Spike
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Blur was always better than Oasis.
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Will do!
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What class should I roll in Diablo III? Thinking monk right now. My DH is clost to 70' somthst isnt a choice
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Trying to reist the joke 'is your aunt a muslim' but I'm forgetting she could be Irish.
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After WW2? Where the fuck is it going to be set? The suburbs of LA? The whole point of Red Dead Redemption was that the wild west was dying and the times of outlaws was over.
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'I'm a communist dog and I need to be shot by the CIA'?
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I didn't say there aren't teams afraid to lose. I said 'Being defensive isn't always 'being scared of losing' '.
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Perhaps, but I think he only sees football from the midfield up. People really underappreciate and over criticise defenders. There are two-parts to football, not losing and winning. They are equally important and are two sides to the same coin. That historic Barcelona team would have lost a huge part of it's identity without Puyol, Abidal, Pique, and Alves. One team has to score more goals than the other and the only way for that to happen is for the entire team to work in conjunction. Look at Chelsea v Bayern in 2012. One team was horribly average and on it's old and tired last legs and the other stacked to the brim with superstars. Chelsea would have lost 5-0 if they had 'played football'.Being defensive isn't always 'being scared of losing' sometimes it is knowing 'weakness' and playing to 'strengths'. There is nothing cowardly with adjusting style when the chips are down.
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The way he talks about other players 'having Barca DNA' always annoys me. Perhaps he doesn't mean it in such a manner but it can be construed as arrogant. Maybe he is just giving his honest opinion and it comes off as 'Barcelona is so great we only take the best'. That's a turn off for a lot of people. I suppose you are right though, he even got rattled by Inter and mouthed off 'they didn't play real football'. While I agree with him from an aesthetic view-point but I can't really condemn another team playing in any manner as long as they aren't playing murderball, and then maybe his choice of words and the translation isn't fantastic; a lot gets lost in translation; I can read Spanish to an extent but I would struggle to understand the context of the wording. There is more than one way to skin a cat and but I do have my preferences.
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Yeah, don't get me wrong. Xavi as a player on the pitch was a gentlemanly as you could be (the only controversy that I know of and it hasn't been verified was when he told Mourinho to 'hug your Portuguese referee'.). He was of my favourites to watch but he seems to have a big mouth in the media. Seems like he may be a little arrogant behind closed doors but then again most professionals would be.
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That is stupid. Why does he even play? Why couldn't he do it the way everyone else does? Why can't he work his way up as an assistant coach? He has his cake and eats it to. It is things like this that make me hate all professional footballers. Arrogant creatures full of avarice.
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He couldn't do that in Spain? Or anywhere else? Why couldn't he work and play for Barcelona B? Surely his knowledge is more important there
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I just don't get why someone like Xavi elects to play in a country that lashes homosexuals and steals worker's visas. He doesn't need the money, he isn't winning anything prestigious, he has no connection to the culture, he isn't playing against quality opposition, he isn't learning anything new, nor is he endowing his abilities and knowledge on a budding footballing nation. I just don't understand the rationale behind this. If he wants to play football he could have done so anywhere in Europe, he could have played for a decent Italian team, he could have proved despite his age he still has it, he doesn't need his 300,000p/w paycheque, so why chase money? Xavi is considered the best midfielder of his generation. He is adored and respected worldwide by players and fans alike. So why the shit is he on the level of Carlos Tevez and Hulk, chasing the easy dineros in an ass-backwards cunt of a country? All he does outside of it is publicly wank over what players he wants to play for Barcelona, he practically taps them up! I just don't understand any of this.
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Why the fuck is Xavi ruining his image in Qatar?
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It doesn't say anything because there is no context. Football is too complicsted to reduce it to a single statement.
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Mane injured
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I drank a bottle of Gatorade with Messi on the bottle the other day. Please don't tell Madridistas this
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Not if people stop watching.
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He is getting the wrong type of boos. 'Go away' isn't the same as 'I can't wait till he loses'.
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I almost changed my avatar and signature to Xavi and Puyol to really wind up Balon, but I decided against it.
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The worst part was is that I didn't even say I hated them. Just that one or two things they've done have irritated me. I don't hate any footballer or club.
