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What one standing on the other's shoulders you mean. Perhaps Victor will throw them at him, like Gimli at Helm's Deep.

Well the US Attorney General is saying that FIFA officials took bribes concerning the 2010 WC in Af Sud. No doubt from the manufacturers of those farking trumpets. Aha and the 2016 Copa LIberatores...Dani was right then........

Clasie gets a lot of cards actually, whether that's due to the severity of dutch refereeing or his playing traits I wouldn't know. Perhaps one of our dutch friends could comment on that.

No idea how it's panning out actually.

Perhaps Osvaldo wasn't so wrong when he called the CONMEBOL committee fat mafioso in suits then.

Hmmm, a lot of DMs and CMs in that list, it's where you need to be hard and uncompromising to be a good player. No room for wimps and fair play statistics lovers in DM I'm afraid.

Niles the hero of Old School Tie by William Boyd? Don't remember him having any great pretentions as a goalkeeper; cricket was more his game IIRC

I thought Bournemouth were looking at him as cover for Boruc, could be wrong.

Looks like a post by Yuki Saki Agogo actually, psychology student at Sussex University,spiritual home of Britains Loony Left or is that Brighton Tech.

Doesn't surprise me actually, I've seen Liverpool on a couple of occasions and Lovren certainly gets through a lot of work in a game. 3 at the back leaves very little room for error and with a passenger like Gerrard in front of them there are always going to be some problems. Mignolet is a bad/iffy keeper as well. Liverpool have gotten it all wrong this season, mainly because of their Gerrard fixation, should have farmed him out last summer and started again. There's very little wrong with them that a decent keeper, a real DM and a striker who actually scores goals won't sort out. Toby has the great advantage of being protected most of the time by 2 players who know how to tackle, know how to take a yellow for the team when they need to and know how to hold the ball up and not put their CBs in trouble. Liverpool on the other hand are absolutely shîte at all of those things.

Well apparently it all depends on the severity of the tear (or rupture), how quickly the surgery to repair it takes place etc. Any more than a few days can inhibit recovery quite a bit apparently.NFL players seem to get quite a few of them and 4-6 months is the estimate to get them back up to scratch.

Wish I hadn't asked now............... I have seized on to the fact that it's a US sports term, probably particularly popular with FM afficionados...and probably also used car salesmen.

Although I believe that partaking of a sort of collective picnic (because I can't spell picnicking like that) in the car park (or should that be parking lot) (think it's called tailgating or something) is part of the event. By the by tailgate is what I think they call the rear door on hatchback cars, no innuendo please:scared:

I see that Van Gaal says very specifically that he needs a number 6, very precise that, not a gung ho box to box like Vidal or Gundogan, a holding midfielder just like Carrick..and Morgan. Doubt if Morgan would narrow it down so much if he didn't have at least some idea of where he stands just now. Pogba will go to Real or Barca, Gundogan may well go to the other one, No idea about Strootman although AS Rome are after Cabaye. PSG are waiting to see where they are with Motta I think and if they lose Cabaye they could be on the look-out for someone. Khedira to Juventus.

Well yes, perhaps not at his best on that occasion though, in fact he was pretty awful but it was a Dutch international side against France and there was no Robben. I'm sure that he's better than that now. On that occasion he just simply did not exist in midfield against the French man mountains.

I really don't think he had much choice in the matter really, he's never got a first team game for us I think and he's been here a while. Young for a keeper perhaps but certainly not a kiddy any more either.

I think we may well eventually sign him actually, depends on whether Atletico get a transfer embargo or not, the price however will be way,way above the pittance agreed last summer.

I think not, every summer it's the same story, a couple that might eventually make something of themselves with the club and 5,6 or 7 castaways, go back through the seasons and you'll see that I'm not wrong. As I say it's a percentage game and 25% is a bloody good percentage. I have no interest in those cast off to other clubs.

Sounds like a pretty standard recovery period (if there is such a thing) for a cruciate ligament injury when you have the best and brightest medical teams at your disposition. JRod took far far too long and I hope we've learnt from that.

There probably is none, just an extrapolation of the JRod situation I expect.

There's obviously some really good players and a lot of chaff, it's the way academies and formation centres work, you cast the net wide and see if you can catch a few big fish along with the tiddlers. Common knowledge, well in football circles anyway. It's a percentage game.

We often tout our young players as the next this and a future that. We are mostly wrong. If they've not made real inroads into the first team by the time they're 19 or 20 they're going to be Yeovil and Stevenage fodder. Can't even palm them off on Bournemouth now, them being a top team and all, still there's always Swindon.

Ah a good investment for the future then, got it now.

And moneyball means exactly? We've been invaded with yank speak again perhaps. Now me I still walk on pavements.