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Mikel isn't suited to high tempo games, either. We really do need a midfielder who can move the ball quickly. Thankfully we're really well stocked in terms of 'slow' midfielders when we need to play a slower paced game.

Surprising to learn that Britain was illiterate until AD 43. That is astonishing, to go from only being able to read and write to the largest power the world has ever seen in the space of 1800 or so years. Especially when you consider that Britain was pretty weak until about Queen Elizabeth's reign.

Yes.

Perhaps Sloth/Kojo was onto something earlier up thread. He doesn't really fit into our team, and I'm certain there will be a very fast decline by the time he's 30 and loses that speed and stamina which marks him out as a great player. I think we should look at selling him at some point in the next 3 years. We'll get a great bit of cash, we'll remove a square peg and we'll enjoy his best years. Unless we're going to change our system to fit him in, back to a 4-3-3, I don't see a long term future for him. If we do change I think we should look to sell him 5 years down the line.

The Belgians have invaded. We'll be speaking French/Flemish soon, lads. Also I'm finding the notion of Oscar on the bench to be painful. He must play, even if it costs Lampard or Ramires their spot.

Berbatov isn't half bad. I'd rate him ahead of Sturridge.

I don't think we can do with a poacher. We should be looking at strong men to sign as a striker, so if all else fails we can go back to playing like we have Drogba.

No, why sign him? He's looked decent at an average team. He'll barely be good enough to be a squad player to be used in the Capital One Cup (fuck that sounds awful) here.

Writing about colonial wars is so depressingly boring. 169 Conquistadores brought down an army of anywhere between 30 and 80,000 Inca soldiers. It didn't help that they were enormous planks, more concerned with deciding who would succeed Huayna Capac than concentrating on defeating the Spanish first. I prefer African/Indian colonial wars. At least the Zulu's and the Mughal's gave the Europeans a good fight. The Americans were just slaughtered.

Uhoh, I think I'm running into trouble here. I've completed the first paragraph, and I've already got 600 words down without a single quote. It'll be really hard to keep under the limit. Chicago Style Referencing is something loathesome. Why can't they let me use Harvard Style?!

Yeah I've read the book. It's easy though. Basically Diamond's argument comes down to 'Guns, Germs and Steel'; which is really easy to work with. All I have to do is define what he means by those, agree with them, then pack in my essay with quotes from other authors to support my argument

Here are the lyrics..

I can't understand either! It just sounds good

Haha, Jamaican's speak English in a strange way.

Solonapoli should play this at the loudest possible volume: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ys5wON9IU Jamaican English . That's not English, that's a Creole!

Haha I was only joking, I know people make the Camorra seem a lot bigger and worse than they actually are. Let me guess.. your neighbours are Juventus fans!

I have a 2300 word essay due, which is a critique on Jared Diamond's book on the Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire due in about 6 hours time. I still haven't started

Yes, unless Torres is unprecedentedly shit (again), we should not be trying to play him alongside another striker.

He's from Napoli... they're probably with the Camorra or something

Ramires doesn't make a habit of losing the ball like Meireles, though.

Can we just call them Arselol?

12.5 million? Definitely worth a bid.

Like we ever loved him or believed in him at all. In an atmosphere like that, where my own fans boo me when I'm coming on, I wouldn't give a fuck about them. But he's a nice guy who never complained about that. Perhaps at Feyenoord.

He wouldn't have his shape without years of sports science, access to unimaginably good training facilities (for players in the 60s) or modern understanding of nutrition, health, better understanding of how the body works and reacts to physical situations etc. Technical ability has fallen a long way in the game, while physical ability is at an all time high. Maradona, for instance, had no problem whatsoever with the Jabluani in training and yet you had the majority of modern professionals complaining about it. The level of pure footballing ability is far lower than it should be when you consider the immense advantages modern pro's have compared to their predecessors.

How long do you have to go without rain for a drought to be declared by the government? I think it's about one month to 6 weeks without any/very little rain over here, for water restrictions to start being imposed. We've now gone 21 days in Sydney without so much as a drop of rain, and its been 36 days since we last had a decent amount of rain, pretty unusual for winter.