CrackpotForeigner

More like Aston Villa in killing confidence of promising young player by not picking him after good performances shocker.

The bloke was really excellent for the first half of last season. Before then I freely admit I thought he was the worst footballer in the world, but now I really admire the way he gets on with it whether he's picked or not, and when he is he tries his very best.

11 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

I'd love for him to put himself in the shop window. 

I just hope we're not the ones who make the impulse buy.

I think Zog is a very talented player who unfortunately just lacks any inclination to push himself to achieve things in football.

So it's very possible that he will find that motivation again when he sees his time running out, and if he does I don't see why he shouldn't be given an extra year at a time. That way we could have him playing well for about six months a season (or not).

1 hour ago, Fowlersrs said:

I'm pretty sure city are capable of putting 4/5 goals past most teams in the league, but they didn't and there we're positives in a game I thought we wouldn't find any. I think Remi could go on to be the best manager we've seen at this club

He is formidable. In his interviews he is just brilliant at giving measured, nuanced answers to every question, and with occasional humour. The bloke has a proper brain in his head.

19 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

'To rubbish' . . . odd verb really. 

Rubbish, you're just too rubbish not to rubbish to rubbish.

4 minutes ago, Awol said:

as you ask I work for free helping Muslims in places that most people wouldn't go if you paid them.

Helping them to find Jesus? :)

6 minutes ago, momo said:

Generalizing billions of people to make a point that religion is the cause of terror? You couldn't be more wrong. ISIS was created on the background of colonialism, occupation, illegal war, bombings, killings, torture, poorness. People killed because they happen to be Muslims in predominantly Muslim countries. A hell of a lot more Muslims die because of western countries invasions, but you seem to ignore that. Do Muslim lives matter less to you?

I agree that instead of responding just with rage, we (as people living in "western" countries) should ask "why"?

And a very big part of the answer to that question must ultimately be injustices stemming from the Iraq war and George W Bush's disastrous presidency. It's not difficult to arrive at an estimate of around a million people dead as a result, if you include Syria. Take away the bronze-age sky fairy worship and there are legitimate grievances underneath. Injustice begets violence more than religion alone.

Once Rodders has granted your three wishes, why not practise writing é's? Then you can also gain the upper hand in an argument by sayiing "It's Rémi Garde ffs."

é

Alt-0233 on mine.

Rémi.

Rémi Garde.

Sigh.

If you're impatient we could kick things off now just for the halibut.

Now, on a serious note, can anyone provide guidance on adding the little dash above the e in Remi using a non-foreign keyboard? We owe it to him.

Interesting from the Graunido: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/09/charles-nzogbia-aston-villa-remi-garde?

It is a strange turn of events for N’Zogbia, who would have been all but resigned to the fact that he would never play for Villa again. The board had certainly come to that conclusion and over several weeks has been trying to reach an agreement with N’Zogbia and his representatives over the final eight months of the five-year deal that was signed in 2011 and costs Villa about £65,000 a week.

If he says God says no, that's good enough for me.

Garde has been sitting around watching football and chatting to his high-flying football mates for over an ear.

I fancy he might have one or two ideas about where to find a woefully underrated inexpensive young beast of a striker, and one or two similar ideas as well. (Diabate might be one of them )

Well his rash attempt to win the ball off Navas late in the game nearly cost us again. He over-committed and we got lucky. I think he was dropped in order to try to improve his concentration maybe, but it doesn't seem to have worked.

Brilliant in attack, though. Should have had at least one assist v City today.

Picks his team and makes his subs as if he's watched our games properly. What strange new luxury is this?

I still want to see him alongside Gestede. I reckon Garde will too some time soon and I can't wait.

Naff all. Between Don't Know and Don't Know Or Care, what chance did we have?

Oh come on Wainy, there's a difference between wanting to commit mansex with someone and simply being madly, helplessly in love with them.

Yeah and then a couple of deflections in off the referee's bum to cancel out the goals that 10-man City score against us anyway.

Jeez, calm down everyone, it's not as if he's banned frogs from the dressing room.

Good, reliable medical grade refrigeration equipment doesn't come cheap.

I don't know that he's necessarily saying that. He might not yet have a clue how things are in the dressing room. I think he just has experience of trying to understand a second language as spoken between first-language speakers.

I know from my experience that it's bloody frustrating to have to slow your speech down, to the point where you're thinking "why can't the stupid clearing just understand faster", and also that it makes it heaps easier for a second language learner if people do make the effort to slow it down for you.

Remember Petrov when Duverne was around: "My next level of fitness is dying"  Sounds like exactly what we need

I've just watched the full interview and am hopelessly, head-over-heels in love. That is all.