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Football Thread |OT19| LA DECIMATED

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Dibbz

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Sviatoslav said:
Viera, Henry, Cesc, RVP....Vermaelen lol. What a drop off in quality.
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Part of the plan. We will finally have a summer where we hold onto our captain. On a serious note Arteta is basically captain right now since TV doesn't get picked.

Freewheelin' said:
Pires...to Gervinho. One of the best wingers in the league....to one of the shittest :(
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Gervinho will come good.

not really

We could do with a really good winger though. Maybe Ox will get more games next season because Podlski is not suited to it and Gerv is a risk like Walcott. Saying that doesn't Wenger want Ox in the middle eventually?

Can Isco play on the wing? :p I mean fuck someone has gotta be the £30m man, who the fuck is it? Better not be Villa, he has been really shit this season. He has regressed so fucking much at Barca.
 
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Wilbur

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Kyoufu said:
Fail to qualify for Champions League football, then you can say this.

Settle for mid-table mediocrity, then you can say this.

Flirt with relegation every season, then you can say this.

Get relegated, then you can say this.

Until then, you have absolutely no idea what it feels like to be a fan of any other club.
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Disappear for ten years, come back for the glory days

Expert on being a football fan

KYOUFU
 
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Sviatoslav

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Kyoufu said:
Blah. Fine. Anzhi it is.
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If things go to plan then by that time Kerimov will have lost all interest in his little Anzhi pet project and the club will be where they belong: in the second division.


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jtb

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Dibbz said:
Part of the plan. We will finally have a summer where we hold onto our captain. On a serious note Arteta is basically captain right now since TV doesn't get picked.


Gervinho will come good.

not really

We could do with a really good winger though. Maybe Ox will get more games next season because Podlski is not suited to it and Gerv is a risk like Walcott. Saying that doesn't Wenger want Ox in the middle eventually?

Can Isco play on the wing? :p I mean fuck someone has gotta be the £30m man, who the fuck is it? Better not be Villa, he has been really shit this season. He has regressed so fucking much at Barca.
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everybody wants to play down the middle. I don't get it. Ronaldo begs his managers not to play him up front, but Theo thinks he's the next Henry? Ugh.

I agree we're weak on the wings, but that's always been a problem area because Wenger doesn't like to buy wingers, he just plays number 10s (or worse, out of form strikers...) out of position on the wing. I just hope that if we go for someone, they're a natural wide man.
 
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Wilbur

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Kyoufu said:
I wonder who will get the sack first. Pardew or Moyes?
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Pardew's there for life, baby. The Alain Pardeaux Stand of the Wonga Sports Direct Stadium... I can't wait :')

Seriously, they should get rid by Christmas if he hasn't improved assuming you stay up.
 
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Can Crusher

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GolazoDan said:
I would fear what Mourinho would do at a club like United, following on from Fergie, if it all started to go tits up. He'd kill half the reserve team and loan the rest out to QPR (arguably worse). I do not trust that man's madness.
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I don't quite know the history of Mou when it comes to this. So what are you using to base this on?

Mou has shown a great eye to uncover talent, be it young talent or old talent that went unnoticed. He has shown he can spend big and win, or spend low and win. He has 0 tolerance for people who go against his views, very much like Ferguson and Guardiola.
 
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Wilbur

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OH MAN LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL - http://thefunnygooner.wordpress.com/

I was 17 years old when I experienced by first break up. It hurt like hell; I swear I could have drunk myself to death that night. Three years later, me and my Gf ended a 2 year relationship, I pretended I was cool, but again, it stung like a bitch. I promised to myself, I will never let any girl hurt my feelings again.



Forward, July 4th, 2012. Who would have thought the next person who would break my heart would be a man? Robin Fucking Van Persie.

Whatever needs to be said has been said. Whatever needs to be expressed has been expressed. But I still need to take this out.

In the past decade, we have lost many of our significant players, but personally, this particular player’s inevitable exit is causing me tremendous heartache.

Fuck Hleb, Fuck Flamini, Fuck Nasri, Fuck Adebayor. They all were talented players who once played for Arsenal. That’s it. Another category includes Viera, Henry and Cesc. Everyone knows what happened and blah blah, I don’t want to go over that shit again.

But Van Persie, RobinVanPersie. I thought this guy was special. I thought this guy’s statue will be outside the Emirates someday. I even fucking thought he would succeed Wenger one day.

I woke up. Somebody bitch slapped me. It was Van Persie. He said,”Fuck you and fuck your feelings pussy. I am a professional footballer. Who the fuck are you? What the fuck is Arsenal FC? I am Robin Van Persie and I am a self interested person just like you. I feel this is the time when I can cash in as much as I can and when I’m done at 32, I can live the rest of my life in Caribbean. So fuck you ordinary fan.”

I came to my senses. I was wrong. I was wrong all along. He taught me something that I ignored for a longtime. Just like anyone else, he is selfish. However, then I thought there is so much to life than being selfish prick. Where is honor? Where’s loyalty? Where’s the feeling that tells you that you have to give something back to the people who did so much for you? Forgive me if I’m being a little dramatic here but it is the truth.
Money? More money? What are going to do with more money? Buy a nicer car? Live in a bigger mansion? 90 percent of the world’s populations have a hard time getting their ends meet and 100 grand a WEEK is not enough for you? Are you serious? Besides, it’s not like you have no earnings after retirement. You still earn millions from endorsements, TV shows, being pundits and so on. Why the fuck would you want more?

If you Google top clubs of the world in terms of anything, money, popularity, fan base, you’ll see Arsenal in that list. There are literally millions of clubs in this world, how fucking lucky you must be to play for one of the best clubs in the world, to represent that club as a captain, who by the way, made you who are you today. How fucking lucky you must be?

So, here is what I have to say to you Robin Van Persie, Fuck you.

Now Fuck off to another club who matches your pocket’s ambition. We’ll see how that works out for you and I’m one hundred percent sure, you WILL regret your decision. Deep down you know, you are a loser for showing your back to the people who carried you when you were down.

I’m putting this whole saga behind me now and I believe I’m a changed man now. From now on, here is what I am going to do. No emotional attachment with the players. None. Nada. Zero. My only attachment is with the Fans, Arsene and our Red and White shirt. They are the only things that are constant an from now on, I ‘ll trust them, and them only. Let’s move Forward.

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates
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Dibbz

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jtb said:
everybody wants to play down the middle. I don't get it. Ronaldo begs his managers not to play him up front, but Theo thinks he's the next Henry? Ugh.

I agree we're weak on the wings, but that's always been a problem area because Wenger doesn't like to buy wingers, he just plays number 10s (or worse, out of form strikers...) out of position on the wing. I just hope that if we go for someone, they're a natural wide man.
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I think he acknowledges that the guys on the wings are not suited to it but he'd rather have them on because they are good finishers.

Part of the blame has to fall on our full backs though *cough* Sagna. Monreal/Gibbs are pretty good at supporting Podolski, anything through Sagna though tends to break down recently leaving Walcott to do a lot. Saying that he's back scoring so maybe I'm talking out my ass.
 
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Wilbur

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Slizz said:
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when the fuck did she get them

Also its really awkward when I watch friends with my mum and dad now because Jen-Ani has always got erect nips and it was early Friends when she was so fucking HOT and I just wanna tug my knob into stasis but it never happens because of course it'd be awkward.
 
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GolazoDan

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Always enjoy Theo "I AM A STRIKER I AM CENTRAL HEAR ME ROAR" Walcott's goals, which almost always see him running in from the wing anyway.

Collymore just started yelling I AM A STRIKER during commentary once, was very odd.
 
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Slizz

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Wilbury said:
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when the fuck did she get them

Also its really awkward when I watch friends with my mum and dad now because Jen-Ani has always got erect nips and it was early Friends when she was so fucking HOT and I just wanna tug my knob into stasis but it never happens because of course it'd be awkward.
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Wilbur

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Sorry for the incessant quoting tonight, but there's a really good article from cunt of all cunts Martin Samuel on the Mail. Loses me a few times, especially when it gets into the 'saved English football' stuff and when implying Steve Bruce could be the next United manager (please god if this happens I want Pulga to take my kidneys and piss on them in front of my granny), but yeah, it's pretty fucking good and echoes what I think mostly. Sorry for the guys who aren't interested, scroll quick!

There are plenty of reasons not to make David Moyes manager of Manchester United, and on Thursday we heard them all, tumbling out across the airwaves and forums.
He has never won a trophy or coached a team beyond the preliminary stages of the Champions League. He has not bought, or managed, a £30million player. He does not know what it is like to chase the title in the final weeks of the season, or travel to Milan to defend a first-leg lead. Most of all, he is not Jose Mourinho.

Not being special is Moyes’s greatest crime. Mourinho arrives like a bad boy on the street corner, all leather and attitude, casually flicking a spark into a box of fireworks. Against his rock-and-roll image, Moyes is a nerd with a set of safety glasses and a long taper.

As manager of Everton his style has been effective, but often uninspiring. The season Blackpool were relegated they outscored Everton, who finished in seventh place. When Moyes took Everton into the Champions League from fourth place, bottom-of-the-table Southampton matched their 45 goals.

The Manchester United bequeathed by Sir Alex Ferguson was built on verve and attacking flair. ‘They always score,’ as Clive Tyldesley exclaimed going into injury time at the 1999 Champions League final. Everton don’t. In six of the last eight seasons, Everton’s position in a league table of Premier League goalscorers is inferior to their final league position. They were seventh in 2010-11, but 10 clubs scored more goals than them. They were 11th in 2005-06 but only the bottom three were less prolific. Everton are currently sixth; on goals scored, they would be seventh.

So is the Steady Eddie who produced this team, often the antithesis of the risk-takers and game-makers of Manchester United, the man to succeed Ferguson at Old Trafford? Yes, he is; of course he is.

For what would it say if United simply went out and appointed one of the marquee names that flit between the elite clubs of Europe: Carlo Ancelotti (AC Milan, Juventus, Chelsea, Paris St-Germain) or Mourinho (Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid)? What would it say if, Roman Abramovich-style, they hurled a fortune at the latest flavour of the month in Europe, 2013’s equivalent of Andre Villas-Boas?

United would be saying that English football doesn’t matter. That building a team doesn’t matter. That investing in youth is irrelevant. That consistency is bunk. That learning, personal development and loyalty are of no consequence.

These are the traits Moyes has brought to Everton over the last 11 seasons and are, coincidentally, the values that Sir Alex Ferguson instilled at Manchester United. So what United would be saying is that Ferguson did not matter, either. His beliefs and ethos were trivial, his 27 years condemned with a wave of the hand, or shrug of the shoulders.
There was a predictable backlash when the appointment of Moyes was confirmed. There is almost always a backlash against a new manager these days.

Wolverhampton Wanderers were going to give Mick McCarthy’s job to Steve Bruce until social media and the loudest mouths got to work on his reputation and the wise men in the boardroom panicked.

No doubt some of those now screaming longest about the comedy of errors that followed were also very vocal about Bruce’s impending arrival. They will have time to reflect on this irony while travelling to their first League One fixture of next season. Bruce, meanwhile, is back in the Premier League, against all odds, with Hull City.

So it helps, strangely, that the men at the helm of Manchester United are exiles. The decision-making members of the Glazer family are not out checking the local pulse every two minutes. They are not party to the phone-ins and the debate, they are not plugged into feedback from the message boards.

Quite probably, they have listened only to the man who marshalled the last 26 seasons so brilliantly, and will have taken his guidance on what is best for their club.

Had Ferguson given Moyes a poor review, it is unlikely he would have been putting the finishing touches to his contract on Thursday. And we have to believe Ferguson is a judge of managers. That he knows what he created at Old Trafford, and who best to take it on; for it was a lot more than just a winning team.

Ferguson will look at the way Moyes has nurtured young players and recognise an echo of the care he put into the proteges from United’s academy. He will note the number of times he has bumped into Moyes at matches, doing his homework when others delegate. And he will respect Moyes’s scrappiness, the way he has fought his corner at Everton, in his own small way knocking Liverpool from their perch on Merseyside, too.

Moyes is a manager in Ferguson’s image. One can see why Sir Alex would have been horrified at the thought of the dilettante Sven Goran Eriksson reaping the benefit of his hard work and is happy to pass his legacy to Moyes. There is a statement inherent in the award of a six-year contract.

Ferguson’s presence is blessing and curse for Moyes. To have Ferguson influential in his ambassadorial, directorial role at the club means his successor should at least be given time. Equally, when results dip — as they inevitably do, at all clubs, even the biggest — it means the fans have a go-to guy sitting in the stands. Moyes is back-to-back defeats away from the supporters loudly beseeching the man whose name is emblazoned on a stand after three decades of sheer brilliance to sort it out.

This halts the obsession with foreign bosses. Undoubtedly, Mourinho’s list of achievements would buy him more time. Pep Guardiola could probably afford to lose a few at Bayern Munich, too, next season. Yet there is a deeper force at work here. Ultimately United, like Arsenal post-Arsene Wenger, almost have a duty to English football.

As the first club, it is United’s obligation to lead the way and halt this obsession with foreign as better, with track records that are simply impossible for a British manager to replicate in the domestic game. Moyes, unlike say Jurgen Klopp of Borussia Dortmund, has not won the league. But who could win the league at Everton in current circumstances? Would Klopp? Would Mourinho? Hell, would Ferguson?

By appointing Moyes and giving him the opportunity to be successful, United are establishing a new method of evaluation.

They are stating, rightly, that worth in a modern football world so dominated by a financial elite cannot simply be assessed on the pages of record books. That what Moyes has achieved at Everton is, if anything, more impressive than another league title at Porto, where the last five managers to serve a full season have all delivered the championship.

Perhaps greater realism will follow. Having captained Manchester United to titles as a player, and won promotion as a coach on three occasions, why shouldn’t Bruce, for instance, be considered a potential Manchester United manager?

Does he not know a player? Does he not know European football? What was he supposed to do: take Birmingham City or Wigan Athletic into the Champions League? Is that what Mourinho would have done?

Harry Redknapp doesn’t regard winning the FA Cup with Portsmouth as his greatest achievement, although it would be the headline on his c.v. He feels taking Bournemouth into English football’s second tier for the first time, or keeping Portsmouth in the Premier League in 2004 and 2006, were superior; no doubt as Moyes regards what others might term mediocrity as success, of sorts.

Would it make Moyes a better manager had he won a domestic cup? Did that elevate Steve McClaren to a different sphere? Will it do the same for Roberto Martinez on Saturday? What if Wigan are relegated, too? Evaluate that.

Everton will feel aggrieved at losing Moyes, yet with the emotion of the moment removed it may prove good for them, too.

How inconsequential would it make the club appear if 11 years of consolidation and improvement at Goodison Park were felt by United to be meaningless?
Perversely, Everton need to have Moyes poached. It shows the club are noticed and important. What message would it send if the achievements of those outside the Champions League elite were met with indifference? How would Everton attract a promising manager such as Martinez if life beyond the top five was just a giant graveyard shift and all positions interchangeable? In Spain or Italy, Moyes would already have been rewarded with a major opportunity. Then again, so would Sam Allardyce and, before him, Alan Curbishley.

Perhaps it counts in Moyes’s favour that he is Scottish and therefore immune to the advances of the Football Association. One of the factors that surely goes against an English manager at a major Premier League club is that the talent pool is so shallow any coach with Champions League experience would instantly be on the radar as the next national boss.

It helps that Moyes, like Ferguson, would see United as the pinnacle of his career.
So Moyes it is, and Moyes it should be. If transforming a club, if being the best and most consistent manager outside of the highest echelon in England, if producing good young players and identifying the premium talent available for the budget, does not prepare a man for Manchester United, what does?

It is not just that Moyes deserves this appointment, English football deserves it, too. It deserves to be taken seriously. It deserves to matter. United are saying that what happens at Everton is significant. The alternative was not to reject one man, but the worth of the entire game in this country.
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Wilbur

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Jason Raize '75 - '04 said:
I asked to get my name changed back but for some reason they refused.
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A badge of dishonour. You will pay for your crimes.

Schweini said:
I hear he went in a meet up with Wilbury and was never seen again.
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Kyoufu said:
Wilbury, release him from your closet!
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I'm not finished until he soaks up the cum with my picnic blanket shirt

Slizz said:
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earlier, earlier. Early season Friends. With the rounder face and cute little button nose and Rachel hair. PLEASE SLIZZ

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omg LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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Wilbur

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Dibbz said:
amiright?

Too soon I know fuck we're gonna fuck up and Spurs will win. Fuuuuuuuuuuck
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I actively searched RVP wanking in Google to put above that picture so if I stop posting I'm probably in chokey

If you mess up, Spurs do too; perennial bottlers. Can't see Wigan beating you considering half their first team is injured and they have a final on Saturday.
 
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Slizz

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Wilbury said:
A badge of dishonour. You will pay for your crimes.





I'm not finished until he soaks up the cum with my picnic blanket shirt



earlier, earlier. Early season Friends. With the rounder face and cute little button nose and Rachel hair. PLEASE SLIZZ



omg LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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This is the only .gif I have from Season 1

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Salazar

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Need to get some more transfer buzz going.

Fuck all this "who are they gonna get from Everton" bollocks

That's some Brendan Rodgers smalltime shit
 
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Wilbur

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Season 2-3 Rachel was prime Rachel. Monica was hot then too. Phoebe was always weird looking.

I hope United bros read the Samuel article I posted on the last page.
 
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