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Really really worrying performance from Tim. In a very small number of games he now has 2 (QPR last season was a mess also), where he did nothing to affect the game in our favor and appeared like a deer in the headlights. It's no good coming out afterwards all "I'm embarrassed..." etc., as this is going to get old really quick.

The guy has zero football intelligence. Never sees a pass and doesn't appear to be really aware of where the players are relative to him. No surprise that during the period of possession with our fans taking the piss it was this clown who played an aimless fwd pass. Not helped today by both Sinclair and Gabby being pathetic.

Should have been booked for a stupid foul on the half way line 15-20mins in, numerous mistakes throughout.... anyone who thinks he's gonna solve our defensive issues should have that knocked right out of their head after today.

2 of the goals were scored by players directly behind Richards. This is becoming a worrying pattern, and one really hope that his sense of positioning will improve rapidly... though hoping for a 27yr old to figure this out may be a little naive on my part. More importantly, he continues to throw his hands in the air after we concede like he had nothing to do with it because he's such an amazing player. Tim needs to have a serious word here as if I played with him, I'd make sure to nail him in training for that kind of shit!

Sounds quite a lot like Saudi Arabia.... but anyway you are absolutely on the money. China used to be run by Mao (butcher supreme), and there was no coup or other overthrow but an evolution over time. They're quite sensible right now. The Taliban (or whatever they are now) are very likely to be involved in the next Afghan government. They're a little bit sensible right now. Members of the IRA are in government in NI. They're quite sensible right now. ISIS are scum right now, no argument, but at some point we have to either (i) war or (ii) grow up and negotiate. Regardless of what one thinks, a simple analysis of the facts they have created on the ground reveals they are quite close to or already have enough chips in the game that any solution will require interacting with them. The sooner this happens the better, unfortunately as has been seen in Vietnam, Korea before that and WWI, there's always some smartass in a suit 4000 miles from the front with an idea to get an edge and change the potential negotiating dynamic. How many yrs it takes until ISIS are appreciated as part of the middle east... Power and money on the up, people down. I'm dismissing the war angle out of hand, because that has been proven to simply not work.

This... chelsea are ripe for a good throat slashing, what would Fergie be thinking? This is the test for Arsenal, doesn't matter how up for this chelski will be, kick them when they're down and in the balls at that. I fear Arsenal just don't have this type of mentality though. back on topic... Cracking goal, but I really fear for 'pool, there's a bad mentality about the place right now and Rodgers hasn't demonstrated anything thus far showing he'll be able to put this right. On the plus side, Klopp has a track recording of feeding his beastly strikers... though as much as I like tekkers, I'd be ok with his career being derailed if it means 'pool go to hell, or as F365 said the other day... became the new Villa

I have no idea. I don't think I discussed the situation much on here. You certainly wouldn't see me opposing it. But I don't see the relevance of that question. If I'm not opposed to Syrian refugees, why would I be opposed to Ukrainian ones? I don't see what you're getting at. I have a feeling you don't either. I've seen so many people spouting how europe needs to bring in all those poor middle-easterns in here and how they need to be helped, and how we need to show solidarity yada yada, just to show that they're supposedly "so progressive" and/or "so good people", but the same people were so **** quiet when there was that earthquake in nepal six months ago, and it didn't get nearly the same attention in the media. I find those people to be utter hypocrites, if they'd really be such a good people they would've raised the same storm that european states need to bring in refugees from Nepal and pressured the european states to give much more humanitarian aid to the Nepal to bring them back up. Same goes for the Ukraine in 2014 when the rebels started to fight in Ukraine and Russians invaded Crimea, sure it got media attention and it was followed by the news but I didn't see anyone saying how we need to bring in the Ukranian refugees from Crimea or Ukraine to the europe. I was poking to see if you are one of those hypocrties, as so many others are, when the next big crisis starts somewhere in the world, I trust you to call out EU to bring the refugees in, as you are calling in to welcome the current migrants. About the current refugee/migrant situation and the Ukranian crisis: The news stories were much more carefully worded and the same leftist and "progressive" journalists/media who are now crying about the poor down-trodden syrian (or "syrian", depending who you believe) refugees (or "refugees", depending on who you believe), and anyone who questions them is a **** right-wing neo-nazi racist, made it so **** sure that there's not a single one of those "human interest" stories or photographs of the children in the battlefields to garner sympathy for the Ukranians, also I didn't see any stories how the ukranians' familes were broken, or how their lives are ruined due the warzones where the rebels and russians started to fight, at least not in the single one of the finnish news sites nor in the international european media I saw. Neither I saw any interviews from the Ukranian refugee camps, or footage shown how utter shit are the conditions in the said camps. Just so that you don't think I like conservative and/or right-wing media any better, I don't. They are equally manipulative and hypocritical as the leftie/"progressive" ones. I just want even a single impartial and neutral news media who will just report the **** news without **** editorializing and trying to affect the public opinion toward the causes/people/politics they themselves hold or agree with, the finnish equivalent for BBC, Yle, used to be like that but now they've gone more and more toward the left from the impartial/centre. Disclaimer: I used "crying about the poor down-trodden" just to show how differently the media depicts the Syrian and Ukranian conflicts, and Nepal disaster, I think all of those three things are pretty much equally horrible events, and the people who would need our aid, should get it. What a load of utter, utter shite. You've wandered way off the original conversation and appear to be trying to construct some strange argument against the media with me as some sort of leverage, based on me not announcing my calls for refugee acceptance at every disaster/warzone that there has ever been. It's so convoluted I don't even know where to start in reply. Fwiw, my mother is an immigrant, so my stance on immigration has been pretty consistent for my whole life. If you want to trawl through my posting history then go right ahead, I'll leave you to it for now. Not disrespect chap, but the sentance above explains everyone of your posts on here, an I do mean no disrepect. But to start, your a gonna be a little biased on Camerons latest immigration/refugee policy. Also what I have seen from your posts is alot of backing on letting all the refugees into our country but no real positives we may reap from it. So how is gonna help us letting another 10000+ into our small over populated island, because even though I am not opposed to immigration, I cannot see many postives to allowing more to settle here. Is saving people from a warzone not a positive? Do we just say "nah, soz. Don't see how this is going to help us so see ya later."? What a strange argument. This isn't an Islamic country. What difference does that make? India isn't a Christian country but there are areas of it that are 90% Christian. What's the difference? There are plenty of "our lot" in the middle east. They don't fill cities but they're there. There's plenty of churches too. compare christianity in the muslim world to islam in the western world, dont need to say much more. You'll have to say more because your sentence means nothing. im saying more muslim immigrants will have mostly a negative affect on this country and we could do without it as we are way behind sorting the ones we already have out, yes helping people out during war is helpful and the good thing to do but we can only do so much and we cant keep letting folk in. Those lovely royals that doth rule over your precious island have over $32billion of wealth, all earned through hard work and sweat. You should be happy that muslims who are not suitable for democracy wish to move to England. Status Quo for the win. Lizzy must be delighted.

@Rugeley Villa Why would it be so terrible if Birmingham became as Muslim city? I mean one group of people who believe in mystical sky fairies versus another group who's king sky fairy is the same but hangs out with a cooler crowd... they're both a bit silly. Christians for example do plenty of very screwy stuff. Most of the members of the RAF who bomb various villages full of brown people are Christian for example as are all those chavs, geordy shore and Ibiza uncovered types. If you said what you were saying about black people you'd be labelled a clear as day racist... but muslims are fair game for some reason.

Mourinho is just like Van Gaal too, but with some of the head up your own arseness removed... only some mind. Not sure what Utd were really hoping for as Van Gaal gets run out of most places he's been in recent yrs in relatively quick order and employing him with Giggs as an assistant completely undermines his authority given the whole squad knows that Giggs will be the next manager. Makes me happy though!

only 10!!! are you a manure fan in disguise

It's a hamstring so I don't think Gana should be risked this early in the season... 15 mins at the if needed to protect a lead!

Just hope that this doesn't mean his head is gonna vanish up his rear, as he's achieved nothing yet! Best of luck Jack...

Same point isn't it though. A viewpoint made on the back of scaremongering and sensationalist the media. Fixed that for you... those words are implicit in my view unfortunately. The positive thing is the democratization of the information sharing process brought about by the internet is slowly but surely rendering them less and less relevant

Can't they just go around Hungary?

well, we mustn't forget that Brum is a Muslim city... da TV said so "Steve Emerson told Fox News that Birmingham was "totally Muslim"" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/13/fox-news-nigel-farage_n_6461938.html Rugeley, you are way out there and I can only hope you're trolling for the lulz

It's not part and parcel of the English game to the extent Busquets does it. There's a new ruling been put in place punishing players for feigning injury etc: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/11786495/Players-who-fake-injury-face-bans-as-FA-crack-down-on-cheating.html Busquets, of course, is included as an example of a player doing it. He's overrated because that Barcelona team was just so, so good. Much like Victor Valdes - he's a decent keeper but his distribution in particular is superb. It worked for that Barcelona team but doesn't mean he's a great keeper. Busquets is the same. A dirty, cheating piece of scum who works(worked) well in his role for Barcelona because he gave the other, better midfielders a breather from pressing. Himself? Not that great. And scum. Honestly. In fairness to Valdes, he was voted on to the La Liga team of the season on more than one occasion. I'd love to see him on get some games at Man U... watching him flap at crosses could be epic.

Nice to see a little compassion from the FA here. The hit to his professional reputation is punishment enough for a somewhat understandable moment of personal weakness.

We've got to be careful with absolutes here. Look at NI, lots of very undesirable individuals walking the streets, but a semblance of normal society has returned. To condemn absolutely those who are your current enemy forever gives them no option to evolve their viewpoint either.

Is it just me or did anyone else sing that to themselves in the style of Howard Jones? bwahahahaha... have yourself a pint good sir!

You do know that money is pretty much in the imagination of bankers and given licence to do so by governments. Money on that scale is not like running your house. The sooner people wise up to this fact the better. Debt is meaningless in a global context I agree that money is an illusion. Debt is real. Otherwise there'd be no austerity and we'd just keep racking up debt with no concern, dropping cash from helicopters. Debt is not meaningless - it's borrowing from the future and 40 years of neo liberal theft has led to this point - near unserviceable debt. When it becomes unserviceable the whole thing will crack... much much worse than 2008. Actually, I must add that there are some parallels with household debt. People buy houses snd take on huge mortgages in the belief that the price will only ever go up and that the ponzi scheme/bubble will never end. ALL bubble and ponzi schemes end. Tulip bubble, South-sea bubble, dotcom bubble etc. The one that will bring the UK to its knees will be the housing bubble bursting now the Chinese can;t afford prime London any longer. errr... not really. If I owe you 100 trillion and you owe me 100 trillion, does anybody owe anybody anything? On a fundamental basis what you say is in principle correct, but the current era of unprecedented communication/coordination may allow new hitherto unappreciated possibilities. I mean we do have negative interest rates in a number of countries right now... NEGATIVE!

Terrorists terrorists everywhere... O my god, the humanity. They hate us for our freedoms! and our drug/crime free utopian society, blaxtards! Clearly what's required is to bomb the bejesus out of that wretched country and then we can bus them all back or something something. Wow, this neocon thought process is rather draining, hookers & blow for dinner tonight! im clearly wrong then, stupid me. as for bombing them no im not for that at all, well yes if there is only people who believe in that warped shit there but come on we have a huge problem with islamic terrorism worldwide. Do we? Another point of view would be that they are battling for the right of self-determination. How many middle eastern nations have been ruled for the past hundred yrs (and in many cases still are) by dictators backed by us (The West tm)? Civil wars are normally quite nasty pieces of business and that is what dominates the current happenings in the middle east. We take some of the blow-back because we choose sides. In this case, what should the other side do? Apologize and go sit in the corner? Lots of abhorrent things are occurring, but just because a guy in a mask beheads someone on youtube doesn't make it intrinsically worse than bombing a village from 10-30k feet. It's just that we don't see or hear about that, but in this case the tree falling in the woods can be heard scream! Another way to characterize the size of the problem might be to consider the number of deaths in USA/Japan/Aus/EU in the past 10 yrs due to terrorism vs 1) Automative 2) Suicide 3) Obesity 4) Class A drug abuse 5) prescription med abuse 6) Alcohol ..... Or you could count up the unit currency lost due to infrastructure/economic destruction versus the problems caused by the above list of more "natural" issues and or the destruction wraught by the wealthy/empowered classes in the past 10 yrs. "Terrorism" is way down the list, but why should we pay any attention to empirical evidence when emotive responses convey so much power to so few.

Terrorists terrorists everywhere... O my god, the humanity. They hate us for our freedoms! and our drug/crime free utopian society, blaxtards! Clearly what's required is to bomb the bejesus out of that wretched country and then we can bus them all back or something something. Wow, this neocon thought process is rather draining, hookers & blow for dinner tonight!

Orientalism...

Be nice if the parents of these players would piss off and let the kids make their own decision. I'm Irish, but as Jack has lived in England his whole life I'd have no problem with him playing for you lot. I'd be disappointed though as he's got all it takes to be a leading prem league player and the Irish team is in dire need of a little class.

Run out of money????? That's patently silly given the enormous wealth in Europe. That nations are racking up some crazy debts matters not a jot as this has been happening since the beginning of the nation state as a construct, and was happening with the little kingdoms before that too. Bankruptcy solves these things and we move on... of course we have the benefit of our benevolent banking overlords printing cash nowadays and engaging in all sorts of rule writing and changing, so who knows what will happen. Question: If I give you control of the game and the ability to (re)write the rules as required, would you be able to keep the ball rolling (or get us a home win against manure)?