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kyle walker is a stain - a very stain - upon my happiness

BORN TO THE SHIRT

moldova are almost amazingly bad

Lololol walker starts for ye?

:(

Jesus lads if yeda asked we ave mcshane here doing nothing

gorgeous pass lambert

I fukin love Lambert

Good talk about Cleverley upthread. I agree with the "he's not going to get any better" school tbh. One thing about him is that he's just doesn't look like a natural footballer. His method of striking a football is so inelegant. There's something cramped about it, like he can usually get the ball where he wants it to go but he's shouting at it rather than suggesting. He's got an awful shot too

Welbeck is a beautiful enigma

looks like Pardew has hit Gold, a 6 ft 2 striker that is a goal machine at league 1 level, approaching his peak years at 27 and half, strikers aged 27-30 are often at their peak performance, they have both experience of positioning / tactics and athletic ability.

― djmartian, Monday, 10 August 2009 13:03 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

martian called lambert

Latest Poll
Who is England's most talented player?

Wayne Rooney
31%
Steven Gerrard
34%
Jack Wilshere
22%
Theo Walcott
3%

what's the margin of error?

question doesn't specify wherein the talent lies

what is the answer to this question?

don't for a second believe that thudd isn't in the top 5, flawed to he is in areas other than yr 'talent'

rio ferdinand

would quibble about fourth - the state of Theo on Saturday! - but otherwise poll answers otm imo

this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Humphreys

shelvey is trash, utterly mindless player

― гір кривбас кривий ріг (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 6 September 2013 12:24 (1 week ago)

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/10/uefa-internationals-nations-league-friendlies

this seems a bad idea on many leves, if people don't care about friendlies, why would they care about a "league" you just invented?
don't friendlies offer the chance to play against competition at a different level, which the proposed divisions would eliminate?

but it would be a good way to find out how bad England are. what do you reckon, third division? fourth?

Nah. Solid 10th position in Second Division.

We're not talking about Leeds, hohoho!

Probably accurate for the USA too

LOL, Leeds are currently 14th.

We've got you lot soon. Fun-o-rama

Who's your team, imago?

The once-visible Addicks

ho ho looking at the top rated English players in the Prem for the last couple of years based on their 'whoscored' rating throws up some truly tragic potential England elevens. Crouch being the top rated English striker from last season does make me ponder whether there is any value in what WhoScored does tbh.

http://www.whoscored.com/Blog/nmya1tsyyem7vi5oeflrla/Show/League-Focus-Performances-of-Englishmen-Up-From-Last-Season

the Liverpool crest looks awful in miniature

fucking gerrard

fucking gerrard

― imago, Friday, October 11, 2013 7:24 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would add that, in Gerrard's defence, he can't help being as shit as he is now, and he didn't pick himself for this crucial World Cup qualifier.

didn't he?

He texted Redknapp and told him to pick him.

that was shit from Rooney

i dunno, i don't think Hodgson is in thrall to the usual suspects like some previous managers, i just think he's got no fucking imagination.

Also there's only Wilshere and Cleverley to play there anyway.

carrick ffs

pretty sure England's Englishest Englishman Jacques Houillecherre wd've been a better bet than the wheezing corpse of Stevie Me

^this too

Keep forgetting about Carrick.

Fabian Delph highest rated midfielder in the league iirc

poor sweet forgotten thudd

carrick though ffs

*hush descends over ILX*

kyle walker suspended :)

phil jones or chris smalling :(

JENKS

fuck off gerrard

don't celebrate that you cunts

Carrick!

Jacques Houillecherre

Ça m'a fait glousser

Should be Huilechère, though so you retain the 'l' sounds (otherwise it we sound out wee-ye-sherr)