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Can be. Djibril was _warming up_... like a pub footballer (obviously)

Rafa seems to have faith in him. Good enough for me!

Finally somebody gets it. If we had had Andrei fecking Shevchenko up there alone it wouldn't have made any difference because he wouldn't have gotten any passes.

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Let's hope the outgoing one is Riise's...

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I find it strange that the same people who spare no words to lambast Cisse simultaneously praise Rafa who keeps playing this 'pub footballer', 'embarrassment-to-the-red-shirt', 'waste-of-space', etc... Cisse has been too long in the shop window now. I think he'll stay by the looks of it. (Reminds me of how everyone was waiting for years that Smicer, the previous whipping boy, would leave (oops, apart from Hels, of course... ) and when he left us he gave us a mighty fine parting gift. Left with a bang!

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For a while I also thought DH could be the real DH. But later discovered who he actually is. Can't remember KMD so I wouldn't know about that. I agree with a lot of what he posts here (excluding some of the 'agenda' comments of his...) and I have no reason not to believe him in this SA case.

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Just what I've been thinking, but knowing the board the response would have been "b*ll***s!". This create-space-for-others-and-keep-defenders-on-their-toes lark obviously is a nuance too complex for some to understand (surprisingly many it seems) ...

Not us, but the number 4 shirt was definitely often worn by a midfielder.

All this talk about him sulking is a bit misleading. I don't think it affects the other players and I'm sure it has been talked over among the team off the field. I just think it's something that is a part of him. Some people are like that, different beasts on the field of play. When Cisse moans about a (misplaced) pass, he MIGHT be pointing out that Rafa has told to play certain way, give the ball fo him to run to, or keep them lower or whatever. People here automatically assume it's Cisse's fault when passes to him go astray. Cut some slack please.

It would also piss off the other lot immensely...

Nada Surf? Bodysurfing? Kraft?

It's Kuyt. We're not buying him, he's buying us!

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I've heard that all they ever do in G14 is share tips on how to polish silverware. Potentially hazardous and toxic polishing agents sometimes ARE involved so Wyness has got a point

It's obvious, he's peeved because Everton fork out the 25 grand fine from the players' wages!

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Do I remember that! I wasn't there to witness it first-hand. I was moving house that day and it was a six-hour drive and was worried I wouldn't make it on time to see it on telly. When we finally got there, the first thing I did was set the TV on and left all other stuff in the van... The new neighbours didn't know what hit them when the goals went in (it was echoing pretty well of course in an empty apartment...). 2-0!

I take it you have scouted all the other hot prospects as well all the way from Denmark, eh? Kvarme was great early on and so was Josemi.

He's a true Persona Non Grata here, isn't he. Win, lose or draw, every thread seems to become a Cisse slag-off-feast. I guess it's unfashionable to find anything positive about him. I did suggest a sticky for the said purpose, but that's unnecessary, any thread up there IS that. And in actual fact the ball just levitated from Agger to Gerrard.

Not defending Cisse like, but you sure do sound like my mate who's career as a musician never really took off. (I took the liberty of shortening your rant there...)

The man of the match for me was Boumsong. Although undercover agents should not stick out that well...