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Disclaimer: The below image in no way represents my view of the Polish people... I just really like the polandball meme.

Alps is a refreshing change of pace sometimes, we can't all be perpetually cheerful and he does seem to get genuinely excited when the club does well so I feel this is unwarranted. He's supported us for years, his kids support us and attend games as a family when they can if I remember correctly and you really have no business saying this based on his depressing online persona.

I'm coming around to Ronaldo being better than Messi frankly, in terms of individual skill he seems a cut above the Argentinian. Messi has an edge in pace and dribbling but there really isn't much between them. Ronaldo is quite unfortunate to be playing now as otherwise he'd be the one compared to Pele and being called the greatest player ever and to be overshadowed by Messi with the skill Ronaldo has is quite cruel.

Crap forward line but a fairly decent championship team aside from one or two gaping holes. Surman played cb?

They rated him 5/10, worse than Walcott and the second worst player on the pitch behind Walker calling him "overawed" at the big occasion.

And Steven Davis just lost to Luxemborg, we are Saints after all

Huh, all positive so far on Rickie http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/10/world-cup-football-world-cup-2014-qualifiers I don't give the press enough credit it appears.

All the stories in the build up about how it was a sorry day when Rickie Lambert has to carry England's front line I just think the press will gleefully shout "told you so" from the highest rooftops.

Poor Rickie is going to be crucified in the media tomorrow Can't help us either.

That was awful

Lambert looked more than a little fatigued for the last 15, I hope Roy won't sub him straight off the bat :s

Petric brought in as cover for the game http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/10665540._/?

I was hoping to nail you with statistics but unfortunately you are right, Carroll's career record season by season isn't nearly as bad as I remember and yet I was convinced he was a useless donkey. Shows how much I know

I got the Saints on the basis that I said I didn't like too much excitement Where have they been the last 25 years?

In fairness to your question I've lived in 4 of the bottom 60 nations and my family was fine, mostly because we had enough money to be comfortable which most of the general population didn't. There is a fairly good correlation between the happiness listing and the Gini coefficient of the nations (a measure of income inequality) the wealthier nations with the least disparity are the happiest. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html

"Rwanda, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Benin and Togo ranked the lowest", why don't you try owning a house in these countries and see if it makes you miserable ? I like how the comments degenerated into a shouting match about the Israel-Palestine conflict though.

You are of course quite correct, having lived in countries operated by repressive regimes with press freedom on par with or worse than Russia I just have an inherent bias against any "official" sources coming from certain governments. They were/are occasionally right however and your point stands about my bias and the need to understand the politicking behind the statement.

Moscow have consistently backed Bashad I wouldn't believe a word that came from their press agency.

Not a chance, if Israel said the sky was blue, every Arab nation would say it was green with polka dots right or wrong. Opinion polls have placed Israel comparable to NORTH KOREA in the popularity stakes worldwide and outside of America, the nation of Israel has few friends. Blocs will always support their crazy allies in public as what happens in private is meaningless. China historically has backed North Korea to the hilt, (although I grant that support has waned since Kim-Jong Un took power) South Africa supports the mad Zimbabwe through thick and thin, Russia and China support anyone who will stir anti-Western sentiment etc etc. International politics are predictable and idiotic.

Cardiff the year before if that's how you want to play it

I concur.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the 10 million pound wunderkinder from two seasons ago, let's give him a big hand.

Ghana ask you guys to stop now

What the hell is wrong with that crazy *****?

Missed that, recap please?