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Football Thread 13/14 |OT18| Coming Early by L. Piscium

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KidA Seven

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Btw, this guy charges $5 per 40 words.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vmOvfbg90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_bJo5fGq_A
 
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Milchmonster

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Wilbur said:
Attention Yurt:



http://www.theguardian.com/football...orussia-dortmund-real-madrid-champions-league
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You obviously can't know but that's one of the worst articles I've read in like forever. It bursts with half knowledge and just plain wrong facts. Just makes me kinda angry.

First off, Breyer repeatedly asked dumb as fuck questions that night. 50% of the time, he was talking/asking about what would have happened if Lewandowski could have played and then asked that stupid question if it's through. Klopp did the right thing, Breyer even admitted that the questions were shit and that this was talked about with ZDF afterwards.

Then it quotes that Förtjof mug, he's just talking plain shite. Klopp didn't fucking throw the mic on the floor. And you can clearly see that Breyer was baffled at Klopp's reaction to go and himself had no intention to give him the hand for a goodbye. Klopp actually patted him on the back. And that Klopp leaving with Reus is Matthäus level of pundit.
 
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Elchele

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Milchmonster said:
You obviously can't know but that's one of the worst articles I've read in like forever. It bursts with half knowledge and just plain wrong facts. Just makes me kinda angry.

First off, Breyer repeatedly asked dumb as fuck questions that night. 50% of the time, he was talking/asking about what would have happened if Lewandowski could have played and then asked that stupid question if it's through. Klopp did the right thing, Breyer even admitted that the questions were shit and that this was talked about with ZDF afterwards.

Then it quotes that Förtjof mug, he's just talking plain shite. Klopp didn't fucking throw the mic on the floor. And you can clearly see that Breyer was baffled at Klopp's reaction to go and himself had no intention to give him the hand for a goodbye. Klopp actually patted him on the back. And that Klopp leaving with Reus is Matthäus level of pundit.
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the only relevant part of it all is Klopp-Kahn moment at the end
 
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From the Metro:

"Arsenal are considering a £17m summer move for Paris St-Germain striker Marco Verratti, 21, despite the fact the Italian has not scored in 50 appearances since signing for the French club in 2012."
 
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subtles

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Danchi said:
From the Metro:

"Arsenal are considering a £17m summer move for Paris St-Germain striker Marco Verratti, 21, despite the fact the Italian has not scored in 50 appearances since signing for the French club in 2012."
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The pinnacle of false nines.
 
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faridmon

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Danchi said:
From the Metro:

"Arsenal are considering a £17m summer move for Paris St-Germain striker Marco Verratti, 21, despite the fact the Italian has not scored in 50 appearances since signing for the French club in 2012."
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I bet he can pass the ball towards the goal!
 
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Broder Salsa

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This is a truly amazing piece of journalism lol

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-vikings-were-feared-for-a-reason-9241032.html

Overall, the Scandinavians have a lot to apologise for. The leader of almost every Viking raiding party or army about which anything is known committed crimes which today would see them charged before the International Criminal Court.

The exhibition at the British Museum does not quite make up its mind about the Vikings, though it is scornful of the view that their expansion was "essentially a violent one". At the same time, the authors of the book about the exhibition cautiously admit that the stereotype of bloodthirsty killers cannot be entirely discarded. Finally, they make the excuse that: "Viking warriors made up only a small and not particularly representative proportion of Scandinavian society as a whole." Of course, the same could be said of the relationship between the SS and German society in its entirety.
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Salazar

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lol

From the same frame of mind that gives the Spaniards so much shit about wiping out the Aztecs.

How sad do you really wanna be about the extermination of a culture organised in every particular around human sacrifice ?

What kind of mini-minded anachronism-hungry pissant trawls history looking for potential cases to bring to the Hague ?
 
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K1LLER7

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Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa may have come together by accident, but now David Moyes must let them grow

Serendipity is a heart-warming romantic comedy starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale about a couple who keep finding each other through a series of plot-friendly coincidences.

It is also a term coined from a Persian fairy tale about three princes who were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”. It has come to describe instances of fortuitous happenstance and pleasant surprises. That’s right – I can use Google.

On Saturday afternoon Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa also kept finding each other in an extremely heart-warming way.

The two miniature heroes combined in a manner that suggested each had finally discovered someone kindred in both skill and imagination to have wholesome family fun with. That the two have been given the playing time and freedom to flourish has more to do with limited options than a grand managerial master plan. It has been serendipitous.

But that's absolutely fine so long as David Moyes embraces his good luck and runs with it.

Gratefully accepting a gift horse rather than questioning its dentures is what good managers do. In fact two of the most symbiotic pairings of the Premier League era owe more than a little to fortuitous fluke. Neither Liverpool's SAS nor United's treble-winning Yorke-Cole axis happened completely by design. The key is that they were allowed to flourish and bloom.

Fergie had hoped to announce the double-swoop of both Dwight Yorke and Patrick Kluivert in August of 1998 but only managed to secure the less glamorous of the two; Daniel Sturridge was a consolation prize not of Brendan Rodger's choosing after his pursuit of Clint Dempsey came to nowt and he’ll forever be grateful it was so.

What both managers had the good sense to do was build upon the sensational unions that fell into their respective laps and the rest is - and may be - history.

Partnerships can’t be forced but they can be fostered. What Juan and Shinji showed against both Aston Villa and Newcastle United was an instinctive appreciation for each other’s games that hadn’t been afforded by more celebrated colleagues. They’re like the two quiet sensitive boys in nursery who don’t quite take to the raucous behaviour of the rest of the class but discover a friend for life in the other whilst neatly colouring within the lines…before going on to found Pixar or something.

What’s particularly exciting about Magawa (Juanji?) is that the Villa game that first gave fruit to their alliance was at home.

Old Trafford: The burden of expectation

Despite Moyes’ team showing league-winning form on the road, their Old Trafford record is woeful in comparison. A large part of this will have to do with the understandable pressures of performing in front of an expectant crowd; it can both inhibit creativity and cause usually composed players to try and force the issue with half-baked results.

The way in which Kagawa and Mata combine is so natural and organic that it cuts through the tension and innately provides everything that the team was lacking – fluidity, movement and joyful unpredictability. Sometimes when two players of similar styles are partnered together they clash horribly as they both jostle to play the same role at the expense of the other. What the Asian and Iberian manage to do is dovetail their passing and movement to become better together.

Kagawa possibly deserves more credit than his more eye-catching partner. The Japanese international is the more tactically astute of the two and tailors his play more readily. It’s no coincidence that he struck up a similarly effective partnership with Robert Lewandowski at Dortmund. But whereas he openly criticised the Pole for what he felt was occasional selfishness that is not something he could ever accuse Mata of. The Spaniard is very appreciative and responds in kind. They’re like United’s Eric and Ernie – Juan provides the punch line but Shinji is the brains.

The only fear is that once everyone is fit and well David Moyes will revert to type and pick on reputation rather than merit, which means both Van Persie and Rooney at the expense of everyone else. Similarly it would be a horrible pity if Kagawa was shown the door at the end of a season in which he finally found someone on similar wavelength to his own. The hope is that the manager takes heed of Juan Mata’s gushing praise for his new friend and what seems like an interlude now could be the beginning of love.
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Yen

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Charles Dance and Aidan Gillien (Baelish) are killing it in GOT (up to s2e8). The child actors all very good too.
 
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Scum

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Oh, so now everyone's happy to see Kagawa on the pitch, eh? Pfft! He's should be a default starter no matter what.
 
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KidA Seven

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Scum said:
Oh, so now everyone's happy to see Kagawa on the pitch, eh? Pfft! He's should be a default starter no matter what.
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I've been saying that from the start my friend. It wasn't Shinji's fault the rest of the team had no idea that it's ok to move around on the pitch.
 
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K1LLER7

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KidA Seven said:
I've been saying that from the start my friend. It wasn't Shinji's fault the rest of the team had no idea that it's ok to move around on the pitch.
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Finally has the players in Mata and Januzaj who are on the same wavelength. Mata has benefitted from playing alongside him too.

Now Moyes has to either drop Rooney/RVP, or drop the other winger and play Rooney out wide.
 
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Salazar

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Scum said:
Oh, so now everyone's happy to see Kagawa on the pitch, eh? Pfft! He's should be a default starter no matter what.
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I'll be happy when he can play well up the pitch against good teams. In front of midfielders, not doing emergency bail-out work behind them.
 
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Scum

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KidA Seven said:
I've been saying that from the start my friend. It wasn't Shinji's fault the rest of the team had no idea that it's ok to move around on the pitch.
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loool. Yeah. I still say Rooney is a disruptive force. Bloody great player but someone needs to smack head round the head and remind him to stay up top.

K1LLER7 said:
Finally has the players in Mata and Januzaj who are on the same wavelength. Mata has benefitted from playing alongside him too.

Now Moyes has to either drop Rooney/RVP, or drop the other winger and play Rooney out wide.
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Stick Chica up top. Sell Rooney to PSG and give that £300k a week to de Gea.

Salazar said:
I'll be happy when he can play well up the pitch against good teams. In front of midfielders, not doing emergency bail-out work behind them.
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Get Schneiderlin. That'd be a good start.
 
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