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Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

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> > 6700 thanks Quids

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> Yawn



The ability to quote a thread and write the word "Yawn" shows a lack of ingenuity a numbers player could never reach.

Alan Medic

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> "Spurs are on their way to Wembley

> The Kings are claiming the throne

> Everybody will be singing

> When the Spurs go marching on."

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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36404799


Well they will be buying their way to Wembley. I recall the Arse did this some years ago and not particularly successfully. I'm sure I read the would have to pay something in the region of ?15M to stay there for a season. Makes you wonder how WH got away with blue murder paying ?1.something M for the Olympic Stadium.

Otta

Otta

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Yeah Arsenal did it late 90s, I think because they wanted to flog more tickets than they could at Highbury. Problem was Highbury was a narrow pitch, and the old Wembley a wide one, so they struggled to play their normal defensive game (I don't mean their overall game and style was at all defensive in those days, but they were very solid at the back when at home).
Jah Lush

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I think we can fill it. We've 50,000 on the waiting list for season tickets. Yeah, one-nil to the Arsenal. God they were boring. Successful, but it was like watching paint dry. So give Arsene Wenger some credit, he got them playing very attractive football. Arsenal fans wanting rid of him know nothing about the game. Careful what you wish for.


Yeah, the West Ham fiasco stinks. It isn't what I pay my tax for. And giving the Conservative Party a bung sticks in my craw too.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/27/west-hams-12500-donation-to-the-conservative-party-raises-seriou/

Otta

Otta

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Yeah, one-nil to the Arsenal. God they were boring. Successful, but

> it was like watching paint dry.




I think by the time they were using Wembley they'd long passed the boring Arsenal phase. It was in the days of Bergkamp, Overmars, Petit et al.

Jah Lush

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Yeah.

Anyway, I've just watched I Believe In Miracles, the remarkable story of Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest team that went from second division mid-table mediocrity to the champions of Europe in a few seasons. Absolutely brilliant. If you haven't seen it watch it. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Jah Lush

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I disagree. He's what Eric Cantona would describe as a 'water carrier'. In the two games he's played for England I don't think he's done enough to warrant a place in the squad. Some of the other players you could say have been a bit lucky because of their fitness levels (Sturridge, Henderson and Wilshire) but they are better players than Drinkwater. It's Townsend I feel sorry for. He's never let Roy down and has always done the business when he's put on an England shirt and he was unlucky to miss out at the last World Cup because of injury and he's been bang in form unlike Raheem Sterling whose form has been very poor throughout all of last season but has got in ahead of him.
'bout now

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I disagree. He's what Eric Cantona would describe

> as a 'water carrier'. In the two games he's played

> for England I don't think he's done enough to

> warrant a place in the squad. Some of the other

> players you could say have been a bit lucky

> because of their fitness levels (Sturridge,

> Henderson and Wilshire) but they are better

> players than Drinkwater. It's Townsend I feel

> sorry for. He's never let Roy down and has always

> done the business when he's put on an England

> shirt and he was unlucky to miss out at the last

> World Cup because of injury and he's been bang in

> form unlike Raheem Sterling whose form has been

> very poor throughout all of last season but has

> got in ahead of him.


Water carrier to describe Drinkwater, nicely (if unintentionally) done.

red devil

red devil

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Wilshere, Henderson and Sturridge are all unfit and extremely lucky to be included. When we've gone to tournaments before with unfit players it's usually backfired. I don't think whether a player is more talented counts for anything if they're unfit, have we not learned from Rooney in the past?

I would've gone for Townsend instead of Sturridge, he's got something different, can play out wide, dribble and beat players, good free-kicks. We don't have any naturally wide players now.

Also would've had Drinkwater in for Henderson. He has a good understanding with Vardy and the runs he makes for long through balls.

The biggest concern though is the defence, we haven't got one...

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