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meh it happened all so fast my brain couldnt really understand what was happening. I cant even remember what they look like or what motorbikes look like. Pretty much pointless to report the crime in this country though

walking from one bar to another which is literally about a 1 minute walk. Ive done it at least 50x before but this time when i was walking had two motorbikes show up with two people jumping off the back, they both have guns and pointing them at me and take my phone/wallet. Argh. My bankcards and i'ds taken. Cant even afford taxi to go report the crime lol. Hoping someone will lend me money later but itll take at least 9 days until i can get my bank card sorted and have to extend my visa which costs quite a bit. Such a ballache! So frustrating that if i just left 30 seconds later or before, none of this would had happened

it exactly does raise a point that when footballers retires they do tend to ballon in weight. razor ruddock for example I really doubt this is true or significant enough to raise the point when comparing %'s to the general public obesity problems. Just seems a "yeh he got old and hes fat", his life, sure hes got private medical care, why should i care?

He would get decent game time in all of those teams. Wouldnt be a starter in every single game but would still get a lot of starts/sub appearence like majority of their squad players. The only possible one where he probably wouldnt is chelsea (would be more of a sub appearance guy here i imagine). sterling for ox/welbeck sterling for navas/milner sterling for januzaj/young (this is quite hard though because united like really slow buildup so sterling isnt as effective. and LVG team selection is just pure aids sometimes) Not going to lie, i used to like SWP back in the day, some of the goals he scored was fantastic. Went through a spell iirc of just being able to blast it in the net for a little fella

Composure in final third and actually able to pass. Hes def a huge upgrade on Lennon. Can play more positions pretty well. Hes quite "intelligent" for his age, shown by being able to play at front by himself and worked quite well when he played CAM last season with saurez/sturridge. Lennon can only play one position and doesnt play it very well when he gets near the box. Hes def regressed this season compared to last year standards but he has played wingback somtimes and no saurez who made everyone look good. Got to remember he is only 20. Imagine if grealish (19) was as good as sterling, villa fans would think hes the second coming. Headless chicken is pretty unfair opinion imo. I used to think that, but he has def stepped up his game past year or so

i really doubt any potential buyer is picking a manager. especially as such an unknown in the managing world like sherwood

its not even close how much better they are. His passing ability (apart from his lolhollywood balls which makes pundits jizz themslves over) is really not that much of an upgrade to hendo/allen. He hasnt got the legs to do what he does best (scoring goals from midfield) and is just far to slow/poor to be a deep playmaker, especially for a side like liverpool who try to do high press. All non-rawk-deluded plop fans have wanted gerrard to be dropped for over a year now. Tries to be pirlo, nowhere near as good as pirlo for it to be beneficial for the team. its a blessing for them that hes been injured and now hes got a redcard so miss more games

just googled and dailyfail reported hes turned down 180k a week. Surely not? Surely plop didnt offer that much aswell? was saurez even on that much?

haha i just rewatched it, gets funnier the more you rewatch. The jokes/setups are so predictable but somehow still funny

GOING CLEAR: Scientology & the Prison of Belief HBO has aired i think in america and cant wait to watch this. Hasnt been uploaded to TPB yet but apparently HBO has 160 lawyers working on this documentary for when scientology will try to sue them

if he wasnt english, Premier League fans would rate him so so so much more. I really dont get the instant hate for anyone who is english and is in form so media big them up? You dont see the hate/jealousy in other countries ime. Dont the spanish clubs clap whenever a spanish player is sub'd on/off when they play for a different team (could be wrong)

meh, i think he was getting there. he became a 20goal a season RW last season i think before he got injured which is a shame (cant remember if last season or season before tbf). which is always a very very very good return for a non CF. but yeh, ill probably see him going to liverpool. theyre in dying need of a striker and theyre all about pace/highish press sooo. Can see arsenal just rather spending his wages on someone better now theyre prepared for big transfer fees. Arsenal will really become interesting in the next year or two now stadium is paid off and buying a "marquee" signing every year

How clingy filipinos are. No i am not in a mood with you because it took me two hours to reply to your message when i was asleep. No please dont split up with your filpino boyfriend after us meeting couple of times. Stahpppppp How slow asians walk (well mostly whole of asia), i actually think if we both set off from point A to point B, i would get there at least twice as fast. And im a slow walker!

Huh? They dont play 442. They still play 4-2-3-1 with the 3 just mostly all roaming. (usually). welbeck got instantly moved out wide when giroud came back fit http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/11494432/Mesut-Ozils-critics-are-ignoring-the-low-key-genius-of-Arsenals-crucial-player.html someone just randomy linked me this so thought i would link here

But ozil isnt getting shunned out wide because of Alexis? Its because Cazorla/Ramsey. Ozil and sanchez are fine together. Problem is youre always going to have ozil or cazorla playing in wide position when ramsey is playing (which is a must) where one of them will always get criticized because the media will compare their performances playing LW with what they can do in CAM Him being injured was probably best thing for him. Looked like he needed some kind of break for a while. He was pretty bad for the whole of 2014 for them. Also the performance against Monaco where their defence decided to go aids and giroud missing 1billion chances shouldnt be blamed on ozil imo

slipped my disc in my teens which caused pretty bad sciatica where i couldnt put my leg straight. They didnt want to do surgery because i was young but was given two epidural s ( hmm could have been nerve root block like above poster said, maybe i had both , both sound familiar to me) which has somehow made it better? I dont really understand how given its just a painkiller which lasted for quite awhile. I think being able to "allign" my body/legs again without any pain must have fixed it somehow because i dont get too much trouble with it anymore. I guess i still have a slipped disc? Not sure about your case but have you tried epidurals? My brother in law must have been lying on the couch not able to move after he had back sugery for about 5 years and has only just been able move around for extended period of time/light work but every case is different of course If anyone reading this who hasnt got back pain, i seriously suggest you do yoga/pilates to strengthen your core muscles every now and again

My favourites Dear zachary, letter to my unborn (if you havent seen, dont spoil yourself by google'ng, truly truly heartbreaking ) Insider job (about financial collapse and just the amount of freedom banks had to do whatver the f' they wanted, narrated by matt damon) Two escobars (football and cocaine) Cocaine cowboys (was the film blow based on this exact same story?, the drug part of the documentary that is...) All incredibly well known so youve probably seem them all but all incredibly interesting. Love a documentary, going to binge all the ones in this thread i think...apart from the animal documentaries. Those are tooo heartbreaking

Lazy how? We dont see him in training. And hes covered the most ground since coming back from his injury in the arsenal team. Pretty sure its a myth that hes lazy due to the way he runs/jogs when he has the ball and floats about when team is in possession However hard he tries to become the best, he just isnt gifted or "complete" enough to get there ahead of messi/ronaldo. Dont think its anything to do with workrate tbh. Theyre both on another level with messi being on another level to Penaldo This is true

yeh wasnt being entirely serious. but both are quite similar. Both arnt amazing at anything and both look like they should be average. but they both just get scorepoints somehow

HURRIKANE. aka English muller.

Isnt a fan basically someone who is passionate and follows the club? Ill be amazed if he isnt watching/folllowing/passionate about villa when hes old/retired. Wonder if people think Carragher isnt biased and not a liverpool fan because he supported Everton when he was going up?

Currently living in Philippines since start of the year and its amazing how much love/passion they have towards Manny. Within first 5 minutes of any conversation with a pinoy, they will be talking about Pacquiao. He really is a god here.They see him as someone who put their nation "on the map". I was planning to take vacation back to england on 2nd May but think ill postpone a couple of days just for the atmosphere here. The whole nation will be watching. Im not even that much of a fan of boxing but defintiely will be watching this and routing for Manny

Ive been following these politcs threads for awhile and think i would represent a typical "young voter" (getting old now though ) who doesnt have a clue who to vote for and would like to be interested in politics but just cant. Think the main reasons i cant is because: 1. Its so boring, e.g. the whole settings of the house of commons just looks so dull + boring speaking (with some awful awful "banter") it just makes me flick over. But i dont really know what to suggest here as going down the American politics route is just as bad (shown by the exaggerated House of Cards Tv campaign debates) so i dont really know what can be done which will make people like me fully interested. Guess #3 could help? 2. Economy is soooo complex how am i supposed to know if what they say is going to work, going to be good for the economy, how its going to effect the economy. Theres so many factors and i am not educated or smart enough to figure if these are all good policies or not. If one party says its good, and the other says it isnt, then what is it? (im sure were supposed to make an "educated" guess, but if we arnt educated in the matter, and all we get is headline comments then all i am doing is guessing when it comes to economic policies). Especially with so many parties apparently going against their word when they get into power, how am i supposed to trust them aswell? 3. Sometimes i watch Question Time and i used to watch it a lot more (even though i didnt really understand what they was talking about). But the answers they give are complete horse Shit. Im watching to learn about poliics, not how you make your party out to look and whether it "looks" better than the other party. Most answers go like this, 20% talking nonsense not even related to the question, 60% blaming the other party, 10% some poor joke and 10% with some headline fact making the policy/party look amazing. Drop all that nonsense and educate me. Tell the pros and cons of your policies, tell me why the pro outweighs the cons, tell me which sections of the economy it will effect and how, and then i might actually believe you thought about this policy indepth and might vote for you because you're actually educating me on the matter. Currently, the only things that i do know i care about and understand is the environment and animal rights so i guess ill be voting green without any REAL understanding on any of the parties economic policies. Maybe im asking for too much (i dont really know what im asking for, just something different please). I dont know

I think if youre including sanchez in the world class bracket it probably means that the top 10-15 players in that position is world class. If that is the case i would definitely include koscielny. who is probably the best CB in the league. He has to be the most under rated defender by fans in the prem. Im pretty sure its because "arsenal ultra high line + slow cb (per mert.) + fullbacks highup pitch + lack of CDM support = arsneal defence is bad therefore Kos isnt that great". But that should make him look even better as arsenal do tend to not ship that many goals in, especially for the style they play. He has to constantly cover for the poor positional sense and slowness of mertesacker. He is awesome at what he does, quick of the ground for a cb, hes very aggresive and stops so many counters by beating the target striker first to the ball (which shown against 2nd leg Monaco) and is good ball playing defender. Very rarely do you see G.Nev moaning about Kos on MNF. Its constantly mertesacker this, mertesacker that or lack of arsenal defensive shape as a team (although this has improved a ton this season) I think if you put "world class" prime JT in arsenal style of play he would get exposed so much. However, if you asked me if i would prefer prime JT or Kos in a tony pulis team, i would think JT edges it. But if you ask me prime JT or koscielny for super elite teams like Barcelona or BM who play super high line + High press, i dont think its even close and koscielny would be the clear winner. A bit tl'dr post and bit OT but i know many people will probably disagree with koscielny being world class (and theres a reason why hes been linked with barca recently).

Sup, 22 years old from the UK, got a degree in computer science and currently "travelling/living" in the philippines. Long time lurker (infact i can exactly remember the moment i started and it was all down the darren bent meltdown on this forum) Peace