benjii

Yeah, Turks, every time I read one of your half-a-dozen types of post it reminds me what a funny and well liked contributor you are. If only there were more like you and fewer dim-witted, monotonous, bores.

One billion seats at 50p each.

Usual Patred attention-seeking-tart behaviour.

Cosimo Sarli.

Carlton Palmer was quality for us! Speedie and Dixon were proper ****e though. Also, as others said, Mark Hughes was a disgrace.

Strange "column"... more a weird stream of consciousness. Still, Matty is a legend.

I don't know.

My thoughts too. He saw the Tweet and thought it would be funny, or one of his mates saw the Tweet and stitched him up. Either way, not worth getting too excited about.

Actually a counter-productive attitute from those clubs IMO unless they have aspirations of developing Category One status academies themselves. They would be better off trying to work with us so that those good players which remain local to them due to the satellite arrangements are sent to them on loan etc.. If the centre closes the best players will still join the best academies, they will just have to uproot from the area. Those smaller clubs aren't going to start producing Bale's and flogging them for £10million if we shut the centre down; they will continue to lose them as 15/16 year olds for minimal compensation.

My best 5: Niemi Beattie Lambert Morgan Kelvin Davis (notwithstanding his difficulties at times this season and initially, he has been instrumental in our back-to-back promotions) Honourable mentions to Pahars, Fonte, Michael Svensson, Claus (may have been more than 15 years ago actually) Worst five: Davenport Jakobsen Forecast Pulis Wright Phillips

Looks athletic.

Sounds like an unintended consequence of some rules which appear to attempt to place some sort of defined parameters around what constitutes a disability (which is clearly a reasonable thing to try to define). I expect and hope it will all be fine.

You really are the most monotonous plonker on here.

I need to arrange a stag for late Oct/early Nov. Any suggestions for good venues apart from the obvious?

Fear not; the business plan is robust. In fact, it is so robust it could easily withstand another re-write.

Villa away we played a pretty standard notional 4-4-2. The fact is that Rodriguez has hardly played at all as a central striker. I would have liked us to have given him a go in that position a bit more towards the end of the season as Lambert was clearly knackered and/or injured and pretty ineffective. I think Rodriguez has all the attributes to be a very solid Prem player.

Yeah but so what? You only pay 40% on the excess above the tax threshold so there is no sense in waiting just for that reason.

Affordability is a personal and subjective question. Football is fairly expensive in terms of £/minute, no doubt. When you're looking at German prices though it strikes me that you need to think about the wider league pyramid. I know very little about German lower league football but I'm going to hazard a guess that their fourth tier is much less "professional" than the English fourth tier with lower overheads, cheaper players, probably regional etc... Now, £2million in ticket revenue maybe inconsequential to Bayern Munich but it isn't to Bristol Rovers or Lincoln or York etc... They do need to squeeze whatever funds they can out of anyone willing to provide them or they will go bust. I just had a look at York City's ST prices. Last year a new adult ST ranged from £255 to £325 - that's in League 2. So, when League 2 teams are charging £300 and paying some of their players £40k a year it hardly seems fair to expect Premier League teams paying some of their players much more than that each week not to charge a bit more. I guess my tentative conclusion is that the large size of the English professional pyramid is bound to have an inflationary effect on tickets, especially when those at the bottom are largely in financial strife.

If we sign Honda does that mean one of our current squad will be on their bike?

Hear, hear. I thought a few of our players looked off the pace yesterday as though they were a little preoccupied. As it turns out they clearly had good reason to be. :-(

He shouldn't be in the team at the moment, given that Puncheon is much better than him nearly every time we play. Not sure why Pocche keeps picking him as he offers very little.

Clyne always slips at least twice per match at home. Hooiveld often slips. Either way, although the surface looks amazing, some of our players do seem to struggle to get to grips with it (lolzz!111!!) at times.

If I took a job on the back of a vision and promises of commitment to back that vision and four months later it all turned out to be baloney I suspect I would consider my options. I really don't see the issue. It's only parochial, tin-pot outfits like Pompey that would even bother running the "here for the love of the club" ******** in the first place. I suspect this was never a big deal. I reckon some journals got wind of the strategy talks and it all escalated. I think Cortese may have played it up a but for the Lolz to be fair.

Is that Guly's signature on the back board?