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You mean the guy that put the wicked corner in for the goal and has generally done well 1st half?? Hes hardly had a touch to be fair. Hes so overrated its untrue. Hardly had a touch? He set one up and almost set 2 more up, with better players around him, he'll be a better player. He's not worth 12m but he's easily worth 7m IMO. OK, slight exaggeration on my part, but he takes the corners...hes bound to hace a couple of touches Apart from the corners though, hes been shit. I would even go as far to say that if our marking at set pieces wasnt so shocking, he would have been even shitter. (if thats even a word) I suppose he's been shit 2nd half as well.

You mean the guy that put the wicked corner in for the goal and has generally done well 1st half?? There has to be more to a player than there corners you know... He's a good player, I've seen enough of him to know that. he didn't just put in that corner, he put 2 very good balls in that could've ended up in the net. hasn't been great today, but has played well enough in a poor team.

You mean the guy that put the wicked corner in for the goal and has generally done well 1st half?? Hes hardly had a touch to be fair. Hes so overrated its untrue. Hardly had a touch? He set one up and almost set 2 more up, with better players around him, he'll be a better player. He's not worth 12m but he's easily worth 7m IMO.

It is, our final ball is terrible and has been for a while. We've got into so many good positions as well, really frustrating. I think we'll do better 2nd half though as everyone tires and Downing and Young become even more of a threat.

You mean the guy that put the wicked corner in for the goal and has generally done well 1st half??

Gabby's playing pretty well but we need Downing on the left, Albrighton on the right.

I thin our extra quality will shine last half n hour when players tire.

Unlucky Downing. Our delivery is terrible again. Pro players cant even beat the first man.

Shit Collins on... The pace is frightening and its so open, no surpirse the defending isn't great. Dunne is a liability, zonal marking is shit.

That's short, although I think he's got a chance.

Cuellar for Collins should be a plus, 4-2 Villa

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I thought I wouldn't like that, but I did. The only other Linda Ronstadt song I know is I Don't Know Much with Aaron Neville.

I thought I wouldn't like that, but I did. The only other Linda Ronstadt song I know is I Don't Know Much with Aaron Neville.

I think the boy cahill might be right about Makoun being right up there with the best CM in the league, at least if he carries on the way he's started, but I'm not sure Essien has been too great this season.

There's no place for women in football...

You can't beat kicking a CF, one of the joys of the game Different subject, but I went boxing training a couple of times, it was by far the toughest training I'd ever done and I'd trained pretty hard as a footballer. 2 hours of solid training on the ropes, punchbags, pushups, situps etc.

Well obviously it's not relevant to me any more, but when I was a youngster it was absolutely about confidence. I was fine with the humour and chatting up thing. Didn't mind approaching girls at all. It was getting to the next stage that was always the problem. I was convinced that girls would only like me as a friend, and wouldn't consider, you know... doing it. Especially as the blokes they DID fancy always seemed to be very unlike me - they were usually handsome musclebound sporty oafs, and I was this weedy geek (as I perceived myself). I never dared "make a move" because I was convinced they would either laugh at me, or explain apologetically that they liked me, but not in THAT way. I was so scared of rejection and humiliation I usually didn't try. The result was that I ended up with lots of platonic female friends, and (as I discovered later) quite a few that were offended because they thought I had rejected them - when I was blissfully unaware they were interested. They probably thought I was gay (and I was very much not gay!) I got over it, of course, but not really until I was in my early 20s. Looking back, I still feel quite sad at the number of lost opportunities - and I have considerable sympathy for young guys in that situation now. As ME demonstrates, women have no idea of how daunting the whole dating thing can be for some guys. I do understand it. Honestly. I go out with my guy friends all the time and watch them try. Sometimes I help them. I understand everything you are thinking. I am simply saying that the way you guys perceive it is a bit of an exaggeration. You yourself later realized you had missed out on a lot because you convinced YOURSELF it wouldn't happen instead of just trying. And in the end it was your own thoughts that basically cock blocked you. All I am saying is, stop letting the fear of rejection get in the way of a possible good time. I've been rejected. I know how it feels. Didn't stop me from trying again. I'm with mooney, it's all about confidence. When your confidence is low you see things in the same light that you do when you ARE confident. I missed out on a number of opportunities when I was younger because my confidence was down, but as I've got older I notice women looking more. I dont know whether that's me noticing because I'm confident or because I'm more confident in myself, making women look at me more :S Also, i think you get to know yourself a little better as you get older and that can give you a little more confidence, it has for me, although I'm still don't exactly exude confidence. On the rejection thing, I had a mate that would get his oats every night he went out. He was the envy of all his mates, but he'd actually get rejected a lot more than anyone else. He'd get knocked back 5 times out of 6 on night out, but wouldn't let it affect him, he'd just didn't let it knock him.

There are more injuries in football then rugby because there's more twisting, it's quicker and in rugby your more prepared for the contact. Football is more unpredictable IMO. Thats what I think anyway I don't remember having any bad injuries playing rugby. I got a couple of black eyes and got raked quite a bit, but the worst injury I got was just a bit of concussion after badly timing a tackle. Playing football I tore my hamstring, fractured my shin, strained my thighs and quads, had a really bad concussion and had all sorts of nasty knocks and strains to my knees and ankles.

Works every time I went out at the weekend, for the first time since I split with my ex around Xmas (properly out) and I pulled twice without even trying. I used to be shit at pulling as well, absolutely terrible in fact. I didn't do anything about it though, just don't feel like it atm.

I loved Subbuteo, had the astroturf pitch instead of the felty ones. Had the grandstands and scoreboard as well, but you couldnt take a throw-in with those things in the way.

I also think it's best to not rush into anything relationship wise. However, a quick shag isn't such a bad idea.

South Wales! In the 70's and early 80's Absolute living stereotype nightmare. Oh I was close! I just remember you said you lived in Redditch and my school was the only school in Redditch with an all weather (I think). Funnily enough my old man's from Swansea, played a lot of ugby there when he was young.

The all weather pitch? Arrow Vale?

I used to love playing rugby for the school, I was supposed to go for county trials but had a football match instead so didn't bother. I used to love the physicality of it.