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Agreed. He didnt have enough time to make any real impact on the game, but looked tidy and sharp. Tracked back well I thought.

Side netting from GR, good run in on goal.

cheers gents, lets hope he comes on and impresses or comes on and doesn't get crocked. Or doesn't come on at all. Perm any three of those and I'm happy. Incidentally, I noticed part way through the first half that the commentator mentioned the blistering heat and how well the South Americans are used to coping with it. I just hope the UK weather isn't going to be too much of a shock to the Ramirez system...

The author admits to being a stokie, what can you expect.

I missed the start, is he on the bench?

Aha, so we're widening the hatred league to outside this forum, nice one adrian!! How much time do you have? Off the top of my head.... Roy Keane Blair Thatcher Cowell Robert Peston Libby Purves Be warned, I can see myself spewing out a lot of bile on this thread. And its all adrian's fault...

Thats fair enough on the face of it, but presumably they were taken off for a reason. Rickie was definitely knackered, thats the highest intensity game we're likely to play this season, and I assume the others were replaced for the same reasons. It is grossly unfair to judge Mayuka after being thrown into the cauldron like that a few days after he'd signed, imho he shouldn't have even been on the bench before he'd had a little time to settle in with the team. Personally, and its only an opinion, I wish Chappers had been on the bench as I thought he would have been the perfect midfield sub when Scholes came on.

A little harsh?

No idea, I suppose I should have said "Indians" but that somehow sounded borderline racist. I do remember clearly when I was a kid and the motorcycle crash-helmet laws were introduced, the only blokes you would see not wearing helmets on bikes were Indian guys with turbans on, and they were definitely exempted from the new law. I dont know which religious sect they followed as I have no interest in organised religion. edit, apparently it was sikhs. http://www.sikhmissionarysociety.org/sms/smspublications/theturbanvictory/chapter1/

Thats a point right there, is he a well informed and unprejudiced commentator or a lawrenson "he wont sign for them"-type tw*t?

Ordering McDonalds breakfast at 10.32 is like sex with your wife. You can beg and say "it's only 2 minutes" but you still won't get any.

lmao @ the thread that goes with the echo link

To be fair to Black Sea Saint, theres 163 pages of that.

Well, whats wrong with that? Why is it better to have an empty seat if you happen to have a season ticket but can't attend a particular match, the seats already been paid for hasn't it? I cannot see the logic of this argument, unless the ticket was handed to someone who was banned from matches for some reason. None of my tightarsed so-called mates have ever offered me theirs, but I know people who have shared the cost of an ST between them and go to whichever games they are each able to make. There would be no point in me buying one as weekends are invariably my busiest time, but I did discuss the idea with my brother in law earlier this year of sharing an ST, I cant see what your problem with that is.

...which is my wife's most oft-used phrase.

Just ask the expert, Tecwen Whittock. He knows.

You're all c*nts. I'm an equal-opportunities hater, no discrimination here.

*cough....cough....*

Good old Whitey, always serious. Thats deppobearsy you're replying to, get yourself sorted mate and take the p*ss

Good spot, interesting read, nice one red and white. Shame they had to mention p*******h in the same article.

iirc, there was a time when hindus were exempt from the crash helmet law on motorbikes as it wouldnt fit over their turbans. Ancient history now.

Jimmy Hill appears in Viz every five weeks. Therefore, he is a legend.