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Always liked him, too brave for his own good at times and i genuinely hope the amount of times he gets smashed in the head has no long term effect on his health. Would much rather we get rid of some of the other crap before someone who always gives everything. Good luck to him but i can't help feel that this is probably his level and if we go up this year we will need better defenders than Baker in the prem

The really annoying thing is that if it wasn't for the European competition commission ruling that BSkyB couldn't be the only one to broadcast live premier league games we would probably have never got to this point and sky packages would be much cheaper. Multiple companies trying to outbid each other has just driven up prices to insane amounts and this is then passed on to the customer by way of both higher subscription costs & requiring multiple subscriptions. At the time the commission were trying to force the premier league to sell the rights to at least 2 different broadcasters Richard Scudamore said that this would "damage the game at all levels", Turns out he was right and the commissions insistance that consumers should have more choice has just meant spiraling costs for everyone, More shite from people in Brussels interfering where it isn't needed. BSkyB were paying just over 1 billion for exclusive tv rights for the period of 2003-2007, Around 250 million per year. 10 years later and Sky/BT are paying over 1.7 billion per year. There is no way it would be anything even close to a billion per year if 1 company had exclusivity

I'm sure the 10 million+ he'll get as a basic wage will help ease some of the pressure. With the way things are going i can see more & more players retiring in their early/mid 20's. Once you have won everything at madrid, played in 2/3 world cups & euros and have 50 million in the bank by the time you're 25 what's the point of carrying on

bah it's that time of year again where you realise that you have changed computers, have no old login info saved and have to try and find something with your old client ref no on it :/ I swear i have about 6 accounts now after giving up trying to find it in the past. Would be much better if they just used the same login for avfc/avtv/shop & tickets

If we had to pay 50% of his wages for the rest of his contract with us it would still be a good deal. Just get rid

from the pre season games this year it doesn't seem much of a loss, didn't shine against some crap teams. It was evident people like Samba were giving everything he just looked like he was strolling around

Snodgrass would be brilliant, We should have signed him when we were still in the prem

What if all the before/after weight loss photos are really the other way around and people are just showing the results of what happens when you sit on your arse eating biscuits all day.

Can't wait for this thread this time next month if we get off to a slow start... Still think we may end up buying someone for stupid money (10-15 mil) before the transfer window is up

This years Taylor. Arrived to a shrug & some mumbling but may well turn out to be indispensable

Guessing they're waiting for Terry to get changed back into his kit before presenting the trophy

you can just rewind to the start of the stream if you want to watch the first game

that's rather anticlimactic

This must be the least friendly, friendly torunament ever

remember a week ago when nobody wanted samba & elmo because the were old/slow/shit....

Quite a nice little format for a tournament this. Wouldn't mind something similar at VP.

bit of half time karaoke...

quite glad we are not playing malaga in the final after that

1 more 45 minute game after this one. then back on. Should be a 15 min break between games but this one is running a bit behind due to all the fouls

Is there any history between these two? seem determined to kick the shit out of each other

Well he went to forest aswell

He went to Mallorca

You would think that hertha should go on and win this now against 10 men. Presume it is penalties if a draw? this would delay the rest of the games a bit

fight fight fight

3pm, other semi then 3/4 play off before then. they ko at 1 and 2 o clock. The loser in the next game will be straight back out for another game against duisburg