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Ronaldo is not fit to wipe shit off Messi's boots. Messi is simply breathtaking, Ronaldo just has a few tricks. Messi isn't in another league to every other footballer, he's on a different planet. The stuff he can do defies belief.

http://www.multiupload.com/UHJNT0K1F2 for i9000 JPY 2.2.1 Lots of sources recognise this as official 2.2.1 Just use Odin (included I think) or Heimdall as mentioned above to flash. Download mode is Vol Down + Home + Power on

If no Delph then play the same team as Chelsea. Having Albrighton on the bench to scare a tired defence in the 2nd half is a great option.

Definitely! The Samsung kernel doesn't understand ext4 filesystem and won't boot. These phones are almost unbrickable though so you'd just have to disable lagfix in recovery after and then reflash.

Mybackup pro. Works well. Think titanium paid version is slightly better though.

TBH mate, I abandoned Kies altogether. I watched out for ROMs that were deemed to be official releases, or stable betas and loaded them on through Heimdall. It was much easier as I could just choose to load the PDA while leaving the modem, kernel etc. Have you tried Heimdall yet? It's brilliant. If you're on JPY then I'd recommend loading the speedmod kernel. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822756 just flash with Heimdall http://www.glassechidna.com.au/

I think yesterday, Houllier got lots of tactics spot on. For example: * Knowing that Chelsea would be very narrow and use their full-backs as wing-backs, so our wide men had to stick on their full-backs all the time. Downing on Cole: perfect match-up, and Gabby on Ferreira: easily beaten for pace. * That meant our full-backs could stay on the front 2 wide men - Cuellar on Malouda and Clark on Anelka. Because of this we pretty much nullified both their wing-backs and front 2 wide men, leaving Dunne and Collins to only have to think about Drogba. * It was then a fairly even match-up of Heskey and Young on Mikel, while Petrov and NRC had to pick up Lampard and Ramires. So for me, he showed he knows exactly what he's doing tactically. He's come up against Carlo Ancelotti and held his own. The next test will be what he changes for the next game, because the team against Chelsea won't work as well against Sunderland, and there will be a more specific way to combat them. This won't go down too well, but I honestly think he's the man to take us forward to the next level now. If he can get the team working for him every game AND get them starting to believe in their own ability a bit more then we really can be a dangerous team.

Yeah got some the other day when the lower North online offer wasn't working and had to ring up. Never been in the Doug before (or maybe years ago when it was the Witton), what's it like?

FA Cup Semi final Milner memories spring to mind. And then the game before that against Gabby. In fact, it seems every game against us Terry sets out to maim one of our players. I can't remember a game where he hasn't gone in two-footed or knee-high against someone.

Back to the old battling ways. Honourable mention for Petrov. I've got him as my MOTM as he was excellent today, drawing fouls, relieving pressure, shielding the back 4. Everyone else was also super. I have to take issue with anyone saying we sat back and invited pressure - it doesn't work like that. Chelsea, defending champions, in a low state like us, everything to prove will throw people forward and pressurise us. We don't invite pressure, if we don't pull enough people back to properly defend then we're derelict in our duties. It's a game of Chess and sometimes you have to sit back and soak up pressure.

It was awesome. He literally took Paul Faulkner out with a head-first dive while Doug (he's always laughing at Chelsea isn't he?) was giggling behind.

At HT and FT he stated it was definitely a penalty, no question. Keys and Redknapp tried to make him see sense but he wouldn't accept it. Even Keys was laughing at Wilkins and kept saying "but he took 2 steps before going down..".

Lol "Mulberry" I was thinking the same thing earlier. It wouldnt actually be the end of my involvement but it would be the end of my support for the current owners. Bloody Gingerbread keyboard auto-correct Of course, I'm always Villa, but I wouldn't back on board until there was a regime change.

I stopped reading there.

If we sell Downing now it will be the end of my involvement with Aston Villa. We've sold Barry, Mulberry over the past 2 seasons to our detriment each time. This would be the final straw.

If you think people are going to say everything is rosey after one win then you must be [insert word here]. Prophetic?

Brother's what? An example of what pisses me off, but really shouldn't. I'm sure these will have been mentioned elsewhere in this thread but here goes, in order of irritance: 1. People who say 'bias' when they should say 'biased'. As in 'He's bias anyway'. ARGH! Don't do it! It makes you sound stupid. 2. People who substitute 'have' with 'of'. As in 'He should of done better". ARGH! Don't do it! It makes you sound stupid. 3. People who don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're'. Try and work out if what you're saying is about something belonging to a person or object, or if you're just really saying 'you are'. edit: Hold on... some clever person has obviously put 'should_of' in the word filter to change it to 'should have'. Thank you so much!

Friedel Cuellar Collins NRC Petrov Delph Albrighton Agbonlahor Heskey Downing Young Let's go old skool on their ass. They won't know what's hit them.

Exactly. Pretty much all of these players were top players most of the time over the past few seasons: Friedel - ex-USA no.1 keeper. Top keeper whilst at Blackburn and very solid for the last 2 seasons for us. Luke Young - The campaign to get him playing for England after he turned them down was on for most of last season. Boro fans really didn't want to lose 'Mr Consistent' and MON was being derided for not signing him from Spurs, instead getting him from Boro for £2m extra a season later. James Collins - Wales international CB who was our top defender last season. Not cheap from West Ham and rated very highly by their fans. Richard Dunne - Ireland international very experienced defender, highly rated by their fans, but pushed out of City by Garry Crook. Stephen Warnock - Outside of Bentley, the one player everyone wanted from Blackburn. ran the show against us a few times and was the stand-out player, picking up England caps before he came to us, rated by Capello as 2nd choice England LB, in front of Baines. Stuart Downing - Harry tried to sign him. England international who was Boro's best player for years, still better than Adam Johnson and excellent again this season. Stiliyan Petrov - Bulgarian international captain. Goes up against the best midfields in the world and competes. Player of the season 2 years ago and one of the consistent best performers of MON's reign. Outplayed England's CM in the friendly last year. Ashley Young - Do I need to say anything? Gabby Agbonlahor - Always on the verge of an England call-up. Always dangerous when not injured. For years we've been saying he should be no.2 behind Rooney. Heskey - Vastly experienced CF for England, highly rated by everyone, including Fabio Capello. Then he bought Milner for £12M, who got pulled into the City black hole along with Barry, who MON got playing for England (along with Milner of course) So yeah, I'd say most of our first team would walk into half of the teams in the PL. They don't suddenly become shit overnight so something else is going on.

Absolutely. Everyone needs someone to blame. It's a natural human reaction to try to problem solve by simplifying right down and attempting to find patterns. To rise above this and realise there are lots of complex compounding factors is the best thing to do.

Randy for listening to the wrong people. When MON was in charge, his style, the players he bought, the wages he paid average players were criticised. It was felt from the not-very-well educated that with the players we had, if we had another more tactically astute manager who didn't invite pressure for long periods of the game and made time-wasting substitutions at the end of games where we conceded late on that we would be top-4 and would be able to win trophies. MON, it was thought, was standing in the way of us going further. My belief is that after the wage bill had gotten so high on players that MON never played, Randy and his advisers decided that he didn't really know what he was doing with transfers, and his training methods and playing style were antiquated so they decided to pull the plug by making a few of the decisions for him with transfers and effectively taking his power away to negotiate contracts himself. As this happened, MON decided his position was untenable and walked. I don't believe it was done out of spite, it was simply unfortunate timing. Now, anyone with a balanced viewpoint could see that the stakes were simply so high for MON during his 3 years here that to really have a crack at the top 4 it needed significant investment and a lot of financial speculation before reaping the rewards later down the line. Players don't want to come to the Midlands to live or play. Even the North-East is seen as a nicer place to be than Birmingham. Therefore, to even get mediocre players they would have to be paid over the odds wages. I believe this was part of the deal that MON and Randy had when he was first brought to the club, and why I believe the relationship starting breaking down, when Randy starting reneging on the deal. He couldn't afford to take a chance on young players he wanted to bring through, he couldn't afford to lose a single game more than he had to. MON was entirely a pragmatist. Attractive, free-flowing, passing football was discounted in favour of counter-attacking and wing-play. From my own point of view, these are perfectly acceptable tactics for levelling teams. How many times did you see us match the 'big 4', only to be humbled by relegation fodder the next week? Year upon year we saw progress, but with moneybags City turning cheat-mode on and Spurs suddenly seeing their investments come to fruition I think significant investment was required to make the next step, which is what Randy withdrew from. The point where it needed a fair bit of money thrown at it to make the next step and continue challenging the outside of the top 4, Randy withdrew, after the general viewpoint of the majority of the fans reinforced his own suspicions. It was then a valiant attempt to use our main asset of youth, and bring in a youth developer such as Houllier to set us up well for the future, but Houllier is not the pragmatist that MON was, he's an idealist. With the right continental flair players his teams will play beautiful football, but in the meantime we will get some hammerings. If MON was still here in this situation we would have had almost no kids in over these months, but we would be in the top half. Sidwell would have featured a lot more, but we would have had a few more 0-0 draws. So right now, Houllier is trying to be Arsenal with inexperienced players when more experienced, less skilful players would have been more solid. Sorry for harping on about MON so much in this, but he really knew what he was doing. Randy lost faith too early, took his support away and now we're suffering the consequences.

You'll probably have a conflict of opinion with that.

The only option in this one is to do a slightly more pragmatic version of 'park the bus'. Sit back, be very compact and look to hit them on the break. Friedel Lichaj Cuellar Collins Young NRC Petrov Delph Young Downing Agbonlahor

This.