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Football Thread 2013/14 |OT7| The Ramsey Effect

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Peco

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cremino said:
Milan is a mediocre team but they could have played better taking into account the other team is one of the worst Ajax ever.... All fans think it was an unacceptable performance
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We're a decent team. But the lack of ideas, style of play, confidence and aggression is now disturbing, in three years of work he failed to create at least the base for something good. We sold Silva and Ibra, big deal, but our style of playing was terrible even then.

Him and Berlusconi are destroying this club, we won 2 fucking CL in the last 10 years FFS, we deserve better.
 
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Messi

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neo fun allowed said:
We're a decent team. But the lack of ideas, style of play, confidence and aggression is now disturbing, in three years of work he failed to create at least the base for something good. We sold Silva and Ibra, big deal, but our style of playing was terrible even then.

Him and Berlusconi are destroying this club, we won 2 fucking CL in the last 10 years FFS, we deserve better.
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Look at it this way. Arsenal won 0 CL's in the past 10 years.
 
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Batigol

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Man, Wilbur's thread is going to get nuked hard. If I don't make it..

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K1LLER7 said:
Juve-bros always complain about their team and then they go on to win lol.
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We didn't win against Copenhagen, did we? It's not like we've had an amazing start to the season. Our first three CL matches ended in a draw last year. We were right to complain then, we're right to complain now. We're playing like shit, well below 'our standard'. That's a fact. It would be nice if tonight is the night we stop sucking, but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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K1LLER7 said:
Moscow do what Zenit don't.

Plzen suck. Even United would beat them.
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CSKA haven't scored a goal in their last 4 games. Half their starting eleven is out injured. And they're playing this home game at Zenit's stadium because the pitch in Moscow is shit. They're not beating anybody.
 
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Dibbz

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Someone needs to knock Arsenal back into their place. All this optimism from Arsenal fans is so depressing to read.
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My feet are firmly on the ground. Too early to make any sort of predictions but it is nice that Arsenal are having a great start. I would be the same if we had a terrible start. There are far too many games to be assuming anything right now.
 
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Chipotle

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I love United's twitter:

@ManUtd
The last time United won the Champions League, in 2007/08, the Reds also faced teams from Ukraine and Germany in the group stage. #mufc
 
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Dibbz said:
My feet are firmly on the ground. Too early to make any sort of predictions but it is nice that Arsenal are having a great start. I would be the same if we had a terrible start. There are far too many games to be assuming anything right now.
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Basically how i'm feeling now.

It's kind of a good thing that the sections of the fanbase that bandwagoned after we started winning things has been grounded by these last 8 years - I feel like it will make us winning anything that much sweeter.
 
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The beautiful story of Pam and Moyesie.

DAVID MOYES will never be short of challenges at Manchester United, but he won’t have to face any of them alone.

The new boss has so much in common with the legend he must try to replace. Like Sir Alex Ferguson, he’s a gruff Glaswegian with a dry wit, a steely glare and an unbreakable will to win.

He loves the horses, like Fergie, and he’s a lifelong Labour man, like Fergie. And like Fergie, his best asset is his missus.

Sir Alex has always been fulsome in his praise of wife Cathy, who never left his side on his journey to football immortality.

While he was king of Old Trafford and Pittodrie, Cathy ruled the roost at home.

Fergie once said: “Without her support, none of it would have been possible.”

And in his wife Pamela, David has his own rock to lean on.
fucking Liverpool

They met more than two decades ago, at a disco at the Winnock Hotel in Drymen, Stirlingshire.

David was a young Celtic player at the time, and not short on confidence. Asked how he and Pamela fell in love, he joked: “She saw me once, and, well, that was it.”

Pamela, of course, insists it was David who did the chasing.

Marriage followed, and children, daughter Lauren and son David.

There was never going to be a conventional family life for Mr and Mrs Moyes, not with David’s job.

He has admitted that Pamela rolls her eyes when he insists on watching game after game in the house.

But she doesn’t complain about her husband’s late nights and long absences
on football business. Instead, she mucks in and helps.

Every summer for years, David and Pamela’s holidays have featured youth tournaments, coaching courses and spying missions on foreign teams.

And when they’re at home, Pamela actively supports her man whenever she can. She’s been a regular fan at Everton’s home games and she often plans weeks in advance just so she and her man can have a meal together.

Pamela is said to be extremely grateful for the lifestyle David’s hard work has given their family. But she’s also smart and strong, and not afraid to speak her mind.

David has admitted that in 2008, when he was mulling over the five-year Everton contract that is about to come to an end, it was Pamela who told him to take the deal and stop
messing about.

He said: “My wife said to me, ‘Get your contract signed and get on with it.’

“People were starting to think it had something to do with uncertainty over my future, using it as an excuse. ‘Just get on with it’ – very Scottish advice.”

It’s a safe bet that Pamela’s advice was sought, and given, before David agreed to take the United job.

As his appointment was announced, he said yesterday: “I know how hard it will be to follow the best manager ever.

“But the opportunity to manage Manchester United isn’t something that comes around
very often.”

It’s not the first time David has followed in Fergie’s footsteps. Like his predecessor, he’s a graduate of one of Scotland’s most productive football talent factories, the legendary Drumchapel Amateurs FC in Glasgow.

“The Drum”, Scotland’s most famous amateur club after Queen’s Park, were founded in 1950 by millionaire businessman Douglas Smith.

Fergie signed for them in 1954 and credits Douglas, who died in 2004, with laying the groundwork for his future career.

He once said: “We were treated like professionals. The organisation and preparation were meticulous.

“The lessons I learned while playing for Drumchapel have stood me in good stead throughout my career. Douglas Smith was a great man and a massive influence.”

David followed Fergie to the Drum, years later. And as well as Douglas’s guidance, he could rely on the support and know-how of his dad, David snr, one of the club’s most respected coaches.

Club president Jimmy Wood said: “David’s whole family was involved. His mum Joan washed the shirts.”

Drumchapel director and youth coach David Garrett, who was coached by David snr, said: “He had modern, new ideas and commanded all the players’ respect. I’m 45 now, and I still call him Mr Moyes.

“David jnr was noted for doing all the right things. He had a good discipline about him and it’s no mystery where he got it from – his dad instilled it in all the players.

“When you see him on TV after games, you can see all the same ideas at work.”

David left the Drum to play for Celtic boys’ club, then the first team and Scotland youth team. He would enjoy a long professional playing career.

But Jimmy said: “He kept an interest in the club and is now a director – just like Fergie.”

Each peg in the home dressing room at Drumchapel has a plaque, engraved with the names of the boys who went on to make it as pros.

David’s name is on number five, Fergie’s on number 10. And there are plenty of other names, John Robertson, Asa Hartford, Andy Gray, John Wark and Walter Smith among them.

David snr is now a scout for his son at Everton and could soon be doing the same job for United. But however far the family go in football, their roots will always be in their home city.

David jnr grew up in Thornwood in the west end before moving with his family to Bearsden. And he speaks with affection about the Glasgow upbringing that gave him so many of the strengths he’ll need now.

He said: “You had to look after yourself in Glasgow. You had to be sharp with your tongue, or a good runner to get away from people. You had to handle yourself.

“In Glasgow, you call it being gallus.”

Fergie would approve.
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KidA Seven

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I hope Moyes noticed how well Nani and Shinji play together. It's a shame the best fullbacks and RVP didn't get to play at the same time as them. They all compliment each other more so than Valencia/Young/Chicha/etc... This isn't something new either. We saw a glimpse of their chemistry last season the few times they were on the pitch together.

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That's from last season's CL game against Gala.
 
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KidA Seven

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Meier said:
I am seriously smh at this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=688807.
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I didn't know there were that many people that strictly listened to video game music. The hell man. And it doesn't make any sense. Video game music isn't restricted to one genre. What's stopping them from listening to the same type of music found in other media? The fact that it didn't come from a video game? Just seems extremely weird and biased.
 
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