Leaderboard

TBF to them they had the answer right as NO. He's worth much more than 75.

To be fair my worst was probably typing "reite mich" (ride me) instead of "rette mich" (rescue me)

I was surprised as fuck about Robertson coming in and immediately from his debut (even though he wasn't a regular after his debut weirdly) he was impressive. In fact, I think on his actual debut he as MOTM. With Trent I was a bit surprised his debut was against Manchester United... but then he came in and did his job looking like a player much older than he was and made the position his own in a big way. But after his debut, I wasn't so much surprised - his first match was in one of the biggest league fixtures for LFC and he looked well beyond his years that day. But yeah for me watching Mount and seeing him just look fucking phenomenal, it really does seem out of nowhere. But yeah, I don't know a fucking thing about Chelsea's youth program other than it's good but kids seldom get a chance at Chelsea because normally pressure is too high to allow for that. It's early days and all, but he looks great and fits into that Chelsea midfield naturally. A bit shite for Ross Barkley, but that's his own fault for never being consistent and still looking like that raw talent he was when he first came through with Everton. Excellent news for Lampard and Chelsea. Unrelated note, but I hope with Lampard this means the beginning of Chelsea acting like a normal football club once again. He's still learning as a manager and I think Chelsea is the best place for him to learn how to be a top manager... the issue is will he be given time? He'll probably be given at least 2 seasons, but I hope after this transfer ban is over he's allowed to shape the squad long term and it lasts well beyond 2 seasons. I always liked Lampard, despite the whole bullshit between Gerrard v. Lampard in the media, even though he played for Chelsea. And out of the 2 lads who I think were the face of Chelsea for such a long time... probably their biggest legends ever... Lampard is obviously the one that appeals more to neutrals than Terry. So it'd be nice to see him really forge a name for himself as a manager at Chelsea. Makes for a good story.

I posted this in the Players Tribune thread as well but I figured id post it here to as this is a must read. One of the best couple Ive read on the site coming from a neutral - if you have 10 mins give it a go. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/trent-alexander-arnold-liverpool-football-club

Can you imagine receiving that text from Nudge one night... She must be drunk, lonely or horny... hopefully all three I would think to myself.. Imagine how gutted you would be after rushing round and finding out she has just locked herself out because the key snapped off in the keyhole.. "Yea, but I thought..... nevermind! "

It's so much more fun watching Chelsea now than pre Lampard. So far hes doing a great job!

Yeah, don't get me wrong I love bands that do deep cut tours, I think it's just more my dislike of post-90s Maiden that blinds me a bit Suppose it does all depend on the band's following - if you're someone like Maiden with a relentlessly faithful army then you can get away with it; sadly for a lot of others band its classics or bust. All this talk reminds me of the time Neil Young did a gig where for the first half he did his latest album in full to obvious audience disapproval. He then came out for the second half, asked the audience if they now were ready for the stuff they'd heard already, and played the album all the way through again

Trent was one of the more promising kids in our youth team and I think Gerrard cited him as a player to watch in an autobiography (that I never read, I just saw the quote somewhere). Robertson was more surprising to me, because nobody other than @Inverted really seemed to predict how good he could be for us (granted I wouldn't really say Robertson joined us as a kid, and he's definitely not an academy product of ours). Granted, if you don't follow youth football (I don't really) or don't see write ups on which of our young players is looking quality (which I do for our players, but for literally no other club)… it's going to seem out of nowhere. Like with Mount, I'd known fuck all about him - although I'm sure people following his development are less surprised at him immediately coming into the side and looking a natural.

The first time I saw them was a "Maiden England" (the Seventh Son tour) setlist - with a couple of newer songs (mostly Fear of the Dark) thrown in the mix. That was incredible - all of the "overplayed" shite (which tbh I still fucking love because I fucking love Maiden), but they also ended with Running Free. Fantastic fucking show. Even the last show where the setlist was more on the modern side... it was still an incredible show. But yeah obviously the "greatest hits" style shows are going to be better as it's all the classics.

(I will say this post has setlist spoliers in case any Maidenites are desperate to preserve the mystery, god knows I was) I get the impression Maiden basically now alternate tours between classics and albums, the latter obviously fraught with danger as their modern albums are a tepid sea of rancid horseshit. But yeah, this tour was my first time seeing Maiden and it fucking blew my head out of my arse sideways. You know that any gig which kicks off with a recording of Doctor Dcotor is going to be the greatest thing ever (Michael Schenker is probably my favourite guitarist so bonus points there too); but Churchill's speech followed by the opening chords to Aces High is like something I have never experienced at a concert, ever. It's insane, you go from naught to a hundred in a heartbeat. The musical break between the first verse and chorus in Iron Maiden was magical, you knew exactly what was coming and that you were sat in a room with 20,000 people ready to do exactly the same. As I've said before Hallowed is my favourite Maiden song and one of my favourite songs ever, I was so pleased they managed to resolve the legalities surrounding it to perform it again. Just like when I first saw Priest perform Victim of Changes or Sabbath War Pigs it was fucking mesmerising to see this song I idolised recorded decades ago performed before me. If only they'd finished on Running Free instead of the overhyped Run to the Hills it may have been my favourite concert ever. Fucking superb. Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought. (Still a poor man's Priest mind )

Yeah fair enough. I'd obviously not followed him at all so to me he seemed to come out of nowhere. I really like him. Think hes going to be a great player.

Bleurgh, no thanks. Fix the racing and we won't need these gimmicks.

Lol, I know what you're trying to say but one win isn't form. He'll be a miss for them though, gonna end up playing that shitehawk Atsu.

Not really. Was involved in the Chelsea youth team that dominated both domestically and in Europe. Won the U19 Euro Did very well in the Eredivisie with Vitesse. Winning player of the season for club and made team of the season in the league. Did well for Derby under Lampard and was one of their better performers. It was then the comparisons to Lampard started showing. Lot of talent this lad. Just glad he’s ours

Lampard says he’s ok

John wick. First time watching it. Really good movie.

Click PLAY and listen carefully... This is what it's all about for the victims that have been fooled.

I knew they are the bad guys.

I actually got a reply "Gerne" (with pleasure) to that too so that was quite hilarious To be fair as things turned out he was indeed doing the riding part a few months later anyway so I suppose that was more of a Freudian slip than a typing error

If that's the worst, you're lucky! Not as bad as typing 'shit' instead of 'shot' in important e-mails or texts

Well atleast the home games will be interesting for the fans.

Maybe the race clashed with the football team

Check him out in Dare Devil, where he played Kingpin. Sensational show and sensational acting.

VVD named UEFA player of the year. Allison named UEFA player of the season. Lucky @Teso dos Bichos?

So it looks like Boris is actually going to try and go ahead with the proroguing thing to stop MPs from fighting a No Deal outcome. I know there are idiots on both sides of the debate but there are genuinely people in this country who don't see the irony in calling people pushing for a second referendum "undemocratic" while supporting an unelected Prime Minister to subvert the House of Commons to force through the result of a referendum decided by a 52/48 margin where the winning side's campaign was found to have broken electoral law.

@Cicero this one's for you mate!

Just came back from Iron Maiden. Very fun stuff.

Oh my oh my

Is it safe to say Britain isn't exactly Great at the moment ?