villakram

this might be a bit of luck... we need the win neither Sanchez or Gueye offer anything going forward

Hutton has to be one of the least capable players currently playing in the premier league, now that Richardson is finally out of the picture

"The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) may have accidentally leaked Manchester City’s new badge." Let's all look the same!!! http://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2015-2016/manchester-citys-new-badge-accidentally-leaked-by-the-government_sto5038781/story.shtml marketing types are a fairly scummy bunch!

How Randy bought a jumbo jar of vaseline, poor fella! .... look what you made me do

100%... On a broader note: Is it really Sunni vs Shia, Black vs White, Communist vs Fascist or is this all for their benefit, the wealthy aka 1%.

that game will depend on how fit Payet is, fit and he'll make minced pies out of our defence!

I think for Saudi to fall apart would require either the military or another power faction in the monarchy to lead, as a very loud and clear example of what happens to troublemakers was made in Bahrain back in the "spring" days... and of course their, unreported on this side of the globe, current campaign in Yemen too. Such a change would be of the out with the old in with the new, same as it ever was variety.

Well worth a read, the latest from Seymour Hersh. Power factions in the US government... Pentagon vs CIA. "In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped." http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military

Oh, and don't forget that Reagan (or his team anyway) negotiated with Iran to hold off on releasing the hostages under Carter's watch, because super Ron to the rescue.

ya, wasn't particularly directed to you... and the beeb seem to blow which ever way the funding goes. When I say neo-liberal, that's just because the past 2 governments have been that way. I guess it's more that the beeb are a patriotic bunch, e.g., their softly softly as regards "lord" Coe and his IAAF shenanigans... you lot should have a color-revolution, hehehe!

That piece is very complimentary to those nice Saudis. There is some additional sneakiness in that article, e.g., I'm sure there are many on here that have large problems with the imperial ambitions of USA/Britain/France, but that does not mean we have anything against the civilian population in those countries (or most of them anyway). Similarly here, where the claim is that the Saudi's are opposed to ISIS... well the Saudi dictatorship is officially opposed to ISIS, the theocracy and/or civilian population, who knows? My enemies enemy etc. But what are the Saudi's doing in the shadows? Someone is funneling money to the bad men. Iraq is now closely allied with Iran and the Saudis are opposed to Iran (in public) primarily due to religious reasons, but in reality it's all about the oil/gas dollars. ISIS appears and makes a mess of Iraq and Syria, close allies of Iran... and look at that they are religiously similar to Saudi nonsense just like our Talibannnnneeee friends. Another coincidence, there are 2 large pipeline projects proposed to feed the EU with gas/oil (i) Iran through Syria (ii) Qatar/Saudi through Syria. One of these groups would also be willing to cooperate in a strategic sense with Russia, and maybe with the EU but the negotiations would be fun and the other group would be more closely aligned against Russia and with the US/EU (though EU is a pretty loose coalition). And no mention of those sneaky Turks. Saying all this, many people predicted this kind of mess would happen in Iraq post invasion due to the ethnic make up of the country and Sykes-Picot... weak appeasers the lot of them, and even the US/DoD had produced, now leaked, studies showing that they understood the development of a sectarian insurgency where ISIS now exists was likely and in a strategic sense not all that problematic. Regarding the magic Saudi coalition. One might wonder why the Indonesia is not involved being the most populous Sunni muslim nation on the planet or for that matter the USA. This comes across a a giant PR exercise.

But why does the media say this? To sell papers etc., and/or because their owners/patrons have a very specific neo-liberal agenda? It's not just Cameron reacting to the pressure, he is part of the same system... a one way street this is not, e.g., we know in quite some detail how pally Tony and Rupert were!

errrr... and if contemplating fraud and/or any other criminal intention, best not post about it on the open internet!

ya, it was so funny, I was almost surprised Overeem didn't call him out! ... and Diaz comes across as someone who played with too much meth!

errr, maybe reaction is a bit strong, but we are changing w.r.t. the first half and this is an improvement form the previous situation... every positive is a positive in our situation.

A least Garde does appear to be able to consistently get a half-time reaction. Now if he could just sort out the start of the game. Newcastle came out in the 2nd like the game was done and dusted, cheers brolly boy!

re-watched the day today last night... still got it.

Ya, I thought one of the best bit about the first season was the intrigue provided by this new story. Way to much of the current guys story is pretty fresh in peoples minds.

Just a comment regarding the JJ was a murderer therefore he got what he deserved thing. 1) Does one commit murder in a warzone or their duty? 2) The rules used by US DoD for their drone campaign basically state that all males in the ages 16-50 (upper may be off) can be designated as enemy combatants. These have been used in AfPak, Yemen and Iraq. This is somewhat so they can pretend they are not killing any innocents... scummy upper level management BS of the highest order. So perhaps JJ killed in a barbaric/psychotic manner "enemy combatants"... I'm struggling to understand what the extraordinary circumstances were that justified this assassination of a British citizen by the British state. I understand the political "we have to be seen to be doing something" angle, but that is a pretty crap reason to deploy large scale resources to murder a single individual.

Some team will come in and offer to cover 10-20k a week of his wages to take on loan... done, done, done!

At least Garde appears to be giving things a good look over... take your chance young man!

"like Chelsea" professional, well run, some small amount of intelligence present, and then there's Villa... I was well happy for the last few mins after reading this news too, well played sir!

beeb are saying he's only being paid up until the end of the season, so the rest of his ~12m. That makes much more sense to me as there is no way an organization like Chelsea would award a 4 yr contract of that magnitude without performance and get-out clauses.

all of this talk is giving me a little hope for some reason... dammit! A LB and a striker are a must, anything else would be gravy.

So if, spaghetti monster forgive, I was born in England... does that mean that no matter where I go in the entire world/solar system thereafter, that I am subject to the laws/whims of Her Majesty? Because as I see it, Mr. English Headchopping psycho was killing English people who decided to take a stroll about a warzone in the country formally known as Syria. Also, I'm not aware that the group called ISIS/etc had specifically declared war on England? Anyway, I'll leave it at this as this is sorta going nowhere. There does at least appear to be some consensus that it's all ethically shaky. "... he should surrender" you sir, would fit in very well in uniform with a badge and a gun over in this fair land