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9 hours ago, Anton said:

Knew it was a good decision. Fucking purple pricks.

surely Kenny has to go now. Players clearly aren't responding to him. He's had injuries go against him but the injuries seem to be too frequent. The 2 youngsters up front did quite well. 

2 minutes ago, Kitchen Sales said:

125th anniversary of the club. Here is the greatest Newcastle team voted for by the fans:

Shay Given

David Craig - Bobby Moncur - Philipe Albert - John Beresford

Peter Beardsley - Paul Gascoigne - David Ginola

Jackie Milburn - Alan Shearer - Kevin Keegan 

 

In true Newcastle United style this team just simply won't be able to defend 

 

but you'll have a centre-back that can lob great goal-keepers from outside the box!

Not to mention a striker that kicks opposition players in the face and threaten not to play for England again if he gets punished for it  

maybe not, VAR rules it out for a handball in the lead up to it. 

wow, make that 5-0!

Ha, no wonder most of the home fans didn't turn up. Team in freefall and losing 4-0 'at home' to your arch rivals. 

4 minutes ago, The Rebel CRS said:

I've just jacked my job in. I've only been on there 6 weeks but there is not a chance in hell I'm being spoken to like a prick off some fat little virgin scouse cunt who lets his job go to his head. It was for the best that I left as I would have ended up smashing his face in and cunts like that would go straight to the police. The arrogant, fat little cunt. He looks like Penguin off Batman.

 

The way he spoke to me today was absolutely ridiculous. I was walking from the compound as I went to find a hammer, he shouted me and this other lad over and started giving us shit. It felt like I was a teenager all over again being shouted at off the head teacher for being naughty. That isn't happening, especially not from some nonce looking fat midget dickhead like that. I would seriously smash his face in!

 

 

 

right, i'm sorry you had to go through that but was it @Cannabis or @LFCMadLad that did this?

bloody hell. can't leave you Germans alone for 1 minute. 

1 hour ago, carefreeluke said:

Yeah mate, he's been playing the role Bakayoko plays and it's a tactical ploy in the new system we play, helps create space for the likes of Hazard and Morata and gives teams something else to think about. It would be interesting to hear the Leicester fans' opinions.

In my opinion he's more a holding midfielder type player who in their title winning season probably didn't get enough credit for his defensive work, interceptions, hard work and working very well within a very specific system. We now have a very specific system and style of play which he has a role. After the title win at Leicester, his performances dropped like the majority of Leicester players. At Leicester he'd be one of the first to get on the ball and filter it through direct to Vardy. His passing is probably about average, nothing special and being in advance areas isn't his strong point, I would say Kante was a lot more important for them in advance areas with winning the ball high up the pitch and through counter attacks as Kante has the legs to do that. It would then be Drinkwater's job to cover.

Majority of Chelsea fans seem to be impressed with Drinkwater and there's slowly being talk of the international call up for the World Cup. For me he works hard (which is all you can ask really to be fair) and he reads the game well but overall I haven't been that impressed so far especially compared to other Chelsea fans. I'll judge him properly at the end of the season though when he's had more playing time.

I don't want to change this in to a Kante discussion as I know Drinkwater is the talking point but Kante was the most important in that 15/16 team. The fact he could defend and attack in equal measure and do both as superbly as the other meant he could run most games from that midfield point. And not to the detriment of Drinkwater, but Kante could probably play a game by himself in midfield and come out on top. They were the perfect pair. When one would go forward, the other would know to hold back and support in case we ourselves got countered.

I actually think Drinkwater would benefit more from going forward and not being restricted to stay back or defend as a priority. He's got a quick mind which means he can read the game well and assess danger, so to speak, so if you were to get countered against, he would know where to be on the pitch and have the energy to get back and support. He'd end every single game absolutely knackered but that's only because he gave so much to the team and almost always gave 100%. 

Most sensible Leicester fans recognised that when Drinkwater played well, the rest of the team usually did because he's such a workhorse and so tireless in the midfield. He'd work so hard up and down the pitch it meant that the creative players were free to express themselves - much like Hazard can (he'd probably do that anyway tbf) and Mahrez does for us.

6 minutes ago, The Liquidator said:

I wonder if I can take a moment of Leicester City's fans time by asking a question about Danny Drinkwater?

While I had seen him play for Leicester I couldnt consider myself as knowing all his game and how the club used him in there set up.

Over the last couple of games he has started for Chelsea its been seen he has been released many times breaking through from a deep laying position where's he has either tried the final ball or a attempt on goal.

Alas he hasnt really been excelling at either act, but I have been impressed with his timing of runs and running away from the player marking him, so my question is, is this something you guys saw him do at your club, or as I remember him, he was more a permanent fixture holding midfielder who would get a nose bleed if traveled too far up front?

In the title-winning season, he was able to do that with the insurance of the beast that is N'Golo Kante helping him out. 

Last season, he didn't do it as much. But that might just be because overall we were pretty poor so he was restricted from playing his 'natural game' or what he was good at (getting forward at the right time). 

I don't see him as a holding midfielder but his reading of the game is very good and one of his best qualities. Very energetic and is capable of mixing up his game as a defensive midfielder or getting forward in attacks and providing for the wingers/strikers. 

think only @IgnisExcubitor @Mel81x and @Asura may get this

22 minutes ago, FCBNick said:

Guys, does anyone on here know how good the University of Salford is with their Law programme? Or any uni’s in England you all know of that has an excellent Law programme?

you've got the standard Oxbridge unis at the top of the pile.

I know UCL and Nottingham are good for law too. Durham, as well. 

Think it was around this time last year I, and many others, went batshit crazy about this footage. 

We're all TEAM IGUANA.

1 hour ago, LFCMadLad said:

I’m pretty sure ‘every’ City fan doesn’t think that. Silva wouldn’t get into any side in the world whereas KDB would. 

He has age on his side, he can play in multiple positions and he’s basically absolute quality in every game. Everything goes through him. 

1 hour ago, Cicero said:

Well that's not true given Silva is the most crucial element in City's possession play. 

to be fair, in their away game against us, everything was through De Bruyne. Whether it was getting the ball from Ederson from the back, linking up with Fernandinho or Delph or Walker, supporting Jesus, Sterling or Sane - everything went through him. Not saying Silva wasn't involved in any way, but De Bruyne seemed the more important player. 

De Bruyne was the pivot and the influence for that game and that victory. The goal was just the very tasty icing on top of the cake.

sad to hear that, Spike. Hopefully you can look back on the good times you had with him and have those as your main memories as opposed to him not being here with you any more  

Started watching The Punisher. 

Big fan. Nice storyline, plot. Something to watch while having to wait for next episodes of Peaky Blinders each week.

new contract for Silva

1 minute ago, Tsubasa said:

The halo wouldn't have done shit in that accident, unfortunately. 

Just now, nudge said:

They did simulations on Bianchi's crash with different variations of cockpit protection (including halo), and the verdict was that the impact was so strong none would have saved his life, not even a completely closed cockpit.

fair enough, wasn't aware of that.

What are the halo's made out of? How resilient, sturdy, resistant to impact are they?

8 hours ago, nudge said:

I don't even  get the safety reasoning behind it, I think the only fatality that the halo would have prevented in recent years is Henry Surtees' death, but seriously, that was just so incredibly bad luck, you can't ever prevent it completely in motorsports. Even then, strengthening wheel tethers sounds like a much better solution than putting on a halo which brings its own security issues, as Rando and Tsubs mentioned already. It doesn't protect (or only up to 17%, according to FIA itself) from smaller flying debris either, so the incidents like Massa still could have happened, or could have been made even worse by deflecting the debris.

Weird solution, all in all.

Jules Bianchi? 

2 hours ago, Blue said:

Anyone have any friends living abroad? My best mate in Canada has expressed interest in coming to visit me here in Peru but I'm not sure he's entirely convinced. I'm trying to invite him here. I think his main worry is travelling alone as well as the financial aspect.

Tsubasa  

Why do you always mention Chile? They don't always have to come in to conversation! They're not your barometer. 

What clubs do Tapia, Aquino and Trauco play for now? In order to become world class you have to be at one of the best clubs in the world. Is that seriously going to happen to them within 4 or 4 and a half years? 

Considering world class is players like Hazard, Neymar, Mbappe, Dybala, Aguero, de Bruyne, Icardi etc those Peru players have to do some serious good shit in the next few years to get near the levels of those players. Just because they may be the best Peruvians, doesn't make them some of the best in the world, now or in 2022.

that halo thing needs to be fucked off immediately. ugly as fuck that.

On 26/11/2017 at 2:24 PM, Blue said:

That's exactly where I've been asked to go. How is it?

quite nice. went there for 5 days/nights and got shingles on the last day so the less said about that bit the better!

There's a new town and old town part to Marrakech and we did both. We stayed in an all-inclusive hotel so there wasn't much reason to go out every night. The one night we did was on a Saturday and it doesn't get properly going til about midnight. 

The old part of the town is great though - so much history to it and it's very busy, lots of hustle and bustle. The riads are amazing and you should definitely find time to go in one and experience it. It's basically like an open-plan, fancy decor, courtyard-esque kind of places. They're beautiful. People are generally quite friendly and hospitable. 

We weren't too far from some local villages up in some mountains, too. Took a drive down there and that was quite different - when we got there, we go on a walking guided tour up to the top of the mountains and as you go up, there's lots of locals with their stalls and market trading places. Quite nice to see the traditional side of the area. There's places where you can have lunch or some drinks where the tables/chairs are based in a local stream (obviously very shallow) - it's water from natural springs so it's all pure and clean and certainly nothing I've ever done before! At this mountainous place were many small shops where they produce and sell their own argan oil as well, which is one thing Morocco is known for. 

3 minutes ago, Smiley Culture said:

No day off for this royal wedding then? The Queen might as well kill her off now. 

bet the Queen dies around the time of the wedding so that it's called off.

9 minutes ago, Blue said:

Anyone ever been to Morrocco? I've been invited to a u21 tournament as a scout and the company will pay everything. It's gathered my interest.

Been to Marrakech. Where are you going?