Maldini

Nah, It's from World Soccer magazine, I reckon they must have used a quota system. I only did one of those lists and was a secondary partner

How many goals have we conceded from set pieces this season? 4? 5?

Alonso setting up Gonzalez, here's to the future!

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From what I remember those lists are in alphabetical order rather than ranking

2 + 2 = -5

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Being good and having class are two completely different matters. Having class is about how you conduct yourself and your respect for the opposition. Just for a reference point, managers who have class: Rafa Benitez, Iain Dowie, Alan Curbishley, Arsene Wenger, Martin Jol. Managers who don't: Mourinho, Ferguson, Warnock

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We dominated possession though

Can't he lack class and be a good manager?

I'd rather sit in the stadium for four hours and watch a game in which the decisions are right than keep watching ridiculously bad decisions in almost every game.

The funny thing about yesterday is, up until their goal, we looked more threatening from set-pieces than we have since GH's time.

I HATE that prick

No player under Rafa's stewardship would act the c*nt like Robben did

Andy Gray is partly responsible for that red yesterday. How many times over the past 24 hours have we heard "you can't lift your hands", he started all that bulls***, he does my head in with his simplification of the rules.You can of course lift your hands, you can't strike somebody. His simplifications have taken the place of the actual rule. "ball to hand or hand to ball" has nothing to do with the rule, but that's the way it's now enforced.

Riise is our best left back by a country mile. It's a myth that Traore is a good defender, he has good powers of recovery but his positioning is awful and he's shockingly bad on the ball. To be honest, his absence from the team is a large factor in us retaining possession better this season.

They're pretty good odds though.

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The club have nothing to do with the CL shirt fiasco. Reebok won't make any more. From what I can gather the reason there are no more available is Reebok have to do a run of a certain amount to make it economically viable for them, they don't think they'll sell that amount of shirts and so will be left with a load of shirts and a huge loss. There is nothing Rick Parry or the club can do apart from hiring a crack squad of on-the-run Vietnam vets to force Reebok to do it. Of course £80 for that is a rip-off, but I guarantee they'll all sell out (They'd probably sell 20,000 if they were made available) a fool and his money are soon parted, if people want to pay that then let them. I really can't understand people being pissed off about it, largely because they're the same people who've been criticising our merchandising dept. for an age.

Yeah, nearly missed it. Anyone know how many people applied last year? Can we delete this thread now that I've applied

Is this kick a man while he's down week? FFS