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Would be a great signing...four seasons ago. He's way over his peak and has barely played any football at the top level in over three seasons. We'd be paying for his name alone.

Seems to be what most fans judge players by even though it accounts for absolutely nothing on the pitch. The resentment from Chelsea fans about the sturridge situation was not the actual deal which was good business consider the circumstances but rather the fact that we did not give him a chance to be a player for us even though at the time our only other option was to play with 10 vs 12 a.k.a playing with Torres as our striker.

Am I the only one who doesn't see what all the fuss about Coutinho is? Sure, he's very good on the ball and has an eye for a pass, but he often over-dribbles, can't defend and his work-rate is terrible. He leaves his fullback complete exposed and it gets exploited by opposition. In the first half, 53% of Stoke's attacks came from the right, Coutinho's side, while only 18% came from the left.

Why are there 2 prediction threads? Merged.

Stoke finally realized that they play in a Football league. Shocker.

Thanks dear, but it's really no one in particular, just life in general..people..societies..human nature...me.....Stuff like that. Now we're talking! Thanks Kerry, but I only believe in virtual violence

I think I fixed it. Or I could have ruined something else let me know if it worked.

Haha, true, but somehow it doesn't feel as good

Sometimes, I wish life were a person so I could punch it in the face!

If they do, I think it will be at the expense of united, and not Arsenal

Guys there is a Falcao thread, can we please stick to discussing Rooney here?

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/administration/01/06/30/78/statusinhalt_en_122007.pdf

Yeah but none of my players have made it on the xperteleven team yet. The weakest player to make it on the team in the past two weeks had a performance of 14 skill levels. That's way beyond the capacity of anyone in my squad. Realistically, I have to admit that I'm out of the tittle race this season, unfortunately.

Do you have explosions there? I can't sleep without the sound of explosions in the background, I'm used to them

Thanks for your sympathy, mate

To kill people mainly as the targeted area is one of the most crowded in Lebanon. The area where I live has a 'Shiite' majority and given the situation in the region it could be religiously motivated. Today also happens to be the 7th anniversary of Hezboullah's victory over Israel back in 2006 so it could also be the work of the Israeli Mossad.

Thanks mate but there's really no "care" to be taken when a guy drives a van full of explosives and detonates it randomly in the area where you live. You just have to hope that you don't happen to be passing near the van.

I was at the end of the street to the left of the pic about 200 meters away. Thanks for your concern guys. Thankfully the damage was only psychological. For me and my family, that is. There are about 30 causalities and about a 100 injured.

Explosion, anyone?

I thought it was weird that she refers to him as Bertarnd the first time and Abd El Razak the second. I thought she made a mistake since someone said above that he scored a double.

2 games into the season and the PL is already practically divided into 2 halves. Says a lot the fact that all the teams who won their first game won the second as well.

Maybe for us, but he's an excellent signing for Hull.

Frank was spot on when he said that for football fans you're always as good as your last game.

Missed an open-goal sitter in the 96th minute to win the game for Germany last night. Which is weird because I didn't even know he was on the field until he missed that