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My issue is every thread begins at page 1 (logically), but I think intuitively we expect to land on the latest page or the page we were last on when we click a title. It's just wasting time / energy to click the arrow bringing us to the latest page to check the latest comments. Also can't choose to see the comments of ignored users, despite the option to "show" being there when their post comes up in the thread. Sometimes you want to see if someone's changed ; but the action is inactive entirely.

Arsenal unknowingly confirm Arsene will stay next season. They've never been the ones to decide on players, its just Arsene and the scouts;

Amazing celebrations after each goal; an 18 year wait ended. Put a lump in my throat and I couldn't care less about the club (but Rotterdam's cool) (But I hope nobody forgets; they won by a point or so, against an Ajax team with an avg. age of around 21.) Kuyt with a hat-trick; one of their best ever players returning as a legend, a la Torres / Atletico. It's the manager's boyhood club, too.

He's a supremely talented winger. So was Salah. But neither are built for long-term, season after season consistency IMO. Like Willian, their tricks become old, and then you're left wondering what else is in their locker - which they never unlock. If we're to get a winger, let's get another Pedro. A player who likes to get an early cross in more than he likes to dribble all the way to the corner flag. A player who makes his priority balance, attacking 2nd. The likes of Salah and Mahrez would get roasted in the odd game where they're forced into an awkward position; or they'd just get dropped, and then our game plan would have to change. Great player to watch. Wouldn't sign him even for £5m if I knew he was going to be in the side every game though.

Our player with the most appearances with Terry gone. It feels like we just signed him 3 seasons ago. Stay for 2 more seasons and he'll have played 50% the amount Terry has Stay here and play at this rate until he's 31 and he could match Terry

And i'd make Fabregas vice captain. Super important to keep around without Terry here. He has a legendary history in the league that can only bolster those around him with confidence.

2nd highest amount of goals we've scored in a season 2nd highest amount of wins, following 2004-2005, & 2005-2006 (29 wins each; 28 this season) Half the goals conceded vs. last season 2nd highest passing accuracy we've maintained over a whole season. Along with only 2004, 0 red cards in the league Literally half the offsides of our other seasons (60 vs 128 on avg). So despite having lesser players in many areas vs. most of our other seasons, it's definitely the case in my eyes that this team is our 2nd best following 2004/05/06. But. We had a lot more character, spirit, romance & passion in the CL winning team.

Don't forget - his strike vs. Leicester City may be the strike of the season

Slightly hilarious, slightly beautiful. Torres is ours. Fabregas is ours. Who will we steal next?

He doesn't look or play like he's taken a life before. I'm surprised how together he seems to be even 6 years on.

I hear you, but I feel Brasilians are limited by their choice to not use creativity / need to follow the 'system' instead of thinking outside of the box, more than they're limited by 'poverty' which an incredible amount seem to be surviving through, I mean look at the country's population. If a few people think this is good/this is bad, generally everyone joins in and agrees. If this is how a Brasilian lives life, this is how a Brasilian lives life. Colombia have a poverty % of 20%+, but we don't need reminders that yes, a lot of people go through hardships growing up. There's not that exuding victim mentality. Tin roofs vs brick roofs, 3 Brazil nuts vs 3 course meals, family friends vs. business assosciates - we're the same. We have the same. We both have shelter. We're as likely to suffer from health issues as eachother (obesity vs. malnutrition; inactivity vs lack of health education.) And we both have connections. It's about how you use them. Many people have created great lives for themselves with less than a shoe string to start with. Opportunities have always been created the same way, in every country, and even people in desert huts can figure this method out - give positive energy to people not out of your reach, but better positioned than yourself; think as creatively as you can; and learn how to build relationships. Why aren't the people embracing that in Brazil? Why is it "I can't get hired, so i can't get money" instead of "I'll spend whatever time I can get on the internet learning about businesses and opportunities in Bahia"? (even people in poverty have the means to reach a digital screen for 20mins a day, if they desire). Too many people aren't taking responsibility for themselves, and that's why the country keeps shooting itself in the foot. The public are even completely apathetic to the corruption in politics; just accepting that 'this is the Brazil way, things will figure themselves out'. The mentality prevents progression, not lack of the essentials. A dad who runs his home in a favela leaves poverty the day he decides to quit living each week the same as the last, and instead, train his kid, and find football agents or those who know them. Even in just trying, good will come - perhaps one of the family become a coach, or inspired to paint footballers - anything. He'll become rich in opportunity. But that step into the unknown is rarely ever taken by Brasilians in the "lowest" financial bracket, because there's no belief that trying something different might actually work. There's a mentality from the go that helplessness should be the default. It's an inferiority complex and it's entirely fictional, but everyone's bought into it. Brazil is rich in resources, and not every inch of land is owned privately. There is opportunity everywhere, for everyone, from a kid who teaches himself to be a comedian, to a dancer whose family help set up a stage on the beach to impress with his body for money, to private tutoring in whatever skill a person can teach themselves, simply charging a middle class person "above" them a really fair rate. It wouldn't be true to say that the 'lower' and 'middle' class simply don't talk or mingle. There's dialogue there to be had. And it's up to the 'lower' class to build those bridges instead of having a pack mentality. They only lack because they don't see, and what they don't see is how much power & freedom every single person East of Turkey has. You suffer from poverty if you can't remember your last drink, can't remember the last time you saw a smile, can't remember the last time you heard a different story or saw a different view in front of you. You suffer from poverty if there are no food carts around to steal from. You suffer from poverty if you have no protection from nature's elements. I don't think the majority of Brasilian 'poverty' sufferers tick even 2 of those boxes. They all have very, very rich lives compared to a lot people. In fact, they already have what every depressed millionaire is seeking, we already know that. The only difference the millionaire would make would be more food & a fancier home. The dream life is sharing love and laughter with family, friends; hearing your football team's supporters scream as they've scored in the stadium just 0.5miles away. It's having good weather, genuine connections, and the ability to think for yourself, choose for yourself, and live for & by yourself, if you desire. Every kid in the favela has that. All of that. And I tell you, living inside brick walls in a country with 0 sun is as mentally & physically damaging as living under tin in a country where the sun doesn't go down. You're in poverty if you're worse off. I have personal friends who'd trade their British lives for Brasilian poverty. They'd still a watermelon every week, but other than that life would be calm, and beautiful, because they'd be coming with a different perspective, where luxury is a homemade hammock with a view.

Although I'll keep saying we need to up our mentality & quality, because I really do believe we need to expect 10+ more points than what we got this season if we want to build and not plateu; Chelsea - 87pts Juventus - 85pts Bayern - 76pts Barcelona - 84pts Monaco - 86pts Best in Europe, really, and it's exciting knowing we would've won the majority of games if we played 10 back-to-back vs. Juventus. They'd eclipsed us for a time, but for as long as they have a less than special manager, our teams are equal. Which in itself for Juventus is still crazy considering how long they were dormant. To even be on our level was at first a great thing for them, almost unthinkable. Then it wasn't established, but it happened, they were level around 2012 onwards. They clearly eclipsed us during Conte's end there, and now they're more in reality IMO, waiting to be taken back up above us. And who took Juventus above the best in England? Conte. 1 masterpiece so far, and this is a great start to a 2nd.

Diego is not, in fact I'd say almost no footballers in any top team, come from poverty.... Even unknown (to us) gems in Brazil get £250 a week/£10k per year, at 17 years old, in a country where utilities for the month cost less than 1 meal at a mid-range eatery in London. They're a 2nd-world country, Brazil, not 3rd. Costa, Oscar, Neymar all these Brazilians, it's insulting to them AND to us to push that lie. You are not from poverty if you've been a self made millionaire since 19. Your parents might be, but you are not. You have not suffered through the entirety of your developmental years eating out of bins. You've had 5 years you barely remember since birth, 10 tough years, oh boo hoo, and then made the transition into the top 10% of earners on earth. He'd only move if he's an idiot, or genuinely wants to see China. As if any footballer on the face of this earth even knows how to spend their current weekly wage, nevermind a pay rise. The money doesn't attract them, the status does. And status is nothing to do with poverty; it's to do with mindset and who you believed you were growing up. So in essence, it's about ego, and proving to yourself you're worthy of the prize being offered. Footballers are more complicated than banks. And if they've been millionaires or hundred-thousandaires before the age of 20, they don't know the meaning of poverty at all. People go through poverty don't make it out the other side. They don't get the chance to play in front of scouts or go to training sessions. That isn't poverty. With the amount of muscle these guys have by the age of 20, it's not like they're eating egg cartons. We haven't seen a Brazilian player that comes from real poverty.

Ancient greats like Da Vinci & Michelangelo did enough then, to make people now, still fall in love with Italy & consider it a second home. Especially for the artists & architect lovers. Modern Italians like Conte could have the same effect. Specifically Conte, because he carries a philosophy; a philosophy built around sport, around motivation, around tactics. That's something to study. That's something real. Conte's enough reason for someone to fall in love with football, and perhaps in turn, life. The Italian feel is in his face, his clothes, the way his team plays, and all of it's an attractive energy. It's a calm energy. It's confidence. And you just want to go where this energy comes from. There's no coincidence that only the Italian PL winning managers are gentlemen. Conte, Ranieri, Ancelotti. All fabulous people. Mourinho, Wenger, SAF. All leagues behind in that intangible, charismatic quality, and none of them exude the same warm feeling the Italians do. That OUR Italians do. I'm glad blue is both our & Italy's NT colour. There's no other nation we're so connected with. (Even our CL-winning manager was Italian, and a gentleman. Vialli was crucial for us too.)

Imagine beating Arsenal, never switching to 3 at the back and Tottenham winning the league. Arsenal stopped their closest rivals AND beat their other rival. What a season for them

Either we were so sure of winning we got Willian's dad in, or, he's been coming to multiple games. Either way Willian just became unsellable. He can be a sub. Just please convert him to a wing back And he's still a fine typical winger in cup games honestly, just not vs. PL sides. We must keep him no matter how broken he becomes. I can't go through the breakup Cap went through with Kalou.

Damn b I could shed a tear

He's 1 of my favourite ever. He's impossible not to like, and seems to love it here. He feels like our new Kalou/Malouda hybrid, an improvement on both with both of their qualities. I can't picture him ever going downhill. He's so intelligent on the ball, like every Barcelona player from that era. I'd love to sign more of their ex stars, Dani Alves being the next. Who knows if he thinks the PL is interesting...London is a bit better than Turin

If I was manager I'd have the players popping champagne over me and themselves after every single win. That's how you set a habit; have a trigger, have a reward. Champagne would give us a habit of winning.

Every single game we play and tonight solidified it, Azpilicueta has stood out as THE captain. No silly sharing it between Cahill, Azpi and Luiz. Luiz is a leader, but Azpi should be our captain next season.

Literally the best possible person to have scored. Changes so much, from his value, to how he'll be perceived both at the club and outside us.

like Jose shanked Conte in the tunnel and stole his face

Don't let this title win distract u from the fact Leicester were clearly micro-doping last season. Nobody wins the title after being in the league for 2 seasons. Not in any country. Can't believe it's been shrugged off as a miracle & it's already being sweeped more under the rug with each day.

'This isn't the award we want, stop smiling you idiot. You know what, I'm going to sell you next season.' And there's the difference between the clubs. A player smiling knowing they've just missed out on their club's biggest ever feat....literally ever. This would've been like our CL title x10 to them. And their player doesn't even have a shred of understanding about that. I wonder if any of them do. Hilarious.