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Mikel is better than Tiote. I know you like Tiote/dislike Mikel but Mikel was instrumental in our CL win while Tiote was instrumental in finishing 4th place. Big difference.

Tiote and Ba? Lol, you're such a Geordie! We do need a new striker.

You're an artist?

8 games, then? We need to buy a new centre back.

Watermelons, fried chicken, pig feet etc. were slave food in the USA. They were cheap and gave plenty of energy so the masters would feed them to their slaves. It entered African-American cuisine after slavery (after all, everyone likes chicken ), and they are stereotyped as always eating KFC and so on.

Disagreeing is not the same as discrediting.

How can you say this with certainty? Have either of them talked about this to the media?

Fair enough but ability always remains the big picture. Sorry, but I thought you were saying squad harmony was the most important factor; I misunderstood

How so? We bought him because he is/can be a good player, not because his name is Hazard.

The problem with Belgium is you have the Flemish speaking North and the French south. I think de Bruyne is Flemish while Courtois sounds French. I'm not sure about Lukaku or the Hazard Bro's. It's not the same as Torres asking Mata to come over. There's a very remote chance that due to language barriers they may not get along as well as expected. There are precedent's for this in other sports, especially cycling where the French speaking Belgian Phillipe Gilbert had a very rocky relationship with his team mate and Flemish Belgian Jurgen Van den Broeck...

I don't think that played much of a role in Emenalo's decision to transfer these players. More like a happy coincidence. It's also skewed by Belgium's, Brazil's and Spain's oligopoly (relative to a lot of other nations) in producing young footballing talent.

He was the greatest cameraman Chelsea TV ever saw.

He's just a shit Salomon 'David Cameroon' Kalou Oh dear Ashley

France is an excellent sporting nation. To dismiss their league as 'nowhere near as strong' is enormously ignorant. Lets not forget that many of the greatest ever Premiership players were either products of Ligue 1 or directly purchased from a French club.

@, Thanks for this great feature. As others have said, you do a great job around here

The Matador is better than Falcao. And he would be a bit cheaper.

I'm not a matchgoer and I don't like modern football.

Test cricket is the greatest.

I'm not about to change my pronunciation.

As a person with an obscenely long last name, its quite easy to pronounce it. As-pili-sway-ta.

SloJo is awesome at times. He shouldn't be banned.

Jim, I am disappoint. </3

Two such threads already exist. "The Pub- Discuss Anything" and "The Australian Discussion Thread Featuring 7 Years". Where has the Friends feature gone? I wanted to add Manpe as a friend but I couldn't. Sorry Manpe

Ferreira is a great third choice right back. I hope we give him a new 2 year deal, he retires after that, and accepts a job as coach or something. We could have gone for Seedorf on a one year deal. The man is still world class, what an amazing footballer Clarence has been You won't be up for another 12 hours or so, will you?

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill- Fausto Coppi.