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Is there an evil team you don't like?
But that's about all I'm going to say about it.
Fiorentina's Ljajic is lacking something when going for goal, but I think he could work well in the right system. I've really gone off Jovetic. Something has messed his attitude up. I don't know if he's afraid of injuring himself again or what. There's some good stuff to work with in the side, but the 3-5-2 they are playing might not be best suited to the players available, which is down to Montella.
Sam Byram was the right back.
Oh, okay. Yes, Aiden White was the left back. He handled Bale reasonably well but got skinned by Lennon a number of times. Couldn't tell if he was a right-footer playing left, but that would explain it.
I would have taken Jovetic off in the second half. Perhaps it is the combination of the incessant transfer speculation and the fear of injury that lies at the root of the problem, but he isn't close to being the player he was before the injury.
Lots of time left, ursus!
Huddersfield Town or Leicester City v Wigan Athletic
MK Dons v Barnsley
Oldham Athletic v Everton
Luton Town v Millwall
Arsenal v Blackburn
Man City v Leeds United
Man Utd v Reading
Middlesbrough v Chelsea or Brentford
You could reduce that to one if you were willing to grant MK Dons' Wimbledon's history, but I'd never do that. Wigan's relatively recent ascent to League status (1978) and genuinely recent rise to prominence (2005) seriously limits the number of clubs they've met in the top flight.
First Barca player ever to score 200 in La Liga.
25 years old.
Luton Town v Millwall
Man City v Leeds United
Middlesbrough v Chelsea or Brentford
MK 'Dons' used to be Wimbledon FC, the side whose matches I used to go to, as I didn't live far from Selhurst Park and you could always get a ticket. (I was also an Expos' fan.) It's kind of shame that they are having a good run this season while AFC Wimbledon (Wimbledon's real successors) looks like they might fall out of the Football League at the first attempt.
Luton vs Milwall has a dimension that might be lost on people here. Luton employed a number of good players of Afro-Caribbean heritage at the turn of the 1980s, who carried them into the First Division where they spent a decade until falling out of it in 1991. Milwall, meanwhile, who used to (and may still do) bandy about the slogan 'Nobody likes us and we don't care' is traditionally seen as a 'white working class' club with racist fans. (They had some of the most feared fans in the South, along with Portsmouth's, in the 'punch-up' days prior to Heysel and such.) We had some African cleaners in one place I worked and a London wide-boy type production editor who was an ardent clubber and Milwall fan. He would bring a Milwall mug to work, and it would quickly get chipped and then broken by the cleaners. It would be nice, with Luton and "Sarf Lun'nen" so close, if some 1970s/1980s-style crowd trouble occurred, just for nostalgic types like me.
As long as Leeds and Chelsea are in with a chance of meeting, this FA cup competition has the potential for something we haven't seen much of in recent years. Those two clubs really don't get on, and in the past produced some of the nastiest, dour, physical engagements on a football pitch in English history. It is possibly the purest expression of England's North vs South rivalry in sports.
Granted, there's a vast difference between the FA Cup and the League Cup, but they did play each other in the League Cup this year.
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I honestly cannot tell the difference between their SD and HD channels. It really is terrible.
Egypt is the big story of the day, of course. Honestly, I don't really know enough about the situation there to comment in an even faux constructive way--the way I usually do about soccer related things. It seems like hell on earth there right now. I'm not ignoring it, I just don't know how to process it right now.
Zeman has been given the unusual "vote of no confidence" by Roma, who are "evaluating their options". He may not last the week.
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And moving on, the Holtby deal is one Spurs need to make. It appears he can play deeper or more advanced positions in central midfield, and Spurs need depth in the deeper positions and a more creative player in advanced midfield has been a clear need for the last month or so. Reportedly the differences were in the range of €500k, so I figure it ought to be done now, and it'll get done if it isn't.
EDIT: misread my , plus coke to Shooty
Hahahahaha.
This is all I know about Fer from The Guardian. Oh, and he's supposed to be the next Patrick Vieira.
edit: I'll take my coke from Matt and give it straight to DA.
Maybe Arsenal should have been in on him then.
I'm actually excited about this draw. There are at least two non-EPL teams going to the quarterfinals and I think both games involving Manchester teams have the potential to be very interesting. The only uninteresting draws to me are Arsenal/Blackburn and Middlesborough/Chelsea (assuming). I think in each case you have a clear difference in class but both teams are recent enough EPL contestants that they won't be taken lightly.
I don't think Everton is a cinch to beat Oldham. They should be but Everton have the capacity to lay an egg whenever they step on the field and I don't think Leicester or Huddersfield should view Wigan as an insurmountable behemoth.
Now watch Blackburn and 'Boro advance.
I'm sure they want to keep Fellaini for years. But someone's likely going to give them an offer they can't refuse or an offer that Fellaini can't refuse and they'll sell him. This looks like a pre-emptive replacement signing to me. I like Everton so I hope I'm wrong.
No no, it's impossible to get value in the transfer market. Just ignore what Everton, Newcastle, and Tottenham have been doing.
In the biggest news of the window, Alan Hutton is off to Real Mallorca, proving that La Liga is on the verge of collapse. Spurs officially announced Lewis Holtby signing and then immediately took it off their official site. I imagine it will be officially official momentarily.
edit: And Holtby is now officially Spurs.
Ahem, did you not hear that Bolton signed their youth team striker Tom Eaves to a new three-year contract?
Sure, of course! But Alan Hutton laying waste to Spain's venerable football team--nay!--to their entire culture is just slightly more important. Only slightly, though.
Seriously, though, how crap do you have to be for Aston ####### Villa not to want you back right now?
I'm thinking of Vinny Samways at Las Palmas or Mark Draper at Rayo. These guys are different from the failed phenom strain exemplified by Jermaine Pennant (Zaragoza), Dalian Atkinson (Sociedad) or Raphael Meade (Betis).
And while I love the horse story, just the possibilty of less "Phil Neville - midfielder" experiences is good enough for me. This helps somewhat to cover for the Gibson and (to a lesser extent since he plays wide) Mirallas injuries, which have really slowed the team down the last month or so.
Moyes certainly did a good job keeping this one quiet, first I heard of anything was today. Should be an entertaining next few days with the mid-week matches and the deadline on Thursday.
It's the great near miss I wonder about--Brian Clough managing Barcelona.
Their Champions League tie with Schalke looks a bit different than it did when the draw was made.
Is Sneijder cup-tied, because he played in the Europa league? How does that work, exactly?
See Section 18 here.
But didn't AVB just state he will be available for Norwich?
At this point, shouldn't we just have football beat writers make up their own quotes like I did in high school English comp? Seems just as valuable to the average fan.
This is my reading as well. Same reason Holtby can suit up for Tottenham against Lyon in the Europa League if desired, despite having already played for Galatasaray's pending opponent in the Champions League.
Where are you getting this stuff about Defoe?
Togo play Tunisia on January 30th to determine who goes through. Tunisia need to win outright. Togo only need a draw. I don't know how much influence the outcome of this game will have on Tottenham's approach on deadline day, but it's probably more than zero and less than frenzied fans think.
The winter window is a lousy time to be shopping for a striker, but if Defoe's really out for a month and Adebayor could be stuck in Africa for another couple weeks then Levy's finger may be hovering closer to the panic button than before.
From one of the couple Spurs Community ITK's that seem reliable. Defoe being hurt would explain his absence from the bench yesterday.
The winter window is a lousy time to be shopping for a striker, but if Defoe's really out for a month and Adebayor could be stuck in Africa for another couple weeks then Levy's finger may be hovering closer to the panic button than before.
True, but shopping for strikers in the summer doesn't seem a good time for Spurs, either. Obika has been destroying teams at the reserve/youth level. Maybe he's not such a terrible option in the short term? He looked lively against Leeds--if he'd had slightly quicker feet he could've had a brace. Obviously it's not great he didn't have slightly quicker feet, but it was promising he was making the runs to get himself in position to score.
What about Robbie Keane? Not British but from the British Isles.
So it sounds like you aren't cup tied if you only played before the group stages, or if you did play in the group stages, as long as it was in the other tournament. For the latter, only 1 of the 3 new players can play by that standard. And an un-used substitute doesn't count as playing.
So Sneijder is fine on both counts, since he didn't play in the group stage and Inter is in the Europa League.
edit: "Them" being Hamburglar, of course. 2 player of the year awards, a domestic championship and a trip to the Euro Cup finals against Forest.
In fairness, it's about every club.
Robbie Keane has dreamed of playing for clubs not yet in existence. A lunatic? To some. A visionary? Well, no, not that, either.
If Keegan, then Lineker?
EDIT: Keegan. Ballon d'Or FTW.
He's a dreamer. Also it's not the teams, but the nations that count too. He always wanted to play in America.
Special distinction to Michael Robinson, who parlayed a good spell at Osasuna into a career as one of Spain's leading pundits.
Leaving out Paul Lambert? For shame. he did win the CL...
I shouldn't have left out Lambert.
Agree with FPH about Hargreaves, though I still thought of him as Canadian when he started at Bayern.
John Charles?
Put up or shut up Klinsmann. Probably better to write that before a meaningful game and not tomorrow's B team matchup.
Still revered at Juventus.
Earlier today I read that Wigan was trying to sign him.
Is Wigan going to do anything else? I know there isn't a ton of money there, but I can't imagine them not fighting to stay up.
What is the story out there? So maybe there's no ultimatum, but the benching of Casillas meant something, and clearly some of the players are unhappy. How did the Chelsea players regard Mourinho? Essien obviously loves him. Inter's players seemed very fond of him and seemed to buy into his program completely. Are Real's stars just too entrenched for the manager to be a star, even if Mourinho is good at winning player loyalty? Is he too conservative? (In general, he seems to like to kill off 1-0 or 2-0 leads rather than blitz the other team off the pitch.)
Madrid sure has gone through a lot of managers since del Bosque, and had a pretty bad streak in the Champions League before Mourinho.
For the most part, from a government perspective it doesn't matter. E.g. you get a UK passport, not an English passport. Scotland has a few perks, but most of them are available to all residents. Really the only main difference I can think of, is that Scottish students at Scottish universities don't pay tuition fees. So in short, I have never heard of anyone actually trying.
For footballers, you don't have to actually switch. You just have to qualify either through nationalization or ancestry, and if you qualify for more than one, you can pick which ever one you want. Once you have played an international for one country, you are tied though. No switching after that.
I'll get a copy in due course, but here is a brief precis in English from Who Ate All the Pies
Well done to them for investigating this and publishing it, but is there anyone who didn't already believe this is what happened? I'm sure FIFA will be all over this investigation...Maybe Placido Domingo and Henry Kissinger have some free time to get to the bottom of it.
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