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  • West Ham - Currently 5th

    13 50.00%
  • Southampton - Currently 6th

    0 0%
  • Manchester United - Currently 9th

    1 3.85%
  • Manchester City - Currently 11th

    7 26.92%
  • Arsenal - Currently 14th

    1 3.85%
  • Sheffield United - Currently 20th

    4 15.38%
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Thread: December football: Who's most out of place?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    The DT has made himself a fair bit of money by pretending yo be angry.
    This. Surely it's mostly put on as they know it draws in the crowds/$$$.

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    ofc it is.

    A former member was caught saying he's not an Arsenal fan and is only doing it for the money (he was later dropped).

    They also have a "comedian" on called White Yardie who speaks like he's Caribbean and there's probably a fair chance he's putting it on.

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    Robbie is millionaire off this shit.

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    The whole thing is a circus that needs to die in a bin fire.

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    CONCACAF Champions League Final has just kicked off.
    LAFC v Tigres

    http://elixx.me/aw/partizan.php

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    LAFC would be the first MLS club to win it, which is pretty sad - and winning it without having bags of pissed tossed on you by the Central American ultras should hardly count IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoonsky View Post
    LAFC would be the first MLS club to win it, which is pretty sad - and winning it without having bags of pissed tossed on you by the Central American ultras should hardly count IMO.
    So far, LAFC have been the better team, but just can't score. Fully expecting Tigres to score 2 in the second half.

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    The keeper there

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    So far, LAFC have been the better team, but just can't score. Fully expecting Tigres to score 2 in the second half.
    Nailed it.

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    I follow on twitter a few obsessive Arsenal fans that I know irl, and all they spend their time doing is liking and retweeting various spy posts from the U23s, like some sort of dripfeed of bad intelligence going back to Berlin.

    'Azeez tidy on the ball. This is what the future of Arsenal's midfield looks like.'
    'Saliba played several good passes tonight.'
    'Okonkwo looks a far better bet for 3rd choice keeper than Runarsson.'
    'The Russians are deserting. Leningrad should fall by Tuesday.'

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    I can well believe that. I live a stones throw from the Lancashire FA, where Blackburn and Bolton U23s play PL2 games and in happier times you can stand pitchside with a pint. I went for the Arsenal match, obviously, and saw nothing extraordinary despite Bolagun bagging a hat trick of penalties (2 of the 3 I'd say were soft and probably wouldn't be given in the top flight). Get home and go online to see the hive mind wanking themselves dry over the headline.

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    Lofty with a one way ticket to AFTV. Hopefully you get interviewed by the midget.

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    It feels like Arsenal have been hyping their youth for twenty years.

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    Mark randall, Craig Eastmond and jay Emmanuel (J-E-T) Thomas a stunning reflection of how that strategy has gone.

    Cesc, song, flamini, gnabry, Henry

    Who were the main successes who actually did anything?

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    Dench.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    It feels like Arsenal have been hyping their youth for twenty years.
    It's something specific to the 21st century Arsenal fanbase, I think, to need to present their own youth as brilliant in perpetuity. The same doesn't seem to apply to clubs like Man Utd or (whisper it) Chelsea who have actual track records of producing a heap of good players.

    What is it about the Arsenal fanbase then? Is it that most of the players concerned are black and this makes them feel more cosmopolitan? Is it that they equate development of youth with moral purity, which was definitely what they were going for under Wenger and saw a brief renaissance in the early days of Arteta? I am most puzzled.

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    There is one of these creepy Arsenal youth obsessives on twitter who was spamming the Swindon Town twitter feed with 'play Matt Smith' type things. Seems to have died off now as I can't find the account after a quick search but they do seem to have quite a keen interest in the development of their youth. Not sure if other clubs fans are like this??

    (Smith is pretty decent from what I've seen, FWIW, perhaps not quite Arsenal good, maybe Championship good. Mind you, those two standards may well be the same by May)

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    Literally all fans care more about their youth than their success merits. How many years did Jim follow the career of Josh McAkren? Mahow/RL with Chong, Perreira, Gomes etc.

    Just for some reason Arsenal take up a massive amount of space in other fans heads, rent free [/mokbull]

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    I think I could count on one hand the amount of times I posted about those 3. Well more if you count me slagging off Perreira for his shitness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Literally all fans care more about their youth than their success merits. How many years did Jim follow the career of Josh McAkren? Mahow/RL with Chong, Perreira, Gomes etc.

    Just for some reason Arsenal take up a massive amount of space in other fans heads, rent free [/mokbull]
    You’re the one who constantly posts about Tottenham mate

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    That was the joke you miserable cunt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    It's something specific to the 21st century Arsenal fanbase, I think, to need to present their own youth as brilliant in perpetuity. The same doesn't seem to apply to clubs like Man Utd or (whisper it) Chelsea who have actual track records of producing a heap of good players.

    What is it about the Arsenal fanbase then? Is it that most of the players concerned are black and this makes them feel more cosmopolitan? Is it that they equate development of youth with moral purity, which was definitely what they were going for under Wenger and saw a brief renaissance in the early days of Arteta? I am most puzzled.
    I remember Jack 'Jack' Wilshere being particularly hyped in part due to him being the first one brought through under Arsene Wenger, so it might just be an extension of the entire Good Football/moral high ground stuff. Plus they were a bit second rate post-Tony Blair, so it's something to cling to, like United suddenly making a big deal out of always having a youth 'prospect' in the matchday squad. That was never mentioned when they were good.

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    Jack Wilshere was hyped because he was really fucking good until his ankle got blown up.

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    Yes, but there was also an element of him being a new sort of player brought in through this amazing Wenger system.

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    There are pictures of him in loads of takeaways round here.

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    First CopaL and now this:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55420024

    Is this a sign of the others not touching this shit or are BBC trying to get on the gambling bandwagon or what?

    No conplaints here, I would have had to stream this shit for Taremi's involvement anyway.

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    There are a gazillion Portuguese in London (and probably elsewhere) but otherwise it's a puzzling state of affairs from the state broadcaster.

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    ONS say 5th highest (~250k) non-Brit nationality as of 2015. One of the nicest countries in Europe in terms of nature and climate, they really must have fucked up the economy hard or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    That was the joke you miserable cunt.
    I don’t think it was actually

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    The Portuguese rights are insanely cheap. They were on free view last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    ONS say 5th highest (~250k) non-Brit nationality as of 2015. One of the nicest countries in Europe in terms of nature and climate, they really must have fucked up the economy hard or something.
    There are more Portuguese than French here. Every other bar is a Benfica fan club. Them winning the league the other year resulted in the bridge being closed as the sky turned red with flares.

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    There are like a billion people of Portuguese extraction in France, or Lusitanos as I think they are known (?), people have been leaving Portugal en masse more or less since the Lisbon earthquake over 100 years ago. There's just nothing there, especially for young people.

    EDIT: My history has failed, I've got a Lisbon earthquake in about 1905 but it appears it was in 1755. Was there a revolution there or something around early 1900s?

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    Nah, Portugal was just dirt poor before international tourism was a possibility.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munici..._Elevator_Coup

    A failed Elevator Coup in 1908 but they failed to capture all individuals which led to:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Regicide

    The King and his heir being killed a few days later. And then:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_October_1910_revolution

    A short revolution.

    It seems the Monarchy was not liked.

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    Salazar was a dictator until the 70s(?) which may have caused migration from Portugal earlier. Recent times it will have been for the same reason the Italians are all in London, low job prospects.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Lofty with a one way ticket to AFTV. Hopefully you get interviewed by the midget.
    They should get Mantralux on instead, she tweeted 14 times in the last 24 hours from her Arsenal centric Twitter account in varying states of chimp out

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    For all the lol Celtic stuff Gerrard's actually turned Rangers into a bit of a machine up there, hasn't he?

    Rangers have done alright out of signing Brighton players, maybe they should consider a manager swap?

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    He’d be better staying there and cleaning up until the Liverpool job comes up if he ever wants it. A couple of disasters in England in the meantime would rule it out.

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    I have a long enough memory to remember the last time that managerial path was trodden, so would rather find out in advance if he's actually a hopeless mook.

    He obviously has to do at least one title with Rangers though and, as you say, it may be more expedient to not take on the poisoned chalice of lower premier league management. It's worked out alright for Bodgers though. Maybe Roman can finally sign Gerrard after all these years once Frank goes in the bin.

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    I'm more keen on his European form. That suggests he's got more going on. I rue the day we let James Tavernier go, mind.

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    Wet and windy Wednesday in the potteries.


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    Bale (heading ability aside) is truly fucking done at the top level. Alli looks like he's got enough to do ok at some dogshit league so PSG should follow-through with that rumour.

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    He's barely played in years. It's not that easy to just snap back into it (although it could be the case).

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    That he never seems to play for Spurs says as much.

    30 yarder from the left foot a Welshman, probably wouldn't pick Davies.

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    Didn’t Bale basically retire himself about 3 years ago?

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    Fucking been refreshing to watch these games without VAR but the damage has been done as the VAR reflex in the mind is now present.

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    Can they just end this now and start taking penalties?

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    Why is he taking off someone who is good at penalties for Luke Shaw?

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    Woof. What a hit.

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