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I'd be astonished if that happened. It's quite rare for players to return to a former club and be successful, mick channon excepted of course. The fans tend to be against them from the off, remember hoddle ruling himself out of a return because of the fan reaction? Edit. Of course we remember that, dalek reminds us most weeks.

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Can't see that happening myself. If the krauts get their noses in front I reckon they'll tear the french to pieces.

This. He brings qualities to the team which a few on here don't seem to recognise. Even when he's not scoring, he adds so much in the way of hold-up play and outlet for other strikers.

Anyone is preferable to savage.

When I first saw him play, he scored a beautiful worldie from outside the box. He also looked terrific in forward play. That foot injury seems to have finished him, but he could have become a pahars type legend without that.

Add to that list the best red light area on the south coast, and right on the doorstep of SMS!! What's not to like?

That was absolutely heartbreaking. That moment when he landed on the floor and did his leg, and you knew straight off that he'd missed probably his only shot at the world cup squad.

Seagulls, eh? I took my girlfriend out seagulling last night. Most people call it dogging, but you should see the state of my car this morning.

Yes, I thought that. When he did that idiotic run up, pointing to the keeper, I almost knew he was going to f*ck it up. The penalties that went in were all head down, concentrate on the ball and hit it where you've been told to by the coaching staff. The misses were mainly by players trying to showboat.

One of the points he made was that the EU will only negotiate with the UK regarding future membership, effectively ruling out Scottish membership. Junckers has said that, as have other eurocrats. I'd say that makes it far less likely that the Scots will bother with another referendum.

That went well.

Well, I've got my four yellows, who's going to get sent off in extra time?

Three yellows and counting, but as I'm the only one to enter the sweep it's going to be a hollow victory.

This italy germany game is getting tasty, sweepstake on yellows and reds? I'll go with four yellows and one red.

Very interesting ten minute listen here from John Gray. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hj8bv#play

What?

I can't see past Teresa May. It's about time we followed the yanks and had a film star for leader.

Targett was excellent once he got up to speed and was played in his best position.

True. You can also say that about the tv money coming in ; people keep going on about the extra cash we'll have available, but so do all the other prem clubs. All its really doing is widening the gap between pl and cship, and putting up transfer fees and wages.

If it's on twitter it must be true.

Can somebody save this for posterity? Someone? Anyone? That brief moment in time when dalek suggested that someone else was being overly pessimistic?

You clearly haven't visited RAWK. I hear they are trying to poach alpine and dalek from us in a big money deal.

I'd agree with that. He was excellent against Croatia, and improving quickly at Saints now he's getting used to the prem.