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Paper ****** as usual then. Here you go. http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Schneiderlin-dement-pour-les-three-lions/449933 I'm sure most of you will be able to get the jist from your 3rd form(and beyond) French

Anyway Hull were in the top 10 when we beat them, now they aren't because err we beat them and they didn't get any points.

Please just give it a rest, go and talk to some of those multi-billionaires or something. .

We've got no further then, probably never will.

The irony of the situation is that Morgan is being kept out of the French side by blokes who aren't really French, like Mavuba. He only acquired the nationality in 2005, wasn't born here and has no French parents or grandparents. He's an Angolan refugeee I think, bit like Mo Farah (well not Angolan in that case) Matuidi might be in the same case I think, his parents are Angolans as well.

The best we could really hope for is 7th and one of the 6 clubs qualified getting banned from European competition under the UEFA FFP rules, Liverpool are on thin ice already but I guess they'll get round it somehow. On their last year's figures normally they'd be disqualified for next season.

The islands are a notorious drag on our economy now actually, very high unemployment levels because well we can't all eat 3 tonnes of bananas a day. Heavily subsidised by the mainland and now it's got too expensive and unruly to even go there for your hols.

Yep part of the EU, French Civil Servants even get a bonus for going there, wife did 3 years in Martinique in her younger days on double pay and less tax.

Probably, we have already had all the information we need to back up that idea, these lads were not even considered good enough or ready enough to be put on the bench when we needed them, we actually chose to put players who had about a 1% chance of actually playing because of their injuries on to the bench ahead of these lads. Fonte was never ever going to play in the Cup game against Sunderland but he was on the bench anyway. If you haven't made it with Saints by the time you're 20 or 21 you probably won't make it at all, thus Moore,Stephens and Isgrove being farmed out, just need Turnbull to make up the full set.

Guadeloupe,Reunion,Martinique and French Guyana are part of France, they might have their own teams but they don't play in official competitions. Point a Pitre is in France. They send MPs to the parliament and have exactly the same laws as the rest of the country, they are governed from Paris which is different to the Falklands I think.

I don't think you understand what an official tournament means, we have loads of young french blokes who have played for every Us level for France in official competitions and then who go off to play for their African homelands that they've never even been to before. Official tournament mean only senior level as far as I'm aware.

Which was still in France last time I looked. Anyway that's not the point, nationality is decided differently in France and all those born here are French unless they renounce nationality, used to be a bit more complicated when we still had national service because they had to do that to qualify and many of them didn't fancy it. Saw PSG U19s the other day, all of African descent every one of them.

Spurs played well, just couldn't finish any of it off. Townsend loooked really dangerous.

Spurs could have had a shedload of goals today, mind you that's partly Arsenal's fault because their midfield was too weak. When will Wenger accept that he'll never make a DM out of Chamberlain ? He's handy going forward, defensively he's a liabilty so Wenger has to choose between OxC,Rosicky,Podolski and Cazorla for his 3 AM places. They got out of jail today because spurs couldn't hit the proverbial barn door but on another day they could have shipped 8.

bloke was on one leg, the longer the game went on the worse it probably got. Davis is injured and Gazzaniga is a non-starter evidently so we'll just have to put up with some duff kicking for a while.

No reason for them not to be at the top, it's a bloody expensive side,that's why they lost 50+ million £ last season.

Trashed it ? not sure, think it just got old but he's certainly not done much to rejuvenate it. As I said earlier on their problem is in CM, Carrick is getting old and with their ageing CBs and constant injuries to others they're dropping Jones back into the defence all of the time instead of using him alongside Carrick where he played last season. Fellaini needs to be further forward than he appears to be, at Everton Osman and Pienaar were the CM pair with Fellaini in front of them as Davis is to us. No point in paying 20+ million for a bloke and then misusing him, needed other signings. Could well be that they've got themselves into a salarial pit with keeping the oldies on long after their useful term has past, like Giggs...contributes nothing as a player, bet he's not on the 5K a week he's actually worth though. For Rooney's actual contribution 300K a week is just ridiculous, a good manager would tell him to f*ck off the minute he starts asking for more money as he seems to every season.

Mata was a good buy if a bit expensive at 37 million, doesn't help if Moyes doesn't know what to do with him though. Utd's problem is their CM, Carrick has no bite just now and Fellaini is just junk, probably because he needs to play farther forward but they already have enough underperforming players in that area.

Getting a better known sponsor will help us with global recognition I think. Can't be much worse than the tinpot outfit who no doubt give us a pittance now anyway.

Norwich probably came for the draw, their original line-up suggested that anyway. As we've found it hard to score at home of late they may well have been perfectly right in their assumption that with a midfield 5 they might shut us out. But Gaston dazzled them early on and we hit them early on with an unexpected move, after that they were just rank until they finally brought on their better players for a last gasp effort. Very poor management from Hughton, should be long gone by now but Delia obviously has faith in tea-boy managers.

Good football means nothing to the average US citizen, success is what you need to impress them, well at least in their choice of their second favourite team anyway.

because they are historically successful teams with big name players. If we want to conquer the US fan market we'll need big name players and they'll cost us a lot of money. Green Bay have always had big names even when it comes to everybody's favourite villains, Favre must have been one of the most hated QBs in history (outside Green Bay and Wisconsin in general that is)

you just can't tell, saw 3 matches yesterday, only Saints game was relatively free of extremely arbitrary reffing decisions and even then you could question a couple of non-yellow given occasions. Foy is supposed to be a decent ref but his decisions were totally arbitrary in a couple of cases, same offences, different punishments, Baker should have gone early on if Willian's efforts were worth 2 yellows. Kompany's dismissal was iffy, it was a dog fight between he and Jelavic with Kompany committing the last of 3 or 4 fouls and getting a red card, plenty would have blown up for a foul against Jelavic before then.

I hate the Packers, dirtiest team in the NFL, wouldn't mind a similar success rate though. 2 superbowls in about 12 years, 2 PL league titles before 2025 would suit me fine.

Well when you know that Chelsea,City,Newcastle and Arsenal probably don't have 6 regularly starting English players between them that knocks the odds down a bit. Just leaves Utd,Liverpool,Spurs,Everton and Saints of the top half of the table to use as a source of players.In England's last squad of 30 no outfield player came from a club outside the top 9 of the PL and with such feeble contributions from 4 sides because the just don't have many English players the others have at least 3 or 4 players each.