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They were fine in WWI and that was won by the Americans, all Britain and the colonies did was invent a way of losing 50,000 men a week. They ballsed up WWII but that war in Europe was virtually single-handedly won by the USSR, D-Day wouldn't have been half as successful if the Nazi's didn't lose huge numbers on the Eastern Front. Anyway, he went to PSG for a reason, to mark his nose literally across Europe:

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Nice idea for a thread: 1. Man United- they are the biggest club in the world and for good reason. They will improve, especially if they buy a centre midfielder. I still don't rate Man City. They are vulnerable. 2. Man City- despite their vulnerabilities, the rest of the Premiership are varying shades of wank. They should cement 2nd spot by about 10 points. 3. Chelsea- the brightest shade of wank. I still think we're nowhere near a title winning side at this point. 4. Arsenal- van Persie or not, Wenger will get them here. 5. Everton- always likely as long as they get off to a good start. 6. Spurs- they look to be on the verge of losing their best players. 7. Fulham- is Dempsey off? If so I would have to revise this. 8. Stoke- this will be a good year for them, its about time they built on being mid table for the past 5 or so seasons. 9. Newcastle- one hit wonders. They missed their chance, it's back to mediocrity they go. 10. Wigan- if they can play like they did towards the end of last season, they definitely can get this high up the table. 11. Aston Villa- they have to improve, now McLeish is gone. It's surely impossible for them to be that dire again. 12. West Ham- Operation Allardyce will get them well above expectations. He is a magnificent manager, very underrated. 13. Southampton- they can Swansea their way to playing above expectations. 14. Liverpool- rubbish. Only a few years from battling for relegation. 15. Norwich- get Holt to stop acting the cunt and they should be fine. 16. QPR- they'll shit their way to another escape on the final day. 17. Sunderland- Bruce will haunt them. 18. West Brom- Roy's gone and I don't think Steve can do it. 19. Reading- they may have had good Championship form but I'm not impressed by them. 20. Swansea- no Gylfi or Rogers means trouble ahead. FA Cup: Everton Carling Cup: Doncaster Rovers Champions League: Real Madrid Shock of the season: Newcastle to perform awfully. Promoted teams: Bolton, not sure about the others. Top scorer in the Premier League: Mario Balotelli with 26 goals.

The Shark of Messina is closer to being the greatest of all time than The Messiah.

That map is incorrect. All Eastern/Southern Europeans are wogs. As are some from the Middle East, like Turks/Lebanese/etc.

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That won't last. Give it a few more years, perhaps 6 or 7, and we'll be back to where we were in the mid 2000s. These things are cyclical, and the technical model is approaching the end of its life cycle.

Mad Mike will sort out his transfer policy. Pep would be an unmitigated disaster at Chelsea. We are not suited to him.

Yes he is. It's his best position and no one should dislodge him from there.

Moot point: An issue regarded as potentially debatable, but no longer practically applicable Yeah you're right about youtube, but like I said, only Brazilian posters who've seen this guy play in stadium with the sole purpose of doing nothing except watching him can comment first hand whether or not he's better than Mata. But before that they need to have done the same thing with Mata. Which is why as fans we're usually not great judges of how good a player really is!

This thread is causing the site to go down. I blame the birthday boy.

What?! I really hate these ITK types. They don't know anything! Moot point. Whether you watch on TV or youtube highlights, you can't know everything about a player unless you watch him in the stadium for the entire match. Focus just on him and ignore everything else, to see how he goes off the ball, etc. TV doesn't show you that, and youtube highlights are of course extrapolated from TV.

We play one up front, taking that into account, 3 strikers are just fine. Even if two are unproven and one has been terrible for some 24 months.

Several hours early, but it's the 19th in Australia, so yeah. Happy Birthday Sam, have a great day

Well, as Bosnia is an FYR country, I think it's likely what with Tito and his decades of anti-fascist 'propaganda'.

He's Polish or something, right? They hated Nazi's.

He posted his name change box a while back. I have an elephant memory Someone got a bit happy on 20/3/2008 . BlueLionLOVES THE SCOUSE COCK, what?!

Stop changing your name all the time. Isn't this like the 3rd or 4th time you've gone back to being Alex?

None of you really believed this would work right? Football is the most corrupt sport in the world. They will find ways around it.

Your signature is excellent! Did you make that image yourself?

But that's tapping up. You can't talk to a player unless a bid is accepted, right?

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I see people having separate Chelsea-World lists. My list was for both.

Wonderful. Perhaps if he put more effort into providing a cohesive argument that details how we are going to play 900 games and that there'll be plenty of opportunity for everyone to get 50 starts and be content with their game time, I would agree. But no, stop please, is apparently all that's necessary. And some call me a spammer