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Much prefer him to Nasser Hussain. Bumble is my favourite though . Met him once and he's a great laugh. I notice you've not mentioned the game right now though . Bairstow carrying his IPL form in to today's game. Roy is a superb one-day opener as well. Pakistan need 1 or 2 wickets right now within next few overs to make England sweat a bit. That drop from Shaheen (?) was absolutely woeful.

Pretty sure @Dan talked about him originally on here? Let's not act like Storts was the only one that mentioned him either (in fact where?).

Alfa Romeo sponsored Sauber and then just re-named the team from this season.

Thought there'd be that reaction

Just playing devil's advocate here, is the 'battered in the streets' one anything to do with their bus getting smashed on the way in to Anfield last season? I agree with all you say about the difference of fans and players doing it. Gotta be more respectful even if the title has just been won. Celebrate your own success, as opposed to towards another team's failure? As you say if it's fans you can put it down to a select bunch of twats being twats. Players is a different story especially if it's about Sean Cox. Very insensitive if so...

Yeah was gonna mention that. Pakistan could have had a huge score if more players stuck around with Imam-ul-Haq. He's made a mockery of the English bowlers today while other batsmen threw away their wickets. Sohail should be doing much better there with his experience. That's the kind of thing a newbie does.

That's not on if true. Very low of them if so. What's said in the video/chant? Also, didn't other European clubs have the Allez Allez Allez chant before Liverpool? A minor point considering the other stuff, I know.

@Azeem Lovely ton from Imam-ul-Haq. Only in 97 balls as well. Made today's innings look very easy and quite an accomplished century.

They really don't want to do well do they!?

Is Luca good enough?

Definitely. Rain is always gonna be a factor in any cricket game/tournament held here. English summers are always so unpredictable weather-wise as it's not always dry conditions and periods of weeks/months where there's no rain, like on the sub-continent. I'm hoping the games I'm going to have no rain at all! Great IPL final and the best way to cap off what I'd say has been one of the best IPL tournaments. Certainly the best over the last 4 or 5 years. So many games went to the final over and there were a couple of super-overs too. Surprising how good as it's been really as I thought it might tail off when some of the overseas players went back to their home countries to prepare for the World Cup. The final table (before knockouts) and the table before the penultimate game just goes to show how close it was. Think there was only one game called off due to rain (RCB vs KXI?). There really are some fantastic one-day players these days. I know the limited overs tournaments are given more attention these days so that probably plays a part in the improvement over the years of that format but it really does provide some real entertainment and excitement.

Don't worry lads. I think we're the sane ones on this topic in this thread

If it makes anyone feel better, Mendez-Laing has scored more goals at Old Trafford than Sanchez has this season. @Bluebird Hewitt

As well as seemingly being banned from football, Drinkwater's now been banned from driving for 20 months.

Fairly sure Sanchez got a hell of a lot of shit when he was playing more regularly. Work rate especially being the main thing he got criticised for and then in general just having no influence or impact on any games as you'd expect like he did for Arsenal. Pogba is just in the limelight more, plays every game, ambles around every game and attracts attention with the Instagram stuff, the shitty penalty run-ups, the hairstyles (not fussed about this one, personally), the choreographed celebrations. Not to mention the amount of money that was spent to bring him in. He's simply failed to deliver. Even if he is top goalscorer/top assist-maker. Is it good to an extent that he's got those? Yes. Has he arguably still under-performed? Yes. Is it unfair to point out he could still do better and focus on football as opposed to all the celebrity-esque lifestyle he appears to give more attention to? No. To say it's racist that he's got headlines about him is way off the mark. The real racist shit that goes on is all the bollocks Sterling has/had written about him by the Daily Mail and that was correctly called out in my opinion.

And Kane gets 'negative attention' for how he speaks by a lot of non-Spurs fans (which is childish and immature at best) but is that because he's white? Is it fuck. Ridiculous statement indeed.

Quite like stuff like this . I remember Drinkwater's kid doing it at the end of the season lap of honour thing few seasons ago for us and the kid scoring got a bigger cheer than some of the goals in the season

Got a lot of stick off a fan towards the end of the game yesterday...

It's okay to feel alone and want to just feel comfortable in your own company but probably also good to have a bit of a balance? How often would you be socialising or meeting all these different friends? I think family is the most important thing so I wouldn't jeopardise that if you can avoid doing so.

Pogba is a perfect fit for PSG. He can stroll about at ease in that league. Feel like Neymar would get battered in this league or spend a lot of time banned for diving.

Think there's a bit of an OTT reaction on the whole with his appointment. It's not that bad. For all the shite he signed at Sunderland there's several signings he was responsible for at Chelsea which equal it out. I'll at least give him a chance but it can't be worse than signings like Slimani, Musa, Ghezzal etc?

Happy birthday @Dan!

@Toinho don't go to the final mate cos I want Perth to win Good luck!

And bottle it they did not! What an end to the game. Gutted I missed it but love that the keeper was one of the first 5 to score one!