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Dirty, violent and corrupt....you can see why anyone could mistake the two.

Not at all bad, solid defensively, incisive attacking.

Barry is an OK player, his trouble is that his type of football no longer suits the asanitised rule book. He gets shedloads of cards for tackles, which 10 years ago were pretty standard. Morgan used to get his fair share of cards with us as well and was probably told by Van Gaal to clean it up a bit. Don't know if any of you watched Utd games last year but there was a lot of bite missing in Morgan's tackling. Van Gaal turned him into a powder puff tackler and ruined what he bought.

Same as the other 30 odd months he's been here then.:rolleyes:

India isn't a football nation as would testify their 135 th ranking on the FIFA scale. Plus in their zone the concurrence is far greater than it is in the CONCAF where Canada ply their trade.

Probably a few people in Africa and Asia, plus the odd Banana Republic... places where being bent as a nine bob note is pretty standard.

Don't FIFA give them money for participating then?

Well as the 2026 WC seems to be a certainty for the old US of A I'd guess they'll put that forward as one of the reasons for giving the competion to them. That makes it even worse because if the plan goes ahead as foreseen the Concaf will have 8 or 9 teams in those finals. They're obviously trying to assure that current footballing non-entities like China and Canada are present solely for the TV and advertising revenues that would be generated. South America would also go to 7 teams under the proposed scheme, meaning that their qualifiers would be about as meaningful as a series of friendlies. It's all about the money and nothing else.

L'Equipe used to be straight from the stable sports news. Of late they've realised that there are papers, subscriptions and advertising to be sold with peddling garbage they've picked up from the Sun,the Star and their ilk. One step above the Star when it comes to EPL "news" nowadays.

Won't make any difference to crap like Scotland though, Europe will probably go from 13 to 16 places, meaning that those who lost in the play-offs would be the sort of team to benefit from that.

The asking price for Sakho will be somewhere around **20 million £, probably negociable slightly but as they love our hard ball negociating tactic when we'ere selling them players I think we can rule out anything less than about 18 million to us. **It's in L'Equipe by the way.

Penalty shoot outs in the last round of games is mooted. I notice that the really big beneficiaries of this increase in teams is the Concaf (US and Central America) who are predicted to go from 3.5 qualifiers to 6.5 qualifiers, an increase of almost 100% whereas Europe will only go from 13 to 16, that being only about 23%. I mean take away the USA, Mexico and Costa Rica and what have you left in the Concaf really? Perhaps they're planning for California's eventual secession.

T'is true. There are already some pretty boring games at the WC. Now if you're going to add 16 teams not good enough to qualify for a 32 team final round it's not going to get better. The only major compensation might be less qualifying games, like the play-off round or something.

Cheap punt that no doubt left a negative effect on the balance sheet though. Fee, agent's fee, salary, costs. Probably cost us somewhere between 3 and 4 million at the end of the day for zero return. That sort of deal is why we have no money for real transfers. Gardos is the same, a total waste of money, he's probably cost us over 10 million so far and is just not contributing anything. Big clubs can afford that sort of thing, they can always get a Chinese Noodle maker to fund their errors but ours come at the price of selling good players and replacing them with average ones.

Right. Although I seem to remember that plenty of "experts" on this very forum were assuring us that Juanmi was the next big thing and it just needed time to prove that. He was too small and too predictable to do anything useful in our league. Much the same as Clasie really.

Juanmi left after a year as well I believe. Then again that's probably because he was totally unsuited to EPL football and it was a wise thing to do.

Because we'll probably have even more players involved?

You think so ? Doesn't look anywhere near sharp enough for top class football to me. Seems to think that the same old, same old that made him a top striker in the Dutch League will get by with the infinitely better defenders of the EPL.

He'll probably look pretty good in the Dutch League, same as he did in unders football in Norway. Why even I looked pretty sharp when I was playing for Taunton's U15s. Trouble is my parents didn't make a shedload of cash from Real Madrid by hyping me up before anyone found out that I wasn't much good in the real world.

Well I'd think we'd be fairly safe in assuming we won't be bidding 34 million £ for anyone at any time soon.

Why isn't he being considered though. Because he's a permasick or just crap?

Trouble with Great Expectations is that there's always a Miss Havisham..

Told you, we probably need the replay money.;)

Well no,I think he still lives in Philly. Goes to Eagles games though, so he's obviously seen plenty of crap performances lately. .

Doubt if any of that will happen. It's a home game, Norwich fans travel en mass and we have good core support. Can't see it being anywhere near as badly supported as some of the Lowe era and League 1 game. I don't see much to protest about really either.