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Why would you want to leave? Great food, weather, etc. The club is on the rise up, if they can keep the squad together and recruit smartly they can win Serie A. The only bad thing about Napoli is the Camorra. And the threat of Monte Vesuvio erupting and covering the city in hot lava.

I don't think he feels safe there. Just last year his house was robbed when he went to play for Uruguay. Napoli's Camorra are very powerful, and if one of their made men is running late on a payment up the pyramid, he isn't going to care who he has to rob or what he has to do. Even if he gets caught, they'll use their political influence to get him off. He deserves that, he's the best striker in the world. Torres is on £175,000 p/w.

@, It seems to be working

The red star is frequently used by communist military groups.

Small time Chinese/Viets, which might, at best have about 50 members across the nation. The only 'large' gangs we have are international bikie gangs, and they don't count as they're just franchises of the big ones in the USA. Nothing on the scale of the Jamaican gangs in England.

Let's not forget he sunk the Scousers in Athens. The cheek of him celebrating the first goal like it was all his own work

But everyone loves Super Pippo. "That lad must have been born offside"

One of my favourite strikers, and imo by far the best poacher of his generation, has retired . 288 goals in 623 appearances, a true football legend. Here is the great man pulling his various "THAT WAS NEVER OFFSIDE" faces

Real Madrid can come in with a 200 million pound offer if they like, we won't accept unless we don't want Hazard. People are forgetting that we're not Man United or Arsenal or Tottenham- we choose when our players go and a big fat fuck you to all the big clubs (i.e. Barca/Madrid) who think they can buy who they want.

But it would have been funnier if there was a pun. I am disappoint

Anyway I am surprised you aren't defending Australia. I thought you were a Queenslander?

Those Red Guard people are awesome! How dare you mock them!

Hate speech, inciting racial violence, etc. For example, websites like Stormfront are legal in the USA because of some amendment or another, but they are not here.

But they would. The majority view still held here is that football is a sport for ''poofters, sheilas and wogs''. Only immigrant's play football. Just look at the latest Socceroo squad: Mark Schwarzer (son of German immigrants) Lucas Neill (convict/settler) Tim Cahill (son of a Pacific Islander) Sasa Ognenovski (son of Croat immigrants) David Carney (convict/settler) Jade North (Aboriginal Australian) Carl Valeri (son of Italian immigrants) Matthew McKay (son of Irish immigrants) Alex Brosque (convict/settler) Marco Bresciano (son of Italian immigrants) Mark Milligan (convict/settler) Rhys Williams (Aboriginal Australian) Archie Thompson (son of Pacific Islanders) Robbie Kruse (son of German immigrants) Mile Jedinak (son of Croat immigrants) Nikita Rukavytsya (born in Ukraine) Matthew Spiranovic (son of Croat immigrants) We had 4 out of 18 players that were ethnically Australian. The percentage of Anglo-Saxon's in Australia is roughly 89% of the entire population. The rest is made up by white/non-white immigrants, and it's that 11% that we get to choose from. Basically we have a football pool of about 1.25 million to choose from, only some 400 of which are even professionals in the sport, and only 50 of which that are anywhere near good enough to earn a cap. That's how small football is in Australia, other countries may have 10 times that number to choose from. Now I don't know that much about the UK's demographics but I bet there are a lot more rugby/swimming/whatever professionals than 400...

First of all, don't trivialise sport, its the only reason you're on this forum. And if 99.9% of Brits don't care how is it that they hop on the bandwagon every time the UK does something? And second of all, sport was not the first thing on my list. In fact it was among the last. Take it out and my argument is barely cheapened at all.

It demonstrates the amount of freedom we get over here. You can do as you please in terms of expressing yourself, but you can't go over the line to absolutely idiocy like the USA permits. Best of both worlds

Leeds and Hull would disagree with you on the rugby parts. As will the millions of bandwagon hoppers British cycling will soon gain.

We beat you to your first ever Grand Tour win. As did every other major English speaking nation: -1986 (USA) -1987 (Ireland) -2011 (Australia) -2012 (Canada) So basically, you've beaten New Zealand, and that's about it.

What further post? It took me about 10 minutes to pull together all the data to support that. Suddenly after I clicked post 10 replies showed up out of nowhere.

Lol, we're a better sporting nation. When was the last time a Brit won a Grand Slam? Or the last time a Brit won Paris-Roubaix? When was the last time you got more than 50 Olympic medals? When was the last time you did anything in your sport, football?

Not really. Aside from a more glorified history, there's nothing else that the UK is genuinely better at this particular point in time. The economy might be larger but we're not facing a meltdown unlike the UK (thanks, China, you can dig up all of Western Australia and ship it off). And unless you happen to be an Indigenous Australian, you are far better off in Australia than in the UK. Getting down to the more human aspects: Culture- If you like visiting Museums every week and attending plays or piano recitals or whatever, obviously the UK is infinitely superior. Australia lacks a white collar upper class culture. If you want blue collar, meat pie, doing burnouts in a bright red Holden Commodore and shouting at immigrants, this is the place. Education- I've never been educated in England, so I'm not in a place to comment here, though I will certainly vouch for the excellence of our system. Life expectancy- Australia shades this by a year, and the margin would be far higher if we treated our Aboriginal people's fairly. Human rights and crime- In the UK, you get fucked over for saying some things on Twitter. Over here we can scream Paki and Wog as loud as we like and no one gives a fuck. Also Australia is fairly crime free. There are few instances of organised crime in Australia, apart from small time Chinese/Vietnamese Triads and Italian Mafia groups, which all act hard but are ultimately all talk, no action. Healthcare- Our healthcare system is fairly inefficient, but there aren't any efficient healthcare systems anywhere in the world, so who really cares? Politics- Much like every other democracy in the world, Australian choices are limited between choosing one cunt or the other. Two party states are awful. Sport- The UK may have the edge at this moment in time, but we have a world class pedigree in both rugbies, cricket, cycling, swimming and tennis. In the latter 3, England are Johhny-Come-Lately's. You were nobodies in those 3 sports barely 5 years ago, whereas Australia hit the top in cycling and swimming by 2000. Marital life- Australia has a marginally lower divorce rate than the UK Climate and Geography- Should I even bother? A simple way of putting it is that it's midwinter in Australia right now and it was just 6 degrees colder in Sydney today than it was in London. That covers just about everything, I think.

English people are alright. They just tend to get a bit overexcited whenever they get something done in sport . Aside from that there's very little fault in you guys

I can't see the Bosingwa or Drogba entries, either.

How so? If Chelsea FC were a business, and AVB was the manager, he would have every right to sack each of our players. In any situation other than football the players were totally in the wrong, you must respect your manager no matter how funny his touchline squat looks.

Someone deleted my Kalou entry.