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He's been playing at RW for most of the season. Mowbray is an idiot! And then people complain he's under-performing

Starts against Forrest (And Hutchinson who's starting as well!) tonight. I haven't been able to see him, but I've read that he's been doing better since he was moved back to a central position.

Wrong. In Palestine, millions of people were literally thrown out of their houses and and forced to leave the country. That has never happened in history, not that I know of at least. They were made to go to leave their homes and farms and work to go to countries where they have nothing and where they have been forced to live in refugee camps since 1948. There are tens of those camps across Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. I live across the highway to one of those refugee camps and if there were still day light I would have took a picture and posted it here so you could see what it looks like. They live in crammed, poorly built houses that don't have the most basic aspects for life. For political reasons, they aren't allowed to own any property or work in most jobs. So no it not exactly the same at all because when it comes to Pallestine there are millions of people living in inhuman conditions who still want their land and homes back. EDIT: Here are a few pics I got from onlline: http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z291/johnlknight/U834109.jpg http://www.map-uk.org/files/442_burg_typical_camp_scene.jpg http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/media/blogs/blog/34/RefugeeCamp.palestine-34.jpg http://www.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/refugee-camp-lebanon-al-jazeera-560x315.jpg http://static3.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/400-2/photos/1289996807-palestinian-hiphop-in-beiruts-refugee-camps_461942.jpg

I have nothing against his political views. I just hate him since his days with West Ham. He was very much the "Suarez" type of player. Just search his name on youtube and you'll see him punching players, pushing refs to the ground..etc. Nedd a MASSIVE favor from Everton tonight. Let's agree that if Arsenal don't drop points tonight, we'll all abuse Shogun, alright?

You know he hasn't actually said that and it's just a twitter rumor, right?

Great read as always. Like I've been saying since the Pellegrini rumors started, he's very good choice for us. His teams are always tactically very good and well organized. They always seem to punch above their weight. His time at Real was affected by the political issues inside the club as everyone knows. I think his appointment seems very logical and very realistic. Would be very interested to see how that works out.

Alright, take a breath. Just look at it this way, there are about a billion other people with a lower IQ than you who go to jobs and do well every day. So why shouldn't you? Change is scary, but soon this change will be the new routine and you'll be scared to stop working there

So you're basically saying that you're better than everyone else in the world, that's why your lives are worth more and that's why people want to attack you. You write it very articulately, but that doesn't hide how much ignorance is in that post, not least of which is the ignorance towards the causes and roots of terrorism. Your 'ideas' remind a lot of Nazism. No I did not want to start a political debate (which I did not), and I still don't want to so that's why I won't explain what I meant by that sentence. What I did want to do, is raise some awareness to a lot more people dying around the world and to say maybe if we gave those people similar attention we can prevent the death of more of them. FYI, those people dying in Iraq, have Adidas shoes too. As much as you hate to admit it, those people have a very similar life style to yours. You're not in any way special. Most the people on the globe in the 21st century have an almost identical lifestyle. We go to schools, then universities; we work then get married and have kids. In fact you'll find people more different from you in your own country than most of the Iraqi population. You just use the "people like me" excuse to justify the ranking your race above other races. It's 'diluted' racism. And how are the PL and the Lebanese football league comparable to the death of human beings? The PL is better and worth much more than the Lebanese league. But this is just the main fallacy that you commit in your 'analysis'. You're equating owning better stuff and earning more money to being a better human than others. Well excuse me, but to me, the value of the life of a human is NOT proportional to the worth of his physical belongings. We obviously share nothing in common in the matter and there is no point making an endless argument about this. So I won't reply to your posts here anymore.

Yes, in fact, those explosions did get more media coverage, in Lebanon, than the Syrian crisis today. And in the whole world for that matter. I was not criticizing the American media, it's only normal they cover this, but the world media. And no, I don't think the coverage for the starvation crisis in Africa is enough. Millions of people have no idea of the graveness of the issue r how many people are dying each day. And I don't think the media shows what the masses want to see, but rather the masses want to see what the media shows them. Anyways, let's just drop the subject..

I didn't say that more deaths in other places makes this less important. Like I explained in my other posts, my criticism is of the media coverage. If the media give as much coverage to the people dying from hunger in Africa or the unarmed peaceful protesters being killed in Bahrain, then that would raise awareness and get more people to act to stop and limit those death and that would save a lot of people. If you find that so immoral, then I apologize. I won't get into why this over-coverage is bad because it will just cause pointless political debates.

Just....never mind

Not entirely sure I should post this, but I will give a warning before: WARNING: This video contains scenes from the explosion. It contains violent images. DO NOT click if you don't want to see that. A close video to the explosion:

This signing makes sense to me because of Schurrle's versatility. If we're sticking with playing a lone striker then we really can't have more than two senior strikers in the team because you can't give them all enough pitch time. So, it would make much sense to have a player like Schurrle who can play on the wings but still be comfortable covering at ST if needed. That said, 20m is a bit over the top for me. 13-15m would make much more sense.

Exactly, if we're going to trade Kevin for someone from Dortmund, we should be looking at someone like Gundogan, not another attacking midfielder. (not that we should be looking to offload KDB in the first place)

Yes, the united team is the best in the league at crossing (though Valencia has been terrible at crossing this season), but past that, the crossing abilities of teams are on the fast decline.

I really don't want to argue about this, but the countries I mentioned cannot be compared to America civil war. More than 90% of the death in Syria are civilians (not to mention that more than half of the people fighting are not even Syrians), in Bahrain peaceful protesters are being killed by their own and the KSA army. In Somalia hundreds die daily from hunger. All I'm saying is that I can't help but think that if those issues, especially the hunger in Africa, got the same media coverage, it could save a lot of human lives that are as important as the lives that are unfortunately lost in Boston today. Is that so unethical to say?

Well, I apologize that you found this offensive, it's just something to think about. Like I said, my sympathies are with the victims and my thoughts with their families and friends. However, a point worth mentioning, imo,, is that over a hundred people on average are dying every day in Syria from similar explosions, thousands are dying from hunger in Africa, which is worse, yet they don't get 1% of this media coverage. I'm just asking the obvious question why? Not because I'm not sympathetic with the victims in Boston, but because I think if the other problems got as much media coverage as this we probably will be saving many human lives. Again, I'm very sad to see those pics, but just because I don't treat this as the biggest news in the world atm (because it is not) does not mean that I don't have sympathy.

First off, thoughts with the families and friends of the victims. Very unfortunate scenes. That said, I hate to sound like a cynic (who am I kidding, I love it! ), but it's hardly the big news that people are making it out to be. I mean an explosion like that wouldn't even make the news in Syria, atm. I'm probably just being mean, but I find the overreaction about this very annoying. Why should the lives of people in Boston be worth more than those in Syria, or Mali or Bahrain or Somalia...etc? I don't mean to offend anyone, and if my post does, then I apologize. It's just a philosophical/ethical 'observation'.

Crossing is a dying art. Can anyone name 10 quality crossers in the whole league? The only ones that come to my mind are Larson, Young and Baines (please don't ban me Alex!).

Must play a full strength squad (minus Azpi, he really needs a rest). I expect a very similar team to the one that started yesterday. Something like: Cech-Iva-Luiz-JT-Bertrand-Rami-Mikel-Mata-Oscar-Hazard-Torres.

Crucial crucial game this. I reckon this and the match against Tottenham will determine whether or not we finish in the top 4.

2-0 Vidal

You alright, mate? Hope everything works out for you

I never said otherwise! Did you even bother to read the article?!

Had another good performance yesterday. He was, along with Mata and Ba, our best players yesterday.