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strange I heard he had a slight calf strain or something.

Ramirez has certainly shown flashes but I think he's having difficult coming to terms with the physicality of the English game. Went off with a dead leg again yesterday, think he picked that up fairy early on. Don't know if it's the same leg that kept him out for a few games a while back but he certainly seems to pick up dead-legs easily.

He's 22 and that's getting on a bit for a footballer these days. My point is that when you consider the vast sums that have gone from the PL to Italy for players who have just not made the grade here and have been pensioned off back to Italy at a loss it's no real surprise that Ramirez hasn't been an instant hit as of yet. The point is that there is a vast difference in style between Italian and English football and many a player is not capable of making the step up straight away. You cite Suarez but he came from Dutch football and not from Italy. If you count up the cards numbers in Italian football there have been 77 red cards so far this season and nigh on 1000 yellows. Refs do not tolerate certain types of tackle or jostling for the ball, the card comes straight out of the pocket for this type of intevention and players like Ramirez are over-protected. When they come into English 'proper' football they're just like fish out of water for a fair time.

depends what happens in the week's international games, I presume nearly all of Citeh's players are involved somewhere or other and we have a fair number ourselves. Would hope to see Forren re-established by next Saturday especially with Maya off to Japan (totally unnecessarily) this week.

no international football, it's a big drawback for our players actually when national team selection is in the balance. If you're a native of a major footballing nation and don't have an Icelandic granny or something you probably won't get a first selection if you're not playing for a top 6 side with European experience. It's what drives players to leave smaller clubs where they're perfectly happy and integrated to sign for "top clubs" where they'"re often surplus to requirements for a while.

what you really have to ask yourselves is how many players have come from Italian football and really been consistent in the EPL ? Don't know the exact answer myself but I believe the figure will be staggeringly low and ridicoulous when a £s/success from Italy ratio is established. Gaston looked the real deal and still has at home from time to time but I expect that the number of games and the intensity of the matches is just grinding him down. Every time Morgan speaks to the French press he keeps telling them just how different English football is in pace and intensity so I guess it must be true.

38 points is what we need, so 14 more from 13. The situation will become clearer at the end of Feb after Reading-Wigan.

we have the attributes to beat any side in the PL but we desperately need to hoick Hooieveld out of the defence. He makes us fragile.

Seen more mobile coal bunkers than Samba actually. Norwich offered nothing and yet they could have won. Game's up for QPR I think.

We played really well but I always shudder when the opposition get corners, wish Fonte was fit again or even Forren. Jos gives me the creeps when we're being pushed back. Still I am not downcast, I'm OK with the point and I enjoyed the game.

75% possession more like.

you can be a big star in Italy and do nothing in the PL. It's different football and very few actually make the transition before their clubs give up and cut their losses. Dead leg again, wondering if he doesn't have a major problem there, same old injury flaring up time after time.

How did we not win that !!

can't be right 38 isn't a multiple of 3

so what I'm sure we had some dildos on this very forum who thought Wootton was a better player than Morgan would ever be. Following football doesn't necessarily involve any knowledge of the subject.

Bletch is Knox,Turing and Jeffreys all rolled into one. Saint Dilly, there's a user name and a half, I think I shall apply for it.

Saint Bletch is a very apt name for a code wizard

Yellow cards are an occupational hazard for CMs who do their job correctly. More you play more you get.

I shall spend my afternoon looking for that Enigma machine that I got from a jumble sale a few years back. After that I shall see if I can download the code book because as we all know you never get the instruction manual with junk you buy from jumble sales. By the by, took some old junk down to the local tip the other day and one of the gyppos who hangs about down there balled me out for not bringing the mains connector lead for a 1970's calculator.

When I was a young boy I used to fish off Northam Bridge with other young boys. Nothing amused us more than catching small crabs and then hoiking them out onto the road to be crushed by a passing number 1,3,5 or 11 bus.

well he's giving away his salary, not the same thing cos he ain't giving it back to the Qataris.

could be worse, if he was a Beckham boy it might well be Weston.

Japan, common enough or so I'm told

he usually does

Clyne was over 21 last August so he'd be on the full list, playing for the U21s doesn't always mean you're under 21.