Plastic

Sportsmania **** today, seen nothing so far

Agree great game, but Pogba @ 80-odd million looks like shocking business.

What the hell is Bravo playing at?

Hate ibrahimovic, but he is such a high quality player

City look miles better. No creativity in the manu midfield.

Just me?

Nice

Got nothing yet. Hopefully tomorrow...

Looks like it may be due to length & elasticity actually. Still dubious I guess... http://sportsscientists.com/2013/01/the-kenyan-advantage-is-it-calf-elasticity/

This feels like an overreaction, I haven't seen anything on this thread that is worrying. Misinformed at best surely? Who's comments are shocking?

One point to add - I remember a biologist friend of mine telling me that people of sub-Saharan decent are biologically predisposed to have stiffer Achilles tendons, whereas people of Northern European decent apparently have more flexible ones, or vice versa. Anyway, he said having an Achilles tendon of one type or the other meant that you either had an advantage in running or swimming, hence the race disproportion in these sports. May be boll0cks, but sounded interesting.

I don't think the stereotypes based on race are valid. Turkish's comments around 'not seeing many Asian builders' relate to more subtle cultural issues, and the aspirations or goals of a particular subset of the immigrant community, rather than 'Asians not being very good at it', presume there are plenty of Chinese builders in China, and they have demonstrated some pretty impressive building skills over the centuries. That said, if there is a market for a particular type of player, and our business model is to service that need, then I'm quite happy for the club to run with that. Football is a meritocracy, if we had a yaya toure clone on our books, I doubt we would force him to play on the wing.

Anybody got their home tickets yet? Delivery seems slow..

Hang on, how the hell has our debt increased year on year? Believe 3 years ago it was in the region of £30m? Surely this indicates that, even with our yearly sales, our business model is not sustainable? I thought the whole point was that we were reducing our debt. Haven't read the reports so a view from someone who has would be appreciated.

Got my 3 home bundle tickets on general sale. No dramas.

I think it was the 'transfer window in 5 words' thread personally. Today was pretty dull tbf

Fonte on banner less likely

Not generally a moaner, but in my view we need a quality CB rather than a middling striker, as we've got a few of those already. Desperately don't want to see Yoshi in the team for any extended periods this season.

Just watched Spurs v Liverpool on MOTD. Depressing.

Looks like we have actually woken up in the last 5 mins. Bit late really...

Fuçk me, targett has a mean free kick

Oh jrod you star

Penalty. Relegation form sadly.

Desperation

1st corner?