Skruff

Typical Houllier signing. A player with an inappropriate skill set for the job he's expected to do.

It was obvious after the Wigan game alone that he was never a player that would shine in the Premier League apart from the odd game against relatively non-combative midfields (i.e. Man Utd & Fulham), so far off the pace and mindset of the PL that he got booked in every single game he played I think.

City should have shipped out Dzeko this summer since he was such a failure last season. Shit player, clearly not cut out for PL.

Would you say Delp is far off the pace and mindset in the PL?

Ever considered giving a player more then what? 6 apps, 4 from start? Over a course of half a season to adapt?

Didn't even have time to get match fit, sure as hell didn't have time to adapt to the PL.

When you're saying that Munited has a none-combative midfielde, are you talking in general or about that game only?

the lack of security in and around the island is quite alarming. he managed to get on the island, start shooting, and it carried on for an hour or so.

where was the nearest police station?

Yea a youth summer camp in Norway should be guarded as well as a airport right after 9/11.

Do they have police guards in every summer camp where you're from? For every happening that occurs outdoors or in public?

I'm also a bit surprised that he got to carry on as long as he did though.

But I guess it took some time before the police got reports of the shooting due to the mass panic and people being busy running for their lives from a madman hunting them down like rabbits on a small island.

And by the time they got reports, I assume most of the police force was busy downtown Oslo after the bomb had blown up.

I'd make a wild guess and say the nearest police stations would be about 40min away, no idea really.

The man arrested at Utøya is reported to be Norwegian.

I consider it an act of public outrage towards such awful civic architecture.

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Arrests made already ... seems quick

would make me wonder if they weren't already tracking the suspects ?

Some time after the bombing there was a man dressed up as a policeman who started shooting at civilians at Utøya, 30 min outside oslo or so?.

It was a youth summer camp held by AUF (Political Youth Party of Arbeiderpartiet(AP)). Our prime minister represents Arbeiderpartiet(AP) and Arbeiderpartiet is currently in government with two other political parties.

The "policeman" has been arrested, don't think there has been made any other arrests yet. But the police believes that the two incidents are related.

When is the kick off? And how long is the travel from Faro?

Don't know if this is helpful at all but here we go:

I was very poor at English at school, way behind a lot of fellow students.

My grammar, vocabulary and spelling was very poor.

As soon as I knew enough of the basics to read books with some help of a dictionary and watch movies/tv in English with subtitles i had a lot of progress. I ended up reading 100-200 pages of English books a week without any help and watch English movies without subtitles. I also started to speak quite a lot of English while playing computer games on line which also helped me a lot.

Went from being worse then a 12 year old at the age of 16 to being close to "fluent" at the age of 18.

All in all I didn't learn much from being in class listening to teachers talking about English grammar and doing spelling tests, but from using English actively.

Fifa has been improving every year.

I believe that it will better then Fifa 11 which was awesome.

Don't care to much about the manager mode, as I only play Exhibition games with mates or play 1v1 online. I'd like to see smoother online gameplay with less lagg and delay though.

I'm Playing Aston Villa for the first time and I'm in the middle of my first season,

I keep banging in goals, DB got 26 goals so far, torres and drogba behind him with 12 and I'm only February.

I've scored 61 goals so far this season. The problem is that I concede way to many goals. 38 so far. With every other teams I've played with I've had one of the tightest defences in the league.

I play with one ball winning midfielder and one defensive midfielder infront of this back 4:

Walker/Young(supportive fullback) - Dunne(defender) - Hangeland(stopper) - Baines(Supportive fullback)

Got a deep defensive line, offside tactic is turned off.

Any ideas on what I should do differently?

Might be a England flag photoshopped into a liverpook flag.

I'm warming to Martinez. A young, upcoming manager who plays good football, who won't see himself as bigger than the club right now. No doubt there's risk, and he wouldn't be my first choice still, but we could do a lot worse in my opinion.

This.

I think I'm in the minority, but I don't see Rafa as a bad option at all.

He won CL after taking over a team that GH managed didn't he?

We might just win the league

if we dont get a top manager then it will be like being promised a pair of new trainers as a boy, you are hoping it will be the pair of nike airmax but instead your parents bring out a box containing hitec

completely underwhelming, embarrassing and almost puts you off going out to play.

hughes, mclaren, martiinez, benitez all fall into this catagory

hitec

well said

whats the starting XI today?

Brilliant today. His awareness, passing, positioning, touch, always looked as if he was thinking two steps ahead. Just brilliant.

Makoun 9.

Friedel 7.5

Downing, Dunne and Collins 4

Petrov 3

Everyone else 6.

Makoun was superb, better than any centre mid United had. Defenders cost us the game, nice to see Benty on the scoresheet again.

This!

Applauding Bent and booing Milner would be hypocritical, I'd go for the 3rd option.

NO!

Hope I'll be clicking yes next month, at least we got a good start.