all of the "Promised Land". THAT is the truth as I see it. Go ahead, refute the points I raise in this post. I seriously want someone to discuss these points with me. I've based my opinion on a number of facts I stated above, if you believe this is not true, tell me which facts do you believe are wrong, which taken out of context...etc. Debate complete ideas with me.

This is beyond pointless, arguing with some dude who only signed up to a football forum to spread Zionist propaganda. I really don't want to answer this with a long post, but I just love how causing financial damage and killing civilians is now a success to you! Terrorists much? Actually the donations and help that Lebanon got after the war by far outweighs the losses, but whatever...You seem to have severe loss of memory so let me remind what were the actualy objectives of the attack: Retrieve the two soldiers. FAILED. Stop the rockets. FAILED. Occupy the land south of the Laytani river. MISERABLY FAILED. Couldn't even stay in a Lebanese village more than two days. But you're right Hezboulla should get into their warplanes and long-range artillery like you do to face you! But hey, if you liked that and think you won, you are welcome back ANYTIME. We LOVE having you guys, or any foreign army, here because every single time you go back crawling from your defeat. Whether it is like 1982 when you left Beirut shouting throw your microphones in Arabic: "Please cease your attacks, we are withdrawing!", 1996, 2000 or really any time.

True. Especially in defense where we don't many backup options. But the window is far from over. A couple of back up signings could completely change that, especially that we have enough money from the sales we made to make more signings.

Yeah, it was 8 years exactly today actually. I remember it very well. Hezboullah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers to get back the Lebanese people that Israel keep as prisoners. You waged a full scale war as a result and after 33 days had to end it after achieving absolutely nothing. Hezboullah, as result, got more funding, more weapons, better image throughout the world while your army lost the battle and lost it's reputation as the invincible army in the middle east (not to mention billions of dollars in sales of the Mirakava that lost all its reputation) and you ended up giving back all Lebanese prisoners and releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as well. And you know why? Because after the first 10-15 days your army ran out of targets, it began targeting buildings that have already been destroyed (without mentioning the hospitals, red-cross ambulances and media buildings). They couldn't keep any progress they made and they sure as hell couldn't stop the rockets. They knew that. Your government was so desperate to end the war that for the first time in the history the Arab-Israeli struggle the UN actually passed a resolution that favored and protected the interest of an Arabic party! (of course it was not implemented, though). The "terrorist" Hezboullah, killed over 200 Israeli soldiers in that war and about 15 civilians, the Israeli army killed less than 150 Hezboullah fighters and about 1100 civilians. You seriously need to reconsider your definitions! But I am very glad to see that you seem to have learned nothing from this war you lost and hence are likely to be headed for a similar defeat in Gaza now. Sure, you will kill a lot of innocent people, but the resistance will not be weakened. Forget London and the USA, would you tolerate living the shoes of a Palestinian kid in Gaza. Not even now during the airstrikes, but in his everyday life under oppression? But that is exactly what creates extremism: the inability to view things from your opponents perspective but instead only seeing things from a very small angle. I can reply with the same bias and narrow-mindedness: "Israelis are terrorists and we have the right to fight terror." Now how does that help anyone?

That is such a deluded and plain out wrong view. And this is coming from an atheist! Please keep it political ONLY. DO NOT aim any insults towards any religion or religious texts, please.

You can't seriously take this last 'battle' separately and completely out of context like this. We both know who 'started' the whole conflict if you go back and who was living peacefully and who brought in people from all over the world to kick them out of their homes and take their places. But let's forget all that for second and look at the living conditions of these people and what drove them to launch these rockets. The living conditions for the Palestinians resemble so much the stereotypical conditions of oppressed people living without their freedom that at times I feel it's bordering on funny! You know those bad American action movies or that episode of Kim Possible? Where the hero travels to the future and finds that the evil dictator has taken over the world and everyone is being oppressed by his large and powerful army that monitors and controls everything? It's really funny/tragic how much the living conditions of the Palestinians looks like some footage out of those movies. They live in an open air prison. Their whole area is surrounded by kilometers and kilometers of high prison walls with sniper towers in them: They live in grossly over-crowded neighborhoods in below poverty levels (Gaza is one of the highest population density in the world with about 5000 people per squared Km). The Israeli government controls everything in their in lives, from the amount of water, gas and fuel they can consume to when they can and can't have electrical power. But even that, they are not allowed to have peacefully with civilian houses being destroyed on regular basis and it's inhabitants made homeless (over 60,000 demolished houses IIRC) to be replaced by more illegal settlements: And if that is not enough they are constantly under methodical racist segregation and harassment. They have their number one source of income, olive trees, uprooted regularly by the IDF: They can be arrested whenever the army likes and for whatever reason or even without one. They can be detained indefinitely and without trail. When they are trialed, they are prosecuted using military law not the Israeli civilian laws. Forget trials and laws, in some mixed areas, Palestinians are even forced to take different roads! On the other hand, Israeli settlers get away with abusing and beating Palestinians on a regular basis. Every year, tens of Palestinians are assaulted, shot and even killed by Israeli settlers. They are treated worse than animals and no one does anything about it. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The atrocities against Palestinians are countless. And they are only getting worse. Every year they are losing more land, losing more of what's left of their basic rights of living. You see, as much as I hate Zionism, I just have to respect the intelligence of how Zionists go about their business. Because you can't erase the people of a whole nation in a single war, and they know that. But over a hundred years you can slowly take their land, slowly decrease their numbers in the country, slowly take away their rights, slowly take away the support they get from the neighboring nations and the empathy they get from foreigners, very slowly dehumanize them with your propaganda until everyone, including yourself, don't believe they are equal humans anymores. And in another hundred years or two they would probably have succeeded in getting rid of all the Palestinians in the country and would most likely have set their target on further expanding their boundaries. From the Nile to the Euphrates, right? The people of Palestine have two choices and no third: To resist or to simply cease to exist. But, this is not a movie. Unfortunately, the resistance cannot be led by a perfect Platonic hero (or Kim Possible and genetically enhanced rats). It is, and has always been, led by people that far from perfect. But these incredibly corrupt people change and have changed many times, but what your government knows and tries to convince you otherwise, is that the resistance will continue long after Fateh and Hamas as long as there are Palestinians. Because the resistance is an idea and a choice of the people, not only that, it is their only choice. So, to get back to the current ongoing events, NO, the air strikes on Gaza CANNOT stop the rockets, they simply cannot just like they couldn't in the countless wars and invasions in both Lebanon and Palestine in the past 40-50 years. And your government knows this, but that is not their objective that's just their alibi. Let's put things into perspective a bit (because that always seems to be missing when talking about this conflict): Just like in the movies, the army enforcing this oppression and these racist norms (can't really call them laws) are ridiculously over-armed with all the state-of-the-art weapons, tanks, warplanes and warships and even nuclear weapons of mass destruction while the resistance has old riffles and weapons which they have themselves developed.Since the start of this last battle, the resistance rockets have caused ZERO Israeli causalities! While the death toll from the Israeli airstrikes has exceeded 100 in less than a week, the vast majority of which are civilians and half of them are women and children. The strikes have been mainly targeted at civilian house with some strikes even aimed at a couple of hospitals, the red crescent (equivalent of red cross), and even the media. So, again, NO, this attack on Gaza is NOT aimed at stopping the rockets. It's aim is to terrorize the Palestinians a bit more, to destroy a little more Palestinian houses, to kill more Palestinians, to violate a bit more what's left of their rights. This attack is, like every battle before it for the past 70 years, like almost every Zionist action and plan in the past 120 years, it is that tiny little step forward towards a racist Jewish only state in all of the "Promised Land". THAT is the truth as I see it.